Maurizio Cattelan patiently taught bullfinches to sing songs (“Bella Ciao,” or “Indian Summer”) and then released them into the forest. He transformed exhibition spaces into laboratories (beds for meditation, a phenylethylamine substance that makes you fall in love); he held conferences on the subject of subliminal odors, which regulate attraction and repulsion. He created extraordinary gardens, with tomato plants whose growth was accelerated by contraceptive pills, plants that committed suicide, and mandarin oranges that tasted like sperm. Later, visitors were able to experience the exhibition “Glück” (Luck) while flying, attached by a one-wing Delta harness, and to traverse the exhibition Skop via different electric vehicles, stopping to pick a strawberry, putting on glasses whose lenses transformed one’s vision, moving fruit trees in backpacks, and taking a break in a voting booth or within the prototype of a utopian house designed by Matti Suuronen.

The exhibition “Moi-même-Soi-même” (“Myself-Oneself”) will showcase space as the most intimate thing about oneself, akin to the soul...