Art in the metro
Art in the metroVia Magnolini, 3, 25124, Brescia (BS)MUM - Metro Urban Museum
Art in the Metro is a project of the Brescia Metro that brings art into everyday life. You don't just observe: you cross, you live, you meet every day. Here, artistic innovation dialogues with urban space and transforms it into experience.
A contemporary museum takes shape between the stations and the depot. He has no tickets or borders. It offers citizens and tourists a path made of different languages, all current, all accessible.
THE PROJECT
With SUBBRIXIA art and sustainable mobility meet every day in a widespread, underground and living museum, which takes passengers with unexpected visions in the heart of the city.
"Gothic Minerva" by Patrick Tuttofuoco (San Faustino metro station) and "Brixia" by Marcello Maloberti (FS metro station) are the first permanent works to find space inside the metro. These were followed by "Incancellabile Vittoria" by Emilio Isgrò (FS metro station), "Mind the gap" by Nathalie Du Pasquier (Vittoria metro station) and "BrixiaDue" by Andreas Angelidakis (Bresciadue metro station).
With the Metro Urban Museum, however, art emerges to the surface. The depot becomes an open-air gallery where international street art makes its mark. Here the protagonists are the big names on the contemporary scene.
600 square meters of vertical surface and four trains passing through the city for a total of approximately 2,000 square meters of urban art, the MUM houses works by prominent artists such as Luca Font, J. Demsky, Joys, Peeta and Valentina Picozzi. Every intervention goes beyond the simple mural, transforming spaces and convoys into works of art to be experienced every day.
The ever-evolving project takes contemporary art out of traditional museums and into everyday life, enhancing urban spaces and encouraging visitors to reflect on current issues.
