Image: Mimmo Jodice, Isole egee viste dalla costa turca, 1993 © Mimmo Jodice Studio
The exhibition 'Mimmo Jodice. Mediterraneo' is on view at Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera from 7 July to 8 November 2026, curated by Carlo Sala. The host museum's own listing states that it opened to the public on Tuesday 7 July 2026 in the Sala delle Arcate of Palazzo Lanfranchi, part of the Musei nazionali di Matera (source: museonazionaledimatera.it; MUNAF exhibition page).
The project is promoted by the Ministry of Culture's Unit for Cultural Cooperation with Africa and the Wider Mediterranean, in collaboration with the Comune di Matera, the Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019, MUNAF - Museo Nazionale di Fotografia and Studio Jodice, hosted by the Musei nazionali di Matera at Palazzo Lanfranchi, with scientific advice from the Ministry's Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity. Both organizer pages place it within Matera and Tetouan as Mediterranean Capitals of Culture and Dialogue 2026.
Eighty-three photographs are on display. Sixty-eight are vintage silver gelatin prints on baryta paper with selenium toning, made by the artist between the late 1980s and the early 1990s from the Mediterraneo series and lent for the exhibition by a private Rome collection and by the Farnesina Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Five large-format works measuring 140 by 100 cm come from the Danzatrici series, and a further ten vintage and modern prints from Studio Jodice form an appendix on the artist's more recent Mediterranean work. The organizers describe it as the first major institutional monographic exhibition since Jodice's death (source: MUNAF; Musei nazionali di Matera).
The pictures grew out of repeated campaigns on Mediterranean archaeology, starting in the artist's native Campania with Paestum, Pompeii, Cuma and Baia, and widening to Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia, France and Libya. Among the best known are the athletes from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum and Le Danzatrici, whose ancient originals are held by the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
After Matera the exhibition travels to the Centre d'Art Moderne in Tetouan, Morocco, from early December 2026 to mid-February 2027; no exact dates have been published. The show is accompanied by an expanded and updated edition of the book Mediterraneo, first issued by Aperture in 1995 alongside a Jodice exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, now published by Marsilio with a curatorial essay by Carlo Sala and texts by Predrag Matvejevic and Salvatore Settis.
MUNAF - Museo Nazionale di Fotografia in Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, announced the exhibition in its August newsletter and illustrated it with Jodice's 'Isole egee viste dalla costa turca', 1993. The museum's own building closes for the summer break in mid-August and reopens on 26 August 2026; that closure does not interrupt the Matera run. The newsletter gives the closure as 12 to 24 August, while the museum website states 12 to 23 August.
