Tinworks Artwork, the fledgling non-profit up to date artwork area in Bozeman, Montana, is increasing its footprint from a former industrial website within the metropolis’s northeast neighbourhood to the historic Rialto Theater downtown. Opening 21 November, Tinworks at Rialto can be exhibiting Matthew Barney’s 2018 Western movie Redoubt (till 1 February 2026), launching Tinworks’ first area open year-round for installations, artists’ talks, screenings and performances.
“We’re excited concerning the alternative to have a presence on Most important Road and to current actually compelling programming that may be a distinct means of approaching acquainted topics or exposing guests to artwork that connects otherwise,” says Tinworks’ inaugural director Jenny Moore. She took the helm in 2023 with the mandate to construct Tinworks right into a sustainable long-term arts organisation. The non-profit was based in 2019 as a seasonal pop-up for visible and performing artists to exhibit works at a two-acre advanced that features a repurposed tin manufacturing warehouse, pig barn, mill constructing and subject of open land.
Along with the acquisition of the Rialto—which opened as a theatre in 1924 and was donated by its earlier house owners to Tinworks—the organisation is stewarding the restoration of its deteriorating mill constructing. Salvaging three unique crib partitions and the outside grain chute, the brand new construction—constructed on the unique footprint and prolonged barely to the north—will present versatile gallery areas along with a customer centre and workplaces (heating and bogs can be a primary on the northeast campus).
Aerial view of the Tinworks Arts campus in northeast Bozeman, Montana Photograph: Blair Pace
Projected to open in October 2026, the renovated mill constructing will prolong programming on website all year long past its present June to October schedule.
“What I really like concerning the buildings is that there’s nothing treasured architecturally,” says Moore, who led the Chinati Basis in Marfa, Texas, for nearly a decade, the place industrial areas had been equally repurposed for the set up of artwork by its founder, Donald Judd, however with the stipulation in his will that his artwork be preserved simply because it was sited within the structure. Even dialogue of including facilities similar to bogs turned contentious throughout Moore’s tenure.
“A lot of what I discovered from Chinati has helped us make higher knowledgeable selections about this website,” says Moore, who appreciates being “initially of a brand new artwork area within the west and having the chance to assume expansively and flexibly about how these buildings may be totally in service to the artists we’re working with and their installations”.
Below Moore’s management, Tinworks has offered exhibitions by Theaster Gates, Gabriel Chaile, Lucy Raven, Stephen Shore and Layli Lengthy Soldier, amongst others, in numerous methods impressed by the panorama of the American west. Final yr, Agnes Denes, on the age of 93, repositioned her pioneering ecological paintings Wheatfield—initially planted in 1982 in decrease Manhattan—on the land on the Tinworks website, drawing broad artwork world consideration.
Matthew Barney, Redoubt, 2018 © Matthew Barney. Courtesy the artist; Gladstone, New York, Brussels and Seoul; and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photograph: Hugo Glendinning
At Tinworks at Rialto, guests will be capable of drop in throughout two day by day screenings of Barney’s Redoubt, shot in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains and interweaving the classical fantasy of Diana the hunter with the reintroduction of the wolves within the west, a conservation effort now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. “The narrative is conveyed by the soundtrack and exquisite dance passages and these beautiful panorama views,” Moore says. “It’s actually meditative.”
Moore anticipates rising her organisation’s annual working finances by 70% with the addition of Tinworks at Rialto and the opening of the reimagined mill constructing subsequent yr. Annual attendance has roughly doubled from 2024 to 2025 with 12,000 guests this yr, a determine Moore expects to a minimum of double once more with year-round programming.
“More and more, we’re seeing people who find themselves in search of us out as an artwork vacation spot,” she says, “as a lot as native people who’re having a brand new concept of what artwork is thru the programming at Tinworks.”
