demo station: The figure of Sigurd Lewerentz and his contribution to architecture

Pirelli HangarBicocca presents "The figure of Sigurd Lewerentz and his contribution to architecture".

Through this in-depth exploration, guided by museum mediation, visitors are invited to discover key figures of modernist architecture who played a decisive role in shaping Rirkrit Tiravanija’s imagination and artistic practice. Explore with the mediator the story of Sigurd Lewerentz and how he came to design the Single Family House no. 47 for the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition: a housing prototype conceived to represent a more functional, accessible, and modern way of living. Discover how the artist revolutionized Lewerentz’s project by transforming it into a space entirely “designed for children.”

The event takes place on Rirkrit Tiravanija’s installation untitled 2026 (demo station no. 9). The stage-like structure invites people to “demonstrate” something. The combination of the words demo and station in the work’s title refers respectively to the abbreviation of demonstration—understood both as a protest and as a presentation of someone’s talent or hobby —and to station, that is, an accessible place where such “demonstrations” can occur. For the duration of the exhibition, the installation provides a space for daily public activations.