Talk – “Dopo la produzione. Temporalità e paesaggio industriale in Vincenzo Castella” – Stefano Boeri and Roberta Tenconi in a dialogue with Marco Scotini  

Wednesday, July 8th 2026, at 5.30PM

at the first floor of BUILDING GALLERY, Milan

 

Speakers:
Stefano Boeri, Architect and Urban Planner
Marco Scotini, curator of the exhibition and Art Director of NABA (Milan, Rome, London)
Roberta Tenconi, Chief Curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

 

The event will be held in Italian.
RSVP required, limited seats available: events@building-gallery.com, +39 02 89094995

 

What remains of industry when production moves elsewhere, becomes automated, or dissolves?
On Wednesday, July 8th, 2026, at 5.30PM, BUILDING will host a conversation that takes Vincenzo Castella’s images as its starting point to explore the industrial landscape as an archaeology of the present: a space where different temporalities overlap. Roberta Tenconi and Stefano Boeri will talk, moderated by Marco Scotini, about how photography reveals the traces of work and the lingering forms of industrial modernity, drawing on their respective fields—contemporary art and architecture.

The conversation takes place on the occasion of the exhibition Vincenzo Castella. Timeless Archaeology (June 5th, 2026 – October 3rd, 2026) that unfolds across the three exhibition floors of BUILDING GALLERY and brings together for the first time a cohesive body of around sixty large and medium format photographic works, offering a comprehensive and layered reading of the artist’s research on the industrial landscape from the 1980s to the present. Through a selection of previously unseen works spanning four decades of activity, the exhibition conveys the continuity and distinctiveness of Castella’s research, exploring the processes of transformation in the landscape and visual memory.
Vincenzo Castella (Naples, 1952), a leading figure in contemporary visual research, established himself on the international scene in the 1980s, emerging in the context of the landmark 1984 exhibition Viaggio in Italia. Within this framework, his work takes the form of a multifaceted exploration of the landscape, developed through a progressive expansion of his fields of interest. Images of urban landscapes—including the well-known “coralline” portraits of cities, begun in 1998—alternate with views of industrial scenes, as in the series of vertical photographs taken in Italy and exhibited on the first floor of BUILDING GALLERY.

 

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Stefano Boeri is an architect and urban planner, Full Professor of Urban Planning at the Politecnico di Milano, and Director of the Future City Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai. As the architect behind the Vertical Forest (Milan, 2014), his work ranges from urban visions to design, with a constant focus on the geopolitical and environmental implications of urban phenomena. He served as editor-in-chief of the international magazines “Domus” (2004–2007) and “Abitare” (2007–2011), Stefano Boeri served as Councilor for Culture, Fashion, and Design for the City of Milan from 2011 to 2013, launching the BookCity and Piano City festivals and promoting the creation of the Michelangelo Pietà Rondanini Museum at the Castello Sforzesco. From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Uffizi Galleries. From 2018 to 2026, he served as President of Triennale Milano and Commissioner of the 24th International Exhibition, Inequalities (May–November 2025).

 

Marco Scotini is the Artistic Director of NABA (Milan, Rome, London), having led the Department of Visual Arts since 2004. He was previously Artistic Director of FM Center for Contemporary Art in Milan. He is now in charge of the exhibition program at PAV – Parco Arte Vivente in Turin. He has curated over 300 exhibitions worldwide, including shows for the Venice Biennale (2015, 2024), the Istanbul Biennale (2022), and the Bangkok Biennale (2020, 2022), as well as having curated the Prague Biennale (2003, 2005, 2007), the Yinchuan Biennale (2018), and the Anren Biennale (2017), in addition to the long-term project Disobedience Archive, presented internationally since 2005. He has collaborated on exhibitions and lecture series with major institutions such as Castello di Rivoli, Documenta, the Reina Sofía Museum, MAXXI, MAMCO Geneva, and the Migros Museum, and serves as Scientific Director of numerous artist archives, including those of Gianni Colombo, Bruno Di Bello, Bert Theis, Clemen Parrocchetti, Laura Grisi, and the Nanni Balestrini and Emilio Scanavino Foundations. He is author of Artecrazia, Politics of Memory, and L’inarchiviabile, he is Artistic Director of the Geoarchiviseries for Meltemi.

 

Roberta Tenconi is Chief Curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, where she curated exhibitions and publications by artists including Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Leonor Antunes, Rosa Barba, Neïl Beloufa, Maurizio Cattelan, Petrit Halilaj, Saodat Ismailova, Ann Veronica Janssens, Eva Kot’átková, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Laure Prouvost, Nari Ward, and Cerith Wyn Evans. Among her recent projects is This Will Not End Well by Nan Goldin, the artist’s first retrospective devoted to her work as a filmmaker. Upcoming exhibitions she is currently working on include surveys of artists such as Luciano Fabro, Aki Sasamoto, and Cecilia Vicuña. She was part of the curatorial teams of the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) and the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), and has collaborated with numerous museums, foundations, and biennials worldwide—including the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Manifesta, the Gwangju Biennale, and the Aïshti Foundation in Beirut. She contributes regularly to art publications, and in fall 2025 she co-edited Maurizio Cattelan. Beware of Yourself, a first-person volume reconstructing forty years of the artist’s practice. Her practice is rooted in close collaboration with artists and considers exhibition-making a tool to interrogate contemporary conditions.