The Exhibition “Sebastião Salgado. Ghiacciai”

Three different perspectives to tell the story of glaciers

The creator of the project is the Trento Film Festival, which has selected a shot by Salgado as the poster for its 73rd edition, to be held in Trento from 25 April to 4 May 2025.

The photographic exhibition, curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado, takes place between Rovereto and Trento. Until 21 September, 2025 the Mart (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum) in Rovereto will host over fifty large and very large photographs that, through the unmistakable blacks-and-whites of the Brazilian photographer, portray glaciers from all over the world.

Until 11 January, 2026, the MUSE (Science Museum) will host a large site-specific installation made of photographs taken by Salgado in the Kluane National Park and Reserve, in Canada. Moreover, beside the exhibition Dal ghiaccio a noi (From Ice to Us), during 2025 many other initiatives will be put in place.

MART

Salgado’s exhibition at the Mart Museum 

Against a blue background, over fifty large and very large photos, mostly unpublished and selected for this occasion, tell the story of glaciers. It is a black-and-white journey to the coldest places on the planet, from the Antarctic Peninsula to Canada, from Patagonia to the Himalayas, from South Georgia to Russia.

Boundless landscapes, where man appears only in rare cases, as a tiny spectator aboard a distant boat. The protagonists are these immense expanses of ice which, in spite of their colossal size, show their fragility.

Salgado’s exhibition at the MART is a visual tribute to these environments, by which the artist invites us to reflect on life, on the protection of ecosystems, and on respectful and conscious behaviours on one of the most pressing issues of our time, climate change.

Visiting the MART exhibition is an immersion in a universe of ice, ending in a video room featuring a thematic selection of films that opens with Icemeltland park, by Liliana Colombo (Italy/UK, 2020, 40’), awarded a Special Mention of the Jury at the Festival’s 2021 edition. The exhibition is also a taste of the Trento Film Festival, which takes place in Trento from 25 April to 4 May, 2025.

MUSE

Salgado’s exhibition at MUSE 

A large site-specific installation suspended in the “Great Void”, the space that architect Renzo Piano imagined as the beating heart of the museum.  Until 11 January, 2026, the Trento MUSE will host Salgado’s work dedicated to glaciers and created with photographs taken in the Kluane National Park and Reserve, in Canada.

The journey offered at the MUSE through the universe of glaciers continues with the exhibition “Dal ghiaccio a noi. Le ricerche MUSE sui ghiacciai nell’Antropocene” (From Ice to Us. The MUSE Research on Glaciers in the Anthropocene)”, hosted in the Agorà space until 9 November 2025.

Furthermore, the museum has planned a rich program of initiatives for 2025, whose aim is to raise awareness of the fragility of glaciers and their vital role as indicators of global climate change. From the thematic film festival to series of meetings with researchers, from training courses for teachers and refresher courses for journalists to theatrical performances. And for the little ones there are initiatives such as MUSE Fuori Orario (MUSE After hours) or family parties with activities dedicated to the theme of glaciers.

Your journey through the ice ends in Predazzo, in the Geological Museum of the Dolomites, which houses “Un Suono in Estinzione” (A Sound Going Extinct). It is an experimental research initiative aimed at monitoring the implications of climate change on glaciers, through an innovative approach that merges art, scientific research and sound analysis.

L’Urlo del ghiacciaio. Scream of the Glacier, as we said.

BELOW: Un’antica morena glaciale, Disappointment River, Parco nazionale e riserva di Kluane, Canada, 2011 - © Sebastião Salgado/Contrasto