art exhibitions An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhib ...

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Pirelli Pirelli & C. S.p.A. is a multinational tyre manufacturer based in Milan, Italy. The company, which has been listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1922, is the 6th-largest tyre manufacturer and is focused on the consumer production of tyres ...

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...

Carsten Höller Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.Alice Rawsthorn (January 2012)"Cliff Hanger - The Ghanaian home of artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach goes above—and beyond" ''W Magazine' ...

Alfredo Jaar Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war— ...

Joan Jonas Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Mike Kelley,

Matt Mullican Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951) is an American artist and educator. He is the child of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican lives and works in both Berlin and New York City. Early life and education Matt Mullican was ...

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Philippe Parreno Philippe Parreno (born 1964 in Oran, Algeria) is a contemporary French artist who lives and works in Paris. His works include films, installations, performances, drawings, and text. Parreno focuses on expanding ideas of time and duration thro ...

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Laure Prouvost Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You". Career Pr ...

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, ...

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Maurizio Cattelan Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him bei ...

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Lucio Fontana Lucio Fontana (; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, to Italian immigrant parents, he was ...

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Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan h ...

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History

HangarBicocca, set up in 2004, officially became a foundation in 2008 after a process of restoration of the former factory premises. Its external appearance recalls what was once its main function, i.e. the headquarters of one of the most important companies in

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's engineering sector: the Ansaldo Group, founded in 1886 by engineer

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Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

, who contributed to the development of the railway network in

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through the production of railway carriages, steam and electric locomotives.

Architecture

On the outside, the building has retained the industrial character of the company to which it belonged. The original rough concrete floors and high ceilings typical of the industrial style of the time have been preserved: in the room containing

Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan h ...

's permanent installation The Seven Heavenly Palaces, traces of the rails used to test locomotives are still visible. This enormous exhibition space covering almost 15,000 square metres is divided into three main areas: the ''Cube'', the ''Shed'' and the ''Navate.'' In order of access to the exhibition spaces, the three main covers are described below.

The ''Shed''

While maintaining the original inductive character of the typical industrial building of the 1920s, made of exposed brick, low height, with double-pitched roofs and large skylights, components for locomotives and agricultural machinery were produced here.

The ''Navate''

This is the biggest area of the foundation and it is 30-meter-high building that permanently accommodates the sculptural installation The Seven Heavenly Palaces by

Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan h ...

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The ''Cube''

The cube is a barrel-vaulted cubic body characterised by the fact that, as opposed to the other exhibition spaces in the complex, it enjoys natural lighting as it was used to test electric turbines.

Installations

Permanent installations

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Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan h ...

, The Seven Heavenly Palaces, 2004 * Fausto Melotti, La Sequenza, 1981 Daniele Puppi Fatica-n16

Temporary installations

* OSGEMEOS, Efêmero, current *

Trisha Baga Trisha Baga (born 1985 Venice, Florida) is an American artist living and working in New York City. Her work is installation based and incorporates video, performance, and found objects. Career Beginning in 2012 Baga began to use 3D projectors an ...

, the eye, the eye and the ear, current * Chen Zhen, short-circuits, current *

Cerith Wyn Evans Cerith Wyn Evans (born 1958 in Llanelli) is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker. In 2018 he won the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Early life and education The son of Sulwyn and Myfanwy Evans, Evans was born in Llanelli. ...

, “....the Illuminating Gas”, 2020 * Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand, 2020 *

Sheela Gowda Sheela Gowda (born 1957 in Bhadravati, India) is a contemporary artist living and working in Bangalore. Gowda studied painting at Ken School of Art, Bangalore, India (1979) pursued a postgraduate diploma at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniket ...

, Remains, 2019 * Giorgio Andreotta Calò, CittàdiMilano, 2019 * Mario Merz, Igloos, 2019 * Leonor Antunes, The last days in Galliate, 2019 *

Matt Mullican Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951) is an American artist and educator. He is the child of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican lives and works in both Berlin and New York City. Early life and education Matt Mullican was ...

, The Feeling of Things, 2018 * Eva Kot’átková, The Dream Machine is Asleep, 2018 * Vari artisti, Take me (I'm Yours), 2018 *

Lucio Fontana Lucio Fontana (; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, to Italian immigrant parents, he was ...

, Environments, 2018 *

Rosa Barba Rosa Barba (born 1972, Agrigento, Italy) is a German-Italian visual artist and filmmaker. Barba is known for using the medium of film and its materiality to create cinematic film installations, sculptures and publications, which inquire into th ...

, From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader, 2017 * Miroslaw Balka, Crossover/s, 2017 *

Laure Prouvost Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You". Career Pr ...

, GDM – Grand Dad’s Visitor Center, 2017 *

Kishio Suga (born 1944), is a Japanese sculptor and installation artist currently living in Itō, Shizuoka, Japan. He is one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored ...

, Situations, 2017 *

Carsten Höller Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.Alice Rawsthorn (January 2012)"Cliff Hanger - The Ghanaian home of artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach goes above—and beyond" ''W Magazine' ...

, Doubt, 2016 * Several artists, Architecture as Art, 2016 (on the occasion of the XXI Triennale Esposizione Internazionale Milano 2016) *

Petrit Halilaj Petrit Halilaj (born 1986) is a Kosovar visual artist living and working between Germany, Kosovo and Italy. His work is based on documents, stories, and memories related to the history of Kosovo. With his husband Alvaro Urbano, Halilaj is a jo ...

, Space Shuttle in the Garden, 2016 *

Philippe Parreno Philippe Parreno (born 1964 in Oran, Algeria) is a contemporary French artist who lives and works in Paris. His works include films, installations, performances, drawings, and text. Parreno focuses on expanding ideas of time and duration thro ...

, Hypothesis, 2016 * Damian Ortega, Casino, 2015 * Juan Muñoz, Double Bind & Around, 2015 * Céline Condorelli, Bau Bau, 2015 *

Joan Jonas Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Cildo Meireles Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, e ...

, Cildo Meireles. Installations, 2014 * Micol Assaël, ILIOKATAKINIOMUMASTILOPSARODIMAKOPIOTITA, 2014 * Dieter Roth Björn Roth, Islands, 2014 * Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2014 * Mike Kelley, Eternity is a Long Time, 2013 *

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, ...

, Primitive, 2013 *

Tomás Saraceno Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) is an Argentine contemporary artist whose projects, consisting of floating sculptures, international collaborations, and interactive installations, propose and dialogue with forms of inhabiting and s ...

, On Space Time Foam, 2013 * Carsten Nicolai, Unidisplay, 2013 * Emilia and Illja Kabakov, The Happiest Man, 2012 *

Wilfredo Prieto Wilfredo Prieto (born 1978; Sancti Spíritus, Cuba), is a Cuban conceptual artist. He moved to Havana to pursue his art studies at Instituto Superior de Arte, The University of Arts of Cuba (ISA), graduating in 2002. Overview He has a universit ...

, Equilibrando la curva, 2012 * Hans-Peter Feldmann, Shadow Play, 2012 * Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, NON NON NON, 2012 * Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, From here to ear, 2011 * Surasi Kusolwong, Ping—Pong, Panda, Povera, Pop—Punk, Planet, Politics and P—Art, 2011 * Several artists, Terre vulnerabili 4/4, 2011 * Several artists, Terre vulnerabili 3/4, 2011 * Several artists, Terre vulnerabili 2/4, 2011 * Several artists, Terre vulnerabili 1/4, 2011 *

Phill Niblock Phill Niblock (born October 2, 1933 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia,Alan Licht, ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', Blank Forms ...

, The movement of people working, 2010 *

Christian Boltanski Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French Conceptual art, conceptual style. Early li ...

, Personnes, 2010 * Carlos Casas, End, 2010 * Several artists, Fuori Centro, 2010 *

Anthony McCall Anthony McCall (born 1946) is a British-born New York based artist known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with "Line Describing a Cone," in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves ...

, Breath: the vertical works, 2009 *

Alfredo Jaar Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war— ...

, It is difficult, 2009 * BLU, the graffiti on the Hangar walls, 2008 * Lucy and Jorge Orta, Antarctica, 2008 * Daniele Puppi, Fatica n.16, 2008 * Contemporary artists from India, Urban Manners, 2008 * Emergenze project's several artists, Not afraid of the dark, 2007 * Several artists, Collateral, 2007 * Several artists in collaboration with START Association, Start@Hangar, 2007 *

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...

, Balkan Epic, 2006 * Adelina von Fürstenberg, Playground & Toys, 2005 *

Mark Wallinger Mark Wallinger (born 25 May 1959) is a British artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation ''State Britain''. His work ''Ecce Homo'' (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the ...

, Easter, 2005

References

External links

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