Artissima Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea in Torino, the main fair in Italy exclusively dedicated to contemporary art, for the 2025 edition takes place from 31 October to 2 November at the Lingotto Fiere – OVAL in Turin.
Artissima 2025 in Turin
WHERE
Turin - Oval Lingotto Fiere Torino
WHEN
from October 31st to November 2nd, 2025
• Friday, 31 October and Saturday, 1 November: 12 noon – 8 pm
• Sunday 2 November: 11 am – 7 pm
TICKETS
An Artissima ticket grants you free access to the Gallerie d'Italia - Torino during the Fair
This thirty-second edition sees the participation of a total of 176 Italian and international galleries from 62 present monographic projects.
The theme of Artissima 2025 is Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, inspired by the eclectic figure of Richard Buckminster Fuller and his iconic 1969 book of the same name (edition by Il Saggiatore).
Artissima is organized with the support of Main Partner Intesa Sanpaolo.
The 2025 edition offers a rich program of projects and collateral events, which take place both within the fair at Lingotto Fiere – OVAL, and in various cultural spaces of the city. This dual vocation makes it possible to combine the market offer with innovative cultural initiatives, offering new ways of enjoying and enhancing contemporary art.
Free entry to the Gallerie d'Italia Turin
With any entry ticket to the Artissima fair, visitors will also be able to enter the Gallerie d'Italia – Turin for free during the days of Artissima, to discover the projects and exhibitions created in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo.
SPECIAL PROJECTS DURING THE FAIR
Within the Lingotto Fiere – OVAL in Turin, Artissima 2025 presents special projects in collaboration with partners and institutions, with a unique artistic and cultural focus.
Anastasia Samoylova "IMAGE CITIES"
Intesa Sanpaolo is exposing, during the fair, a selection of photographs by Anastasia Samoylova, an american artist who explores the relationship between environment and cultural identity through observational photography. After relocating to Miami in 2016, she developed an immersive approach, culminating in her monograph FloodZone. In her 2023 project Image Cities, she investigates how media saturation shapes the urban landscapes of global metropolises. Her work will feature an exhibition commissioned by the Bank and hosted at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin in 2026. |
Art Under 35: The Foreign Test - TALK
The panel aims to analyze and discuss the degree of internationalization of the young generations of Italian artists, highlighting their creativity and their positioning in the global art market. During the meeting, Silvia Anna Barrilà, Franco Broccardi, Maria Adelaide Marchesoni and Marilena Pirrelli of the Contemporary Art Observatory, with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo, present the results of new research that examines the international path of Italian or Italian-born artists since 1990, offering data and insights into their recognition and growth opportunities beyond national borders.
Moderator: Antonella Crippa, Art Advisory & Fair Value Coordinator Intesa Sanpaolo Art, Culture and Heritage – Group Chief Sustainability Officer Area Language: italian Where:meeting point Discover the talk "Art under 35: the foreign challenge"
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SPECIAL PROJECTS IN TOWN
“The screen is a muscle" at Gallerie d'Italia - Torino
The collaboration between Intesa Sanpaolo and Artissima continues with the fourth edition of the artists’ film and video programme hosted in the spaces of Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, Piazza San Carlo 156. The exhibition is titled The screen is a muscle and it is curated by Luca Lo Pinto.
"The screen is a muscle" is a show conceived as a composition of video works that do not follow a theme but are developed in a visual and sonic trajectory that is both heterogeneous and coherent. The project brings together experiments with images in movement created by artists with imaginaries in which reflections on the body, the digital dimension, gender stereotypes and urban nature are manifested in a sensual, emotional and poetic way, offering a space of freedom without rhetoric to the eyes of visitors. The title pays homage to the famous work The Mind is a Muscle (1968) by Yvonne Rainer, a pioneer in the production of an emancipation of the human subject in the context of dance, eliminating any conventions of gesture and deeply articulating the action of watching and being watched.
The exhibition space lends itself to use as a gymnasium in which the works dictate the movements of the spectators and impose a duration as they are experienced. The videos are projected one after the next, in keeping with a circular presentation that obliges the viewer to move, generating an immersive and dynamic experience. The viewing is paced by adding an ulterior level of dramaturgy, with short audio interventions created for the occasion by the artist Martina Ruggeri, which break up and introduce new rhythms in the score.
Galleries and artists: Bruce Conner (Thomas Dane, London, Napoli); Low Jack & Invernomuto (Pinksummer, Genova); Tommy Malekoff (Zero…, Milano); Vijay Masharani (Clima, Milano); Eva & Franco Mattes (Apalazzo, Brescia); Shahryar Nashat (Sylvia Kouvali, London, Piraeus); James Richards (Sylvia Kouvali, London, Piraeus); SAGG Napoli (Import Export, Warsaw, London e Zazà, Milano, Napoli); Julia Scher (Esther Schipper, Berlin, Seoul, Paris); Anastasia Sosunova (Eastcontemporary, Milano).
Discover "The screen is a muscle"
The digital exhibition will be broadcasted at Gallerie d’Italia - Torino, Immersive Hall, from October 31st to November 2nd 2025 at the following times:
Friday 31 october from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Saturday 1 November from 3 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Sunday 2 November from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m
Last admission 90 minutes before closing.
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