Poster for the exhibition by Gregor Schneider
Gregor Schneider: Building and Killing, ifa 2024. Photo: Gregor Schneider

Bauen und Töten ("Building and Killing")

Gregor Schneider

19 Dec 2024  -  22 Feb 2025
Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino
Largo Proprio d'Avellino 17
80138 Napoli

Funded artist: Gregor Schneider

The exhibition investigates the interconnection between personal and collective memory, exploring the symbolic meanings attached to the places we inhabit. In a complex historical moment, Bauen und Töten highlights the dramatic relevance of Schneider’s work and the pioneering value of his reflections on memory as an antidote against the perpetuation of new cultural and collective traumas.

The exhibition traces the most important steps in Schneider's career. It begins with his work Haus u r and continues with his success as winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2001, as well as later works such as the series It's All Rheydt, Kolkata (2011). This series explores the boundary between art and life by thematising the encounter between modernist Western culture and Hinduism. Videos from the series Sunny Demise, Tagebau Hambach (2022) are also part of the exhibition. They depict the dystopian reality of several villages near Rheydt that have been depopulated by lignite mining. The latter group of works is also linked to the origins of Haus u r, as Schneider recycled materials from the dying neighbourhoods for the artwork in the 1980s. 

The event also stands as a pivotal moment for Fondazione Morra Greco, which inaugurated its activities back in 2006 with an exhibition by Schneider himself.

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