Opening a Feminist Archive

Rediscovering Carla Lonzi's radical work through her collection of documents

Who was Carla Lonzi?

Discover Carla Lonzi's life story through her personal letters and photos

Art Critic, Intellectual, Feminist, Woman

A closer look at the Carla Lonzi Archive

Carla Lonzi @ La Galleria Nazionale

A look back at 10 years of the artist and the institution

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Her archive

From images of life to radical texts

A Radical Life

Discover the life and works of Carla Lonzi through her personal photos and writing

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How Lonzi Changed The Artistic Language of the 60s

An art critic who let the artists speak up about their works and themselves.

The Path to Female Self-Awareness

How a female friendship drove the revolution of art and women's rights.

More from Carla Lonzi

Explore her entire personal archive, digitised for the first time

View over 16,000 images
"Who said that ideology is my adventure? Adventure and Ideology are incompatible. I am my own adventure. "Carla Lonzi - I say I, Female Revolt

Carla and Carla

Discover the story of a great friendship

A Sign Obsession

Carla Accardi and her tireless research for meaning in the visual arts

Let's get the party started

Looking back at the Women Out Of Joint workshops, a project dedicated to Carla Lonzi

You're Welcome

Feminism is an open party

The Seventies

Artistic practices that explore a new role model

Love Doesn't Hurt

The female body and a violent outburst

Learning from the past to define the future

Examining and elaborating on Carla Lonzi's provocative essay 'Let's Spit on Hegel'

After Hegel, Who Are We Going to Spit On?

Carla Lonzi's most irreverent text questions feminism

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The Thesis

The spit metaphor to destroy the patriarchal logic

The Antithesis

The different and the destruction of the different

The Synthesis

Contemporary responses from 37 different people

Seeing ourselves

How Carla Lonzi's Autorittrato (self-portrait) invites us to express ourselves

Self Portraits: A Profound Introspective Gesture

The self-portrait as the deepest and most immediate expressive form

An Open Call

An invitation to others to examine their authentic voices through video self-portraits

Shut Up...

How the open call is relevant in the midst of a pandemic

... Or Rather, Speak

How expression, narration and words represent us

Video selfies as self-portraits

Watch the three videos winners of 'Shut Up, Or Rather, Speak'

Keep going

The third open call by the National Gallery inspired by the work of Carla Lonzi

Now You Can Go

A call for stories of overcoming grief and giving voice to one's personal vision of the future

Beyond the Lonzi archive

A contemporary archive celebrates two famous gallerists of the Roman art scene

The Works and The Archives

Explore passionate works by Mara Coccia and Daniela Ferraria

Playing as a Team

Personal photographs, drawings, paintings and invitations trace the work relationship of Mara Coccia and Daniela Ferraria

A New Beginning

An archive of Mara Coccia's activity as a gallery owner after the breakup

Great Exhibitions

How art can astonish the eyes of the public?

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