Thursday, April 18, 2019, at 6:30pm, Quartz Studio is pleased to present Everybody Knows , the first solo show in Turin by Yarisal & Kublitz , a Swiss-Danish duo of visual artists composed ... Read more →

Artissima, Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, celebrates its 25th anniversary and returns to the Oval pavilion in Torino from November 1 (preview) to 4, 2018, under the direction of Ilaria Bonacossa . ... Read more →

Thursday, April 19, 2018 Quartz Studio is pleased to present a project by Giuseppe Gabellone (Brindisi, Italy, 1973), coinciding with the artist's solo exhibition at Galleria Zero... in Milan. Giuseppe Gabellone's exhibition is ... Read more →

Artissima launches Per4m, a new pioneering section dedicated to performance, and announces the members of the 2014 Back to the Future and Present Future curatorial committees. Per4m In keeping with ... Read more →

Applications are open to participate in the 7th edition of flashback, the breakthrough   fair dedicated to ancient and modern art. For information about the fair and the application process, please click  here . By ... Read more →

A central event for national and international collectors, art lovers and global press, Artissima attracts 55,000 visitors, including 5,000 contemporary art collectors from 80 countries, 15 groups of patrons of prestigious museums worldwide and 1,500 ... Read more →

Quartz Studio is pleased to present the exhibition Cool Your Jets, a collaboration between New York-based Liam Gillick and Berlin-based Jonathan Monk. The exhibition physically and semantically plays with the idea of “slippage.” The two ... Read more →

On Saturday, February 28, at 7pm, Quartz Studio is delighted to introduce the exhibition Examination of the Origins , the first solo show in Italy by the German artist Isa Melsheimer (b. ... Read more →

Wednesday, January 23, 2019, at 6:30pm, Quartz Studio is pleased to present her spinning takes place near the mouth / I see what I eat / I eat what I see / It is ... Read more →

On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 6pm, Quartz Studio is delighted to present Qualcuno si è seduto sulla mia sedia , the first solo show in Italy by Ola Vasiljeva (Latvia, 1981). ... Read more →

FLAT —the new international event dedicated to artists’ books and contemporary art publishing founded by Chiara Caroppo, Beatrice Merz, Mario Petriccione and held at La Centrale within the Nuvola Lavazza complex—took place from November 2 to November 4, 2018 and ... Read more →

FLAT —the new international event dedicated to artists’ books and contemporary art publishing founded by Chiara Caroppo, Beatrice Merz, Mario Petriccione and held at Palazzo Cisterna in Turin—closed with 3,037 visits within the three ... Read more →

Artissima is pleased to announce the new director: Ilaria Bonacossa, age 43, will lead the contemporary art fair of Torino for the next three editions, 2017–19. She was selected from a shortlist nominated ... Read more →

The 25th edition of Artissima , the only fair in Italy exclusively focused on contemporary art, came to an end on Sunday, November 4. Directed by Ilaria Bonacossa , the event is a truly ... Read more →

52,000 visitors, 32 countries represented at the fair, over 3200 collectors from all over the world, 7 prizes, 1500 journalists, 43 partners and sponsors   The 24th edition of  Artissima, the ... Read more →

NESXT—an interdisciplinary project dedicated to independent artistic production in all its forms, unique in its kind—during the week of ContemporaryART Torino Piemonte 2017 promotes a widespread festival on the city. The objective is to highlight ... Read more →

Artissima—Italy’s most regarded contemporary art fair—directed for the fifth year by Sarah Cosulich, closed on November 6.  During its four days (November 3–6), Artissima welcomed 50,000 visitors, a continual growth that has positioned ... Read more →

The festival is part of the broader project NESXT , the international network aimed at the non-profit art scene, including associations, artist run space and collective. NESXT is the new interdisciplinary project that ... Read more →

Quartz Studio is delighted to present The Great Silence , a special project by Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer   Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974)and Guillermo   Calzadilla (Havana, Cuba, 1971) who, for ... Read more →

The 22nd edition of Artissima, International Fair of Contemporary Art, closed in Turin on November 8. As every year, the major event devoted to contemporary art and one of the most fascinating on ... Read more →

On Saturday, November 7 at 7pm, Quartz Studio is delighted to present the exhibition Jolly Grown Up , a project by the English artist Ryan Gander (b. 1976, Chester, UK), conceived in every ... Read more →

Artissima has just celebrated its 21st anniversary with the most surprising and successful edition of the fair so far: 194 participating galleries from 34 countries one new section ... Read more →

Guido Costa Projects is pleased to present Dénouement , the new solo exhibition of works by Peter Friedl, on the occasion of Artissima’s “Contemporary Arts Night.” The French word dénouement , which ... Read more →

"Es decir, el propósito de abolir el pasado ya ocurrió en el pasado y—paradójicamente—es una de las pruebas de que el pasado no se puede abolir. (That is, the purpose of abolishing the past has ... Read more →

In 2018 Artissima, the first contemporary art fair in Italy renowned for its focus on experimental practices, celebrates its 25th anniversary! The fair will feature eight sections—four of which curated, including a new section ... Read more →

FLAT – Fiera Libro Arte Torino , the international event dedicated to artist’s books and contemporary art books, will take place in Turin from November 2 to 4, 2018 in the ... Read more →

Special projects for a contemporary audience Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art, presents its 24th edition in Turin from November 3 to 5, 2017.   Confirming its mission of ... Read more →

FLAT – fiera libro arte Torino , founded by Chiara Caroppo, Beatrice Merz and Mario Petriccione takes place from November 3 to 5, 2017 at Palazzo Cisterna,a historical palace in the city center. The new fair ... Read more →

ContemporaryArt autumn special is back in Turin with a rich program of appointments with contemporary art in all its forms. Among the many please note: the 22nd edition of the fair ... Read more →

Artissima, International Fair for Contemporary Art, opens its 23rd edition, in Turin, November 4 through 6, 2016. Quality and innovation  Artissima’s innovative, experimental and dynamic approach makes it one of ... Read more →

ZonArte is the network promoted and supported by the CRT Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art, bringing together the Education Departments of leading local institutions devoted to Contemporary Art: Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte ... Read more →

Renown for its focus on research and experimentation, Artissima 2015 is about to start: 207 selected established and young galleries from 31 countries; three curated sections, including 20 Present Future solo shows by emerging artists; ... Read more →

On Saturday, November 8, Quartz Studio is delighted to present the exhibition MONK><NANNUCCI, a special project conceived by Jonathan Monk (b. 1969, Leicester, UK) and Maurizio Nannucci (b. 1939, Florence, Italy). The exhibition’s title includes the symbols for “greater than” and “less than,” which effectively visually connect the artists’ last names, concisely mark their closeness and convey a sense of mutual exchange. The distance between the two artists’ generation is reduced to nothing in the thoughtful reflection that each artist makes about the history of art through their work. Where Nannucci is minimal, precise, yet poetic, Monk is wry, witty, and sometimes unexpectedly caustic. As the artists themselves have noted, though their explorations run parallel in many aspects, they have interesting points of intersection. One such intersection is their referencing key figures of 20th-century art like Alighiero Boetti. Boetti has come up as in Monk’s work many times, sometimes explicitly or sometimes less so. Monk’s many maps are a contemporary version of Boetti’s original maps; his “self measurements” are, in essence, the offspring of the witty, classifying approach often seen in Boetti. As for Nannucci—from his incredible archives, containing personal memoirs as well as unique documents tracing his artistic path—he has said of Boetti: “With Alighiero, our references came from the same time, and we often surprised ourselves in how close they were and their intuitive similarities.” Nannucci’s “statements” are always mounted in structures that are extraordinary in historic, cultural and landscape senses. In Nannucci’s work, the relationship between the work of art and architecture—in the broadest sense of condensing cultural and structural marks—is an essential starting point, the distinguishing feature of his approach to his work and his mode of designing. His statements are always semantically open, while establishing themselves as universal and understood both mentally and emotionally by combining the message, font, size and color, all carefully devised by Nannucci for experiencing the art work in relationship to its context. The result is text and context that mutually reinforce each other. Nannucci’s last solo show in Turin was in 1974 when he showed in Christian Stein’s gallery, then in Piazza Vittorio. Since 1999, the sentence “All art has been contemporary “ is proclaimed in blue at the entrance to GAM in Turin, forging a permanent bond between Nannucci and Turin. And Monk can consider himself at home in Turin too, as he has been collaborating since 2000 with gallerist Sonia Rosso. In 2009, on her invitation, Monk created the Lira Hotel (one of the names Alighiero Boetti had considered for his One Hotel in Kabul) where sleeping becomes an experience of full immersion in Monk’s work as he “decorated” a mini-apartment. The concept of authorship—a major force in Nannucci’s work and often interrogated by Monk in a number of pieces wryly reworking works of others—is a basis for the dialogue between the two artists. For Quartz Studio, Monk and Nannucci created two neon works—Nannucci’s preferred mode of expression and often used by Monk too. Both works, SOME WORDS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE FOR SOMEONE ELSE by Nannucci and Untitled (Via Luigi Santini, Roma) by Monk, are made in two different shades of blues and refer both in words and symbols to someone “other” than themselves. In this intent to dialogue, the dynamic the two artists deploy is not limited merely to their identities; it opens to other subjects and forms of sharing, in a careful process of artistic reworking including the past and the present of eminent artists they knew, and the paradoxical identity behind anonymous street graffiti. Part of the osmotic design approach they implemented for Quartz Studio is the reworking of Manifesto (Poster) , an Alighiero Boetti work from 1967 in which the last names of friends that Boetti had listed in the original are replaced by those chosen by Monk and Nannucci themselves, paired with other cryptic symbols. Jonathan Monk (Leicester, UK, 1969) often appropriates ideas, works, and strategies from Conceptualist and Minimalist artists of the ’60s and ’70s. With photographs, sculpture, film, installation, and performance, his works recontextualize and rework these quotations, often infusing them with Monk’s personal history and working-class family upbringing. These aspects add a humanizing and down-to-earth sensibility to the original works’ utopian ideals and notions of artistic genius. Monk’s extensions and reinterpretations of seminal works by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Sol LeWitt, among others, challenge authenticity, authorship, and value in art with quirky humor and wit. Monk’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world, including in solo shows at CAC Malagá, W139 in Amsterdam, Artpace in San Antonio, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Tramway in Glasgow, Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Centre d’Art Contemporain in Neuchatel, Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and Kunstverein Hannover. Group exhibitions are numerous and include the Taipei Biennial, Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Prague Biennale, and Panama Biennial. In 2012, Monk was honored with the Prix du Quartier des Bains in Geneva. His works have been exhibited in many museums and international collections, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Statens Museum für Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Tate Modern, London, England. Maurizio Nannucci (Florence, Italy, 1939) Since the mid 1960s, Nannucci has been a major figure in international experimental art in concrete poetry, Fluxus, and conceptual art. Since 1967 (with “Alfabetofonetico”), Nannucci has created an extensive anthology of neon light texts, forming a linguistic repertoire in which varied meanings and a fresh perception of the space forge powerful connections to the work’s surroundings, both the architecture and the urban landscape. Also starting in the mid 1960s, Nannucci started to explore the complex relationships between art, language and images, spurring him to create original conceptual work, adopting diverse media, including neon, photography, video, sound, publications and artist books. His work’s spatial component and expressive power are based on ideas about light, time, space and words, leading to collaborations with Renzo Piano (“Polifonia” for the Auditorium of Rome, 2002), Stephan Braunfels (“Blauer Ring” for the Library of the German Parliament in Berlin, 2003), Massimiliano Fuksas, Nicholas Grimshaw, Mario Botta, and Claudio Silvestrin. He has had over three hundred shows in museums and galleries, has been featured at the Venice Bienniale several times and has taken part in Documenta Kassel as well as the Sao Paolo, Sydney, Istanbul, and Valencia biennials. His public installations include: “Art,” 1988, Carpenter Center at Harvard University in Cambridge; “You can imagine the opposite,” 1991, Lenbachhaus, München; “Let’s talk about art, maybe,” 1993, Bank Building, Edinburgh; “Transit, a light journey,” 2000, Architecture Biennale, Venice; “All art has been contemporary,” 1998, Gam Turin; “What to see what not to see,” 2003, Valencia Biennial; “Changing place…,” 2004, Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice; “Index,” 2005, Enssib, University of Lyon; Museum Der Moderne, Salzburg, 2008; Hubbrücke, Magdeburg, 2008; the Uffizi, Florence, 2010; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2011; Stazione Leopolda, Florence, 2013. Read more →

Per4m is thenew section debuting at the 21st edition of Artissima dedicated to performance art in a highly innovative way. Rather than including it as a fringe event, Artissima will present ... Read more →

The 6th edition of flashback  is promising to be the one of the records: last year's venue—the new spaces of Pala Alpitour—is confirmed, as well as the galleries of the ... Read more →

Artissima, Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, will return to the Oval pavilion in Turin from 2 to 4 November 2018, to celebrate its 25th anniversary! Don’t miss the wonderful opportunity to fall in love ... Read more →

An ambitious project and a starting point for a unique journey of exploration and discovery, from November 3 to 5 Artissima returns to the Oval Pavillion in Turin to offer the public a wonderful opportunity ... Read more →

Artissima, Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, will return to the Oval in Turin from November 4 to 6, 2016. Renowned for its focus on the most innovative artistic research and rediscovered avant-garde, Artissima 2016 ... Read more →

Artissima, Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, will return to the Oval in Turin from 6 to 8 November 2015. Renowned for its focus on the most innovative artistic research, in 2015 Artissima introduces many ... Read more →

Internationally recognised for its niche and experimental identity, in 2014 Artissima will present  195 galleries , 61 artists in the curated sections, one new ... Read more →

25 years of discovery and experimentation, innovation and enhancement, emotion and art. 25 vibrant, dynamic years, pulsating and intense, which have made Artissima Italy’s foremost contemporary art fair. Artissima returns to the Oval Pavilion in Turin ... Read more →

Artissima’s dictionary: be prepared 3 key words x 3 sections = 72 artists in the curated sections of Artissima 2017: preview the fair with our summer summary! cutting-edge: adj. highly advanced; ... Read more →

Artissima is a year-round research project that involves a team of leading curators and museum directors from around the world. The quality of its exhibition programming, the avant-garde nature of the curatorial proposals, the attentive ... Read more →

Artissima, International Fair of Contemporary Art, will return to the Oval in Turin from 6 to 8 November 2015. Artissima 2015 will involve curators and collectors in the fair’s programme, to a degree ... Read more →

Artissima is pleased to announce its new prizes and its exceptional juries of leading museum directors and curators. Prix K-Way Per4m (new) Jury: Agustin Pérez Rubio , Artistic Director, Malba ... Read more →

Guido Costa Projects in Turin is proud to announce Report , a new solo exhibition by Peter Friedl. This is the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery. Report (2016) is the ... Read more →

FLAT  -  Fi era  L ibro  A rte  T orino  announces the second edition of the international event dedicated to contemporary art publishing, taking place in Turin ... Read more →

Don’t miss your chance to participate in Artissima 2017 , Italy’s contemporary art fair! A central event for national and international collectors and art lovers and global press, Artissima attracts over 50,000 ... Read more →

Thursday, May 12 at 7pm, Quartz Studio is pleased to present the exhibition  The Water They Dwell In , the first solo exhibition in Turin of Salvatore Arancio  (Catania, Italy, 1974), organized at the ... Read more →

Back to the Future, the section of Artissima devoted to rediscovering the artistic avant-garde of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, focuses this year exclusively on the period 1975–85.  While previous editions of Back ... Read more →

On Monday, May 4, at 7pm, Quartz Studio is delighted to present the exhibition Siesta Club , the second solo exhibition in Italy of French artist Adrien Missika (b. Paris, 1981). For ... Read more →

Artissima, Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, will return to the Olympic Oval pavilion in Turin from November 3 to 5, 2017, for the first time under the guidance of Ilaria Bonacossa. Renowned on an international ... Read more →

FLAT – Fiera libro arte Torino  is the new international event dedicated to contemporary art publishing. Its first edition will take place from November 3 to 5 at Palazzo Cisterna—a 2000 square meter building ... Read more →

Innovative and experimental, Artissima focuses on young and avant-garde artists, curated booths and special projects. The high quality of the fair, which is guaranteed year after year by a growing number of international curators who ... Read more →

On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 6pm, Quartz Studio is delighted to present the exhibition Deiknumena , a site-specific project by the German artist Athena Vida (born as Gitte Schäfer, Stuttgart, Germany, ... Read more →

Following four successful years as director of Artissima, Sarah Cosulich will once more lead the fair in 2016.  Under her direction, the fair has expanded geographically and has consolidated its experimental identity and ... Read more →