Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci

The Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci is the first Italian institution which has been built from scratch to present, collect, document and promote the most advanced artistic research. Since its opening in 1988, it has produced a vast number of exhibitions and educational schemes, carried out activities of contemporary art documentation, and hosted numerous theatrical and multimedia events. It has built up a collection of over 1000 works which map artistic trends from the ‘sixties up to the present day: painting, sculpture, cinema and video, installations, works on paper, artist books, photographs, graphic art, applied arts and commissioned projects. Besides the collection, the exhibitions and the cultural events for the public, the Centro Pecci also houses the Center for Information and Documentation (CID)/Visual Arts, whose archive and specialized library offer about 50,000 volumes, including exhibition and collection catalogues, essays and monographs, a magazine library of 300 Italian and foreign magazines, an audio-visual section and an important collection of posters, invitations and press releases, museum guides, auction catalogues and bibliographical bulletins. The Centro Pecci is currently being extended with the futuristic ring-shaped project commissioned from the Dutch architect Maurice Nio, which updates and potentiates the post-modern building designed in the ‘eighties by the Florentine architect Italo Gamberini, adapting the museum to its cultural role as the dynamic center of the regional contemporary art network. The exhibitions of the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci are momentarily suspended while the Centre is undergoing extension. If you wish to have information about and participate in the activities and events organised in anticipation of the Grand Opening, visit the site. Contacts: tel. +39 0574 5317