Image: Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia
Fondazione Brescia Musei is extending public access to ‘Bruce Gilden. A Closer Look’ at Museo di Santa Giulia in Brescia with a series of guided visits for individual visitors running through 23 August 2026. The tours, announced in a weekly events round-up, are part of a broader summer programme around the exhibition and are offered on 2, 9, 16 and 23 August at 16:30.
The guided visits are titled ‘Il mondo visto da Bruce Gilden’ and are described as tours of the exhibition for single visitors. According to the museum’s event listing, the visit begins at the Museo di Santa Giulia ticket desk, lasts about 1 hour and 30 minutes, and costs the exhibition admission price plus a €5 guide fee. Reservations are required through the museum’s booking office.
‘Bruce Gilden. A Closer Look’ opened on 27 March 2026 and remains on view until 23 August 2026 at Museo di Santa Giulia. The exhibition is presented as the first major monographic show ever staged in Italy on Bruce Gilden, the New York-born photographer and full member of Magnum Photos, and is presented in Brescia as a single, major project devoted to the artist. The show is curated by Denis Curti and is promoted by the Comune di Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei and Alleanza Cultura, in collaboration with Magnum Photos.
The exhibition is also part of the IX edition of the Brescia Photo Festival, which runs from 26 to 29 March 2026. Fondazione Brescia Musei says the project was developed in direct collaboration with Gilden and continues its wider line of research into contemporary American photographers, following earlier Brescia projects devoted to David LaChapelle in 2023 and Joel Meyerowitz the year after.
Inside the show, the visitor route is built around 80 photographs, with a core focus on ‘Faces’ (2013–2024), Gilden’s direct flash portraits made at close range in cities across the world. The museum’s description situates these images in locations including the United States, England, Mexico, Greece and Colombia, and emphasizes the photographer’s graphic style and his relationship-based approach to the people he photographs.
The exhibition also includes early black-and-white photographs from the artist’s beginnings and later work made in Japan with members of the Yakuza, in Haiti, and in Europe, including France, Ireland and England, as well as in New York. Two audiovisual contributions complete the presentation: an interview by British photographer and reporter Martin Parr in which Gilden discusses his biography and career, and a video made by Magnum Photos.
The summer programme surrounding the exhibition includes additional guided formats as well, including curator-led visits and a special tour connected to International Museum Day earlier in the season. For the August dates, the single-visitor tours are the main publicly listed entry points, and the exhibition itself is being offered at a special July-August rate of €5 from Tuesday to Friday.
