About – Artissima

Main Section, Dialogue/Monologue, New Entries, Art Spaces & Editions

The more traditional part of Artissima is divided into four sections overseen by the fair committee:

Main Section, for established galleries on the international contemporary art scene;

Dialogue/Monologue, reserved to emerging galleries or galleries with an experimental approach applying with either a monographic booth or with works by 2 artists in dialogue;

New Entries, devoted to galleries that have been open for less than five years and are at the fair in Turin for the first time;

Art Spaces & Editions, devoted to galleries and non-profit spaces presenting editions, prints and multiples by contemporary artists

Selection Committee:
Claudia Altman-Siegel, Altman Siegel gallery — San Francisco
Isabella Bortolozzi, Isabella Bortolozzi gallery — Berlin
Paola Capata, Monitor gallery — Roma, Lisbon
Raffaella Cortese, Raffaella Cortese gallery — Milano
Nikolaus Oberhuber, KOW gallery — Berlin
Maureen Paley, Maureen Paley gallery— London
Alessandro Pasotti, P420 gallery — Bologna
Gregor Podnar, Gregor Podnar gallery — Berlin

Present Future

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 the galleries that represent them, along a specially designed itinerary. The works of the invited artists 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

Back to the Future presents museum quality monographic booths by 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

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, independent curator — Bolzano
Bettina Steinbrügge, director Hamburg Kunstverein — Hamburg

Artissima: Sections and Curators