The practices of listening and engagement with the audience are defining features of Liliana Moro’s work.

Liliana Moro. Andante con moto is the first major solo exhibition of the artist, who was born in Milan, Italy, in 1961. The show spans a period from the early work of the late 1980s to her current output and also includes a number of new pieces developed for the display at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. The exhibition is devoted to a fundamental aspect of her oeuvre: sound, to which the title already alludes.

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein holds a considerable number of Italian artworks in its collection, above all from the Arte Povera movement. Liliana Moro trained at the Brera Academy, Milan – at a time when Arte Povera was finding its way into art academies and museum collections and a process of historicization was just beginning. In this show, the Kunstmuseum is presenting an Italian artist from the following generation whose work arose from a gesture of radical freedom and emancipation from questions being negotiated at the time.

From her early beginnings until the present, Liliana Moro has explored different means of expression in her work, including sound, spoken and written language, sculpture, performance, drawing, collage and video. Often her works are based on everyday objects and situations, inviting the audience to glimpse behind the – seemingly – obvious. Each of her artistic gestures demands active participation from the visitors, be it by entering, cowering down or listening. Moro's practice of sustained listening encourages us to heighten our attention, inviting us to become physically, intellectually and emotionally involved. In this way, listening becomes a shared experience.

Originally, Liliana Moro had planned to study scenography; although she later chose painting, her passion for the theatre remained. Her strong affinity for the poet and playwright Samuel Beckett, whose writing forms the basis for many of her works, testifies to this.

A production of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in cooperation with PAC Milano, curated by Letizia Ragaglia.

Further venues: PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, and Magazzino Italian Art Foundation, Cold Spring, NY.

 

The performance Studio per un probabile equilibrio in movimento conceived in collaboration with Virgilio Sieni in 1997 will be re-enacted in the side-light gallery at the opening.

The show is accompanied by a comprehensive publication available at our web shop.

 

The exhibition is under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Bern (CH).

  • Ambasciata d'Italia Berna

More pictures to this exhibition

  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Liliana Moro
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Opening
  • Sat, 18.11.2023
    17.30
  • Guided tours
  • Thu, 30.11.2023
    18.00
  • Sun, 25.2.2024
    11.00
  • Thu, 28.3.2024
    18.00
  • Sat 18.11.

    Opening

    Liliana Moro
    Andante con moto
    Exhibition opening with performance
  • Tue 21.11.

    Introduction for Teachers

    Liliana Moro
    Andante con moto
    with Susanne Kudorfer, Beate Frommelt, Simone Fiorillo
  • Wed 22.11.

    Introduction for Teachers

    Liliana Moro
    Andante con moto
    with Susanne Kudorfer, Beate Frommelt, Simone Fiorillo
  • Thu 23.11.

    Movie

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    by Stanley Kubrick, UK/US 1964, 93'
    Recommended by Liliana Moro
  • Wed 29.11.

    Active together

    An afternoon at the Kunstmuseum
    with Beate Frommelt
  • Thu 30.11.

    Guided tour

    Liliana Moro:
    Andante con moto
    with Letizia Ragaglia
  • Wed 20.12.

    Take Away

    Liliana Moro:
    Andante con moto
    Short guided tour during the lunch break
    with Susanne Kudorfer
  • Thu 11.1.

    Movie

    Alice in den Städten
    by Wim Wenders, DE 1973/1974, 112’
    Recommended by Liliana Moro
  • Sun 21.1.

    Family Workshop

    Holiday studio
    for children from 5 years accompanied by an adult
    with Simone Fiorillo
  • Thu 25.1.

    Guided tour and discussion

    Inspired by Beckett:
    From Stage to Exhibition Space
    with Letizia Ragaglia and Thomas Spieckermann
  • Wed 7.2.

    Wednesday XL

    The power of music
    7pm Musical tour of the exhibition with students from Karin Ospelt's singing class, Karin Ospelt and Viola Pfefferkorn
    8.30pm Band gig by Caffélatte
  • Wed 21.2.

    Take Away

    Liliana Moro.
    Andante con moto
    Short guided tour during the lunch break
    with Beate Frommelt
  • Thu 22.2.

    Movie

    Wild at Heart
    by David Lynch, US 1990, 124’
    Recommended by Liliana Moro
  • Sun 25.2.

    Guided tour

    Liliana Moro.
    Andante con moto
    with Manuela Bischofberger
  • Thu 7.3.

    Artist Talk

    Andante con moto: a conversation
    with Liliana Moro and Letizia Ragaglia
  • Wed 20.3.

    Take Away

    Liliana Moro:
    Andante con moto
    Short guided tour during the lunch break
    with Beate Frommelt
  • Wed 27.3.

    Active together

    An afternoon at the Kunstmuseum
    with Beate Frommelt
  • Thu 28.3.

    Guided tour

    Liliana Moro:
    Andante con moto
    with Olivia Büchel