COMING SOON
curated by Federica Angelucci
21.11.2025 > 31.01.2026
Opening hours | Thursday 2:00 pm > 7:00 pm, Friday and Saturday 10:30 am >12:30 pm – 2:00 pm > 7:00 pm. Free entrance. From Sunday to Wednesday by appointment only.
Pieter Hugo presents at the Bonollo Foundation a gallery of photographic portraits of people he has met over the years, in various geographical and social contexts. The exhibition reveals the approach of the South African photographer, who is interested in exploring the truth and possibilities of the photographic medium. Featuring full-length or half-length portraits, often nude, his subjects look directly at the viewer, becoming the protagonists of a scene that distances itself from everything that has happened before or will happen afterward. The faces and bodies of the people Hugo encounters convey their identity beyond stereotypes or categories. In the exhibition, the portraits become a possible map of contemporary humanity: dense, unsimplified, and capturing each person in their irreducible singularity.
Pieter Hugo / artist
Pieter Hugo was born 1976 in Johannesburg, and is a photographic artist living in Cape Town.
Major solo exhibitions have taken place at the Rencontres d’Arles, France; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon in Portugal; Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund in Germany; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, The Hague Museum of Photography, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Fotografiska in Stockholm, MAXXI in Rome and the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, among others. Hugo has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including the Perez Art Museum Miami, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Huis Marseille, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Barbican Art Gallery, Rijksmuseum, Tate Modern, the Folkwang Museum, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and the São Paulo Biennale
His work is represented in prominent public and private collections, among them the Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art, V&A Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Walther Collection, Rijksmuseum, Deutsche Börse Group, Folkwang Museum and Huis Marseille.
Hugo received the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival and the KLM Paul Huf Award in 2008, the Seydou Keita Award at the Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial and the Young Director Award at Cannes Lion Festival in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2012. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet and was chosen as the ‘In Focus’ artist for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London.