'Graffiti' Group Show at Museion Museum in Italy

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Keith Haring, Untitled, 1983.

Centraal Museum Utrecht Collection. © Keith Haring Foundation. Photo: Luca Guadagnini.

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Photo: Luca Guadagnini.

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KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Swarm Living is for Bodybag ONION BRAID, 2015.

Courtesy Of The Artists And Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Luca Guadagnini.

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From the left: Daze, Untitled (City), 1984. Courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York; Lee Quiñones, The cry of the lion, 1980.

Centraal Museum Utrecht, Long-Term Loan, Private Collection In Memory Of Wijnand & Annette Wildenberg. Photo: Luca Guadagnini.

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Photo: Luca Guadagnini.

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KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), KAYA Gedenkstein for: S is for Silence (body bag Kassel/Herzogpark), 2013-2015.

Courtesy Of The Artists And Deborah Schamoni. Exhibition View Graffiti, Museion, 2025. Photo: Luca Guadagnini.

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Klara Lidén, Disco, 2020.

Photo: Robert Glowacki. Courtesy The Artist And Sadie Coles Hq, London.

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Rammellzee, Future Futurism, 1984.

Photo: Marten De Leeuw. Courtesy The Estate Of Rammellzee.

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Shaun Crawford, NYPD SMD, 2022.

Courtesy Of The Artist. Photo: Luca Guadagnini.

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Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink, You Are Trapped on the Earth so You Will Explode, 1983-1984.

Photo: Mart - Photographic Archive And Media Library. Courtesy Mart, Museum Of Modern And Contemporary Art Of Trento And Rovereto.

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WANTO, 大都会暗黒路地裏/Dark alleys of the big city, 2021-2022.

Courtesy Gallery Naruyama.

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David Smith, Untitled, 1959.

Courtesy The Estate Of David Smith And Hauser & Wirth

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Italy’s first major graffiti exhibition has arrived at the Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano. Curated by Leonie Radine and Ned Vena, Graffiti brings together a constellation of 60 pioneering voices working within and beyond the medium, including Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Rammellzee, Lee Quiñones and Shaun Crawford.

Spanning 1,500 square meters across two floors, the exhibition explores how the raw, expressive energy of street art made its way into the studio. Beginning with pre-graffiti spray paintings of the 1950s, Graffiti traces through notable graffiti names of the 1980s and lands with contemporary artists who incorporate elements of the medium into their practices.

“Graffiti was how I found my way into being an artist, but it is also how I see things; things like art, for example,” explains Vena. “This exhibition includes works that aren’t necessarily about graffiti but evoke its spirit and visual language.”

Highlights include Crawford’s NYPD SMD, a distorted, skull-like panel by KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eliers,) alongside one of Haring’s dynamic, large-scale Untitled works. Graffiti has long been a conversation between the artist and the environment around them — more than a visual language scrawled across landscapes, it’s a way of seeing the world.

The exhibition is now on view through September 14. Check out the full list of featured artists below.

Yuji Agematsu
Chantal Akerman
Nick Atkins
Charles Atlas
Lutz Bacher
Martin Barré
Blade
Monica Bonvicini
Patricia L. Boyd
Dan Christensen
Shaun Crawford
Curtis Cuffie
René Daniëls
Daze
Manuel DeLanda
Melvin Edwards
Matias Faldbakken
Heike-Karin Föll
Futura 2000
Keith Haring
Jenny Holzer
Lady Pink
KAYA
Jutta Koether
Michael Krebber
Brad Kronz
Maggie Lee
Klara Lidén
Ilya Lipkin
Colette Lumiere
Kunle Martins
Jeanette Mundt
Georgie Nettell
Armando Nin
N.O.Madski
Clayton Patterson
Charlotte Posenenske
Josephine Pryde
Quik
Lee Quiñones
Carol Rama
Rammellzee
R.I.P. Germain
Matthew “Zexor” Rodriguez
Karin Sander
Seen
David Smith
Dash Snow
Ben Solomon
Hedda Sterne
Emily Sundblad
SoiL Thornton
Alix Vernet
WANTO
Lawrence Weiner
Dondi White
Martin Wong & LA2
Christopher Wool
Zephyr