A major exhibition from March 14 to August 23, 2026 celebrates at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence the master of American art with two special sections at the Museum of San Marco and the Laurentian Medici Library/
From March 14 to August 23, 2026, the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation presents one of the largest exhibitions ever dedicated in Italy to Mark Rothko, the undisputed master of modern American art.
Curated by Christopher Rothko and Elena Geuna, “Rothko in Florence” represents a unique project, designed specifically for Palazzo Strozzi, to celebrate the special bond between the artist and Florence.
The architecture of the palace and the city itself are the ideal setting to explore how Rothko translates into painting the tension between classical measure and expressive freedom, giving life through color to a new perception of space that goes beyond the two-dimensionality of the canvas.
The exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi winds chronologically allowing you to retrace the entire career of Rothko: from the 1930s and 1940s, characterized by figurative works and in dialogue with the languages of Expressionism and Surrealism, until the 1950s and 1960s, which are distinguished by the famous abstract canvases created through large color fields capable of deeply involving the viewer through a vocabulary
On display, works from prestigious private collections and major international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate in London, the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
The Rothko exhibition in Florence is promoted and organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, with the collaboration of the Museum of San Marco (Ministry of Culture – Regional Directorate of National Museums of Tuscany) and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.