From 29 October 2026 to 4 April 2027, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Merz, and GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin present Marisa Merz – La danza delle ore, an exhibition in three acts under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and made possible thanks to the support of Fondazione CRT. On the centenary of the artist’s birth in 1926, the three institutions retrace her work and legacy through a shared project that interweaves complementary curatorial perspectives and brings together historical works and previously unseen pieces.
At the heart of the exhibition is an artistic practice in which art and life belong to the same movement: everyday time becomes a time of creation and a space for experimentation, while matter remains an ever-open possibility for transformation. Marisa Merz’s works emerge from gestures, intuitions, and returns; they are revisited, juxtaposed, and modified, keeping alive the possibility of taking on new forms and meanings. La danza delle ore conveys this ongoing metamorphosis, offering a reading of the artist’s work in its breadth and in its capacity to continue generating images and thought today.
The three chapters develop three distinct perspectives on this universe. Castello di Rivoli explores the environmental and spiritual dimensions of her practice, space as both a physical and metaphysical place, and the resonances of her research in the work of ten contemporary women artists. Fondazione Merz examines the creative process, the choice of materials, and the balances through which objects and materials reveal unexpected potential. GAM focuses on the home as studio and laboratory, the original setting of a practice in which everyday experience and artistic creation are inseparable.
The three-exhibition itinerary is completed by a new work by Tacita Dean, who was invited to enter Marisa Merz’s home-studio in Turin to create a film and a series of photographs that capture its light, memory, and enduring capacity to generate images and thought. A contemporary perspective on a place that preserves the profound continuity between living and artistic practice.
TICKETS
€10.00 Full price
Purchasing a full-price ticket at one venue entitles you to a reduced-price ticket at the other two venues. This offer also applies to the Cerruti Collection.
€8.00 reduced: visitors aged 11–26, visitors aged over 65, teachers, organised groups of at least 10 people, non-accredited journalists, and holders of cards entitling them to special rates.
Free admission: children under 11, visitors with disabilities and their accompanying persons, accredited journalists with a valid press card, ICOM and CIMAM members, holders of a Cultural Passport, Abbonamento Musei pass holders, Torino + Piemonte Card holders, tourist guides, and holders of cards entitling them to free admission.
Free shuttle buses on 31 October and 1 November
During Artissima, on Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November, a free shuttle bus service will operate between the exhibition’s three venues, subject to availability. Shuttle timetable
