Curated by art historian Taco Dibbits, General Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and presented during the Venice International Art Biennale in 2022, the exhibition will be a comprehensive retrospective focusing on key moments in Anish Kapoor’s career, exploring the development of his unique visual language. For the first time, ground-breaking new works, created using carbon nanotechnology, will be shown. These new works further develop the language of Kapoor’s seminal sculptures, which explore the condition of what he has termed the ‘non-object’ - works that investigate the liminal space occupied by an object, between physical presence and immateriality, something that is present but absent, empty yet full. The project is part of the Accademia’s long-term programming focused on contemporary art and will be on view from April 20 until October 9, 2022.

Following extensive exhibitions dedicated to Philip Guston in 2017 and to Georg Baselitz in 2019, Kapoor will be the first British artist to hold an exhibition at the historic museum. When it was founded around two centuries ago, animated by the extraordinary cultural dynamism of Leopoldo Cicognara and Antonio Canova, the Gallerie aimed to enhance the artistic production of the time alongside the ancient masterpieces in its collection.