On occasion of the Venice Art Biennale 2024, Fondazione Prada presents the project “Monte di Pietà” conceived by artist Christoph Büchel in the historical palazzo Ca’ Corner della Regina.
Taking the history of the Venetian palazzo as a starting point, Büchel presents a complex installation that investigates the debt as the concept at the base of society and an instrument of power. The project includes historical and contemporary works, new installations and a selection of objects and documents related to the history of property, credit and finance, and the creation and meaning of real or artificial wealth. The exhibition will also feature Christoph Büchel’s The Diamond Maker (2020-), a suitcase containing lab grown diamonds, the end-result of the process of the transformation of the artist’s entire body of artworks in his possession.
n° 102 - 17 April 2024