Artissima 2025 celebrates its role in the discovery and rediscovery of talents, through the assignment of 13 prizes, honours and supports organized in collaboration with partners, foundations and institutions. Aimed at recognizing the value of the work of artists and galleries, the prizes will be assigned at the fair by international juries composed of curators and directors of leading museums of contemporary art from around the world. Artissima 2025 also implements an acquisition fund with the support of Fondazione Arte CRT.

Acquisitions Fund by Fondazione Arte CRT

To mark its 25th anniversary, Fondazione Arte CRT – for the third consecutive year – has augmented the historic Acquisitions Fund, reaching a total of 300,000 euros, for the benefit of the collections of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, centres of excellence in Piedmont and key facilitators in the exposure of a wider, varied audience to contemporary art, on a local, national and international level.

illy Present Future Prize

The prize, organized in collaboration with illycaffè and now at its 25th edition, goes to an artist in the curated section Present Future – always a platform for the discovery of new talent – and offers a sizeable contribution to the development of emerging artists on the international scene.

Jury: Katerina Gregos, Lauriane Gricourt, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Damien Zhang

Orlane per l’Arte Prize

The award created in 2024 and supported by Orlane sets out to sustain the research and entrepreneurial growth of one of the fair’s galleries. An international jury of curators selects the exhibition that represents the best example of care and balance in the presentation of the artists showing their works.

Jury: Lolita Jablonskiené, Andrea Lissoni, Bettina Steinbrügge

Tosetti Value Award for Photography

Tosetti Value – Il Family office confirms its support for Artissima by organizing a prize for photography – for the sixth consecutive year – which will be assigned to an artist whose work is of particular interest for an understanding of the current historical, social and economic situation.

Jury: Lucrezia Cippitelli, Walter Guadagnini, Letizia Ragaglia

VANNI #artistroom Prize

The prize, supported since 2019 by VANNI occhiali, continues the exploration of the possible contaminations between the brilliance of contemporary art and eyewear design. It is assigned to an artist whose creative research offers an original perspective on reality, opening an unexpected and surprising horizon, as happens with a lens.

Jury: Nicolas Ballario, Cristian Chironi, Fiammetta Griccioli

Matteo Viglietta Award

The initiative organized by Collezione La Gaia and now at its 4th edition has been created to commemorate Matteo Viglietta, an outstanding collector who had particularly strong ties with Artissima from its outset. The Collection will select and acquire an artwork to become part of its holdings.

Carol Rama Award

Now at its 6th edition, the Carol Rama Award has been enhanced by a new, important alliance. Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte, which with its vision has originated and continued the project, is now joined by GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino. The award is assigned to the artist who best interprets, through research and works, an ideal of unconventional female creativity, and the artistic freedom embodied and transmitted by Carol Rama with her oeuvre and her personality.

Jury: Michela Alessandrini, Véronique Collard-Bovy, Giorgio Di Domenico

Diana Bracco – Imprenditrici ad Arte Prize

The prize, created in 2023 through an unprecedented initiative, promoted by Fondazione Bracco in collaboration with Fondazione Roberto De Silva e Diana Bracco of Milano, focuses on the theme of the woman gallerist as entrepreneur. It is assigned to an emerging female gallerist, Italian or foreign, whose gallery has at least one facility in Italy, and whose entrepreneurial history reflects an exceptional focus on research and artistic quality.

Jury: Elisabetta Barisoni, Monica Bonvicini, Christian Leveet

Oelle – Mediterraneo Antico Prize

Organized for the fourth year by Fondazione Oelle, the prize calls for the selection by an international jury of an artist, who will have the opportunity for a residency in Sicily, with the production of a work that explores the contamination of contemporary cultures and languages of the Mediterranean. At the end of the residency, an exhibition will be held in one of the facilities of the Foundation.

Jury: Caterina Riva, Alberto Salvadori, Andrea Viliani

Pista 500 Prize

Created in 2023 in collaboration with Pinacoteca Agnelli, the prize offers the possibility for one artist to make a work on the permanent billboard on Pista 500, a project of site-specific art installations on the roof of Lingotto, close to Artissima. The work will be unveiled at the time of Artissima 2026.

Jury: Claude Adjil, Hendrick Folkerts, Pietro Rigolo, Nicola Trezzi

 “ad occhi chiusi…” Prize

For the fifth year, Fondazione Merz confirms the prize based on the selection of an international artist who best reflects the research activities of the Foundation on young art in the Mediterranean. The winning artist will have a chance to participate in a residency in Sicily.

Jury: Beatrice Merz, Marta Mestre, Antonia Scintilla, Giulia Turconi

Vilnius Residency Prize (NEW!)

In the context of the program Lithuanian Culture in Italy 2025-2026, and in dialogue with the City of Vilnius and the Embassy of the Lithuanian Republic in the Italian Republic, Artissima presents the first edition of the Vilnius Residency Prize, which offers two artists, selected by CAC Vilnius in the person of Valentinas Klimašauskas, the opportunity for a residency, with solid curatorial support and special access to the Lithuanian cultural network.

Ettore and Ines Fico Prize

Organized by MEF Museo Ettore Fico di Torino and now at its 16th edition, the prize continues to foster and promote the work of young artists through an acquisition. The winner will be selected by the MEF management from among artists who have distinguished themselves for their creative poetics and research at an international level.

Artissima New Entries Fund

Implemented by the fair for a third year, the fund provides financial support for three of the exhibitors in the New Entries section, chosen by an international jury on the basis of the artistic quality of their presentations at Artissima. New Entries is the section that welcomes the most interesting emerging international galleries, on hand for the fair in Torino for the first time. The fund underlines the exceptional scouting expertise of Artissima.

Jury: Zippora Elders, Robert Leckie, Lucas Morin, Maja Wismer