Please note that the Hungarian Academy in Rome will be closed on Monday, October 23rd due to Hungarian national holidays.
Suspended Stage Between Sky and Earth – Where the Visible Meets the Invisible is an immersive exhibition inviting visitors to traverse the threshold between art, faith, and illusion. Housed in the evocative Courtyard of Honour of the Hungarian Academy in Rome, it presents 21 original engravings from the 17th and 18th centuries, drawn from the celebrated Book of Jesuit Scenographies from Sopron. These scenographic drawings document the baroque Jesuit theater’s imagination, where spiritual realms found a visible form on stage.
With refined visual language, the engravings depict fantastic architectures, theatrical backdrops, sky and earth in dialogue, often interwoven with symbolic elements evoking invisible presences, supernatural figures, or celestial performers. The curatorial arrangement underscores the theater as metaphor: the stage becomes a space of union between visible reality and the invisible realm—a bridge between the human and the transcendent.
Organized in collaboration with the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA), the exhibition is open until November 18, 2025. Suspended Stage is more than a historic display: it is an invitation to rethink the power of the theatrical venue as a sacred space, where art recovers its symbolic vocation and where visitors are invited to linger in silence and contemplation.
