Il MLAC – Museo laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea della Sapienza Università di Roma, 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 by addressing not only students, scholars, and specialists but also the artists themselves and the wider public.
Administered as a Research Center since 2005, it was conceived, designed, and created by Simonetta Lux in 1986, within the framework 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 of unifying creative processes with educational and scientific processes. The MLAC – Museo
Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea is a dynamic innovative structure both for Italy and internationally: it incorporates the intertwining of activities focused on contemporary art that are normally separate, if not antagonistic:
- historical-critical scientific research activities;
- advanced training activities;
- creative cultural, exhibition activities;
- productive activities.
