Daniele Formica: in dialogue with Joseph Beuys Museum Schloss Moyland March 15 –– September 6, 2026 Opening March 15 from 2:00 pm
We are delighted to announce Daniele Formica's first institutional solo exhibition at Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau, Germany). This research-based exhibition brings the practice of Formica (born 1996, Perugia) into dialogue with the work of Joseph Beuys. The Museum Schloss Moyland holds the world's largest collection of works by Joseph Beuys.
The Museum Schloss Moyland has invited Daniele Formica to approach the Joseph Beuys Archive and the extensive collection from his own artistic perspective, using relevant search terms and themes, during numerous stays on site. For the exhibition, Formica will produce new site-specific artworks, including text-based works, a video performance, a large-format ready-made, and a performance installation that responds to Joseph Beuys' action Siberian Symphony (1963). An accompanying catalogue will reflect the dialogical form of the exhibition.
Discover the work of Daniele Formica
Daniele Formica (Perugia, 1996) lives and works between Brussels and The Hague. Moving across drawing, text, painting, sculpture, performance and video, Formica's body of work reflects on the essence of transitory life and the living being dealing with it. Focusing on impermanence and poetry, the living being is portrayed in its escaping definitions departing from the transformation of the body-mind and its immediate surrounding. Techniques and materials mix the domestic environment in the artist studio: painting, dancing, tailoring and are combined with memorabilia, furniture, clothing, domestic appliances and ephemera.
Using the body, its memories, streams of consciousness and fantasies, the work results in vanishing visions, handwritten visual poems and recognizable objects from direct contemplations, emotions or longed for, unattained and impossible desires placed in a soft ecstatic clash against the orders of reality. Through the practice each piece enters in a conversation as a diary-like constellation and fragmented mapping of the artist own vulnerable, in-between and thinking-body.
