The world seen from Brussels
Exhibition
Atlas of the Changing World
Until November 9 2025
Free admission
When history accelerates, the need for geography as a tool to nourish understanding returns. We live in a time marked by innovations that transform the world, the nation, and the city in which we live—at an unprecedented speed. Hence, the need to present maps that describe the multiplying conflicts and show how the United States, Russia, China, and Europe interpret the present differently. Maps, ancient yet ever-relevant tools, allow us to explore the pressing issues of our time. Inequalities, gender disparities, migrant flows, and climate change are phenomena that introduce new types of risks, and challenge what we think we know, forcing us to study further. Exploring surprising realities enables us to break through taboos and prejudices, opens unforeseen spaces for knowledge, and creates new opportunities. However, to succeed, we must rely on the most powerful force of all, the free will, which gives us the courage to dare.
Credits
The project is part of the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities.
Curated by: Maurizio Molinari
Design and production: Tundrastudio, Colorzenith
The maps on display are reworkings based on the volumes by Maurizio Molinari published by Rizzoli: Atlante del mondo che cambia (2021), Il ritorno degli imperi (2022), Mediterraneo conteso (2023), La nuova guerra contro le democrazie (2024).
Sculture piramidali di Lynn Chadwick, nell’allestimento del Grande numero: l’intervento figurativo a grande scala
Caleidoscopio nella Sezione introduttiva a carattere internazionale, nel Salone d'onore
Tre modelle percorrono il Ponte che collega il Palazzo dell'Arte con l'area verde antistante, progetto degli architetti Aldo Rossi e Luca Meda
Interno del Tunnel Pneu, progetto di Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’urbino e Paolo Lomazzi