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Nora Turato

NORA TURATO

IN SITU #1: Nora Turato — I hear you, I hear you. Stedelijk Museum 14 September 2024–31 August 2025 Amsterdam
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The Stedelijk is launching IN SITU, a new series in the mezzanine of the new building. A new generation of artists has been commissioned to create experimental works for one of the museum’s largest intermediate spaces. Nora Turato inaugurates the series with a video and sound installation that examines how we use language and how language influences our identity and ways of communicating.

Language plays a central role in Nora Turato’s work. The artist collects texts from seemingly banal sources: emails and WhatsApp messages, social media posts, YouTube tutorials, online lectures, museum texts, advertisements, conversations overheard in restaurants. Turato deconstructs this endless flow of messages and uses it to shape her own narrative. Her work spans multiple disciplines, including performances, books, videos, murals, and 2D-works.

For her new work on the mezzanine, Turato examines the impact of language on our self-image, expression, and identity—from how we learn to speak as children to how we constantly adopt the words of others. By combining language and typography, she questions how much control we truly have over how we communicate. For her site-specific work, Turato is developing a custom-made typeface and a script for her own monumental moving billboard. She explores how rhythm, pronunciation, design, and typography influence the power, ambience and character of language.

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Exhibition view: Nora Turato, IN SITU #1: Nora Turato — I hear you, I hear you., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (14–31 August 2025). Courtesy Stedelijk Museum.
Exhibition view: Nora Turato, IN SITU #1: Nora Turato — I hear you, I hear you., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (14–31 August 2025). Courtesy Stedelijk Museum.
Exhibition view: Nora Turato, IN SITU #1: Nora Turato — I hear you, I hear you., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (14–31 August 2025). Courtesy Stedelijk Museum.
About the Artist

Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato is recognised for her spoken-word performances, posters, artist’s books, and installations based on contemporary texts from a plethora of sources. In 2015, Turato performed at an event hosted by the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

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The Stedelijk Museum is the place where everyone can discover and experience modern and contemporary visual art and design 365 days a year. The Stedelijk Museum was founded in 1874 by a group of private citizens in Amsterdam, led by C.P. van Eeghen, who donated funds and their art collections to establish a museum in the capital of the Netherlands that would be devoted to modern art. The collection, housed at first at the Rijksmuseum, was moved in 1895 into the Museum’s own building, designed by A.W. Weissman.

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*25 Dec and 1 Jan, 11am – 6pm
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Amsterdam Museumplein 10
Stedelijk Museum contemporary art institution in Amsterdam Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://www.stedelijk.nl/nl

Opening hours
Daily, 10am – 6pm
*25 Dec and 1 Jan, 11am – 6pm
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