Il MLAC – Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art of Sapienza University of Rome, Research Center from 2005 to 2011, currently part of the Museum Hub of the same university, aims to make international contemporary art known, promoted, protected, studied, and enhanced, addressing not only students, scholars, and specialists but artists themselves and the wider public.
Managed as a Research Center since 2005, it was conceived, designed, and realized by Simonetta Lux in 1986, within the scope of her precise (but flexible) theory of research and teaching, with the goal of creating and affirming the necessity of the relationship with the artist and the artwork and unifying creative processes with formative and scientific processes. The MLAC – Museum
Laboratory of Contemporary Art is a dynamic and innovative structure both for Italy and internationally: it indeed incorporates the intertwining of activities dedicated to contemporary art that are normally separate if not antagonistic:
- scientific historical-critical research activities;
- advanced training activities;
- creative, exhibition cultural activities;
- productive activities.
