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With NIGHT, the Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting the first major solo exhibition by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan in Germany. The exhibition is taking place as part of the 2026 Nationalgalerie Prize, for which Maurizio Cattelan was selected by an international jury. It brings together key historical works by Cattelan and new pieces in the iconic Mies van der Rohe building.
Since the early 1990s, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960 in Padua) has been one of the defining voices in international contemporary art. His works draw on familiar images that are deeply rooted in the collective memory, and shift their meaning through minimal, often unsettling interventions. In doing so, Cattelan addresses themes that are particularly charged socially, historically or emotionally: religion, childhood, authority and intergenerational collective traumas. Using a visual language that oscillates between irony, provocation, exaggeration and formal reduction, he challenges established …
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Image above: Maurizio Cattelan, Novecento, 1997, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Foto / Photo: Paolo Pellion di Persano.
