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ARTISSIMA 2026
Artissima Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Torino presents its 33rd edition, that will take place at the Oval Lingotto Fiere from Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 2026 with the support of the Main Partner Intesa Sanpaolo and with Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, the bank’s museum, joining forces with the fair for the seventh year.
THE 33RD EDITION
Luigi Fassi, Director of Artissima. Ph: Giorgio Perottino/ Artissima
The appointment coincides with the fifth year under the direction of Luigi Fassi, and enables us to interpret the past editions as a progressive, coherent curatorial path: an itinerary of exploration of art, applied as a tool to investigate the unknown across the complexity of the present, while imagining new possibilities of relation and shared experience.
The theme for 2026 – Fancy: A Flexible, Acrobatic Body – has been inserted within this framework, which over the course of five years has contributed to establish Artissima as a space of critical reflection on the contemporary, reinforcing its nature as a trade fair, a platform of cultural diplomacy and a reliable institution for today’s art scene.
THEME AND VISUAL IDENTITY
The visual identity of Artissima 2026 by FIONDA
The theme of Artissima 2026 is Fancy: A Flexible, Acrobatic Body.
It arises from an image formulated by the philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum to assert that the language of art, guided by fancy – the forward projection of fantasy – possesses such a body, capable of poetically crossing complexities and differences and approaching the plurality of those who are “other than” us. Art does not simply grant form to what exists; it opens the field to what could exist, becoming crucial public intelligence, capable of nurturing and enriching the democratic institutions of a community. Artissima embodies this acrobatic exercise of imagination, oriented toward still invisible possibilities: the fair is a physical, intense and accelerated encounter with works of art, which trains us to rethink the way we see, inhabit and share the present.
Starting from the theme of the edition, this year’s coordinated image – produced by the Turin-based graphic design studio FIONDA – acts as a visual system in ongoing evolution. The logos of the past, becoming parentheses, give rise to forms that fold, multiply and generate unexpected trajectories, suggesting openness, transformation and possibility. A visual identity that reinterprets its own history, shifting into new possibilities and imaginary futures.
THE SELECTION COMMITTEE
From left to right: Antoine Levi, Emanuel Layr, Francesco Lecci, Guido Costa, Paola Capata, Philippe Charpentier, Luigi Fassi, Elsa Ravazzolo Botner
Artissima in 2026 confirms the selection committee for the galleries taking part in Main Section, Monologue/Dialogue, New Entries and Art Editions — composed of international gallerists: Paola Capata (Monitor, Roma, Lisbon and Pereto), Philippe Charpentier (mor charpentier, Paris and Bogota), Guido Costa (Guido Costa Projects, Torino), Emanuel Layr (Layr, Vienna), Francesco Lecci (Clima, Milano), Antoine Levi (Ciaccia Levi, Paris and Torino) and Elsa Ravazzolo Botner (A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo).
THE CURATORIAL TEAM
From left to right: Heike Munder, Joel Valabrega, Léon Kruijswijk, Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. Ph: Perottino-Piva-Castellano-Bergadano/ Artissima
Artissima confirms the team of curators who will work on the three curated sections – Present Future, Back to the Future and Disegni – concretely experienced inside the fair thanks to thematic exhibits. For the third year, Léon Kruijswijk (performance curator at Mudam Luxembourg) and Joel Valabrega (independent curator based in Porto and Milano) are the curators of Present Future. Jacopo Crivelli Visconti (director of the Albuquerque Foundation in Sintra) and Heike Munder (independent curator and writer based in Zurich) return for a third year to curate Back to the Future. For Disegni, Irina Zucca Alessandrelli (curator of Collezione Ramo in Milano and Milano Drawing Week) returns to this role for a fifth consecutive year.
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