The 2021 exhibition season of GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo opens with Regina. Della scultura, a large retrospective dedicated to Regina Cassolo Bracchi, linked to the parallel acquisition by the Gallery and the Centre Pompidou of Paris of a major set of works by the artist.

At the same time, the museum hosts the 13th edition of the video program Artists’ Film International, with a focus on the work of Italian artist Giulio Squillacciotti.

During the summer, the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto will present the installation Mentre la vita ci respira, polviteret, devised for the Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo, and the Spazio Zero of the GAMeC will host the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum of the Latvian artist Daiga Grantina.

Fall will see the opening of Nothing Is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, the second chapter of the cycle on matter, which will also host a site-specific project by the Swedish artist Nina Canell.

The GAMeC thereby intends to continue investigating the less obvious languages of modern art, and to increasingly expand its openness towards international contemporary creativity, placing the city of Bergamo at the center of a wide cultural and social network as narrated also through Radio GAMeC, the Gallery’s own radio station founded in 2020 during the most acute phase of the pandemic, and which in 2021 will continue to broadcast through various online and social media channels.

Exhibitions program

Regina. Della scultura
April 28–August 29, 2021

Regina. Della scultura is the first retrospective in an Italian museum dedicated to Regina Cassolo Bracchi (1894–1974). The exhibition, curated by Chiara Gatti and Lorenzo Giusti, arises from the purchase by the GAMeC and the Centre Pompidou of Paris of a major set of works by the artist, and aims to analyze the formal reflection of a unique personality, one who has wrongly remained in the margins of history and who has now been rediscovered as a complex, experimental, versatile, and poetic figure.

Two hundred and fifty works—including sculptures in aluminum and Plexiglas, mobiles, drawings, paper models, and notebooks—will lead visitors along an itinerary that unfolds through various themes and eras, from her years of Futurism to those of the MAC: the concrete art movement.

The exhibition also features a monograph, published by GAMeC Books and Éditions du Centre Pompidou, with essays by Christine Macel, Lorenzo Giusti, Chiara Gatti, Paolo Campiglio, and Paolo Sacchini, graphic concept by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi, and a photographic project by Delfino Sisto Legnani. The exhibition display is curated by the designer Francesco Faccin.

Artists’ Film International: 13th Edition
April 28–May 23, 2021

The GAMeC continues its participation in the prestigious worldwide network dedicated to video art, involving leading international contemporary art institutions since 2008. For this 13th edition (on the theme of “Care”), curators Sara Fumagalli and Valentina Gervasoni selected Italian artist Giulio Squillacciotti (1982) and his work What Has Left Since We Left (2020), which has opened the screening agenda.

Ernesto Neto. Mentre la vita ci respira, polviteret
June 10–September 26, 2021

A project by Ernesto Neto (1964) for the Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo—curated by Lorenzo Giusti—will be an ode to life, to the materiality of nature and its continuous regeneration. The attention to the themes of ecology and the environment, characteristic of the Brazilian artist’s research, will be accompanied by evocations arising from comparison with the historical preexisting structures on the site of the ancient medieval palace as well as the frescoes preserved within it.

Daiga Grantina. Atem, Lehm
June 10–August 29, 2021

On the occasion of her first solo show in an Italian institution—curated by Sara Fumagalli and Valentina Gervasoni—Daiga Grantina (1985) will stage a site-specific project in dialogue with the architecture of Spazio Zero, the museum’s project room. The exhibition provides a detailed investigation of the perception of color, conceived by the Latvian artist as closely intertwined with matter and light, in the attempt to answer the question, “How can we delineate color?” 

Nothing Is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation
October 14, 2021–February 13, 2022

The second chapter of the great multiyear exhibition project dedicated to the theme of matter (Trilogy of Matter), the exhibition—curated by Anna Daneri and Lorenzo Giusti—will highlight the strong link that has always bound artists to the chemistry of elements and the transformation of matter through an elaborate selection of Dadaist and Surrealist works, productions by some of the leading exponents of the neo-vanguard movements of the 1960s and 1970s, sculptural works by artists who emerged in the 1980s, and research by major international artists of recent generations. The exhibition will be completed by the site-specific project put together by the Swedish artist Nina Canell (1979), produced as part of the Meru Art*Science Research Program.

On Air – Argentina-Italia Art Residency
The GAMeC exhibition program is further enriched by the collaboration with the Fundación PROA of Buenos Aires on the residency project On Air – Argentina-Italia Art Residency, which this year will involve the Argentinian artist Irina Kirchuk (1983).

The exhibition calendar may be subject to change in accordance with government regulations related to the current health emergency.