From 11 October to 6 November 2022, the In Between Art Film Foundation and MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts present in the Penumbra Expanded museum videogallery , a program of screenings curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi which brings together a selection of more than 30 films and videos - most of which never exhibited in Italy - made by the leading artists of Penumbra, the first institutional exhibition organized by the In Between Art Film Foundation at the Ospedaletto Complex in Venice on the occasion of the Biennale Arte 2022, running until November 27, 2022.

Penumbra Expanded takes shape as part of the renewed three-year agreement between MAXXI and the In Between Art Film Foundation (2022-2024) which sees the two institutions collaborate in the promotion of national and international video language through the programming of the MAXXI videogallery and the organization of video reviews, film screenings, meetings with artists, as well as the selection of works that will become part of the Museum's collection.

Curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi - respectively Artistic Director and Curator of the Foundation - Penumbra includes eight new video and filmic installations commissioned to Karimah Ashadu (1985, UK), Jonathas De Andrade (1982, Brazil), Aziz Hazara (1992, Afghanistan), He Xiangyu (1986, China), Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza, 1973 and Iacopo Bedogni, 1970, Italy), James Richards (1983, UK), Emilija Škarnulytė (1987, Lithuania) and Ana Vaz (1986, Brazil) . All eight works are commissioned and produced by the In Between Art Film Foundation, the initiative founded by Beatrice Bulgari to support artists and institutions active in the field of moving images.

The exhibition offers MAXXI an unprecedented and in-depth overview of the practices of the eight artists through a series of monographic projections. The eight focuses on the artists of Penumbra, each lasting three days, offer for the first time a comprehensive look at the themes and formal choices that characterize their poetics.