Current exhibition

PASOLINI
Anatomy of a murder

Galleria Modernissimo

30 October 2025 – 8 February 2026

Curated by Gian Luca Farinelli, Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Andrea Speranzoni

Promoted by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna

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On November 2, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at the Idoroscalo of Ostia. The news immediately embraced the implausible theory provided by Pino Pelosi, legitimising a story that attributed moral responsibility for the writer’s murder to him. The title of his novel, Una vita violenta (A Violent Life), was used in an attempt to bury the memory of the artist who had always, better than anyone else, analysed the degradation of Italian society. In the decades that followed, however, Pasolini became a myth, he did not fall into oblivion, and indeed continued to inspire artists everywhere. Fifty years have passed, and while the truth regarding the crime itself has not yet been written, we can still learn a great deal about what Pasolini wrote, said, and did in the last month of his life. Through documents, newspapers, articles, notes, and events in which he participated, the exhibition reconstructs the chronology of the weeks leading up to the death of the poet-director. A break in Italian history that has never really been pieced back together.

Opening hours & Ticket office

Tickets can be purchased online or at the Cineteca di Bologna Bookshop (under the Voltone di Palazzo Re Enzo). The ticket office closes one hour before the exhibition closes.

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 2 pm – 8 pm
Saturday, Sunday, and holidays 10 pm – 8 pm
Last admission at 7 pm
Closed on Tuesdays

During the Christmas holidays:
23 December open 2 pm – 8 pm
24 and 25 December closed
26 December open 10 pm – 8 pm
30 December open 2 pm – 8 pm
31 December closed
1 January open 10 pm – 8 pm
6 January open 10 pm – 8 pm

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Full price: €14
Reduced price for Amici Cineteca members: €11 *Reduced price for UniBo students: €7
Children aged 7-17: €7
Children aged 0-6: free

The ticket allows access to the Galleria Modernissimo and includes the exhibitions World Press Photo 2025 and Georges Simenon.

* Holders of Cineteca membership cards, Card Cultura, Carta Effe Feltrinelli, Coop Alleanza 3.0 members, Unicredit customers, Touring Club, Tper subscribers, Trenitalia Tper Bologna ticket holders, Library card holders, Alliance Française, Fitel members

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Accessibility

Through the “Pensilina”, located in the centre of Piazza Re Enzo, it is possible to access Cinema Modernissimo and exhibition spaces via stairs or elevator.

People with motor and/or sensory disabilities may request a service to accompany them to the premises by writing to biglietteriamodernissimo@cineteca.bologna.it or calling 051 2194150.