Tobias Rehberger

With My Noon, Tobias Rehberger has created a clock made up of luminous elements such as white circles, red inclined lines and white vertical lines that correspond to hours, fractions of ten minutes and minutes respectively. By counting the lit elements, it is therefore possible to know the time. 

Since his beginnings in the 1990s, Rehberger’s research has addressed the themes of perception and awareness, temporality and the sense of transience, discontinuity and ambiguity. The work in Turin takes the form of a conceptual work on the perception of time, further enhanced, in the artist’s intentions, by its placement near historical buildings or monuments. 

One of the most successful German artists of his generation, Tobias Rehberger (Esslingen, 1966) trained at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, where he now teaches. He has experimented with different expressive languages, from sculpture to video, from wall painting to installation, and has exhibited in prestigious venues such as the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne or the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has often distinguished himself for an ironic and desecrating reinterpretation of the modernist paradigm, to which he remains attached to a certain extent. Some of his installations such as Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Weinen (What you Love also Makes you Cry), a work in the form of a social space, the cafeteria in the Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, still in use today, which earned him the Golden Lion at the 2009 Biennale, refer to the world of the historical avant-garde. 

Solo exhibitions in Italy and internationally include: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan (2018); Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2019); Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2022); YUELAI Art Museum, Chongqing, China (2023) and Platform L, South Korea (2024).   

Silvia Maria Sara Cammarata