After the great success of the Casa Balla exhibition. From the house to the universe and back, the opening to the public of the extraordinary Futurist house in Rome in which Giacomo Balla lived and worked from 1929 until his death in 1958 continues.

It was the summer of 1929 when the Balla family moved to their home in via Oslavia, in the Della Vittoria district. An "employee" apartment which for Giacomo Balla, his wife Elisa Marcucci and their two daughters Luce and Elica, also painters, will become the home of life, the chosen place transformed by the family into a work of art.

Casa Balla is an experimental laboratory made up of painted walls and doors, decorated furniture and furnishings, self-made tools, paintings and sculptures, home-designed and sewn clothes and many other objects which, together, have created a single and kaleidoscopic total project. The house is a workshop, a universe dotted with shapes and colors in which an atmosphere still breathes today that reflects the ideas expressed in the manifesto on the Futurist reconstruction of the universe, signed by Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero in 1915. In the balliano universe functionality and aesthetics coexist creating a new and vital union: Art invests everything and the objects designed and built for everyday use, tables, chairs, shelves, trestles, ashtrays, plates, tiles, although poor in materials, are very rich in the creative vein and make the apartment a magical place of metamorphosis.

Casa Balla, an intellectual living room for many personalities of art and culture, closed its doors in the nineties with the disappearance of the Balla ladies. Declared of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture in 2004, only today thanks to a long and careful reconnaissance, study and safety work carried out by MAXXI and the Special Superintendency of Rome in collaboration with the heirs has it been possible to set up the house with the works of the Maestro and his daughters and finally making it accessible to the public, restoring its soul as a creative forge.