ISAAC JULIEN. MUSEUM DREAMS
Italian translation of the exhibition catalogue published by Gres Art
Bergamo, gres art 671, 10 April – 4 October 2026
Gres Art 671 presents Museum Dreams, the first major retrospective in Italy devoted to the work of Isaac Julien (London, 1960), one of the most important visual artists of our time. Renowned for his cinematic, impressionistic, and poetic installations, Julien has played a decisive role in expanding the language of the moving image within contemporary art.
Curated by Nathan Ladd, Isaac Julien’s Museum Dreams has been conceived specifically for the architectural and conceptual framework of the Bergamo space.
Bringing together five major large-scale installations — Once Again… (Statues Never Die) (2022); Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (2019); Baltimore (2002); Vagabondia (2000); and The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999) — the exhibition draws on over three decades of Julien’s artistic practice, highlighting his distinctive approach that moves across disciplines such as cinema, dance, photography, music, and sculpture.