{"id":144642,"date":"2024-11-28T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/?post_type=mostra&p=144642"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:07:41","slug":"ouverture-2024","status":"publish","type":"mostra","link":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/en\/mostra\/ouverture-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouverture 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ouverture 2024<\/em> is curated by Marcella Beccaria and Francesco Manacorda<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Ouverture 2024<\/em> celebrates 40 years of activity of Castello di Rivoli. The title Ouverture<\/em> intentionally references the one used for the inaugural exhibition curated by Rudi Fuchs, the first Director of Castello. Opened to the public on 19 December 1984, the exhibition was conceived as a hypothesis for a future collection. Focused on works that were new or recent at the time, the exhibition recognised the value of individual artistic research rather than adherence to specific art historical movements. Ouverture 2024<\/em> reactivates the same principles, presenting the exceptional collection the institution has since built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project primarily focuses on works from the collection produced since the 2000s\u2014with some exceptions, added as desiderata<\/em>, as Fuchs did\u2014to reaffirm the institution\u2019s essential focus on contemporary art. Ouverture 2024<\/em> is conceived as a proposal for a 21st-century museum, rooted in Europe but open to a broader global vision. As in the original version, the exhibition gathers voices that have deeply influenced the artistic discourse and is inspired by principles of inclusion, social and cultural participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcella Beccaria, Deputy Director of Castello di Rivoli, states: Taking into account the developments that have occurred in the contemporary art world over the past decades<\/em>, Ouverture 2024 also references the ambitious and diverse exhibition program<\/em>me<\/em> organi<\/em>s<\/em>ed by Castello di <\/em>Rivoli <\/em>Museo d\u2019Arte Contemporanea over the years, and the organic growth of its collection, in which many works were born thanks to the exceptional context of the unfinished Savoy residence and the direct dialogue between directors, curators, and artists.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participating artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Marwa Arsanios, Micol Assa\u00ebl, Ed Atkins, Nairy Baghramian, Lothar Baumgarten, Anna Boghiguian, Monica Bonvicini, James Lee Byars, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Maurizio Cattelan, Cooking Sections, Roberto Cuoghi, Nicola De Maria, Olafur Eliasson, Sara Enrico, Luciano Fabro, Lara Favaretto, Chiara Fumai, Mario Garc\u00eda Torres, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Ingela Ihrman, Anne Imhof, Zhanna Kadyrova, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Nalini Malani, Elena Mazzi, Reinhard Mucha, Otobong Nkanga, Maria Nordman, Francis Offman, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Michael Rakowitz, Anri Sala, Hito Steyerl, Alexandra Sukhareva, Jenna Sutela, Alessandra Tesi, Adri\u00e1n Villar Rojas, Lawrence Weiner<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Curated by Marcella Beccaria and Francesco Manacorda
Ouverture 2024 celebrates the 40th anniversary of Castello di Rivoli by creating a proposal for a 21st-century museum: rooted in Europe, but open to a broader global vision that gathers voices that have profoundly shaped the artistic discourse, drawing inspiration from principles of inclusion, social participation, and cultural engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The title Ouverture intentionally references the one used for the inaugural exhibition at Castello di Rivoli, curated by its first director Rudi Fuchs and opened to the public on 19 December 1984. The exhibition was conceived as a survey of contemporary art, a proposal for a future collection, and at the same time, a model for an ideal museum. The works on display, resulting from loans or commissions, highlighted the value of the individual artistic research of the artists. The new version reactivates the same principles, but with the exceptional collection that the institution has since built. Ouverture 2024 primarily focuses on works from the collection produced since the 2000s\u2014with some loans, as in the case of Fuchs, included as desired additions\u2014to reaffirm the institution\u2019s primary focus on contemporary art. The exhibition project conceived for the occasion unfolds through the two grand floors of Castello di Rivoli and traces numerous urgencies that characterise contemporary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the first floor, the ecological crisis and possible forms of empathy between species are the basis of works by Ingela Ihrman, Otobong Nkanga, Anri Sala, and Roni Horn. Issues related to truth in representation and the role of images in the media-driven society are central to the research of Hito Steyerl and Pierre Huyghe. History, memory, and conflict situations define the works of Michael Rakowitz, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, and Marwa Arsanios, while the darker aspects of the past are explored by Roberto Cuoghi and Chiara Fumai. The fallibility of the human body inspires Nairy Baghramian, connecting to the awareness expressed by Robert Gober through works specially loaned for the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The Ouverture 2024 journey continues on the second floor with the investigation by Cooking Sections into the relationship between food and environmental pollution, a theme further explored by Anna Boghiguian. The contrast between digital experience and the physicality of the body is addressed differently by Anne Imhof, Alexandra Sukhareva, Sara Enrico, and Ed Atkins. The consequences of colonialism are reflected in the works of Nalini Malani, Francis Offman, Maria Thereza Alves, and Zhanna Kadyrova. The themes of disappearance and absence reverberate in the research of Lara Favaretto, with a significant work loaned for the occasion, while Mario Garc\u00eda Torres delves into the obsession with places and artistic practices of previous generations. The relationship between scientific research, imagination, and the human condition drives the works of Jenna Sutela and Micol Assa\u00ebl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition path concludes in the Manica Lunga with Olafur Eliasson, whose investigation embraces the memory of the encounter with nature, the responsibility of ecological thinking, and scientific and technological experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The exhibition project marks the continuation of a journey toward the creation of an open, inclusive museum designed to engage diverse viewpoints and narratives. Ouverture 2024 aims to be a prelude to something yet to come, while being firmly rooted in what has preceded it, conceived as a journey through specific chapters of the history of Castello di Rivoli and its future, renewing its function as a device for knowledge, reflection, and personal and social growth.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\t

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