CIMAM 2025

At the CIMAM General Assembly held in Los Angeles on 8 December, Suhanya Raffel, President of CIMAM and Director of M+ in Hong Kong, and Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, announced that Turin will be the next city to host the 57th CIMAM Annual Conference in 2025.

The event is organised by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in collaboration with the Fondazione Torino Musei and the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, with the support of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

CIMAM returns to Italy after almost 50 years, since 1976, when the conference was held in Bologna and Prato, for its only stop in our country in over 60 years of annual conferences.

The Scientific Committee for the CIMAM Annual Conference 2025 was also announced, composed of CIMAM Board members Chus Martinez, Director of the Art Gender Nature Institute in Basel – who will chair the committee – Kamini Sawhney, independent curator, Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Artistic Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Leevi Haapala, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki, and Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, and by the directors and curators of the host institutions: Francesco Manacorda, Director of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Chiara Bertola, Director of the GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Bernardo Follini, Senior Curator of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and Davide Quadrio, Director of the MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale.

The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Fondazione Torino Musei and the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea will be the institutions hosting CIMAM 2025.

About CIMAM

CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) is the only worldwide network of directors and curators of modern and contemporary art museums. Founded in The Hague in 1962, CIMAM is an affiliated organization of ICOM (International Council of Museums).

CIMAM’s vision is of a world in which the cultural, social, and economic impact of modern and contemporary art museums, collections, and archives on society is widely recognized. To fulfill this vision, CIMAM’s mission is to create an international and professional forum to discuss and share knowledge on topics of interest through key initiatives, such as the CIMAM Annual Conference, provide support aligned with the ethical values of the ICOM and CIMAM Code of Ethics, establish guidelines, protocols, and benchmarks of best museum practice, and to contribute to the growth of the sector by facilitating cooperation and professional development. Led by an International Board of Museum Directors and Curators, the organization draws on the collective experience of its members to advance the sector and realize the shared vision. www.cimam.org