Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum - Madre Museum

About this audio guide

This guide to the Madre Museum in Naples asks what would happen if the owners of most of its collection demanded everything back in the same week, and follows the man who built the place toward exactly that: critic Eduardo Cicelyn, who in 2005 filled a converted nineteenth-century palazzo with site-specific work by artists like Anish Kapoor and Francesco Clemente. It traces a multimillion-euro budget fight over an exhibition called Barock, a public dispute with art dealer Guido Cabib, and prosecutors briefly seizing the museum itself. By February 2011 the entire board had resigned at once, with lenders circling the same galleries you're standing in now.