22 January – 27 March
Opening: Wednesday 21 January, 6.30pm
FOSCO MARAINI. PHOTOGRAPHS BY A CITLUVIT is the first solo exhibition dedicated to Maraini in the UK, with 70 photographic prints providing an overview of this extraordinary Italian intellectual, curated by Lara Veroner and Sandra Romito.
Ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic. Fosco Maraini travelled extensively in Europe, Middle East and Asia from the late 1920s onwards, studying several cultures and populations, the Ama and Ainu communities in Japan for instance, participating in remarkable mountain expeditions, such as the Karakoram excursion of the 1950s, and documenting his life and works through the medium of photography.
This exhibition will include portraits of the people Maraini met and the communities he studied alongside the photographs of places he visited in his countless travels. As an enthusiastic mountaineer and climber, a section of the show is dedicated to the mountains and their landscape. All the pictures have the original worldview of a Citluvit, which means Cittadino della Luna in Visita d’Istruzione sulla Terra (Citizen of the Moon on a Study Visit to Earth), as Maraini liked to describe himself. This show is a celebration of Maraini’s peculiar representation of reality through tangible and abstract photographic shoots.
A project organised and supported by ICI London. Special thanks to Fondazione Alinari and Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux. An exhibition curated by Lara Veroner and Sandra Romito.
OPENING
21 January 2026, 6.30 pm at ICI London (39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX)
The opening will also feature actor Marco Gambino reading some of Fosco Maraini’s most renowned poems.
Book for the opening HERE Please note: the opening night is SOLD OUT.
EXHIBITION
22 January – 27 March 2026
Monday – Friday | 10 am – 5 pm
At ICI London (39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX)
Free entry. No booking is required.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Join us for a series of special events exploring the universe of Fosco Maraini.
Breakfast Preview with Curators – Fosco Maraini. Photographs by a Citluvit
2 February 2026
10 am
At ICI London
BOOK HERE
More events are on the way… Stay tuned!
Featured Image: Foto di Fosco Maraini/Proprietà Gabinetto Vieusseux © Archivi Alinari