Fondazione Prada brings a project by Christoph Büchel to Venice during the months of the Biennale

Swiss artist Christoph Büchel (Basel, 1966) will be the star of the exhibition at the Venice branch of the Fondazione Prada during the months of the Biennale. The Monte di Pietà project, conceived by Büchel and hosted, from April 20 to November 24, 2024, in the Ca’ Corner della Regina building in Venice, aims to represent an immersion in the rich and layered history of this iconic place. Originally built as the residence of Venetian merchants Corner di San Cassiano in the 18th century, the palace has traversed several epochs of history, taking on different functions over the centuries and becoming a prominent venue for various institutions.

Büchel’s approach to this historic venue is intended to be bold, as he uses the rich history of the place as a canvas on which to paint a conceptual fresco that explores the complex dynamics of debt, power and artistic creation. The installation involves historical and contemporary artworks, new installation interventions, and a wide range of objects and documents that tell the story of property, credit, and finance, as well as reflect on the meaning and formation of real or imagined wealth.

A central element of this exhibition is Büchel’s The Diamond Maker (2020-), a work that embodies the singularity and conceptual complexity of the entire project. This work is presented as a suitcase containing artificial diamonds created in a laboratory, the result of a process of transforming the entire body of work owned by the artist. This corpus includes not only works from his childhood and youth, but also those to be made in the future, offering a reflection on the nature of art, ownership and creation.

Through the Pawnshop project , Büchel aims to invite the public to explore the intersections between past and present, history and contemporaneity, and to reflect on the complex relationships between money, power and creativity. Through an installation whose purpose is to challenge our preconceived notions about art, debt and society itself.

Fondazione Prada brings a project by Christoph Büchel to Venice during the months of the Biennale

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