Artists

Mika Rottenberg, John Bock, Roberto Cuoghi, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jacopo Benassi, Gabriella Ciancimino, Lucia Marcucci

Press release

From 3 July to 13 September 2026, the PAC presents the latest edition of PERFORMING PAC, an exhibition dedicated to exploring the use of materials, languages and layers of meaning in collage, assemblage and installation. As in previous editions, the exhibition begins with a 'restaging' of a historic PAC exhibition, reconstructed using archival materials: Kurt Schwitters. Collages, Paintings and Sculptures 1914–1947, curated in 2001 by Karin Orchard in collaboration with Luigi Sansone. The title is taken from the final lines of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922), which shares with Schwitters the desire to "build with the rubble", gathering the fragments of Western culture and setting them against the collapse and desolation of the modern world. Building on Schwitters' additive and reworking process, seven artists have been invited to the PAC whose works and installations ideally draw on his legacy and influences: Jacopo Benassi, John Bock, Gabriella Ciancimino, Roberto Cuoghi, Thomas Hirschhorn, Lucia Marcucci and Mika Rottenberg.