Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m.

Maggiore g.a.m.

Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m.

Locations

Bologna

via D'Azeglio 15
40123, Bologna, Italy

Paris

208 Boulevard Saint Germain
75007, Paris, France

Venice

San Marco, 2847
30124, Venice, Italy

Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. was founded in 1978 by Franco and Roberta Calarota who have established the prestige of the gallery on the international scene throught a permanent collection of high-quality works of the XX Century's Masters. Their daughter Alessia Calarota has joined the Gallery becoming its director in september 2011 linking the tradition with a new perspective. Taking an innovative curatorial approach, the exhibitions presented by Maggiore g.a.m. not only highlight dialogues between modern and contemporary art - throught a series of a cross-generational dialogue between artists - but also an interdisciplinary approach which bring together art, design, architecture, fashion, literature and cinema.

From the beginning Maggiore g.a.m. has always dealt with two fundamental aspects of the art world: the market and the institutional promotion. In this way Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. has developed important collaborative relationships with Museums and Institutions in Italy and abroad which give evidence of the high-quality art works present in its collection. Among them: the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Museum of Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, just to mention a few of them. Meanwhile on the market side Maggiore g.a.m. is taking part to a selection of the most important art fairs in the world.

While the gallery’s historic headquarters are in Bologna, in 2024 it further expanded its international presence by opening a second permanent exhibition space at 208 Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, reinforcing its role as a reference point for collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts in the European cultural capital.

Since 2019 Franco and Roberta Calarota, chairmen of Maggiore g.a.m., have opened a more Institutional reality on Grand Canal in Venice: ACP - Palazzo Franchetti by Fondazione Calarota. producing major exhibitions such as "Jean Dubuffet and Venice"; "Massimo Campigli and the Etruscans"; "Kengo Kuma. Onomatopoeia Architecture"; "Lee Miller - Man Ray. Fashion, love, war", among others. The aim is to o give the opportunity to rediscover magnificent 20th-century artists (great innovators included in the most important museum permanent collection but forgotten) and to build bridges between different cultures through the universal language of art and the collaborations with important Institutions around the world: Italian Ministry of Culture, Portugal Ministry of Cultural, Qatar Museum, etc. just to name the few.