An exhibition exploring the relationship between science and art
The Museum of Nature and Humankind is hosting the exhibition The Earth Is Blue Like an Orange: The Mystery of Research, curated by Sylvain Bellenger and organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of VIMM, the Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine.
Through a unique dialogue between scientific images from VIMM’s laboratories and artistic images, the exhibition explores the creative force that unites art and science.
The exhibition brings together works by contemporary artists, anatomical images, digital reconstructions, and scientific visualizations with the extraordinary images produced in VIMM’s laboratories, which reveal cellular structures, neural networks, and forms of life that seem to belong as much to the language of science as to that of abstract and informal art.
A fusion of creativity and curiosity in which intuition, sensitivity, and discipline converge in the search for forms capable of conveying and interpreting the essence of life. An exhibition where poetic truth and scientific truth meet as two complementary languages, capable of expressing the same consciousness and sensitivity toward the human condition, right in Italy’s largest university museum of natural sciences.
The exhibition is open from May 28 to September 30, 2026, and admission is included with the museum ticket.
