During the renovation of the MAMCO Genève building, the availability of works from the collection has provided the opportunity to launch a series of off-site projects, conceived as spaces for dialogue and reflection on synergies between museums.

In 2026, MAMCO continues this process by lending one of its most emblematic works to MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, for the exhibition Not the Work... The Worker, devoted to Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). This marks the first time since MAMCO's founding that Open House — affectionately nicknamed "the dumpster" by our visitors — has been lent to another museum.

Born in New York and trained in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark developed from the early 1970s a practice he termed "anarchitecture". His Cuts — interventions carried out on buildings slated for demolition — examine the materiality of urban space, the power structures that govern it and the collective memory it carries. Films, photographs, drawings and objects document these cutting operations, in which destruction becomes a sculptural gesture and an act of revelation. Situated at the crossroads of Minimalism, conceptual art and urban activism, his work remains a foundational reference for any reflection on the transformation of inhabited space.

Curated by Jessamyn Fiore and Francesco Stocchi and presented at MAXXI, the exhibition brings together films, photographs, drawings and documents from a number of collections. MAMCO contributes Open House, a cornerstone of its displays since 1994. Created in May 1972 on a street in SoHo, New York, the installation extends Matta-Clark's work on the recycling of discarded materials: a rubbish skip partitioned with wooden walls and doors salvaged from neighbouring construction sites, open and permeable to the street, which became, from the moment it was installed, a site of experimental and playful activity.

Opening on 12 November 2026 in Rome from 7pm.