Conceived as a new site-specific work at the Bechtler Stiftung, pool8 marks the beginning of Nora Turato’s eighth “Pool” cycle. The Amsterdam-based artist structures her practice through recurring series she refers to as “pools,” bringing together different strands of her artistic output within a defined timespan.

Following recent solo exhibitions at ICA, London (2025), and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2024), Turato continues her investigation of installations that combine audio, text, and architectural response. At the Bechtler Stiftung, she uses the pronounced length of the exhibition space to reconfigure the room into an expansive work that spans multiple media.

Bringing together sound, perception, and spatial experience, pool8 engages questions of transition, bodily awareness, and the unknown.

The Bechtler Stiftung permanently houses Walter De Maria’s The 2000 Sculpture (1992). One of the world’s largest floor sculptures, it comprises 2,000 white plaster rods, each 50 centimetres long, arranged in twenty rows across a surface of 500 square metres. The resulting pattern creates a tension between predictable regularity and individual perception, underscored by the light and space surrounding the arrangement.