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ARTISSIMA
6–8 November 2015
Preview and opening: 5 November
Oval, Lingotto Fiere
Torino
info@artissima.it
www.artissima.it
Renown for its focus on research and experimentation, Artissima 2015 is about to start: 207 selected established and young galleries from 31 countries; three curated sections, including 20 Present Future solo shows by emerging artists; 25 Back to the Future booths dedicated to the rediscovery of the decade '75–'85; and 12 surprising live actions in the Per4m section. This year, over 50 curators and museum directors are contributing to the fair's programme while collectors become active participants.
Collectors involved in the fair's projects:
Renato Alpegiani, (Juror of the Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize)
Pedro Barbosa (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Corrado Beldì (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Gil Brandes (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Josef Dalle Nogare (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Vittorio Dapelo (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Giorgio Fasol (Juror of the Prix K-Way Per4m)
Gabriella Martino (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Carlos Marsano (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Maurizio Morra Greco (Juror of the illy Present Future Prize)
Lorenzo Paini (Juror of the Sardi per l'Arte Back to the Future Prize)
Maurizio Rolando (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Philip and Rosella Rolla (Jurors of the Reda Prize)
Ronald Rozenbaum (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Juror of the Promos Scalo Milano New Entries Prize and speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Alain Servais (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
... and many more
Curators involved in the fair's projects:
Pierre Bal Blanc, Documenta 14, Kassel (Juror of the Promos Scalo Milano New Entries Prize and speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Daniel Baumann, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (Juror of the illy Present Future Prize)
Ilaria Bonacossa, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Sabine Breitwieser, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Juror of the Sardi per l'Arte Back to the Future Prize)
Marie de Brugerolle, independent curator and writer, Lyon (Juror of the Prix K-Way Per4m)
Andrea Busto, MEF – Museo Ettore Fico, Torino (Juror of the Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize)
Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, independent curator, Torino (Curator Blog Notes)
Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Trondheim Kunstmuseum (Curator of In Mostra exhibition)
Luca Cerizza, independent curator, Milano and Berlin (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, independent curator, Sao Paulo (Juror of the Promos Scalo Milano New Entries Prize and speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Florian Ebner, Museum Folkwang, Essen (Juror of the Reda Prize)
Silvia Fanti, Xing, Bologna (Juror of the Prix K-Way Per4m)
Eva Fabbris, independent curator, Milano (Member of the Back to the Future Committee)
Luigi Fassi, steirischer herbst, Graz (Member of the Present Future Committee)
João Fernandes, Museo Nácional Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid (Member of the Back to the Future Committee)
Elena Filipovic, Kunsthalle Basel (Member of the Back to the Future Committee)
Francesco Garutti, independent curator, Milano (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Sophie Goltz, Stadtkuratorin Hamburg (Member of the Per4m Committee)
Fatima Hellberg, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Member of the Present Future Committee)
Ana Janevski, MoMA, New York (Juror of the Prix K-Way Per4m)
Lara Khaldi, independent curator, Palestinian Museum Jerusalem (Member of the Present Future Committee)
Christine Macel, Centre Pompidou, Paris (Juror of the Sardi per l'Arte Back to the Future Prize)
Hadas Maor, independent curator, Tel Aviv (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Simone Menegoi, independent curator, Milano (Member of the Per4m Committee)
Abaseh Mirvali, independent curator, Berlin and Mexico City (Juror of the Promos Scalo Milano New Entries Prize and Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Letizia Ragaglia, Museion, Bolzano (Juror of the Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize)
Cristiano Raimondi, NMNM Nuveau Musée National de Monaco (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
María Inés Rodríguez, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (Juror of the Sardi per l'Arte Back to the Future Prize)
Dieter Roelstraete, Documenta14, Kassel (Juror of the illy Present Future Prize)
Beatrix Ruf, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Member of the Back to the Future Committee)
Alberto Salvadori, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze (Juror of the Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize)
Chris Sharp, independent curator, Mexico City (Member of the Per4m Committee and speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (Member of the Present Future Committee)
Nicolas Trembley, independent curator, Paris and Geneva (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Fatos Üstek, independent curator and writer, London (Member of the Present Future Committee)
Marianna Vecellio, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (Curator Rachel Rose: illy Present Future 2014 Prize Exhibition)
Maurizio Vetrugno, independent curator and artist, Torino (Curator Opium Den)
Andrea Viliani, MADRE Museo d'Arte Donnaregina, Napoli (Juror of the Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize)
Eva Wittocx, M-Museum, Leuven (Speaker of the Walkie Talkies programme)
Francesco Zanot, Camera–Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino (Juror of the Reda Prize)
More to discover:
Opium Den
A fully fledged curatorial project—the first of its kind for an art fair—the VIP Lounge will turn into an "opium den," offering an immersive and sumptuous aesthetic experience, an artist's visual essay, and intertwining suggestions, collections, images and visions.
In Mostra
A true museum exhibition within the fair, In Mostra brings together outstanding art from the contemporary collections in Piedmont and is constructed around the concept of "inclination" in its literary, scientific, philosophical and political sense.
Torino's art scene
During Artissima, Torino will offer a great number of exhibitions in its museums and institutions, such asTUTTTOVERO, a two-part-show curated by Francesco Bonami at GAM and Castello di Rivoli Museo d' Arte Contemporanea; Rachel Rose: illy Present Future 2014 Prize Exhibition at Castello di Rivoli Museo d' Arte Contemporanea; Adrián Villar Rojas at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; Christian Boltanski: Dopo at Fondazione Merz; Ed Ruscha: MIXMASTER at Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli; Boris Mikhailov: Ukraine at Camera (the new center for photography in town); and Vanità Vanitas, a group show at the MEF Museo Ettore Fico.
For the schedule of the Walkie Talkies, Meeting Point, and Book Corner, the galleries' list, the artists in Back to the Future and Present Future, and for the Per4m programme, visit www.artissima.it.
The event involves the collaboration of:
Main Partner: UniCredit
Partners: Aon, CTA, Girard-Perregaux, GTT, illycaffè, K-Way, Lancia, Lauretana, Leica, Owenscorp, Reda, Ruinart, Fondazione Sardi per l'Arte, Promos Scalo Milano
In kind-sponsors: Artsy, Cappellini, CarloAngela, FR Costruzioni, GL Events Italia - Lingotto Fiere, Halifax, Inkiostro Bianco, Kartell, Lago, Moret, Poltrona Frau, Sagat, Zaini Milano
Official Carrier: Gondrand
Media Partner: La Stampa
Media coverage: SKY Arte HD
ARTISSIMA is a brand of Regione Piemonte, Città di Torino and Città Metropolitana di Torino. ARTISSIMA is organised by Artissima srl, a company founded in 2007 to manage the fair's artistic and commercial relationships. It is owned by Fondazione Torino Musei, established by the City of Torino to support, manage and enhance the artistic and museum-based heritage of the city. The 22nd ARTISSIMA is being put on with the support of the brand-owning authorities, jointly with Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Compagnia di San Paolo and Camera di commercio di Torino.
