Programme 2020

“The new season at Museion reflects the vision of a museum as a place that is open to a plurality of meanings and opposed to easy conclusions; a place that gives a voice to people who question and rewrite official history, who defy expectations and whose curiosity takes the public beyond what they already know.” –Letizia Ragaglia, Museion Director. Once again in 2020, most of these voices, as is the tradition at Museion, will be women.

The year opens with Bestiario de Lengüitas (Bestiary of Tonguelets), the exhibition by Mercedes Azpilicueta (b. La Plata, Argentina, 1981) staged in collaboration with CentroCentro, Madrid and CAC Brétigny. In the summer, the programme continues with a project specifically designed for Museion by Karin Sander (b. Bensberg, Germany 1957). The artist’s interventions are minimal and completely integrated in the context in which she works. Karin Sander does not seek to draw attention to perceptive phenomena for their own sake. Instead, she prefers to analyse spaces and situations in relation to their institutional function. In this sense, her exhibition challenges the expectations of the public and the museum itself. Sonia Leimer (b. Merano, 1977) also addresses concrete and physical space and constantly questions the ways in which it is aesthetically defined. The materials she uses—such as asphalt, concrete and steel—evoke both public and cosmic space, as well as creating highly original stories. Her exhibition at Museion focuses, in particular, on space junk.

WALKING – movements north of Bolzano is the title of the show that opens the Autumn season at Museion. The exhibition showcases the collection of Erling Kagge, the Museion guest curator for 2020, and is designed as a journey from Oslo to Bolzano that brings together the art of over 30 artists, from Scandinavia to Germany. It will also include a special section dedicated to Raymond Pettibon. The same spirit that has distinguished the Museion programme in recent years blows through Erling Kagge’s collection too. That is to say, a belief in the experimental talents of many young artists in the international contemporary art scene. Museion therefore fulfils its vocation of offering a contemporary platform that stimulates a conversation on the work of young artists in today’s art scene.

Programme 2020

Mercedes Azpilicueta, Bestiario de Lengüitas
Opening February 14, 2020
until May 13, 2020
curated by Virginie Bobin
In collaboration with CentroCentro Madrid and CAC Brétigny

Karin Sander
Opening May 29, 2020
until September 20, 2020
curated by Letizia Ragaglia

Unlearning categories
Exhibition on the artworks acquired between 2012 and 2018 by the Department for German Culture of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano ∕ Bozen
Opening June 26, 2020
until August 23, 2020
curated by BAU

WALKING – movements north of Bolzano
Opening September 11, 2020
until early 2021
curated by Erling Kagge, guest curator Museion 2020

Sonia Leimer
Opening October 9, 2020
until early 2021
curated by Letizia Ragaglia and Frida Carazzato

Intermedia. Archivio di Nuova Scrittura
until June 7, 2020
In collaboration with Mart Rovereto

Studio House
Butch-ennial Contemporary Art Group, P.O.V. Point of view
March 27–August 30, 2020
Opening March 26∕2020

Media Façade
The programme of the Media Façade is linked initially to the exhibition Intermedia. Archivio di Nuova Scrittura with the screening of a work by Cioni Carpi (Milan, 1923–2011). In July, the museum continues its collaboration with the Bolzano Dance Festival.

Piccolo Museion - Cubo Garutti:
curated by Frida Carazzato

ART WORKS! European Culture of Resistance and Liberation
January 14–September 27∕2020
in collaboration with Alessandra Ferrini & Museion’s youth group. 
In partnership with: Foundation wannseeFORUM Berlin, Association HASENHERZ or the Pleasures of Moving Images and Words, Vienna, The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, The Center of Contemporary History Melk Memorial

Cristian Chironi
October 3, 2020–January 2021