Museion wins the PAC - Plan for Contemporary Art of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Museion will acquire the work by artist Nicola L., Same Skin for Everybody, 1975, thanks to winning the PAC – Plan for Contemporary Art promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture. The initiative aims to support projects for the acquisition of works created in the last 70 years in order to expand public collections.
This is the fourth edition of the initiative of the Italian Ministry of Culture’s General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity, which each year selects and supports (through a public call) projects for the acquisition, production and valorization of contemporary works to increase public collections of contemporary art. Museion is among the 40 projects selected for PAC 2024, which will receive a total of €3.5 million in funding.
The work to be acquired, Same Skin for Everybody, stems from Nicola L.’s series of pénétrables which the artist began developing in the mid-1960s. This series included a variety of large-format canvases and textile sculptures that people could literally immerse themselves in by inserting parts of their body into them. Over time, these canvases evolved into banners bearing political slogans, which Nicola L. took to the streets, such as Same Skin for Everybody, with space for eleven heads. This work in particular attests to her strong activist spirit and non-violent resistance.
Nicola L.
Nicola L. (1932 El Jadida, Morocco – 2018 Los Angeles, USA) developed a multidisciplinary practice that combines painting, drawing, sculpture, design, film, and performance. Politically active yet playful and humorous, her oeuvre is imbued with feminist and anti-racist ideals of equality and collectivity.
In collaboration with Camden Art Centre, London, Frac Bretagne, Rennes and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Museion is presenting the first comprehensive survey of Nicola L.’s work in Europe, opening in Bolzano in October 2025. This traveling retrospective follows her last major solo exhibition at Sculpture Center in New York (2017) and her inclusion in Hope at Museion (2023) as well as in further important group exhibitions such as Future Bodies from a Recent Past at Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2022); Museum in Motion at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) (2022), The World Goes Pop at Tate Modern, London (2015), and Elles at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009).
