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Turin Forecast


What is the mindset going into the 31st edition of Artissima? Has Turin’s market bounced back from the 2008 economic crisis? What new infrastructure is fueling the city’s art scene?

Internationalism is more important than ever.

Join us to hear from 3 industry experts who will take the pulse of Turin’s art landscape. Stella Bottai, Senior Curator at large at Aspen Art Museum, will moderate the session. Speakers include Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Contemporary Art Collector, Founder and President of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo), Ilaria Bonacossa (Director at the Palazzo Ducale Fondazione and Former Director of Artissima Art Fair) and Lisa Tucci, (Director, Tucci Russo Studio for Contemporary Art.)

This session takes place at 12:30-1:00 pm BST / 1:30-2:00 pm CEST.


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Speaker biographies:

Stella Bottai is a contemporary art curator and writer based in London. She is co-curator of Pompeii Commitment, the first contemporary art programme of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii including artist’s commissions and yearly fellowships. She is also senior curator-at-large at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA, where she recently curated exhibitions by Allison Katz (2024) Nairy Baghramian (2023), the exhibition series A Lover’s Discourse with Zeinab Saleh, Katharina Fritsch, Chase Hall, Jackson Pollock, Ulala Imai, Thomas Moran, Soshiro Matsubara, Issy Wood, Guglielmo Castelli, Simone Leigh, Stanislava Kovalcikova, VALIE EXPORT (2023), as well as the first architectural façade by Gaetano Pesce in 2022. In 2020-21, she curated a solo presentation by Patrizio Di Massimo at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Turin. She was associate curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. 

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Contemporary Art Collector, Founder and President of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo). Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is founder and president of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. After graduating in Economic and Business from the University of Turin, she approached the world of contemporary art as a collector in the early 1990s. She turned her passion for art into an organized activity in 1995, when she founded the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, first based in Guarene (1997) and then also in Turin (2002). In 2017, she established the Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid.

Ilaria Bonacossa (Director at the Palazzo Ducale Fondazione and Former Director of Artissima Art Fair). Ilaria is an art critic and curator. With a degree in Contemporary Art History from the State University of Milan, after taking a master in curatorial studies at Bard College (USA) she worked in New York at the Whitney Museum. For nine years curator of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, in 2007 she was a member of the Jury for the Leone d’Oro of the 52nd Venice Art Biennale. From 2012 to 2016 Ilaria became the Artistic Director of Museo Villa Croce, Genova and curated the permanent installations of Antinori Art Projects until 2019. In 2013 she curated Katrin Sigurdardottir’s solo project at the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Lisa Tucci (Director, Tucci Russo Studio for Contemporary Art), who represent several artists belonging to the Arte Povera group and international artists linked to the same generation. Since its 1975 foundation, Lisa and Antonio Tucci Russo have focused their activity on the study and research of sculpture and its developments. Currently, TUCCI RUSSO Gallery has two venues: in a fascinating former textile mill in a small town near Turin, and in a historical palazzo in the center of Turin.

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