Studio Talks. Aperitif with the artist - 2025/2026 edition

The Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea presents STUDIO TALKS @GDI – TORINO. Aperitivo with the Artist, the second edition of a programme of talks developed in collaboration with Gallerie d’Italia – Torino.

The programme will run from September 2025 to February 2026, following the success of the first and second editions of Lunch Talks @ GDI – Torino. Talking About Art. Great artists, great exhibitions, great themes.

During the talks, held in the Arena Hall of Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, audiences will have the opportunity to take virtual visits to the studios of the artists featured in this edition, invited by the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.

The artists will engage in dialogue with representatives of the Castello di Rivoli, including Francesco Manacorda, Director; Marcella Beccaria, Deputy Director; Marianna Vecellio, Curator; and Linda Fossati, Curatorial Assistant, guiding the audience on a journey through their studios.

The dialogues will offer audiences privileged access to the artist’s studio, understood both as a real and a metaphorical place where creativity and research are cultivated, and where artworks are conceived and sometimes produced.
The aperitivo-with-art experience makes the programme even more engaging, allowing visitors to closely observe the creative process of artists whose works are part of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Collection.

Studio Talks offer participants an artistic and cultural aperitivo format, as well as the opportunity to visit the exhibitions on view at Gallerie d’Italia – Torino before the talks.

The programme is curated by the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in collaboration with Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, while the aperitivo is curated by Costardi Bros..

Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 6:00–7:00 pm

Using everyday materials found or received as gifts, Francis Offman’s research tackles topics such as the climate crisis, colonialism, the history of Italian art and personal memories. Offman’s research is qualified as an extensive study process that questions the dynamics that characterise objects, their history and their circulation within the global economic system.

Discover more details about Francis Offman in conversation with Linda Fossati

Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 6:00–7:00 pm

Elisa Sighicelli uses photography to investigate photography itself as a medium and as art. Sighicelli sees photography as the sphere in which reality is presented as a simple starting point in relation to which this art is free to explore and outline other expressive and existential possibilities. Merging with unusual supports, such as satin, marble and sometimes plastic, her pictures outline shapes and colours that seduce the eye, denying the mind the certainty of recognising irrefutable and objective data.

Discover more details about Elisa Sighicelli in conversation with Francesco Manacorda.

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time: 6:00–7:00 pm

Slight physical alterations, complete transformations, temporary disappearances, journeys into the immediate future or the distant past are some of the elements that characterise Roberto Cuoghi's research. Experimenting to the point of obsession, the artist constantly invents himself and his method, exploring various forms of metamorphosis and the most diverse expressive techniques and artistic media, such as photography, video, animation, painting and drawing.

Discover more details about Roberto Cuoghi in conversation with Marcella Beccaria.

Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Time: 6:00–7:00 pm

Considered to be one of the most original artists, driven by an impulse and an existential introspective research, sometimes comic-grotesque and sometimes oneiric-poetic, David draws, paints, sculpts and embroiders. The product of multiple languages, such as painting, tapestry, drawing and sculpture, the work explores the subject of the human figure as a metaphor for transformation: the artist sees the body as an expression of the psychological, physical and inner condition of the contemporary individual.

Discover more details about Enrico David in conversation with Marianna Vecellio.

Date: Thursday, January 29, 2026
Time: 6:00–7:00 pm

Adji Dieye's research investigates the concepts of representation and identity in formerly colonised hemispheres and the socio-political structures of the globalised world. Observing the role of culture in fields such as advertising, public monuments and national archives, on one hand Dieye examines the ways in which aesthetic self-determination can be promoted within post-colonial spaces and, looking at the deceptive forms of self-determination promoted in neoliberal circles on the other. Given the historical role of photography, the artist sees it as a tool with which to question the beliefs that underpin representational “knowledge” and the processes of alteration taking place in society today.

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 6:00–7:00 pm

Grazia Toderi's practice enhances the more immaterial and transcendent aspects of video as an expressive and artistic medium. Structured as endless loop video projections, the artist's works evoke epiphanies of light marked by time streams unfettered by linear logic. If Toderi focused her attention on seemingly everyday, domestic and repetitive actions in her early works, immersing herself in the world, in her later works the artist gradually raises her gaze, moving upwards, above the Earth, expressing herself through aerial images of stadiums, arenas, theatres and cities. Exploring human finiteness and the vastness of the cosmos, Toderi links private memories to a fantastical collective imagery born of media culture.