Art and Avant-Garde of the 20th century

in Blockhaus



© Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Alexander Peitz
Please note that the Archiv der Avantgarde — Egidio Marzona (ADA) will be closed from 09.03.—18.06.2026 due to exhibition renovations. Research visits are possible after prior appointment.

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The Archiv der Avantgarden — Egidio Marzona (ADA), an archive of 20th-century avant-garde art, contains approximately 1.5 million artworks and other objects, making it one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind. Collector Egidio Marzona began to amass the archive in the late 1960s and continued in the decades that followed. The ADA helps trace the artistic ideas and numerous radical utopias of the century and brings to light the amazing interconnectedness of artists.

Egidio Marzona: Obituary

On 15 March 2026, the Italian art collector and patron Egidio Marzona (born in Bielefeld in 1944) passed away in Berlin, surrounded by his family and friends, following a serious illness. Over a period of more than 50 years, Egidio Marzona amassed one of the largest collections of twentieth-century art, which is now housed in the Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin.

A book of condolence is now available at the Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona (ADA) until 24 March 2026, daily from 3 pm to 7 pm.

Obituary

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Das Archiv der Avantgarden — Egidio Marzona (ADA) im Blockhaus
An Oral History Archive

WE ARE AVANT-GARDE!

WIR SIND AVANTGARDE! is a documentation and research project on the history and significance of the Archiv der Avantgarden - Egidio Marzona (ADA). The films, which have been produced since 2020, document conversations about the practice and motivation of collecting, about the concept and content of the ADA as well as about the artistic approaches and strategies represented therein and their social contexts. The collected film conversations will gradually give rise to a separate "archive of the archive".

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