What Is Diego Marcon’s “Arrivederci, Piggies!” at the New Museum, and How Do You Visit?

Short answer

Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies! is on view at the New Museum in New York through January 31, 2027. The museum calls it the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City, and it brings together three of his recent films with Krapfen (2025), a newly commissioned work. The museum is at 235 Bowery; hours are Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm, Thursday until 9pm, closed Monday. Admission is $28 for adults and free for anyone 18 and under.

Key facts

• Who: Diego Marcon (born 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy; lives and works in Lombardy, Italy)
• What: Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies! – three recent films plus the newly commissioned Krapfen (2025)
• Where: New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002 – Second Floor
• When: September 24, 2026 to January 31, 2027
• Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm, Thursday 11am-9pm, closed Monday
• Admission: adults $28, seniors (65+) $24, visitors with disabilities $22 (care partners complimentary), students $19, youth 18 and under free; members free, no advance booking needed
• Pay what you wish: Thursdays 7-9pm, tickets reserved online in advance; a limited number of additional tickets is offered onsite, availability not guaranteed
• Curated by: Massimiliano Gioni, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Madeline Weisburg, Senior Assistant Curator

Who is Diego Marcon?

Diego Marcon was born in 1985 in Busto Arsizio, Italy, and lives and works in Lombardy. He works in moving image, sound and film installation. According to the New Museum, his meticulously staged films and animations build deeply ambiguous stories that look at how people perceive their desires, their memories and themselves. His work borrows familiar genres – horror movies, slapstick comedy and cartoons – to underscore and subvert cinematic archetypes, and it draws on the narrative structures of fables, with families and children, while meditating on what the museum calls existential melancholy.

Arrivederci, Piggies! is his first solo museum exhibition in New York City. His work is represented by Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.

What will you see in the exhibition?

The exhibition occupies the museum’s Second Floor and brings together three of Marcon’s recent films alongside Krapfen (2025), the newly commissioned work. The museum describes films that dissolve the edges between the ordinary and the uncanny, stirring dreams, nightmares and childhood memories – real and imagined – of tragedies, myths and folktales. The New Museum has not published the titles of the three earlier films on the pages checked, so this article names only Krapfen.

What is Krapfen?

Krapfen (2025) is a digital CGI video in color with sound, lasting 4 minutes 44 seconds on a loop. It was produced by the New Museum in collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, the Renaissance Society and The Vega Foundation. According to the museum, it is the first work enabled by the New Futures Production Fund, an annual program supporting the production of a major new work presented at the New Museum and then at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. The museum does not explain the title, so this article does not either.

How can context shape the visit?

Marcon’s films can feel deliberately disorienting: familiar cartoon or horror conventions arrive without a clear moral. One way to watch is to treat that disorientation as the subject – noticing what each film borrows, and where it refuses to resolve. This is close to what Antre calls cultural mediation: giving a work enough context for a viewer to form their own reading. Antre’s own term adaptive cultural mediation describes how that context can adjust to what a viewer already knows – useful here, where the museum itself offers description rather than interpretation.

How should you plan the visit?

The New Museum is at 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002. It is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11am to 6pm, and Thursday until 9pm; it is closed on Monday. Admission is $28 for adults, $24 for seniors 65 and over, $22 for visitors with disabilities (care partners are complimentary), $19 for students, and free for youth 18 and under. Members enter free and do not need to book in advance. Thursday evenings from 7 to 9pm are pay what you wish; the museum requires reserving those tickets online in advance, and a limited number of additional pay-what-you-wish tickets is offered onsite, with availability not guaranteed. The exhibition opened on September 24, 2026, the same day as Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony, the museum’s large survey on the floors nearby, so the two can be seen in one visit. For another reading-against-expectation show uptown, see Antre’s guide to The Surrealist Book at MoMA.

FAQ

How much are tickets to the New Museum?

Adults pay $28, seniors 65 and over $24, visitors with disabilities $22 with care partners complimentary, and students $19. Youth 18 and under and members enter free.

When is the New Museum closed?

The museum is closed on Mondays. It is open Tuesday to Sunday 11am-6pm, and Thursday until 9pm.

What is pay what you wish at the New Museum?

On Thursdays from 7 to 9pm, admission is pay what you wish. Tickets must be reserved online in advance; a limited number of additional tickets is offered onsite, and availability is not guaranteed.

Where is Arrivederci, Piggies! in the museum?

On the Second Floor of the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York.

How long is Krapfen?

The film runs 4 minutes 44 seconds and plays on a loop, so you can enter at any point.

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Sources

• New Museum: Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies! exhibition page: dates, floor, works, artist biography and curators.
• New Museum: press release, “New Museum Announces Exhibition Program for Fall 2026 through Winter 2027” (June 8, 2026): commission, production partners, New Futures Production Fund and curators.
• New Museum: Visit page: address, hours, admission prices, pay-what-you-wish policy and member entry.