24HOURS – A celebration of art and time

Since 2021, Museion has been exploring the work of South Tyrolean artist Sven Sachsalber. WILHALM (Curon) presents one of his performances: for 24 hours, he circles the sunken church tower of Curon in a coffin turned into a canoe.

The video A Lot of Sorrow by Ragnar Kjartansson was created with the band The National. It shows a six-hour concert in which the song Sorrow is played repeatedly, turning repetition into a meditative experience.

Since 2019, Museion has collaborated with the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro. This educational project focuses on restoring and studying the collection. During the event, the students’ workshop can be visited and observed up close.

With the performance Elementare, singing, silence, and listening merge into an intense collective experience. Six voices guide through the darkness, turning words and echoes into a resonant space – a chant that becomes a prayer. This event has limited capacity, you can register here.

The book presentation, with the authors in attendance, introduces two new publications related to the Museion collection: Henry Martin: an active ear, edited by Emanuele Guidi, and Dick Higgins. Intermedia e altri scritti teorici, edited by Patrizio Peterlini.

This festive moment marks the highlight of the anniversaries: 40 years of Museion and 25 years of Transart. Together, we toast with a drink inspired by the exhibition You and the Night and the Music, accompanied by a buffet and cake.

In Making Show, the internationally emerging performance artist Geumhyung Jeong brings one of her earlier robot models back to life in front of the audience – a gripping interplay of art, technology, and performance.

The exhibition presents art editions by Francesco Conz from the museum’s collection. Active between Fluxus, Visual and Concrete Poetry, he was an untiring driving force, an instigator in South Tyrol as well, who sparked creativity and made artistic innovation possible.

The sound performance Keyhole Mouth by Silvia Costa and Claudio Rocchetti combines barely audible words with sound trails of actions, movements, footsteps: gestures that no one has seen and of which only an auditory memory remains. The result is concrete music, in a live improvisation with analog devices, Walkmans, and turntables. Frequencies and dust from another world, to be spied on with the ear instead of the eye, through the keyhole.

The sound performance COSMIC SILENCE 5, fluorescence 4 is the result of the interaction between artist Margherita Morgantin and musicians Beatrice Goldoni and Ilaria Lemmo. Lemmo’s ambient diffusion translates data from rare phenomena and nuclear physical events into sound, while Goldoni’s live performance reworks the road noise recordings made during Morgantin’s solitary car journey. Two works by Morgantin (a video and a wind indicator) connect the internal and external spaces, refining a process of attunement and sensory listening in the present moment.

With the Museion Art Club – URBAN BRIDGE, the second floor of Museion is transformed into an urban landscape where skating, graffiti, and music come together. In collaboration with Murarte, Sk8project and the exhibition Graffiti, this space becomes a site for spontaneous connections and unexpected perspectives.

The Personal Care Room is a space for well-being – an intimate, shared place where the museum opens itself to the community.

The exhibition Graffiti explores the intersections between graffiti and contemporary art, showing how the use of the spray can has shaped artistic practices since the 1950s. Graffiti emerges here as a way of seeing urban landscapes – with their diverse visual languages and non-violent forms of resistance.

In Perfect Day, the pianist Marino Formenti spends 24 hours inside Museion. He never leaves the space, bringing only some food and a mechanical piano. With this, he performs various scores, questions and recreates them anew.

The performance Show Show Risciò by Banda Storta takes a clumsy fanfare on a journey with their rickshaw. Brass and woodwind instruments play Balkan and Latin themes, shifting between festive euphoria and melancholic tones. A performance that celebrates the “festival” — the very reason for this traveling band’s existence.