Present Future is the section Artissima has devoted to emerging talents, less than 40 years old, selected by a board of young curators from around the world.

The artists are presented by their representing galleries and the works include new productions as well as projects that are being displayed for the first time in Italy and Europe.

Curatorial Committee:
Ilaria Gianni, independent curator — Roma
Fernanda Brenner, independent curator and writer — Sao Paulo

Back to the Future is the section that Artissima has devoted to great pioneers of contemporary art. The section – also open to Artists’ Estates – displays works realised between 1960 and 1999.

The section aims to bring international artists who have played a fundamental role in contemporary art back into the limelight. For the general public, Back to the Future is a unique opportunity to get to know important works from those years in a dialogue with today’s experimentation.

Curatorial Committe:
Lorenzo Giusti, director GAMeC — Bergamo
Mouna Mekouar, independent curator and art critic — Paris

Disegni is the section of Artissima devoted to the expressive medium of drawing. The section is intended to celebrate an artistic discipline capable of expressing the immediacy of and the thinking behind the creative gesture, existing in a space suspended between idea and finished work.

Curatorial Committee:
Letizia Ragaglia, director, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein — Vaduz
Bettina Steinbrügge, director Hamburg Kunstverein — Hamburg