Giorgio Morandi spent his life immersed in the quiet study of the everyday: bottles, jugs, vases, and bowls. Across his paintings and drawings, he returned endlessly to these simple objects, subtly rearranging them so that no two compositions are ever the same. In distilling forms to their serene essence, Morandi revealed a world of nuanced differences within repetition, transforming the ordinary into moments of profound expression. It is precisely this delicate balance between constancy and variation that has established him as one of modern painting’s great solitary figures.

From 28 November 2025 to 22 March 2026, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany, presents Giorgio Morandi: Resonances, a retrospective curated by Christian Spies that highlights Morandi’s extraordinary role in the past eighty years of art. Spanning over 80 works from the early 1920s to the late 1960s, the exhibition draws primarily from the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, complemented by loans from leading German and European institutions.

True to Morandi’s own reflective practice, the show places his work in conversation with pieces by other artists across time, from Josef Albers, Gustave Caillebotte, Tacita Dean, to Raoul Dufy, Lucian Freud, Sol LeWitt, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Willem de Rooij, Cy Twombly, and Jan van der Velde among others.

With over 100 works in total, Resonances creates a network of echoes: motifs, forms, and visual rhythms that link artists and eras, illuminating the subtle tensions of similarity and difference that lie at the heart of Morandi’s vision.