Exhibition on Sociopolitical Realities – Curated by Marcella Beccaria
Launched in 2022 as a direct response to the war in Ukraine and supported by ERSTE Foundation, STATEMENT is the fair’s platform dedicated to urgent sociopolitical themes. Through a curated exhibition and public discussions, it aims to confront complex global challenges through the lens of contemporary art.
For 2025, STATEMENT focuses on algorithmic control, digital disinformation, and technological manipulation. The exhibition, titled Realities Building, is curated by Marcella Beccaria, Chief Curator and Head of Collections at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin.
The exhibition brings together artists from across the globe—many of whom live in different parts of the world by choice or necessity—whose practices articulate the urgency of reclaiming agency in technologically saturated environments.
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Centering on film, sound, and performance, Realities Building explores how artists working with time-based media provoke critical thought and create new frameworks for perceiving reality. The featured works address the entangled forces of surveillance and disinformation, while also offering alternative strategies of resistance and affirmations of individual freedom. |
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Marcella Beccaria is an art historian, curator, and author, currently serving as Chief Curator and Curator of Collections at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin. Her career began in the United States with curatorial roles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
At Castello di Rivoli, she has curated and co-curated numerous acclaimed exhibitions, including Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen (2006), Una stanza tutta per sé (2008), Vito Acconci (2010), La storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto) (2012), Marinella Senatore (2013–14), Jan Dibbets (2014), Gilberto Zorio (2017), and Nalini Malani (2018). She also co-curated L’emozione dei colori nell’arte (2017) and monographic shows on Giovanni Anselmo and Wael Shawky (both 2016).
Beccaria has authored major catalogues, including the first monographs on Roberto Cuoghi, Yang Fudong, and Francesco Vezzoli, and has edited numerous books on Castello’s collections. Her texts have appeared in Parkett, Flash Art, and institutional publications from the Venice Biennale, Guggenheim Museum New York, Museu Serralves Porto, and Kunstmuseum Winterthur. She is also the author of a monograph on Olafur Eliasson.