Artissima 2025: Turin Celebrates Contemporary Art Through Galleries and Global Visions
Turin is vibrating again. On Thursday afternoon, the thirty-second edition of Artissima, the international contemporary art fair directed by Luigi Fassi and supported by Intesa Sanpaolo, officially opened. Unique in the Italian landscape, Artissima confirms its role as both a laboratory and an observatory — a fair driven by research rather than the market, where each stand becomes a small planet orbiting around contemporary art.
At the opening, the Oval Lingotto welcomed a kaleidoscope of familiar faces: artists, collectors, curators. Among them, alongside director Fassi, were Arturo Galansino, Beatrice Trussardi, David McDermott, Flavio Favelli, Sergio Risaliti, Nicola Ricciardi, Edelfa Chiara Masciotta, Lorenzo Giusti, Antonia Jannone, Eva Fabbris, Michael Anastassiades, Marta Papini, Demetrio Paparoni, Valerio Berruti, Guido Costa, and Mario Cristiani. The atmosphere was that of a grand occasion: Turin as the capital of a vibrant, participatory, and international art scene.
The 2025 edition brings together 176 galleries from 36 countries across five continents, with 63 monographic projects and a growing presence of galleries from Eastern Europe and Latin America. This mobile geography reflects the fair’s global vocation and its spirit as a cultural outpost.
This year’s theme, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, draws inspiration from the utopian thinking of Richard Buckminster Fuller and invites reflection on our collective responsibility for the planet.
“Artists,” Luigi Fassi explained, “are our navigators, capable of envisioning new routes and shared visions.” Between encountering new works and exchanging embraces, it feels that Artissima is more than just a fair; it is a living organism that measures the pulse of art in Italy. Once again, contemporary art takes off from Turin.
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
Photos: Niccolò Campita and Ludovica Arcero
