Artissima
(06.11.2015 - 08.11.2015)
http://www.artissima.it
Artissima
ARTISSIMA 2015
International
Fair of Contemporary Art
Oval,
Torino
6–8 November 2015
5
November: Preview and Opening
Artissima is Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, renowned for its focus on the most innovative artistic research. Over the years it has tapped artists and future trends, rediscovered the great pioneers of the past and tested exhibition formats that have then been adopted around the world. This – and the fact that it is held in Torino, a hub of Italy’s culinary excellence – has helped make it a prime rendezvous on the global art scene.
In 2015 Artissima is introducing many new initiatives revolving around collecting as an economic and cultural engine of the fair and the art market. In addition, the vast public of art lovers will discover six sections, three of which curated, important awards, guided tours, a special VIP Lounge, an exhibition of local public and private collections, and events and talks that will involve over fifty curators and museum directors from around the world.
What’s new in the Twenty-Second Edition
Artissima, International Fair of Contemporary Art, will return to the Oval in Torino from 6 to 8 November 2015.
Artissima 2015 will involve curators and collectors in the fair’s programme, to a degree unprecedented within Italy or elsewhere. Art collecting is a crucial driving force for the country’s cultural and economic life. Having combined attention to the international art market with the promotion of the most innovative research for 22 years, Artissima is the ideal venue for acknowledging and enhancing its role.
Major Italian collectors will join critics and curators in each of the juries for the prizes awarded at the fair. In 2015 there will be six, as the five of the past editions (illy Present Future Prize, Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future Prize, New Entries Prize, Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize and Prix K-Way® Per4m) will be supplemented by the Reda-Artissima Prize, awarded to a young artist whose research explores the language of photography.
Italian and international collectors will also be central to the Walkie Talkies programme, informal dialogues held by experts as they wander through the works displayed at the fair, an initiative that has proved highly successful in previous years.
To underline the attention that it lavishes on its guests, Artissima 2015 will completely redesign the VIP Lounge on the balcony overlooking the Oval that has been welcoming them for years. A fully fledged curatorial project, the first of its kind for an art fair, will turn it into an “Opium Den” offering an immersive and sumptuous aesthetic experience, an artist’s visual essay, and intertwining suggestions, collections, images and visions.
In addition to encouraging a high presence of collectors, Artissima’s programme for 2015 will involve more than fifty curators and museum directors from all over the world, confirming its vocation as a crossroads of art in our country. The fair’s curated sections will be coordinated by four young Italian curators, further proof of Artissima’s commitment not only to showcase great art, but also to foster exchange and dialogue between Italy and the international scene.
The six sections that comprise Artissima 2015 (three fair exhibitions and three curatorial– Present Future, Back to the Future, and Per4m, the first stage in an art fair focussed on performance art) will be accompanied by a radical reinterpretation of the In Mostra project. Created to bring together outstanding art from the contemporary collections in Piedmont, this year In Mostra will be a true museum exhibition within the fair, constructed around the concept of “inclination” – in its literary, scientific, philosophical and political sense.
During Artissima 2015 Castello di Rivoli will open a solo exhibition by Rachel Rose, recipient of the illy Present Future Prize 2014. The young American artist has subsequently won a Frieze Award at New York and is due to present a personal show at the Serpentine Gallery in London, further proof of Artissima’s ability to pre-emptively intercept the best energies on the contemporary scene.
The 2015 edition of Artissima will mark the fourth consecutive year that the direction has been entrusted to Sarah Cosulich Canarutto.
Committees
Main Section, New Entries, Art Editions
Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Paola Capata (Monitor), Roma
Guido Costa, Torino
Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Pedro Mendes (Mendes Wood DM), São Paulo
Gregor Podnar, Berlin - Ljubljana
Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
Back to the Future
Eva Fabbris, independent curator, Milano
João Fernandes, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Elena Filipovic, Kunsthalle Basel
Beatrix Ruf, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Present Future
Luigi Fassi, steirischer herbst, Graz
Fatima Hellberg, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Lara Khaldi, independent curator, Ramallah and Amsterdam
Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Fatos Üstek, independent curator and writer, London
Per4m
Simone Menegoi, independent curator, Milano
Sophie Goltz, Stadtkuratorin, Hamburg
Chris Sharp, independent curator, Mexico DF
Special Projects
In Mostra
Stefano Collicelli Cagol, independent curator, Padova
Juries
illy Present Future Prize
Daniel Baumann, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Dieter Roelstraete, Documenta 14, Kassel
Maurizio Morra Greco, collector, Napoli
Sardi per l'Arte Back to the Future Prize
Sabine Breitwieser, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Jens Hoffmann, The Jewish Museum, New York
María Inés Rodríguez, CAPC, Bordeaux
Lorenzo Paini, Enea Righi Collection, Bologna
Prix K-Way® Per4m
Marie de Brugerolle, independent curator and writer, Lyon
Silvia Fanti, Xing, Bologna
Ana Janevski, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA, New York
Giorgio Fasol, collector, Verona
New Entries Prize
Pierre Bal Blanc, Documenta 14, Kassel
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, art critic and curator, São Paulo
Abaseh Mirvali, independent curator, Berlin/Mexico City
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, collector, Torino
Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize
Andrea Busto, MEF – Museo Ettore Fico, Torino
Letizia Ragaglia, Museion, Bolzano
Alberto Salvadori, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze
Andrea Viliani, MADRE, Napoli
Renato Alpegiani, collector, Torino
Reda-Artissima Prize
Florian Ebner, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Cristiano Raimondi, NMNM, Monaco
Francesco Zanot, Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino
Philip and Rosella Rolla, collectors, Lugano
ARTISSIMA is a brand of Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino and Città di Torino. ARTISSIMA is organised by Artissima srl, a company founded in 2007 to manage the fair’s artistic and commercial relationships and 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 twenty-second ARTISSIMA is being put on with the support of the brand-owning authorities, jointly with Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Camera di commercio di Torino.
The event involves the collaboration of:
Main Partner: UniCredit
Partner: GTT, illycaffè, K-Way®, Reda, Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte
Official
Carrier:
Gondrand
Media
Partner:
La Stampa
In-kind sponsor: GL Events Italia – Lingotto Fiere
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CONTACTS
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