Exhibitions and Visits in the Conference Program
- DAY 1: Friday, November 28
Former industrial complex turned major cultural hub for art, innovation and music, OGR Torino is our Day 1 venue, and we are invited to view the following exhibition projects from 1.15pm to 2.30pm:
Laure Prouvost. WE FELT A STAR DYING
An exhibition commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and co-commissioned by OGR Torino
Curated by Carly Whitefield and Samuele Piazza
ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet
An exhibition organized by Tate Modern and OGR Torino
Curated by Val Ravaglia and Samuele Piazza
OGR Torino presents two exhibitions that explore the relationship between art and technology from different yet complementary perspectives tracing a timeline from pioneering artistic experiments of the late 20th century to today’s explorations of quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
WE FELT A STAR DYING trasforms Binario 1 of the former workshop complex into a space where art and science merge into a site-specific installation that engages with architecture. The exhibition, a collaboration between the artist, philosopher Tobias Rees, and scientist Hartmut Neven, founder of Google Quantum AI, explores quantum computing through a multisensory experience of images, sounds, and scents.
At Binario 2 of OGR, ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet traces over forty years of artistic experimentation at the intersection of visual art and technology, before the widespread use of the Internet. The exhibition features works by artists who explored technological modernity by appropriating tools originally developed in military or corporate contexts, using them to redefine collective imagery and provoke critical thought.
Website: ogrtorino.it
Location: OGR Torino | Corso Castelfidardo 22, Turin
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is a world leading independent contemporary art foundation in Turin known for bold, experimental exhibitions and support for emerging artists.
News from the Near Future
30 Years of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Curated by Bernardo Follini and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo, through 8 March 2026
This exhibition project is presented across two venues: the Foundation’s main museum space, and the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin.
The exhibition News from the Near Future celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo with an extensive project presented across two venues: the Foundation’s own spaces and the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin. Through around one hundred and fifty works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, the exhibition retraces three decades of artistic research and commitment to promoting contemporary art, from the 1990s to the present.
More than a chronological retrospective, News from the Near Future unfolds as a visual and emotional archive that brings together the artists, languages, and visions that have shaped the Foundation’s history. The exhibition reaffirms the role of art as a means of critically engaging with the present and imagining the future.
The section hosted at the Foundation intertwines historical and newly produced works in three thematic paths dedicated to the body and its tensions, to individual and collective identities, and to future imaginaries. The itinerary opens with Fade to Black (2013) by Philippe Parreno and concludes with Electric Earth (1999) by Doug Aitken, an immersive installation first presented at the 48th Venice Biennale.
The title of the exhibition references Fiona Tan’s News from the Near Future (2003), which inspires the project as an archive of memories and visions of the contemporary world.
Website: fsrr.org
Location: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo | Via Modane 16, Turin
GAM (Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea)
Turin’s GAM is a dynamic gateway to modern and contemporary art, blending iconic masterpieces with bold new voices.
Nights
Five Centuries of Stars, Dreams, Plenilunes
Curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato, through 1 March 2026
Featuring approximately one hundred works from prestigious European institutions and from the collections of GAM.
Lothar Baumgarten
Culture Nature
Curated by Chiara Bertola, through 1 March 2026
A tribute to Lothar Baumgarten, an artist who passed away in 2018, renowned for intertwining aesthetic research with profound anthropological and ecological reflection.
The Intruder
Davide Sgambaro
Curated by Virginia Lupo, through 1 March 2026
The “Intruder” is an artist or curator invited to engage with the exhibitions and the collections of GAM. Their “intrusion” plays a decisive role in every reinstallation of the collections, reactivating interpretative trajectories or reassuring chronological narratives.
Linda Fregni Nagler
Anger Pleasure Fear
Curated by Cecilia Canziani, through 1 March 2026
GAM presents the first anthological exhibition in an Italian institution dedicated to Linda Fregni Nagler. The artist employs photography as a means of reflecting on vision, memory, and the materiality of the image, weaving together collecting practices, research, and narrative. The exhibition presents works created over more than twenty years.
Elisabetta di Maggio
Frangible
Curated by Chiara Bertola and Fabio Cafagna, through 1 March 2026
The exhibition charts Elisabetta Di Maggio’s career through historical works and new pieces created for GAM. Cutting, which is central to her practice, acts as both precise material exploration and an irreversible gesture. Her works, from cut tissue walls to sculpted soaps, wax mosaics, porcelain, and botanical forms, blur nature and artifice.
Across six rooms, it explores mapping, cosmic and botanical patterns, memory, and the sacredness of nature.
Website: gamtorino.it
Location: GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea | Via Magenta 31, Turin
Fondazione Merz
Fondazione Merz is a vital centre for contemporary art in Turin, celebrated for its focus on experimental practices and the legacy of Mario and Marisa Merz.
PUSH THE LIMITS 2
culture strips to reveal war
Curated by Claudia Gioia and Beatrice Merz, through 2 February 2026.
Featuring works by Heba Y. Amin, Maja Bajević, Mirna Bamieh, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Rossella Biscotti, Monica Bonvicini, Latifa Echakhch, yasmine eid-sabbagh/Rozenn Quéré, Cécile B. Evans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Jasleen Kaur, Katerina Kovaleva, Teresa Margolles, Helina Metaferia, Janis Rafa, Zineb Sedira and Nora Turato.
The Fondazione Merz presents the second edition of PUSH THE LIMITS, an exhibition exploring art's ability to respond to current and urgent issues and to be a catalyst for change, rejecting resignation to immobility. It brings together 20 artists from different generations and backgrounds who make the overcoming and transformation of imposed and supposed limits their artistic grammar.
In renaming the second edition of PUSH THE LIMITS, the phrase by Mario Merz — “culture strips to reveal war” — was added. The reference is to the ever-complex role of culture in situations of conflict and the need for culture to shed its quiet image in order to highlight its combative nature. Here the intention is also to emphasise the freedom and responsibility of art and culture, as well as the goal of pushing boundaries, especially today when all the principles of coexistence and law are constantly being overturned, so that new words can emerge to start, thinking again in terms of justice and international, social and civil relations.
The exhibition brings together actions, images and voices capable of realigning means and ends, with the awareness that ‘relationality’ is, as Barbara Kruger recalled in the first edition of the project, a constitutive quality of action. In this perspective – also dear to Hannah Arendt, for whom collective action has an aesthetic principle – freedom and execution coincide in giving shape to new words and forms in response to the crises of the present.
Website: fondazionemerz.org
Location: Fondazione Merz | Via Limone 24, Turin
- DAY 2: Saturday, November 29
MAO Museum of Asian Art
MAO Turin is a world-class museum dedicated to the rich artistic traditions and cultures of Asia.
Chiharu Shoita. The Soul Trembles
Through 28 June 2026
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin presents Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum, together with Davide Quadrio, director of MAO, with curatorial assistance from Anna Musini and Francesca Filisetti. Making its Italian debut, and shown for the first time in an Asian art museum, this major monographic exhibition arrives in Turin after acclaimed presentations at institutions including the Grand Palais in Paris, the Busan Museum of Art, the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai and the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane.
The exhibition offers an expansive overview of Shiota’s practice, bringing together drawings, photographs, sculptures and several of her most iconic large-scale installations. Often rooted in personal experience, Shiota’s work explores the intangible: memories, emotions, dream-states and the fragile boundaries between presence and absence. Her immersive environments, woven from dense networks of thread, create spaces for contemplation that invite reflection on identity, human connection and life and death.
Among the key works on view are Where Are We Going? (2017), evoking the uncertainty of journeys; Uncertain Journey (2016), a constellation of ship-like structures wrapped in red yarn symbolising encounters that shape our lives; and In Silence (2008), where a burnt piano and empty seats convey the quiet after destruction. Also featured are Reflection of Space and Time (2018), meditating on absence through a dress and its double; Inside – Outside (2009), reflecting on thresholds between private and public worlds; and the monumental Accumulation – Searching for the Destination (2021), composed of hundreds of suspended suitcases.
Spread throughout MAO’s galleries, the exhibition places Shiota’s work in dialogue with the museum’s permanent collection and includes newly created, site-specific installations made especially for the occasion.
Website: maotorino.it/en
Location: Museo d’Arte Orientale | Via San Domenico 11, Turin
Gallerie d’Italia
Jeff Wall. Photographs
Galleria d’Italia is a cultural hub dedicated to photography and the culture of the image, with the specific aim of exploring the complexity of the challenges of the future related to environmental, social and economic sustainability. An ideal place where excellence is embodied in the relationship between art, technique and new technologies, and where dynamics of social inclusion, individual and collective learning are fostered.
Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) is among the most influential photographic artists of our time. For over four decades, he has combined meticulous staging with documentary observation to explore the complexities of contemporary life, transforming everyday moments into striking, dreamlike scenes.Hiswork engages with pressing social and political themes —nature, war, gender, race, and class —while drawing inspiration from photography, painting, literature, and Italian Neorealism.
Curated by David Campany, Director of the International Center of Photography in New York and a long-time collaborator of Wall, this major exhibition offers a sweeping view of the artist’s remarkable career.
Website: gallerieditalia.com/en/turin
Location: Galleria d’Italia | Piazza San Carlo 156, Turin
CASTELLO DI RIVOLI MUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
Castello di Rivoli is a pioneering contemporary art museum that brings visionary global artists into dialogue with its sweeping historic setting.
Enrico David: I Am Back Tomorrow
Through 22 March 2026
The first Italian museum retrospective of Enrico David features over sixty artworks and large environmental installations spanning painting, textiles, drawing and sculpture. David’s work explores the theme of the human figure conceived as a metaphor of transformation: caught in an unstable condition – between figuration and abstraction, love and pain, symbiosis and necrosis, oral and spiritual multiplications.
Inserzioni: Guglielmo Castelli, Lydia Ourahmane, Oscar Murillo
Through February 2026
As part of the institution’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Castello di Rivoli presents Inserzioni (Insertions), a new format that commissions contemporary artists to create works specifically for the Castello. The artists featured in the first edition of the project are Guglielmo Castelli (Turin – Italy, 1987), Lydia Ourahmane (Saïda – Algeria, 1992), and Oscar Murillo (Valle del Cauca – Colombia, 1986).
Ouverture 2024
From 19 December 2024
Ouverture 2024 celebrates 40 years of Castello of Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Focusing mainly on works from the collection produced since the 2000s, with some intentional exceptions, Ouverture 2024 is conceived as a proposal for a museum of the 21st century, rooted in Europe but open to a broader global vision. The exhibition is inspired by principles of inclusion and social and cultural participation, in light of the contradictions of the present and expectations of the future.
The Enchanted Castle
From 19 December 2024
The Enchanted Castle dedicates an entire floor of the Museum to non-adults. Recognising children and young people as ‘ideal visitors’ to these spaces, the project also allows the rest of the public to experience an exhibition designed for their eyes, minds and hearts, thus creating a ‘re-enchanted’ museum. The project is inspired to the idea of the agora museum, a place of encounter and exchange where art is central to education and growth that involve the whole community.
Website: castellodirivoli.org
Location: Castello di Rivoli, Piazzale Mafalda di Savoia, Rivoli (Turin)
- DAY 3: Sunday, November 30
MAUTO: Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile
MAUTO’s new contemporary‐art initiative transforms its automotive collection and spaces into a cross-disciplinary platform for art, design and innovation.
News from the Near Future
30 Years of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Curated by Bernardo Follini and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo
This exhibition project is presented across two venues: the Foundation’s main museum space, and the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin.
The exhibition News from the Near Future celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo with an extensive project presented across two venues: the Foundation’s own spaces and the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin. Through around one hundred and fifty works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, the exhibition traces three decades of artistic research and commitment to promoting contemporary art, from the 1990s to the present.
At MAUTO, a museum that celebrates the history of the automobile - such an important factor into the history of this former industrial city - the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo exhibition reconstructs genealogies and dialogues between recent art history and that of the Foundation, articulated in four sections exploring the body, memory, virtuality, and inner landscapes. The path culminates with The End – Rocky Mountains (2009) by Ragnar Kjartansson, a poetic concert set amid snowy mountains.
The title of the exhibition references Fiona Tan’s News from the Near Future (2003), which inspires the project as an archive of memories and visions of the contemporary world.
Website: https://www.museoauto.com/en/exhibitions/
Location: Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Corso Unità d’Italia 40, Turin
Pinacoteca Agnelli
Located in the former FIAT car factory of Lingotto in Torino, Pinacoteca Agnelli relaunched in 2022 with a new contemporary mission.
ALICE NEEL. I Am the Century
Through April 6, 2026, Pinacoteca Agnelli presents the first Italian retrospective of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984). Curated by Sarah Cosulich and Pietro Rigolo, Alice Neel: I Am the Century explores the artist’s radical, empathetic portrayals of humanity. Sixty works chart the evolution of her style, from early Ashcan-influenced portraits from her Cuban years, to the satirical and surreal works of the 1920s–30s, through to the iconic portraits of the 1960s–70s that upended conventions around the nude. Neel depicted friends, family, peers, the marginalized, the young and the elderly with uncompromising honesty. The exhibition highlights how her revolutionary approach dialogues with, and challenges, the historical canons represented in the Museum’s Permanent Collection.
PIOTR UKLAŃSKI. Faux Amis
Through April 6, 2026, Piotr Uklański presents Faux Amis, a new chapter of Beyond the Collection, the Museum’s program reactivating its Permanent Collection. Engaging the entire display, Uklański stages provocative juxtapositions between his works and those of Renoir, Matisse, Canova and Manet. His approach—addressing colonialism, cultural appropriation, gender and symbolic histories—extends to Torino’s Museum of Fruit and Museum of Human Anatomy, where he inserts works that visually echo wax fruit replicas and anatomical models.
PAUL PFEIFFER: NEW INSTALLATION ON LA PISTA 500
Winner of the 2024 Pista 500 Prize, Paul Pfeiffer inaugurated a new site-specific billboard this October, using Torino’s Juventus team to examine spectacle, celebrity and the mediated construction of collective experience.
Website: pinacoteca-agnelli.it/en
Location: Pinacoteca Agnelli, Lingotto, Via Nizza, 230/103, Turin
Luci d'Artista
Luci d'Artista in Turin is a striking winter-long public art event that since 1998 has transformed the city’s streets, squares and monuments into an open-air contemporary art gallery through site-specific light installations by major Italian and international artists — blending urban regeneration, public participation and the visual power of light.
The curators have designed the following bus tour of works for CIMAM participants:
We begin by driving out of Piazza Castello and along Via Po, where Giulio Paolini – Palomar turns the porticoed street into an abstract celestial pathway that plays with seeing and being seen. As we continue toward Via Accademia Albertina, Felice Casorati – Volo Su appears as a delicate, ascending figure that evokes uplift and balance. Passing Piazza Carlo Emanuele II, Nicola De Maria – Regno dei fiori… brings a burst of lyrical, cosmic colour into the square. Near the Museo di Scienze Naturali, Gintaras Didžiapetris – Untitled uses neon to subtly animate the museum façade and hint at the relationship between light and knowledge. Driving by Giardini Cavour, Giorgio Griffa – Azzurrogiallo shows his characteristic meditations on colour and space. Crossing Ponte Umberto I, Joseph Kosuth – Doppio Passaggio frames the bridge as a conceptual threshold about movement and meaning. As we climb toward Monte dei Cappuccini, Rebecca Horn – Piccoli Spiriti Blu brings a touch of quiet magic with its floating constellation of blue points. Approaching the Mole Antonelliana, Mario Merz – Il Volo dei Numeri unfurls the Fibonacci sequence across the dome, linking natural growth patterns to the skyline. Returning toward Piazza Castello, Luigi Nervo – Vento Solare translates the energy of solar wind into a dynamic ribbon of light. In the Giardini Reali, Tracey Emin – Sex and Solitude introduces her intimate neon handwriting into the public garden, blending vulnerability and illumination. Continuing along Corso Regina Margherita toward Porta Palazzo, Michelangelo Pistoletto – Amare le Differenze offers a multilingual call to embrace diversity at the city’s most multicultural crossroads, while Grazia Toderi – …?… adds an enigmatic rooftop presence. Finally, along Via Milano, Daniel Buren – Tappeto Volante hangs like a playful, suspended flying carpet that animates the urban space with colour and imagination.
Website: https://www.lucidartistatorino.org/en/edizione/28a-edizione-di-luci-dartista/