Museo d’Inverno in Siena

FEB. 26

Founded in Siena in 2016 by artists Francesco Carone and Eugenia Vanni, Museo d’Inverno is an independent exhibition project that challenges official art historical narratives, foregrounding intimate, marginal, and often previously untold stories.

The museum is distinguished by an unconventional curatorial format: each exhibition invites an artist to develop a show based on their own personal collection, comprising works received, exchanged, or acquired throughout their practice. In this way, exhibitions become narrative devices that reveal relationships, influences, and key moments in artistic research.

The 2026 exhibition season opens with Polvere d’inverno, a show by Helena Hladilová and Namsal Siedlecki. The seventeen works on view — including paintings, drawings, and graphic works — stem from exchanges and gifts among artists, reflecting relationships of friendship and mutual esteem.

A site-specific display brings the works into dialogue along the walls, where a horizontal line of coins — once part of the Trevi Fountain and now belonging to the artists’ collection, as well as used in some of Siedlecki’s works — runs throughout the exhibition space.

Together, the works form a continuous horizon along the perimeter of the museum: a line in which memory, desire, and collecting merge into a closed circuit, enabling an uninterrupted reading of the works and a path that both embraces the space and marks the passage of collecting over time.