Vivian Suter and Rachel Whiteread exhibitions open in Bergamo this summer

GAMeC in Bergamo presents two major summer exhibitions featuring international artists Vivian Suter and Rachel Whiteread, coinciding with the museum's upcoming relocation and the reinstallation of its permanent collection. Suter's show, titled 'Home' and curated by Lorenzo Giusti, fills the gallery with dozens of vibrant canvases that layer and collide, reflecting the artist's life and studio on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. The works bear traces of weather and local organisms, and the pervasive smell of paint envelops visitors. Meanwhile, Whiteread's exhibition at Palazzo della Ragione features marble seats that cast the empty space beneath chairs into solid form, a signature conceptual gesture. The marbles used match those of the historic building and Piazza Vecchia. The installation is arranged in two configurations: some seats are spaced two meters apart, referencing UK social distancing guidelines during the pandemic, while others cluster in intimate groups. This duality evokes the precarity of life between presence and absence, recalling Bergamo's experience as an early COVID-19 epicenter. Whiteread won the Turner Prize in 1993.