From March 8 to July 27, 2025, Palazzo Buontalenti in Pistoia will host the highly anticipated exhibition by Daniel Buren, one of the most authoritative voices in the international art scene, with interventions that also involve the outdoor spaces of the museum locations of Palazzo de’ Rossi and Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi.

The exhibition DANIEL BUREN. Making, Unmaking, Remaking. Works in situ and situated 1968-2025 is organized by Fondazione Pistoia Musei and Fondazione Caript, in collaboration with Galleria Continua, under the patronage of the French Embassy in Italy, the Tuscany Region, the Municipality of Pistoia; with the main partnership of Intesa Sanpaolo and the partnership of Conad Nord Ovest.

On the occasion of the exhibition's public opening, curated by Buren himself and by the director of Fondazione Pistoia Musei Monica Preti, the Municipality of Pistoia will confer honorary citizenship to Daniel Buren on Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 4 pm in the Sala Maggiore of the municipal building.

The exhibition explores how the French artist, born in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) in 1938, transforms architectural spaces through the use of forms, colors, and materials, creating a dialogue between art and environment. The path, articulated in twelve rooms and in the inner courtyard of Palazzo Buontalenti, presents a selection of ten pictorial works executed between 1965 and 1966, two Cabanes from 1985 and 2000/2019, three recent high reliefs, in addition to a room dedicated to the design drawings of interventions carried out in Tuscany and works specially created/recreated for Pistoia.

The exhibition focuses, in particular, on Daniel Buren's connection with Italy and Tuscany, presenting works that the artist has revisited and recreated in a continuous process of making, unmaking, remaking. With this idea, Buren questions and reworks his own work, investing new meanings in projects developed in Italy from 1968 to the present day and inviting the viewer to reflect on the transformation of art over time and in different contexts.