Castello di Rivoli – Inserzioni

An evolving exhibition framework

Inserzioni is the curatorial project that has been bringing the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art to life since 2025, in the town of Rivoli, Piedmont. Every six months, the program invites international artists to engage with the historic rooms of this Savoyard residence—usually dedicated to the permanent collection—through site-specific commissions designed for these unique spaces. The guiding concept is that of the graft: new works take root in the museum's architectural and historical fabric, establishing a dialogue with the building's inherent incompleteness and the art narratives housed within its walls.

The second edition: Chaile, Holley, Takriti

Curated by Francesco Manacorda, the second edition is open from March 27 to August 23, 2026, on the first and second floors of the Castello's Manica. It brings together three distinct voices from the international scene:

• Gabriel Chaile (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1985) intervenes around the castle's medieval well, transforming the space into an environment suspended between a historical diorama and a science-fiction setting, featuring an anthropomorphic clay figure surrounded by sculptural elements that evoke makeshift camps.
• Lonnie Holley (Birmingham, Alabama, 1950) presents new sculptures and paintings for the Sala dei Continenti: assemblages made of burnt wood, metal, plastic, and everyday objects that speak to collective memory and historical violence.
• Huda Takriti (Damascus, Syria, 1990), with an intervention curated by Linda Fossati, proposes video installations and wall-based vinyl works that explore post-WWII historical narratives, the role of cinema, and decolonization processes.

From the first to the third edition

Inserzioni debuted in 2025 with Guglielmo Castelli, Oscar Murillo, and Lydia Ourahmane, reviving the spirit of Ouverture, the inaugural initiative of Rudi Fuchs's directorship in the 1980s. The flexible format, renewed every six months, aims to enrich the representation of movements, figures, and geographies less explored in the museum's path. A third edition is already announced for the period between September 2026 and February 2027.

The Castello di Rivoli and contemporary Piedmont

Housed in a monumental, unfinished Savoyard residence, the Castello di Rivoli has been one of Europe's most important contemporary art museums since 1984 and a cornerstone of Piedmont's art scene, alongside the GAM in Turin and the city's network of museums. Inserzioni allows for a re-reading of the permanent collection in a new light, making the Castello a place where the history of recent art is never a fixed story, but an open dialogue with the present.