Ore Piccole. Works from Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Embassy of Italy in Berlin
4 June – 13 Septmeber 2026
Ore piccole is the result of a collaboration between the Ambasciata d'Italia in Berlino and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, organized on the occasion of the Italian Republic Day.
The exhibition presents a selection of works from the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo — ranging from photography and painting to sculpture and installation — highlighting the artistic relationship between Italy and Germany through the practices of Italian and German artists, as well as artists who have chosen Berlin as their adopted home. The exhibition project takes as its starting point the architecture of the Ambasciata itself: an austere neoclassical building that, due to its diplomatic representative function, is traditionally perceived as inaccessible to the public. In contrast, the exhibition embraces the Ambasciata’s invitation to conceive of itself as a space open to citizens and as a promoter of initiatives supporting the artistic community. Installed throughout different rooms of the Ambasciata, the works from the Fondazione enter into dialogue with the modern and contemporary artworks already present in the spaces, activating new relationships and resonances.
Ore piccole reveals a hidden collective universe within the architecture of the Ambasciata, made up of bodies, gestures, and affects, united by a relational tension and nocturnal atmospheres. The title of the exhibition refers to the temporality of the night: a space in which rituals and social dynamics take shape beyond the rhythms and conventions of productivity. The register of the nocturnal and of appearance thus becomes a way to reflect on forms of collectivity built through relationships, proximity, and coexistence. In this context, Berlin emerges as an implicit reference and a space of possibility: a city that has historically reinterpreted the night as a site of cultural production, artistic experimentation, and the creation of temporary communities.
