Opening Artissima 2024 : all prizes, special focus on avant-garde female photography

30 octobre 2024

Sies + Höke Booth Artissima 2024, Courtesy of the artists and Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf Pic. Maurizio Esposito

Opening of this 31^st edition gathering 189 italian and international including 66 monographic projects form 34 countries. Some 37 galleries are participating for the first time to the fair (15 emerging international ones). Directed by Luigi Fassi for the 3^rdtime, Artissima kicks off Turin Art Week.

This year’s theme The Era of Daydreaming, celebrates daydreaming as a decisive manifestation of thought and artistic production. New visual identity has been conceptualized.

Artissima new visual identity

Among its 7 sections, the curated sectors are :

Present Future

Back to the Future

Disegni

Special highlights on photography are interspersed throughout the 7 sections exploring the female body, sexuality and desire due to women photographers, famous or rediscovered such as Marina Abramovic, Gundula Schulze or Liliana Maresca.

mor charpentier proposal for Artissima 2024

The Prizes

Artissima 2024 features 11 prizes and funds for artists and galleries faifhful to its approach of discovery and rediscovery of talents, and the constant pursuit of beauty that has always been its trademark. Aimed at highlighting the work of artists and galleries, the Artissima 2024 prizes will be awarded at the fair by international juries composed of curators and directors of the world’s leading contemporary art museums.

ROMERO PAPROCKI Booth Artissima 2024 courtesy Galerie Romero Paprocki, GRAYSC.

Orlane per l’Arte Prize (NEW!)

The prize, born in 2024 and sponsored by Orlane, supports the research and entrepreneurial activity of one of the galleries taking part in Artissima. An international jury of curators will select the gallery offering the finest example of care and balance in the presentation of artists and their work.

Jury: Krist Gruijthuijsen, Céline Kopp, Alberto Salvadori

illy Present Future Prize

The prize, produced in collaboration with illicaffè, has been assigned for 24 years to an artist of the Present Future section – since always a launching pad for new talents – confirming itself as an important contribution to the success of emerging artists at international level.

Jury: Maurin Dietrich, Joao Laia, Manuela Moscoso, Vittoria Matarrese, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

VANNI occhiali #artistroom Prize

The prize, supported by VANNI occhiali since 2019, continues its exploration of the possible contaminations between contemporary art and eyewear design. It will be assigned to an artist presented at the fair whose research can offer an original perspective on reality, triggering an unexpected and surprising gaze, like looking through a lens.

Jury: Dimitri Borri, Loredana Longo, Dino Vannini

Tosetti Value Award for photography

Tosetti Value – Il Family office continues its support of Artissima promoting for the fifth year in a row an award for photography, which will be assigned to an artist presented at the fair whose photographic work is seen as particularly interesting for an understanding of the historical-social and economic situation of our globalized world.

Jury: Lucrezia Cippitelli, Walter Guadagnini, Lorenzo Vitturi

Matteo Viglietta Award

The honour, coordinated by Collezione La Gaia and now in its third edition, is created to commemorate Matteo Viglietta: an outstanding, passionate collector who had a very strong bond with Artissima from the outset. It will consist in the acquisition of an artwork that will become part of the Collection.

Jury: Eva Brioschi, Lilou Vidal, Luca Lo Pinto

Carol Rama Award

Promoted by Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte and now in its fifth edition, the honour will be assigned to the artist who embodies, through research and work, the ideal of unconventional female creativity and artistic freedom Carol Rama enacted and transmitted with her works and personality.

Jury: Elisabetta Barisoni, Hélène Guenin, Martina Vovk

Premio Diana Bracco – Imprenditrici ad arte

Come into being in 2023 thanks to a novel initiative organized by Fondazione Bracco in collaboration with Fondazione Roberto De Silva e Diana Bracco of Milano, this prize focuses on the figure of the gallerist as a female entrepreneur. It will be assigned to a rising woman gallerist, Italian or international, whose gallery has at least one location in Italy and whose entrepreneurial history demonstrates a vivid interest in artistic research and quality.

Jury: Isabella Bortolozzi, Giovanna Forlanelli, Chiara Parisi

Premio Pista 500

Created in 2023 in collaboration with Pinacoteca Agnelli, this prize will grant an artist the opportunity to produce an artwork on a permanent billboard for the track on the roof of the Lingotto, in the proximity of Artissima. Inside the fair, an international jury will select one artist, who will have the opportunity to create a specific work for the monumental poster that will be unveiled at the time of Artissima 2025.

Jury: Meriem Berrada, Fatima Hellberg, Dipartimento Curatoriale della Pinacoteca Agnelli

“ad occhi chiusi…” Prize

Fondazione Merz returns for the fourth year with the prize that aims to select the international artist that corresponds best to the Foundation’s research on young artists of the Mediterranean. The selected artist will have the possibility of taking part in a residency in Sicily.

Jury: Beatrice Merz, Sandra Patron, Agata Polizzi, Mirjam Varadinis

Ettore and Ines Fico Prize

Organized with MEF Museo Ettore Fico of Torino and now at its 15th iteration, the prize continues to promote and support the work of young artists, through an acquisition. The winner will be selected among the artists showing at Artissima, thanks to his/her international research and poetics.

Jury: Andrea Busto

Oelle – Mediterraneo Antico Prize

Fondazione Oelle promotes for the third year the prize for which an international jury selects one artist from those represented by the galleries in the fair. The artist will have the opportunity to take part in a residency in Catania, aimed at producing a work that enhances the contemporary Sicilian and Mediterranean context. At the end of the residency, an exhibition will be produced and organized which will be hosted in one of the Foundation’s exhibition venues.

Jury: Katerina Gregos, Grazia Quaroni, Caterina Riva

Acquisitions Fund by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT

For the 31st edition of Artissima, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRTincreases for the second consecutive year to 280,000 euros the historic Acquisitions Fund for the benefit of the collections of GAM – Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna di Torino and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.

Artissima New Entries Fund

The fund recognizes the quality of the proposal of three galleries participating in the 2024 edition, in the New Entries section, which includes the most interesting exhibitors taking part in the fair for the first time, as the result of Artissima’s international scouting expertise.

Jury: Emma Enderby, Lauriane Gricourt, Andrea Lissoni, Marcus Reymann

Artissima IN THE CITY :