Curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato, the exhibition presents about one hundred works from prestigious European institutions and from the GAM collections.

The exhibition explores the night as a space for technical experimentation, scientific reflection and poetic introspection from the early 17th century to contemporary times. Ordered thematically, in a sequence intended to respect the chronological succession of the different cultural seasons, the exhibition invites a reflection on the fascination of the night as a place of ambiguity, mystery and discovery, in a constant dialogue between rationality and sentiment, science and visionary.

From the 17th century research of Galileo and Maria Clara Eimmart in dialogue with works by Johann Carl Loth, Giuseppe Antonio Petrini and Antonio Canova, to the contemporary cosmic visions of Vija Celmins and Thomas Ruff. Ample space is devoted to the Romantic and Symbolist 19th century and the dreamlike 20th century, whose works are presented in which the night is interwoven with transcendent visions and imaginations, such as nocturnes by Victor Hugo, Odilon Redon, Franz von Stuck, František Kupka, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock and Joseph Cornell.