3 (preview) to 6 November 2016, there will be the twenty-second edition of Artissima, the Italian art fair based in Turin and directed by Sarah Cosulich. As you know, Artissima focuses on young and avant-garde artists, curated booths and special projects. This is guaranteed by the high level group of international curators, that attract a great number of collectors.
What’s new in this edition?
First at all, New Entries, section devoted to young and emergent galleries, has a new own space at the entrance of the fair.
There will be also a new section, named Dialogue, that want to focuses on curatorial projects, able to promote relationships between artistic works and researches.
For its seventh edition, Back to the Future will inquire into artwork made between 1970-1989, with the purpose to rediscover contemporary artists that had a great influence on the new generations.
Present Future is the consolidated section of Artissima devoted to young artists called to present site specific projects and artworks, exhibited for the first time in Italy in their galleries’s booths.
Then, Stefano Collicelli Cagol will coordinate the talk program, this year focused on the issue What is Experimental? Curators of no-profit and independent art spaces will be called to discuss the new needs of the young art scene, together with museum directors and international curators.
The Dutch collective If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be A Part Of Your Revolution will organize ad coordinate Per4m, the fair section devoted entirely to performance. A special program will involve the section, with the aim of exploring performance transformations and typology in the contemporary art scene.
Simone Menegoi this year is going to curate In Mostra, fair section focused on artworks from the museums and institutions (but also from the major private collections) based in Piemonte. This year theme is the relationship between the human body, gesture and posture.
During Artissima 2016 international juries will award six prizes to participating artists and galleries: Premio illy Present Future, Premio Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future, Premio Promos Scalo Milano New Entries, Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico, Prix K-Way Per4m e Reda per la fotografia.
ATPdiary has the task to coordinate #ArtissimaLive, the online publishing section that will put different online magazines in touch each other. For this year, the editorial plan will involve these selected magazines: Artdependence Magazine, Aujourd’hui Magazine, Kabul Magazine, Wefindwildness and Widewalls.
Artissima, Torino – Foto Perottino / Alfero
Artissima 2016: world map of curators
Based near Artissima:
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Turin, director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – GAM
illy Present Future Prize jury member
Franz Bernardelli, Turin, independent curator
Prix K-Way Per4m jury member
Andrea Busto, Turin, director, MEF – Museo Ettore Fico
Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize jury member
Francesco Zanot, Turin, curator, Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia
Reda Prize jury member
Based less than 500km from Turin:
Daniel Baumann, Zurich, director, Kunsthalle Zürich
Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future Prize jury member
Eva Fabbris, Milan, independent curator
Back to the Future curator and coordinator
Silvia Fanti, Bologna, co-director, Xing
Prix K-Way Per4m jury member
Emma Lavigne, Metz, director, Centre Pompidou – Metz / curator, Biennale de Lyon (2017)
Promos Scalo Milano New Entries Prize jury member
Simone Menegoi, Milan, independent curator
In Mostra curator
Letizia Ragaglia, Bolzano, director, Museion
Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize jury member
Cristiano Raimondi, Montecarlo, head of development and international projects, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Back to the Future committee member
Based less than 1, 000km from Turin:
Frédérique Bergholtz, Amsterdam, curator, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
Per4m co-curator
Tobia Bezzola, Essen, director, Museum Folkwang
Reda Prize jury member
Reinhard Braun, Graz, director, Camera Austria
Reda Prize jury member
Luigi Fassi, Graz, visual arts curator, steirischer herbst festival
Present Future curator and coordinator
Anne Faucheret, Vienna, research curator, Kunsthalle Wien
Present Future committee member
Susan Gibb, Amsterdam, curator, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
Per4m co-curator
Krist Gruijthuijsen, Berlin, director, KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Back to the Future committee member
Bart van der Heide, Amsterdam, chief curator, Stedelijk Museum
illy Present Future Prize jury member
Hicham Khalidi, Paris, associate curator, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Lafayette Anticipation
Present Future committee member
Christine Macel, Paris, chief curator, Musée National d’Art moderne – Centre Pompidou / director, Venice Biennale (2017)
Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future Prize jury member
Filipa Ramos, London, editor in chief, Art Agenda
Prix K-Way Per4m jury member
Andrea Viliani, Naples, director, MADRE
Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize jury member
Wim Waelput, Ghent, founding director and curator, KIOSK
Present Future committee member
Based less than 10, 000km from Turin:
Gary Carrion-Murayari, New York, curator, Kraus Family, New Museum / co-curator, New Museum Triennial (2018)
Back to the Future committee member
Stefano Colicelli Cagol, Trondheim, curator, Trondheim kunstmuseum
“What is Experimental?” talk curator and moderator
Ruth Estevez, Los Angeles, gallery director and curator, REDCAT
Prix K-Way Per4m jury member
Tobi Maier, São Paulo, independent curator and critic
“What is Experimental?” talk curator
Sohrab Mohebbi, Los Angeles, writer and associate curator, REDCAT
Present Future committee member
Davide Quadrio, Shanghai, founder and curator Arthub
“What is Experimental?” talk curator
Jose Roca, Bogota, director, FLORA ars+natura
Promos Scalo Milano New Entries Prize jury member
Jay Sanders, New York, curator and curator of performance, Whitney Museum of American Art
Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future Prize jury member
Kitty Scott, Toronto, curator of modern and contemporary art, Art Gallery of Ontario / co-curator, Liverpool Biennial (2018)
Promos Scalo Milano New Entries Prize jury member
Natalia Sielewicz, Warsaw, curator, Museum of Modern Art
“What is Experimental?” talk curator
Christine Tohme, Beirut, director, Ashkal Alwan / curator, Sharjah Biennial (2017)
illy Present Future Prize jury member
