Seconda Risonanza

Under the new direction of Chiara Bertola, the GAM programme is organised to offer two annual seasons, called RESONANCES. Each season explores specific themes that not only offer ideas for a dynamic reorganisation of the collection but also result in exhibitions and projects that influence each other, creating a continuous dialogue.

These themes are designed to integrate and strengthen each other, giving life to an organic and coherent cultural project. Each element, from the single work to the broader project, is inserted in a context that interchanges with the history and cultural heritage of the museum and the territory that hosts it, emphasising the importance of historical roots but without renouncing contemporaneity.

Curated in this way, the programme is not limited merely to exhibiting works of art, but builds subtle connections between them, giving life to an interweaving that is both conceptual and visual, imaginary but also tangible. Each aspect resonates in harmony with the others, creating a museum experience that is enriched with meaning, generating a new vision of the collection and its dialogue with the public.

After the PRIMA RISONANZA (First Resonance) dedicated to light, color and time, from April 16, 2025 the SECONDA RISONANZA (Second Resonance) will kick off to explore, this time, the themes related to rhythm, structure and sign, through an extensive exhibition program that will involve all the spaces of GAM.

SECONDA RISONANZA will present the exhibitions Fausto Melotti. Lasciatemi divertire! (Let me have fun!)—an extensive anthological exhibition curated by Chiara Bertola and Fabio Cafagna, that traces the artist’s entire production, 53 years after the historic exhibition the museum hosted in 1972—and Alice Cattaneo. Dove lo spazio chiama il segno (Where the Space Calls the Sign), which, through visual and conceptual research on the process of growth and transformation, features a series of works dedicated to the transition between matter and form, potential and fulfillment.

The SECONDA RISONANZA exhibition program continues with a project dedicated to the films of artist Giosetta Fioroni, hosted in the exhibition space of the GAM’s Videoteca (Video Library), which preserves the 8mm originals donated by the artist in 1999.

This second program will also feature interventions by an “intruder” with the aim of offering visitors unexpected readings and stimulating new interpretations. The two curators Chiara Lee and freddie Murphy – in collaboration with the MAO Museum of Oriental Art in Turin—will invite the artist sakha Aldana Duoraan to create a site-specific sound installation that will transform the museum’s staircase into a musical instrument.

In addition to the temporary exhibitions, the public will have the opportunity to explore the expansion of the Permanent Collections, with a new exhibit on the second floor, inspired by the themes of the SECONDA RISONANZA.