The m.a.x. museo’s art collection includes numerous donations – partly as a result of the exhibitions held and partnerships organised since 2010 – as well as the historical collection of the City of Chiasso.
The collection represents local and internationally renowned artists and others who are little understood but have interesting artistic achievements.
Naturally the focus on graphic art is important; extensive space is also devoted to photography.
The m.a.x. museum is available to lend works from its collection for exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, in keeping with its mission to disseminate knowledge of graphics, design, photography and visual communication.
Collection of the City of Chiasso
Selim Abdullah (1950)
Claudio Adorni (1954)
Nena Airoldi (1930–2003)
Nag Arnoldi (1928)
Carlo Basilico (1895–1966)
Paolo Bellini (1941)
Stefania Beretta (1957)
Silvano Bergamin
Bertino Bernasconi (1945)
Giovanni Bernasconi (1905–1993)
Lidia Bernasconi–Bossi
Leonardo Bezzola (1929)
Nadia Bindella (1950)
Fernando Bordoni (1962)
Serge Brignoni (1903–2002)
Pino Brioschi (1946)
Paul Camenisch (1893–1970)
Simone Cantarini (1612–1648)
Ester Carletti (1934)
Pierre Casè (1944)
Marisa Casellini (1951)
Théa Vittoria Catalani–Cima
Giancarlo Cavadini
Mario Chiattone (1891–1957)
Dante Chiesa
Andrea Cometta (1970)
Carlo Cotti (1903–1980)
Giosanna Crivelli (1949)
Dona De Carli (1950)
Francesco De Giorgi (1921)
Giovanni De Martino (1870–1935/38)
Edmondo Dobrzanski (1914–1997)
Aziz Elhihi (1960)
Sergio Emery (1928–2003)
Gabriele Fettolini (1955)
Angelo Fiessi (1891–1977)
Felice Filippini (1917–1988)
Alberto Flammer (1938)
Gabai (Samuele Gabaglio) (1949)
Aldo Galli (1906–1981)
Edgardo Gandolfi (1945)
Giovanni Genucchi (1904–1979)
Fausto Gerevini (1956–1993)
Francesco Ghielmetti (1952)
Gianni Gianella (1930–2005)
Enrico Ginella (1893–1964)
Aurelio Gonzato (1914–2014)
Guido Gonzato (1896–1955)
Vera Haller (1910–1991)
Adriano Heitmann (1951)
Teo Horat (1910–2000)
Max Huber (1919–1992)
Monique Jacot (1934)
Robert Lienhard (1919–1989)
Ezio Locatelli
Jenny Losinger–Ferri (1902–1993)
Cesare Lucchini (1941)
Ingeborg Lüscher (1936)
Giovanni Luisoni (1944)
Gino Macconi (1928–1999)
Mirella Marini
Paolo Mazzuchelli (1954)
Gianni Metalli (1930–2006)
Roberto Milan (1937)
Gian Paolo Minelli (1968)
Minelli & Repetto [Gian Paolo Minelli (1968) e Silvano Repetto (1968)]
Gino Montecampi (1948)
Federico Morello (1845-1945)
Sergio Morello (1937)
Francine Mury (1947)
Anita Nespoli (1894–1974)
Ottorino Olgiati (1913–1972)
Aldo Pagani (1937)
Sergio Paleari
Flavio Paolucci (1934)
Gianni Paris (1948)
Otto Perlasca (1891–1975)
Francesco Radino (1947)
Rolando Raggenbass (1950–2005)
Imre Reiner (1900–1987)
Silvano Repetto (1968)
Franz Rosse (1858–1900)
Remo Rossi (1909–1982)
Anna Rusconi
Irma Russo-Giudici (1899–1994)
Carlo Sala (1917–1985)
Enrico Sala (1943)
Domingo Saporiti (1893–1966)
Romolo Sartori
Pierino Selmoni (1927)
Rodolfo Soldati (1913–1997)
Florindo Soldini (1915–2005)
Ivo Soldini (1951)
Anita Spinelli (1908–2010)
Otto Staiger (1894–1967)
Max Sulzbachner (1904–1985)
Raffaele Tafuri (1857–1929)
Mauro Valsangiacomo (1959)
Willy Varlin (1900–1977)
Francesco Vella (1954)
Eduard von Fellenberg (1953)
Michael von Graffenried (1957)
Pierre Waidmann (1860–1937)
Max Weiss (1921–1996)
Maria Luisa Wiget (1907–2001)
Mauro Zeni
Acquisizioni del m.a.x. museo dal 2010
Valerio Abate (1994)
Leda Albanese (1949)
Pierre Alechinsky (1927)
Attilio Alfieri (1904-1992)
Bruno Aller (1960)
Nadia Ancona
Iván Araujo (1971)
Vincenzo Arena (1932)
Rodolfo Aricò (1930-2002)
Gianfranco Arlandi (1922-2005)
Armodio, alias Vilmore Schenardi (1938)
Marco Auditore
Kenjiro Azuma (1926-2016)
Enrico Baj (1924-2003)
Arion Bajrami (1988)
Jean-Marie Balogh (1980)
Joan Bankemper (1959)
Giuliano Barbanti (1936)
Antonio Baseggio
Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013)
Gianluigi Bellucci (1977)
Valentina Berardinone (1924)
Stefania Beretta (1957)
Carlo Bertè (1939)
Vinicio Berti (1921-1991)
Gianni Bertini
Aldo Bertolini (1951)
Guido Bertuzzi (1939)
Bruno Betti
Walter Bianco (1923)
Annibale Biglione (1923-1981)
Marina Bindella (1957)
Giancarlo Bisi (1964)
Luigi Boccadamo (1975)
Luciano Boccardini (1937)
Floriano Bodini (1933-2005)
Luigi Boille (1926-2015)
Davide Bonadonna (1968)
Beppe Bonetti (1951)
François Bonjour (1948)
Angelo Boog
Adalberto Borioli (1936)
Ferruccio Bortoluzzi (1920–2007)
Giuseppe Bosich (1945)
Silvano Bozzolini (1911-1998)
Mario Botta (1943)
Giancarlo Braghieri (1930-2009)
Paolo Brambilla
Serge Brignoni (1903-2002)
Riccardo Bucella (1990)
Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009)
Elide Brunati
Cosimo Budetta (1939)
Johannes Julius Busolini (1950)
Bruno Caferri (1920)
Gabriele Calzetti (1953-2000)
Giuseppe Calonaci (1931)
Gianfredo Camesi (1940)
Domenico Cantatore (1906-1998)
Lucilla Caporilli Ferro (1965)
Rosanna Carloni
Eugenio Carmi (1920-2016)
Nicola Carrino (1932-2018)
Giovanni Carta (1938)
Davide Cascio (1976)
Pierre Casè (1944)
Bruno Cassinari (1912-1992)
Bruno Chersicla (1937-2013)
Sandro Chia (1946)
Demien Garcia Chappuis
Giuseppe Chietera (1966)
Andreas Christen (1936-1970)
Annalisa Cimmino (1974)
Daniele Cleis (1944)
Fabrizio Clerici (1913-1993)
Dario Cogliati
Pietro Coletta (1948)
Giuliano Collina (1938)
Mario Comensoli (1922-1993)
Carlo Cometti
Giovanni Conservo (1935)
Alessia Consiglio (1979)
Silvio Coppola (1920–1985)
Franco Corradini (1945)
Leonardo Cremonini (1925-2010)
Margherita Crocco
Alberto Croce (1933-2014)
Enzo Cucchi (1949)
Miro Cusumano (1938-1987)
Sergio Dangelo (1932)
Miranda D’Amico
Celeste Davi (1995)
Giuseppe De Giacomi (1963)
Enrico Della Torre (1931)
Michele Dessì
Elisabetta Diamanti (1959)
Pietro Diana (1931-2016)
John Doing (Gianni Onorato) (1938)
Bruno Donzelli (1941)
Donadio
Nino Dore (1932-2013)
Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)
Paolo D’Orazio (1944)
Gillo Dorfles (1910- 2018)
Gianni Dova (1925-1991)
Marcello Dudovich (1878-1962)
Elisabeth Eberle (1963)
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Agenore Fabbri (1911-1998)
Marisa Facchinetti (1948)
Umberto Faini (1933)
Gianfranco Fasce (1927)
Simonetta Ferrante (1930)
Renzo Ferrari (1939)
Manuela Ferretti (1961)
Carla Ferriroli (1987)
Dominique Fidanza (1979)
Anna Filippi
Alberto Flammer (1938)
Dario Fo (1926-2016)
Fabio Fogliazza
Lucio Fontana (1889-1968)
Attilio Forgioli (1933)
Alessandro Fornaci (1974)
Mauro Fornari (1949)
Luciano Fornera (1936)
Giovanna Fra (1967)
Samuele Gabai (1949)
Orio Galli
Myriam Gelasaga (1987)
Alberto Gennari
Angelo Giuseppe Fronzoni (1923)
Walter Gadda (1950)
Flor Garduño (1957)
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Teresa Leiser Giupponi (1923)
Henri Goetz (1909-1989)
Giorgio Graf (1999)
Achille Grampa (1999)
Bruno Grassi (1944)
Ivan Grebenshikov (1982)
Franco Grignani (1908-1999)
Calisto Gritti (1937)
Giuseppe Guerreschi (1929-1985)
Nicole Hametner (1981)
Aglaia Haritz (1978)
Robert Helman (1910-1990)
Geoffrey Hendricks (Fluxus) (1931)
Max Huber (1919–1992)
Nici Jost (1984)
Giancarlo Iliprandi (1925-2016)
Cristiana Isoleri
Giovanni Korompay (1904-1988)
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
Lora Lamm (1928)
Luciano Lattanzi (1925-2010)
Piero Leddi (1930-2016)
Teresa Leiser–Giupponi (1922–1993)
Serge Libiszewski (Sergio Libis) (1930)
Leo Lionni (1910-1999)
Gabriella Locci (1950)
Richard Paul Lohse (1902-1988)
Alberto Longoni (1921-1991)
Carlo Lorenzetti (1934)
Francesco Lorenzetti (1983)
Flavio Lucchini (1928)
Gino Macconi (1928-1999)
George Maciunas (1931–1978)
Simone Maganuco
Alessandro Maggiora Vergano (1095-1984)
Luigi Mainolfi (1948)
Angelo Marchetti (1930-2000)
Guglielmo Marchisio (1937)
Penelope Margaret Mackworth–Praed (1949)
Hektor Mamet (1983)
Bernard Mandeville (1921-2000)
Fabio Manucci
Matteo Martini
Sandro Martini (1941)
Evi Massarani
Vittore Matino (1943)
Gian Luca Matti (1942)
Enzo Mari (1932)
Alessandra Martinelli (1957)
Eliseo Mattiacci (1940-2019)
Sante Mazzei
Galliano Mazzon (1896-1978)
Paolo Mazzuchelli (1954)
Gino Meloni (1905-1989)
Luca Mengoni (1972)
Giacomo Meschini (1983)
Maria Minussi (1998)
Bruno Missieri (1942)
Carlo Mo (1023-2004)
Lucia Moholy (1894-1989)
Manlio Monti (1948)
Andrea Montin (1949)
Marcello Morandini (1940)
Sergio Morello
Antonio Motta
Roberto Mucchiut (1960)
Marco Mucha (1954)
Francine Mury
Hidetoshi Nagasawa (1940-2018)
Carlo Nangeroni (1922-2018)
Giulia Napoleone (1936)
Alessandro Nastasio
Gualtiero Nativi
Carlo Nessi (1962)
Till Neuburg
Toni Nicolini (1935–2012)
Vito Noto (1955)
Angela Occhipinti
Achille Pace (1923)
Igino Panzino (1950)
Flavio Paolucci (1934)
Antonio Paradiso (1936)
Fabio Pastori
Paolo Perotti (1928-2018)
Cesare Peverelli (1922-2000)
Ercole Pignatelli (1935)
Piergiorgio Piffaretti (1942)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Franco Pizzi (1943)
Aymone Poletti (1978)
Giancarlo Pozzi (1938)
Nunzio Quarto (1941)
Massimo Rao (1950-1996)
Gianni Realini (1943)
Loana Riboli
Hans Richter (1888-1976)
Reto Rigassi (1951)
Luciano Rigolini (1950)
Terry Riley (1935)
Franco Rognoni (1913-1999)
Gianna Ronchi (1920)
Sara Rossi (1970)
Luigi Rossini (1790-1857)
Lucio Saffaro (1929-1998)
Minako Saka
Nicola Salvatore (1951)
Carmen Santacatalina (1947)
Pasquale Santoro (1933)
Guido Santinelli
Bruno Sapiente (1946-2012)
Hector Saunier (1936)
Angelo Savelli (1911-1995)
Salvatore Scarpitta (1919-2007)
Beat Scheffold
Maurizio Scotti (1958)
Uriel Schmid Téllez (1995)
Lorenzo Schumacher
Federico Seneca (1891-1976)
Laura Solari (1971)
Sandro Somarè (1929)
Giuseppe Spagnulo (1936-2016)
Daniel Spoerri (1930)
Fausta Squatriti (1941)
Mauro Staccioli (1937-2018)
Theodoros Stamos (1922-1977)
Bella Steiger Felder (1966)
Gian Giacomo Stiffoni (1967)
Guido Strazza (1922)
Alberto Sughi (1928-2012)
Raffaella Surian (1960)
Emilio Tadini (1927-2002)
Primo Tamagnini (1936)
Piero Tanca
Georg Tannò (1946)
Tarshito (Nicola Strippoli) (1952)
Fabio Tasca (1965)
Angelo Tenchio (1943-1994)
Joe Tilson (1928)
Angelo Titonel (1938-2018)
Myriam Thyes (1963)
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Emiliano Troco
Pino Tovaglia (1923–1977)
Antonio Trotta (1937)
Mario Tudor (1932)
Angelo Usai (1940)
Gianfilippo Usellini (1903-1971)
Valentino Vago (1931-2018)
Italo Valenti (1912-1995)
Walter Valentini (1928)
Sidi Vanetti (1975)
Mauro Valsangiacomo (1950)
Vemil
Renzo Vespignani (1924-2001)
Giorgio Vicentini (1951)
Antonio Virduzzo (1926-1982)
Maya Vonmoos (1953)
Heinz Waibl (1931)
J.J. Winckelmann (1717-1768)
Teres Wydler (1945)
William Xerra (1937)
Ossip Zadkin (1890-1967)
Toni Zanussi (1932)
Giancarlo Zen (1929)
Giuseppe Zigaina (1924-2015)