"Jeff Wall. Photographs" exhibition in Turin

Gallerie d'Italia - Turin present the exhibition Jeff Wall. Photographs, curated by David ampany and open to the public from October 9, 2025 to February 1, 2026.

Jeff Wall (1946, Vancouver) is one of the most significant and influential photographic artists at work today. For over 40 years he has moved between spectacular stagecraft and documentary observation, making pictures that explore every aspect of contemporary society. At once familiar and uncanny, they lift everyday situations into the strange and dreamlike.  Presented at life scale, his pictures are among the most celebrated works of contemporary art.

In his commitment to an art of everyday life, Wall addresses major social and political issues, exploring the complex ways they shape our lives. Questions of nature, war, gender, race and class permeate his pictures which are often as enigmatic as they are. While his art is informed by the work of many great photographers and painters, we can also see the influence of literature and cinema, notably Italian neo-realism with its mix of mundane life and high drama.

This exhibition will be a major survey, selecting from every aspect of Jeff Wall’s oeuvre. From major works of the late 1970s to the recent pictures, it will trace the multi-layered development.

Curator David Campany (1967, London) has known and worked with Jeff Wall for nearly twenty years, and is the foremost authority on his work. He has published several essays and conversations with Wall, and has exhibited his photographs on a number of occasions (at ICP New York, Whitechapel Gallery London, Le Bal Paris, and FoMu Antwerp). This exhibition will be the culmination of Campany’s engagement with Jeff Wall’s work. 

Jeff Wall was born in 1946, in Vancouver where he lives and works. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide over the past forty years. He taught art in universities in Canada for twenty-five years, and his critical writing has been collected and published in several languages. His work has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, most recently at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland in 2021 and the Beyeler Foundation, Basel in 2024.