MARION BARUCH EXHIBITION | UN PASSO AVANTI TANTI DIETRO
Curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli
Museo Novecento in collaboration with Manifattura Tabacchi and Polimoda
Until June 8th | Buildings B11 and B6
Opening Hours
Wednesday – Friday: 3.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12.00 pm – 8.00 pm
The exhibition will be open every day except on Mondays and Tuesdays
“Un passo avanti tanti dietro“, the retrospective of Marion Baruch organized by Museo Novecento, also comes to life at Manifattura Tabacchi, offering an immersive experience into the artistic universe of one of the most fascinating and cosmopolitan voices in contemporary art.
Realized in collaboration with Polimoda and curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli, the exhibition features environmental textile installations at Manifattura Tabacchi, which have brought Baruch international recognition.
These works are created from industrial textile waste, playing with the rhythm between presence and absence, color and transparency, and exploring emptiness as a space of freedom—an open gateway to the infinite possibilities of artistic expression.
From March 15 to June 8, the exhibition, spread across Museo Novecento and Manifattura Tabacchi, traces over sixty years of artistic research, offering a journey through Baruch’s evolution, where materials and meanings intertwine with extraordinary sensitivity.
Marion Baruch
Marion Baruch was born in Timisoara in 1929 to parents of Hungarian origin.
As a young woman, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where she studied art for a year before moving to Israel and attending the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, following the courses of the Bauhaus painter and artist Mordecai Ardon. At the age of 24, she held her first exhibition at the Micra Studio in Tel Aviv, thanks to which she won a scholarship that allowed her to travel to Italy. From 1955, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Baruch works at the intersection of art and design, initially with A.G. Fronzoni (1969–70) and later with Dino Gavina, with whom she developed two radical design objects (Ron Ron and Lorenz) belonging to the Ultramobile series. In the 1990s, she began signing her works with NAME DIFFUSION, a trademark registered with the Chamber of Commerce, through which she created various projects and actions as an artistic collective.
Since 1990, Baruch began traveling frequently to Paris, where she lived and worked permanently from 1998 to 2010. Together with various groups, she carried out collective projects that critically addressed issues such as feminism, new technologies, migration, and social issues. Among these: L’autre Nom (1994), Code your soul (1996), and Tapis volant (from 2005 to today).
Since 2011, she has been living and working in Gallarate. Her recent works pursue a dialectical research between art and society. Using scraps from the textile industry, these fabric sculptures establish a dialogue between two immaterial forces: space and memory. In this way, the artist addresses themes related to the body, the world of production, and resource consumption.
In addition to being exhibited in international institutions such as the Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv-Yafo), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and many others, her works are part of the collections of Kunstmuseum Luzern, Mamco (Geneva), Art Collection Roche (Basel), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Triennale (Milan), National Gallery of Modern Art (Rome), Museion (Bolzano), Groninger Museum (Netherlands), Turner Contemporary (Margate), Fri-Art Kunsthalle (Fribourg, Switzerland), Kunstmuseen Krefeld (Germany), and MA*GA (Gallarate).