Exhibition programme 2023

Ciao!

My programme of new exhibitions starts today, March 9, continuing and consolidating my museum’s experimental approach as a three-dimensional magazine on the contemporary.

With this letter I would like to present an overview of my projects from now until the end of 2023.

Hervé Guibert: This and More inaugurates today and presents a selection of photographs by writer, journalist and photographer Hervé Guibert (1955–1991). The show is curated by Anthony Huberman and is produced in collaboration with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, where it was on view from June 9 to July 30, 2022, and with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art of Berlin, where it will be presented from June 9 to August 20 2023.

After The Light, an exhibition dedicated to artist Jochen Klein (1967-1997), curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Wolfgang Tillmans, will inaugurate on March 17. The show presents the artist’s earliest works on canvas as well as his drawings, watercolors and some sculptural experiments. It features works by Julie Ault, Thomas Eggerer, Ull Hohn, Wolfgang Tillmans, Amelie von Wulffen to contextualize Klein’s work within the wider collective and personal preoccupations that characterized the lives and practices of the artists that worked alongside and with him.

The exhibitions Beethoven Was a Lesbian, about composer and theorist of the practice of Deep Listening Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016); What why WET? on WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, a cult magazine on art, music and fashion created by Leonard Koren and published from 1976 to 1981; and Tempus Fugit on the Italian graphic design office Studio Temp, will also open on March 17. Meanwhile, new works by Monia Ben Hamouda (1991), Beatrice Celli (1992) and Diego Gualandris (1993) will join RETROFUTURE, the growing exhibition aimed at building a collection of works by young Italian artists.

On April 27, I will present In First Person Plural, a group show conceived as a film set in which the artworks act as characters capable of activating different stories within the same scenario. The exhibition includes works by Gina Beavers, Alexandra Bircken, Corrado Cagli, Judy Chicago, Enzo Cucchi, Jimmy DeSana, Eliza Douglas, Wayland Flowers, Massimo Grimaldi, Duane Hanson, Mark Leckey, Nancy Lupo, Tala Madani, John Miller, Hudson Mohawke, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ulrike Ottinger, Lucia Pica, Francisco Sierra, Erik Thys and Gianfilippo Usellini.

The exhibition Penitence Alley, organized in collaboration with Janice Guy, will open on June 8 and will reconstruct the work produced by a series of artists–including Michel Auder, David Hammons, Sarah Lucas, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Lawrence Weiner, and Franz West–during The Rome Studio residency, promoted by Barbara Gladstone and Thea Westreich from 1989 to 1991 at Vicolo della Penitenza in the Trastevere district of Rome. An exhibition by the duo Daniel Dewar (1976) / Gregory Gicquel (1975), investigating the materials, craft techniques and processes connected with ceramic sculptures, will open the same day.

My fall season will begin on September 20 with new exhibitions, including the photography project Taxonomy of the Barricade curated by the philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, based on extensive visual research on the first attempts at aerial photography, used to monitor the barricades during the unrest in France in May 1968; a show on the graphic design studio Experimental Jetset, founded in 1997 in Amsterdam by Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen; and an exhibition of artist and architect Alexander Brodsky (1955), former member of the group Paper Architects operating in Russia during the 1980s.

On October 27, I will open a major retrospective investigating one of the most enigmatic and complex figures of Arte Povera, Emilio Prini (1943–2016). The programme will continue on November 17 with the opening of an exhibition by artist Pauline Curnier Jardin (1980), and with an exhibition on the conceptual design duo, Bless, founded in the mid-1990s by Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag.

Throughout the year I will present new publications on Franco Mazzucchelli, Lisa Ponti (the first monograph on the artist is produced with the support of Italian Council and in collaboration with Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris), and Eva Barto (in collaboration with Le Plateau, Paris).

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