The 2023 exhibition program at OGR Torino features major international artists, innovative languages, and a focus on the central themes of contemporary culture

From March 29, 2023 | Platform 1 and 2 - Perfect Behaviors. Life redesigned by the algorithm, group exhibition

From July 19 to 23, 2023 | Don't believe the speaking car, exhibition-event in collaboration with MAUTO - National Automobile Museum of Turin

September 6 to 17, 2023 | mutating bodies, imploding stars, group exhibition

November 2023 | Binario 1 - Sarah Sze, first solo exhibition in an Italian institution
Binario 2 - Sara Enrico, solo exhibition

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OGR Torino  –  among Europe’s most dynamic hubs of cultural production and experimentation in Europe –  after the exhibition RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON, the first solo show in an Italian institution dedicated to the American artist Arthur Jafa, presents for 2023 an exhibition program of international scope that confirms its focus on the most innovative and experimental languages of the contemporary scene.

On March 29, OGR will open Perfect Behaviors. La vita ridisegnata dall’algoritmo, a group exhibition curated by Giorgio Olivero, an investigation into changing individual and collective behaviors in a society where we are constantly classified, measured, simulated, and reprogrammed.

In September 2023, OGR art programming continues with the group exhibition mutating bodies, imploding stars, curated by Samuele Piazza. Taking inspiration from feminist ecology and queer affect theory, the exhibition explores the concept of the body, recognizing the significance of vulnerability and desire as crucial aspects of how we relate with the other.

In November 2023, in conjunction with Artissima and Torino Art Week, OGR presents two solo exhibitions dedicated to Sarah Sze and Sara Enrico. Both artists engaged in a reflection on the limits of sculpture, with a personal vocabulary that creates forms, often unstable, that invite the public to reconsider the way we perceive reality.

The exhibition offers a space to reason on how individual and collective behaviors change when we are constantly classified, measured, simulated, and even reprogrammed. Through June 25, 2023, in Binario 1 and 2 of the former train repair workshops, Perfect Behaviors presents works by Universal Everything (UK), Paolo Cirio (Italy), Eva and Franco Mattes (Italy), Brent Watanabe (U.S.), Geumhyung Jeong (South Korea) and James Bridle (U.K.). These works are, at first glance, quite different, yet they all strive for the same goal: show visitors alternative narratives to the dominant technological determinism, to help us see what is invisible even when up close. In a context where the quantification of everyday life is at the hands of increasingly sophisticated data collection systems, the exhibition challenges the idea of artificial intelligence and the world of data as powerful autonomous creatures inside opaque black boxes, emphasizing instead how, behind the tools for measuring interactions, there is always a human being.

In September 2023, the group exhibition mutating bodies, imploding stars, curated by Samuele Piazza, furthers the research started by OGR in 2018 with the project dancing is what we make of falling. The works of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Eglė Budvytytė (Lithuania), Guglielmo Castelli (Italy), and Raúl de Nieves (Mexico), and their use of media and languages ranging from painting to video installation, reflect on the formation of subjectivity through different approaches. Starting from feminist ecology and queer affect theory, they expand notions about the concept of the physical body, accepting vulnerability and desire as central factors in our relationship with the other.
The exhibition takes its title from one of the works in the show, Song For a Compost by Eglė Budvytytė: a hypnotic video exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness nested within a symbiotic system, which addresses some of the project's central themes such the concepts of interdependence, abandonment, death, and decay.

The most ambitious project of OGR Cult for 2023 will open its door during Artissima Art Week: from November Binario 1 of OGR Torino will host a solo show by Sarah Sze. Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language that challenges the static nature of sculpture. Her installations unfold like a series of experiments that construct intimate systems of order – precarious ecologies in which material conveys meaning and a sense of loss.  Through complex constellations of objects and a proliferation of images, Sarah Sze expands upon the never-ending stream of visual narratives that we negotiate daily, from magazines and newspapers, television and iPhones, to cyberspace and outer space. Her practice evokes the generative and recursive process of image-making in a world where consumption and production are more interdependent and where sculpture gives rise to images, and images to sculpture.

The central piece of the exhibition in Turin is a new work by the artist, co-commissioned and co-produced by OGR Torino, Artangel, London and ARoS, Aarhus Art Museum, with the support of Victoria Miro Gallery.

Produced with the support of Fondazione Sviluppo and Crescita CRT - which supports a fellowship for Piedmontese artists for a residency at the American Academy in Rome - the solo exhibition of Sara Enrico (Italy), curated by Samuele Piazza, is presented at Binario 2, where her works, created through a sophisticated manipulation of materials, from textiles to concrete to foam rubber, will be displayed in an ideal procession along the exhibition route. The relationship with the surface of objects, the tension between structures, and the interconnections of heterogeneous elements, will challenge the audience's perceptual categories, immersing them in a sensory, visual, and tactile experience.