The inauguration of the “Jannis Kounellis” exhibition, curated by Germano Celant, was held today at the Prada Foundation in Venice.

The exhibition opens to the public from 11 May to 24 November 2019.

In the presence of the President of the Miuccia Prada Foundation and the Artistic and Scientific Superintendent of the Foundation and curator of the exhibition Germano Celant took part in the event Michelle Coudray and Damiano Kounellis, the museum directors and curators Frances Morris (Tate), Bernard Blistène (Center Pompidou), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries), Udo Kittelmann (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Sheena Wagstaff (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Max Hollein (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), Massimiliano Gioni (New Museum), Maja Hoffmann (LUMA Foundation), Mary Ceruti (Walker Art Center), Nicholas Cullinan (National Portrait Gallery), Suzanne Pagé (Louis Vuitton Foundation), Milovan Farronato (Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale), Giovanna Melandri (MAXXI), Luca Massimo Barbero (Cini Foundation), Gianfranco Maraniello (Mart), Sjarel Ex and Francesco Stocchi (Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum), Daniel Birnbaum, Francesco Bonami, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Jérôme Sans ; the artists Darren Bader, Hans Berg, Sophie Calle, Alex Da Corte, Jimmie Durham, Peter Fischli, Koo Jeong-A, Goshka Macuga, Luc Tuymans, Joep van Lieshout, Olympia Scarry, Andra Ursuta, Francesco Vezzoli; gallery owners Gavin Brown, Massimo De Carlo, Larry Gagosian, Karsten Greve, Dominique Lévy, Giò Marconi, Niccolo Sprovieri, David and Monica Zwirner and personalities of art and culture such as Patti Harris, Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis.