Premio Collective Castello di Rivoli 2025
Premio Collective Castello di Rivoli 2025
We are happy to announce that Adji Dieye (Milan, 1991) is the winner of the second edition of the Collective International Art Award for the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Thanks to the purchase made by Collective Members, the work Culture Lost and Learned by Heart: Butterfly, 2021, becomes part of the Museum’s permanent collection, as a donation.
Adji Dieye was selected by a commission composed of the Director of the Castello Francesco Manacorda, the Deputy Director and Chief Curator Marcella Beccaria and the Curator Marianna Vecellio, starting from a wide range of works created by Italian and international artists proposed by Collective Members. Andro Eradze (Georgia, 1993) and Agnes Questionmark (Rome, 1995) are the other two finalists of the second edition of the Award.
Adji Dieye’s practice develops at the intersection of image, urban spaces and cultural memory. Through the use of archival materials, or those relating to advertising and architecture, the artist investigates how national epistemologies are formed and transformed, questioning the visual and ideological structures that shape collective identity and the sense of belonging to it.
The winning work, Culture Lost and Learned by Heart: Butterfly, 2021, is composed of an iron structure on which is mounted a long silk sheet printed with fragments of images from the National Iconographic Archives of Senegal and the artist’s personal archive. The work reflects on the gestures that have crossed and subverted colonial institutional spaces, through a visual alternation of corporeal and architectural details. In this work, Dieye invites us to question the concept of the archive as a place of symbolic authority, selection and removal, rather than pure conservation.
“The award to Adji Dieye,” Marcella Beccaria and Marianna Vecellio declare, “recognizes the ability of this young artist to look critically at the ways in which the legacy of the past and the construction of memory influence the understanding of the complex present in which we live.”
The work will be visible to the public from September 25, 2025 at the Castello di Rivoli, in conjunction with Inserzioni, a new program curated by Francesco Manacorda focused on new commissions for the Museum.
Adji Dieye vince Collective per il Castello di Rivoli
Rivoli, Adji Dieye vince la seconda edizione del Premio d’arte internazionale Collective
