[2] The collection was first created to document in an anthological manner the production of the recent generations of artists and the tendencies of contemporary Italian art,[3] in order to support and promote the artistic culture of Italy in the world.
[5] The works have been chosen by a scientific committee directed by Maurizio Calvesi and composed of Lorenzo Canova, Marco Meneguzzo and Marisa Vescovo.
The works are chosen with the purpose of documenting the different artistic currents present in Italy from the 1990s to 2000.
The collection, documented by a bilingual catalogue (Italian and English), consists of eighty works by an equal number of artists, according to a principal of anthological representation of the varied and multiform panorama of contemporary Italian art.
[9] In order to valorize Italian creativity and make it known internationally, Experimenta will be exhibited in Athens, Istanbul and Moscow during the year 2009, and in Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney and São Paulo in 2010.