Keith Haring
Address: Rome, Piazza San Pantaleo 10 - Piazza Navona 2 - 00186 Rome
Dates: 6 October 2026 - 11 April 2027
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Last admission one hour before closing. Closed on Mondays.
Promoted by: Roma Capitale, Department of Culture and Coordination Office for Initiatives related to Holocaust Remembrance Day;, Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage
Co-produced and organised by: Capitoline Superintendency and MondoMostre
With the support of: Zètema Progetto Cultura
In collaboration with: Nakamura Keith Haring Collection
Main sponsor: Fineco
From 6 October 2026 to 11 April 2027, the Museo di Roma at Palazzo Braschi presents Keith Haring, a major exhibition devoted to one of the most recognisable figures of the late twentieth century: an artist who transformed the line into a public language, the street into high art and the image into a universal message. Curated by Kaoru Yanase, Ilaria Miarelli Mariani and Claudio Zambianchi, the exhibition is promoted by Roma Capitale, the Department of Culture and the Coordination Office for Initiatives related to Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage; it is co-produced and organised by the Capitoline Superintendency and MondoMostre, with the support of Zètema Progetto Cultura. Premium Partner: Fineco.
In the turbulent New York of the 1980s – a city marked by violence, drugs and urban decay – Keith Haring drew inspiration from the raw energy of a pre-digital age, when ideas circulated through the streets, music, clubs and direct contact between people. It was the birthplace of hip-hop and street art, where art, activism and popular culture came together.
The exhibition brings together more than 140 works and materials exceptionally loaned by the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, the world’s largest collection devoted to the artist, together with important public and private loans. The exhibition traces Haring’s artistic journey from his earliest works in New York and the iconic Subway Drawings to political posters, sculptures, paintings and his final works. Throughout his career, Haring expanded his visual language while remaining faithful to a simple conviction: art must be accessible to everyone. Radiant babies, barking dogs, dancing figures, angels, hearts, televisions and pyramids are more than recurring motifs: together they form a universal visual language that continues to speak across cultures and generations. As Haring said: “The public has a right to art. Art is for everybody.” This conviction remains at the heart of the exhibition.
“Hosting this exhibition devoted to Keith Haring, featuring 140 works and materials on loan from the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, is a source of particular satisfaction. Haring was an artist who transformed street art into a universal means of communication through which to address political and social issues. He did so also as an activist, always believing – and translating that belief into his work – that art is for everyone. For this reason, it must be accessible; it must speak about people, to society and about society. The exhibition devised for Palazzo Braschi will enhance the works and materials on display and offer everyone an opportunity to engage with an artist who poured his entire life into his art,” said Massimiliano Smeriglio, Councillor for Culture and for the Coordination of Initiatives related to Roma Capitale’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Icons, 1990, Silkscreen on paper with empossing
Three Lithographs, 1985, Lithograph on paper
Photo by ©︎Makoto Murata
Photo by ©︎Stefano Fontebasso De Martino
