Il CIMAM (Comitato Internazionale per i Musei e le Collezioni d'Arte Moderna) è l'unica rete mondiale di direttori e curatori di musei d'arte moderna e contemporanea. Fondato all'Aia nel 1962, il CIMAM è un'organizzazione affiliata all'ICOM (International Council of Museums).

CIMAM 2025

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The 57th CIMAM Annual Conference – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, will open on November 28 at OGR Torino, the innovation and culture hub of Fondazione CRT. Until November 30, Turin will be the international capital of art, welcoming over 300 delegates worldwide.

The event, organized by CIMAM, is supported by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Fondazione CRT, and curated by the Content Committee with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Torino Musei, and Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, involving museums and institutions from the city.

“We are proud that the 57th Annual Conference of CIMAM will take place at OGR Torino, a symbol of innovation and cultural experimentation, perfectly in line with the spirit of this prestigious international event,” says Anna Maria Poggi, President of Fondazione CRT. “Fondazione CRT, also through the strategic role of Fondazione per l’Arte CRT, firmly supports the dialogue between cultural institutions and the contemporary art system, aware that culture and creativity are fundamental levers for the development and social and cultural growth of the territory. The return of CIMAM to Italy, with the realization of an excellent program curated by the conference’s Content Committee together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Torino Musei, and Castello di Rivoli, is a valuable opportunity to strengthen the positioning of the country and the city on the international art scene.”

CIMAM returns to Italy after almost 50 years. In 1976, the conference was held in Bologna and Prato, the only stop in our country in over 60 years of Annual Conferences.

The Content Committee for the 2025 CIMAM Annual Conference is composed of members of the CIMAM Board: Chus Martínez, Director of the Art Gender Nature Institute in Basel – who will serve as Chair – Kamini Sawhney, Independent Curator, Bangalore; Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Ph.D., Museum Management Expert / Freelance Curator / Academic Teacher, Warsaw;, Leevi Haapala, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Helsinki, and Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Additionally, it includes the Directors and Curators of the hosting institutions: Francesco Manacorda, Director of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Chiara Bertola, Director of GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin, Bernardo Follini, Senior Curator of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and Davide Quadrio, Director of MAO Museum of Oriental Art.

Suhanya Raffel remarked on the conference’s ambitious goals: “In Turin, we would like to propose a dynamic and very open and participative exercise consisting of exploring together the difficulties of enduring game-changing hardships while breeding new paradigms in our field. A case study based conference oriented towards providing us with a collectively made tool kit to counteract the multitude of challenges that too often leave us feeling overwhelmed and disempowered in our daily tasks as art professionals. Epictetus —a Greek Stoic philosopher—wrote: “Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing.” Indeed, this is what we would love to analyze together in Turin: our doing and the relevance of practice-based culture to guarantee a life-intelligent, caring future.”

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, commented: “We are delighted to be hosting CIMAM’s Annual conference in Turin—where we will be framing the collective discussion among the members and external experts around an attempt to identify how art and culture still can shape the form of our future. Turin has experienced and embodied, through centuries of history, the importance of culture for human society and what it means to move from theory to fieldwork. Turin is a learning city where we would like to host the transnational art community that CIMAM embodies and invite all the members to embark on the exercise of thinking about the structural transformations of our field, the new beginnings we are compelled to explore together, the new alliances among fields and also economic sectors to guarantee a central position of art and culture in our societies.”

In the coming months, the other locations hosting the event will be officially announced.

About CIMAM

CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) is the only global 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 where the cultural, social, and economic impact of modern and contemporary art museums, collections, and archives on society is widely recognized. To achieve 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, to provide support in line with international ethical standards of ICOM and CIMAM’s Code of Ethics, to establish guidelines, protocols, and benchmarks for best museum practices, and to contribute to the growth of the sector by facilitating cooperation and professional development.

Led by an international Board, the organization draws on the collective expertise of its members to advance the field and realize the shared vision. www.cimam.org

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CIMAM 2025

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On the occasion of CIMAM‘s General Assembly, which took place yesterday, 8 December, in Los Angeles, 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 CIMAM’s 57th Biennale in 2025.

The event, organised by CIMAM, is supported by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Fondazione CRT and curated by the Content Committe,  in collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Torino Musei and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, and with the participation of the city’s museums and institutions.

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 Content 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.

Suhanya Raffel remarked on the conference’s ambitious goals: “In Turin, we would like to propose a dynamic and very open and participative exercise consisting of exploring together the difficulties of enduring game-changing hardships while breeding new paradigms in our field. A case study based conference oriented towards providing us with a collectively made tool kit to counteract the multitude of challenges that too often leave us feeling overwhelmed and disempowered in our daily tasks as art professionals. Epictetus —a Greek Stoic philosopher—wrote: “Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing.” Indeed, this is what we would love to analyze together in Turin: our doing and the relevance of practice-based culture to guarantee a life-intelligent, caring future.”

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo commented: “We are delighted to be hosting CIMAM’s Annual conference in Turin—where we will be framing the collective discussion among the members and external experts around an attempt to identify how art and culture still can shape the form of our future. Turin has experienced and embodied, through centuries of history, the importance of culture for human society and what it means to move from theory to fieldwork. Turin is a learning city where we would like to host the transnational art community that CIMAM embodies and invite all the members to embark on the exercise of thinking about the structural transformations of our field, the new beginnings we are compelled to explore together, the new alliances among fields and also economic sectors to guarantee a central position of art and culture in our societies.”

 

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

Beyond Production Symposium - convegno per riflettere sull'arte e nuove tecnologie.

BEYOND PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM

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Sono 14 gli speakers che tra sabato 4 e domenica 5 novembre hanno partecipato a Beyond Production Symposium, esperti provenienti dal mondo dell’arte, dalle imprese che si occupano di nuove tecnologie applicate alla cultura e all’arte, tecnici di aspetti legali ed etici, per stimolare la riflessione sul dialogo tra arte e tecnologia.

“Nel simposio sono emersi molti punti di vista complessi e articolati che hanno posto l’uomo al centro di un processo creativo, legislativo e tutelativo nel rapporto con l’AI. Non per fermare l’uso dell’AI, ma per renderlo davvero uno strumento capace di amplificare le potenzialità umane. È emerso che il concetto di originale non è più valido come lo pensavamo prima, che l’originale è derivativo e che in qualche modo le macchine che lavorano sulla quantità e non sulla qualità hanno bisogno dell’essere umano per creare contenuti interessanti. Gli artisti devono essere liberi di usare le tecnologie digitali e l’AI, ma deve essere tutelata la loro capacità di produrre e la possibilità di creare una carriera su questo senza che la creatività del singolo artista venga usata dalle grandi macchine, dalle grandi Corporation, per profitti da cui loro vengono esclusi.“ ha dichiarato Ilaria Bonacossa, curatrice di Beyond Production.

Scoprite qui il progetto e scaricate qui gli atti del convegno prodotti dall’Intelligenza Artificiale Alia.

 

GUARDA LE REGISTRAZIONI DEGLI INCONTRI:

 

Arte, Intelligenza Artificiale e ibridazioni 

Nuove tecnologie per l’arte: sfide e opportunità & Intelligenza Artificiale, etica e legislazione: un approccio empirico

Il Symposium visto dall’intelligenza artificiale 

 

Beyond Production Symposium @OGR Torino. Photo courtesy: Andrea Bottallo

I vincitori della sesta edizione dell’OGR Award, il premio promosso dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT

OGR AWARD 2023

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Rebecca Moccia are the winners of the 6th edition of the OGR Award, the prize supported by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT grants 5,000 euros each to two artists whose work embodies a special attitude of interaction and confrontation with new technologies.

The artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Rebecca Moccia are respectively represented by the mor charpentier gallery Paris, Bogotà and Mazzoleni gallery, London, Torino.

The prize has been assigned by an international jury composed of María Berríos, Director of Curatorial Programmes and Research, MACBA, Barcelona; Samuele Piazza, senior curator, OGR Torino; Bettina Steinbrügge, director, MUDAM, Luxembourg, with the following remarks:

The jury unanimously selected two artists with an exemplary research-based practice dealing with the intersection between art and technology, where every project is rendering visible, with refined aesthetic poignance, that which most of us ultimately ignore. Both artists reflect critically on the abstraction and alienation of new technologies in a deeply embodied and corporeal manner via sound and temperature. They delve into social and political urgencies with precision, care and profound artistry.
In his work, Lawrence Abu Hamdan delves into the political effects of listening, expanding the auditory in order to create sonic imagery. In Air Conditioning he works with auditory data to deliver textured visual renderings of what he calls atmospheric violence. The image maps the Israeli army’s sonic occupation of the Lebanese airspace over a fifteen-year period. The piece aggregates data from hundreds of individual documents dispersed across multiple locations in the United Nations digital library.
In her artistic research Rebecca Moccia explores societal structures, often through practices of human feeling and emotion. Her training in sculpture grounds her investigations connecting space, bodies, and context, through materiality and thermal images. Her piece Ministry of Loneliness explores feelings of solitude and isolation, not through individuation, but as a collective phenomenon linked to the advancement of technoscientific order.

In line with the mission of OGR Torino, an international hub for innovation and contemporary culture, and one of the most dynamic centres of experimentation in Europe, the assignment of the prize during Artissima underlines the sophisticated relationship between art and technology, the main focus of the initiative. The prize confirms the role of the two institutions as catalysts of creative innovation, activators of synergies between the various cultural realities of the territory, with the goal of reinforcing the network of collaborations between cultural players in the city of Torino.

In 2022 the OGR Award went to Rebeca Romero, of the Copperfield gallery of London, for the work Semilla SAGRADA, unveiled in its physical version in the spaces of the Duomo of OGR Torino, and in its 3D version in a virtual Duomo hosted on the Spatial platform in the Metaverse.

Photo credit: Artissima 2023 | Perottino, Piva, Peirone

Beyond Production Symposium - Visual del convegno 4-5 novembre 2023

BEYOND PRODUCTION PRESENTA SYMPOSIUM

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Nel 2021, Beyond Production ha presentato Surfing NFT, un progetto focalizzato sull’indagine di un fenomeno che aveva iniziato ad animare il dibattito contemporaneo: gli NFT e il loro rapporto con l’arte contemporanea, la sua filiera e il mercato. Nel 2022, con il capitolo incentrato sul Metaverso dal titolo METAmorphosis, Beyond Production ha indagato questo complesso fenomeno, mettendone in risalto potenzialità e limiti e proponendone una visione critica, formativa ed educativa sia per i professionisti del mondo dell’arte che per il pubblico di appassionati.

Giunto al suo terzo volume, nel 2023 Beyond Production conferma la curatela di Ilaria Bonacossa (Direttrice del Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale di Milano) e propone un Symposium, una riflessione approfondita sul rapporto tra le nuove tecnologie, l’arte e la società adottando tre punti di vista differenti: quello degli artisti e addetti del mondo dell’arte; quello dei tecnici e delle aziende che operano in questo settore; quello di coloro che si occupano degli aspetti legali ed etici di questi nuovi mezzi. Un ciclo di studi aperto al pubblico che mira alla valorizzazione e riflessione del percorso svolto finora grazie a interventi di relatori internazionali d’eccezione.

Ingrediente progettuale e in linea con i tratti identitari di Beyond Production sarà il coinvolgimento dell’Intelligenza Artificiale nella restituzione dei contenuti del simposio.  Alia, un’entità artificiale sviluppata dal dipartimento Deep Learning e Big Data di Alkemy Spa in collaborazione con MNAD e MEET, società partner del progetto che opera per migliorare la competitività di grandi e medie aziende grazie all’innovazione tecnologica, affiancherà i mediatori del simposio nella rielaborazione dei contenuti emersi come una redazione live “smart” e verrà interrogato su diversi temi durante il talk di restituzione che si terrà in fiera. La cura grafica e l’implementazione del progetto digitale di restituzione finale saranno dirette da Artshell, software house per il mercato dell’arte e storico partner di Beyond Production.

L’obiettivo di questo coinvolgimento è affrontare la domanda che anima il dibattito contemporaneo: l’AI è un alleato, un sostituto o un nemico?

 

Il Simposio sarà ospitato presso OGR Torino nella giornata di sabato 4 novembre dalle ore 9.30 alle h 13.30 (ingresso libero con iscrizione).

Il talk di restituzione è previsto per domenica 5 novembre alle ore 16.30 presso l’Oval (per partecipare occorre avere un titolo di ingresso valido per la fiera). 

 

SABATO 4 NOVEMBRE H 9.30 – OGR TORINO (Binario 3)

Arte, Intelligenza Artificiale e ibridazioni  – Moderano Ilaria Bonacossa e Luisa Ausenda 

Rebeca Romero, artista

Eva e Franco Mattes, artisti

Wolf Lieser, founder e director DAM Digital Art Museum, Berlino

 

Nuove tecnologie per l’arte: sfide e opportunità – Moderano Ilaria Bonacossa e Matteo Pessione

Bruno Bolfo, founder Particle e collezionista

Fabrizio D’Aloia, co-founder Artsquare

Brando Bonaretti, ceo e co-founder Ninfa Labs

 

Intelligenza Artificiale, etica e legislazione: un approccio empirico – Moderano Ilaria Bonacossa e Edoardo Raffiotta

Massimo Sterpi, avvocato e collezionista

Maria Abdulhamid, Lecturer “Phenomenology of Media” – Lecturer “Ethics in Technology and Communication”

Annapaola Negri Clementi, avvocato e collezionista

 

DOMENICA 5 NOVEMBRE H 16.30 – ARTISSIMA (Meeting Point)

Artissima ospiterà negli spazi dell’Oval Lingotto un talk guidato dai mediatori del Symposium che, al fine di valorizzare e restituire la giornata di studi di sabato 4 novembre in OGR Torino, dialogheranno con Alia, un’entità artificiale sviluppata dal dipartimento Deep Learning e Big Data di Alkemy Spa, società partner del progetto.

I relatori in dialogo saranno: Ilaria Bonacossa, direttrice del Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale (MNAD, con sede a Milano) e curatrice di Beyond Production Symposium; Luisa Ausenda, curatrice d’arte new media e fondatrice di Studio Leggero; Matteo Pessione, Coordinatore delle OGR Tech; l’Avv. Edoardo Raffiotta, LCA Studio Legale, partner nella realizzazione di Beyond Production.

 

 

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FONDAZIONE ARTE CRT AD ARTISSIMA

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Oltre a incrementare lo storico Fondo Acquisizioni, a promuovere il terzo episodio di Beyond Production, e a confermare il grant dell’OGR Award, Fondazione valorizza la propria collezione con la mostra Dove finiscono le tracce

Torino, 15 settembre 2023. La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT parteciperà con diverse e rinnovate iniziative ad Artissima, la principale fiera d’arte contemporanea in Italia, che si terrà dal 3 al 5 novembre 2023 a Torino, e il cui tema di quest’anno è “Relations of Care”.

“La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, che opera per conto e grazie alla Fondazione CRT nel campo dell’arte contemporanea, continua ad affiancare Artissima, principale fiera d’arte contemporanea in Italia, giunta al traguardo della sua trentesima edizione ” dichiara Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Presidente della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. “Per ribadire il suo sostegno, la Fondazione ha scelto di incrementare il budget destinato alle acquisizioni di opere in fiera a favore della GAM e del Castello di Rivoli; di rafforzare la collaborazione attraverso un progetto di mostra a cura della fiera e sostenuto interamente dalla Fondazione, per condividerlo con la comunità locale e internazionale; di dare continuità al dialogo tra arte e tecnologia avviato del 2021 con la terza edizione di Beyond Production; infine, di supportare gli artisti e le gallerie presenti in fiera attraverso l’OGR Award.”

La prima importante novità riguarda proprio la mostra Dove finiscono le tracce: progetto espositivo nato e sostenuto dal desiderio della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT di valorizzare la propria collezione e affidato alla curatela di Luigi Fassi (Direttore di Artissima) e all’organizzazione di Artissima. La mostra diffusa si disloca nei luoghi simbolici della città di Torino, con alcune iconiche opere della collezione della Fondazione attualmente in comodato alla GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino e dal Castello di Rivoli Museo d’arte Contemporanea.

I luoghi della mostra diffusa e i relativi artisti ospitati saranno:

  • Il cortile di Palazzo Perrone di San Martino – sede della Fondazione CRT e della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT con Francesco Gennari;
  • La Corte Medievale di Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica con Peter Friedl;
  • Il portico d’ingresso del Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento con Cally Spooner;
  • Il foyer del Teatro Carignano con William Kentridge;
  • La Sala del Caminetto del Teatro Regio di Torino con Simon Starling.

La mostra, gratuita, sarà visitabile dal pubblico con modalità che verranno comunicate prossimamente.

Un’altra notizia di rilievo riguarda il fondo destinato alle acquisizioni di opere in fiera, a favore della GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea e del Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, che da quest’anno verrà incrementato a 200.000 euro.

Spazio al dialogo tra arte e tecnologia con la terza edizione di Beyond Production: curato nuovamente da Ilaria Bonacossa (Direttrice del Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale di Milano (MNAD) , il progetto di quest’anno si svilupperà in un un Symposium: un’occasione per proporre una riflessione approfondita sul rapporto tra le nuove tecnologie, l’arte e la società, attraverso tre punti di vista differenti – quello degli artisti e addetti del mondo dell’arte, quello dei tecnici e quello di coloro che si occupano degli aspetti legali ed etici di questi nuovi mezzi – con relatori internazionali, che coinvolgerà l’Intelligenza Artificiale nella restituzione dei contenuti del Simposio.

Infine, a Fondazione supporterà nuovamente gli artisti e le gallerie presenti in fiera attraverso l’OGR Award, riconoscendo due grant da 5.000 euro ciascuno per incoraggiare la ricerca di due artisti, scelti senza vincoli di sezione né di mezzo espressivo, che esprimano nel proprio lavoro un’affinità, un desiderio, una speciale attitudine a dialogare o confrontarsi con le nuove tecnologie. Il Premio, che verrà assegnato dalla giuria composta da Fatima Hellberg (direttrice del Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn), Samuele Piazza (curatore delle OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino) e Bettina Steinbrügge (direttrice del Mudam, Lussemburgo), riconferma il ruolo della Fondazione Arte CRT e OGR Torino come catalizzatori di innovazione creativa e attivatori di sinergie tra le diverse realtà culturali del territorio, con l’obiettivo di rafforzare la rete di collaborazioni tra gli attori culturali della città di Torino.

 

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METAMORPHOSIS PRESENTS OGR AWARD WINNER REBECA ROMERO

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Torino, 18 May 2023 – The artwork Semilla SAGRADA by artist Rebeca Romero (Copperfield gallery, London), the winner of the fifth edition of the OGR Award, was presented for the first time on May 17 during the official public award ceremony at OGR Torino.

The METAmorphosis project, the second episode of the Beyond Production platform, promoted by Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, reflects on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. The edition launched in 2 022 focused on the complex phenomenon of the Metaverse.

As with Surfing NFT, which was the first episode of Beyond Production, the Metaverse proposed here takes a critical view of the phenomenon, which is formative for art world professionals and educational for the public. The METAmorphosis project has seen confirmed partnerships with Artshell, a software house for the art market, and with LCA Studio Legale, in addition to the activation of a new dialogue with REVIBE – Metaverse Experience Factory, resident in OGR Tech.
Rebeca Romero, selected as the winner by the international jury of the OGR Award, produced the work Semilla SAGRADA thanks to the support of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and the technological support of the partners involved in the project.

The work was presented both in its physical version, in the spaces of the Duomo at OGR Torino, and in its 3D version in a virtual version of the Duomo hosted on the Spatial platform in the Metaverse usable free of charge over time. The work, thanks to the synergy with the OGR Award, is acquired by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and becomes part of the Fondazione‘s Collection on free loan to OGR Torino.

Following the event, the work, in its digital version in the Metaverse, will continue to be available at this link: https://bit.ly/METAmorphosis

 

Semilla SAGRADA

The project investigates the history of a future-ancient civilization worshipping the Sacred Seed, a mutable plant endowed with miraculous properties. With an animistic perspective reminiscent of Inca myths that attributed vitality to elements of nature such as mountains, bodies of water, stars, stones, caves, atmospheric events and the firmament above, the artist addresses the urgency of investigating, in an era of continuous environmental upheaval, the ontological connections between human and non-human entities and possible worlds.

Semilla SAGRADA exists in two complementary spaces or “planes”, moving fluidly between the digital and the material.

The physical work installed in the Duomo of OGR Torino presents the result of a study of pre-Columbian textiles, which has provided valuable information on both the technological and cultural advances of these societies and their economic and social structures. Building on this concept, Semilla SAGRADA takes the physical form of a carefully crafted garment that represents a fictional product of the enigmatic Seed-worshipping civilization. The garment is inspired by museum collections of ancient tunics and cloaks and the costumes of Peruvian folk dances. It was made using digital embroidery techniques and specially created fabrics centered on the iconography associated with the Sacred Seed.

The OGR Torino Duomo in the Metaverse has been recreated to host a spiritual encounter, featuring three floating manifestations of the Sacred Seed in 3D that visitors can explore and interact with. Each of these sacred seeds is presented as a deity and if clicked will act as a portal. Through this interaction (one pop-up video per seed), the visitor is encouraged to contemplate the meaning and symbolism of each seed, enabling a deeper understanding of the relationships between technology, nature and spirituality.

From the artist’s words, “Semilla SAGRADA aims to identify a unifying feature between Amerindian animistic cosmogonies and post-humanist futures where traditional boundaries between human and non-human are very blurred and divinity and individuality are dispersed across a wide spectrum of beings.”

 

Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan and curator of METAmorphosis, comments on the winning artist’s work as follows, “Rebeca Romero’s Semilla SAGRADA project innovatively articulates the relationship between past and future through a surprising link between virtual and physical. Giant divine seeds seemingly symbols of Amerindian cosmogonies project us into a Meta-future inspired by the world of video games by questioning the relationship between art and craft, video and gaming. Beyond Production stems from the need that art has always manifested in questioning the relationship with new technologies. We live in a digital age and imagining how art and its issues can impact the lives of digital natives is a responsibility of cultural institutions.”

Luigi Fassi, director of Artissima, recounts that “Rebeca Romero‘s digital and sculptural elaborations of seeds appear as epiphanies between past and future, representations suspended between the evocation of an ancestral past and a futuristic projection of the relationship between art and the sacred. Romero thus opens to an unprecedented dimension of development, capable of inspiring new modes of creation in which the artists’ imagery can move in complete fluidity between sculptural concreteness and image virtuality. METAmorphosis is the second episode of Beyond Production and explores such a complex and developing territory as the Metaverse, in which artists’ creative experience is placed in direct confrontation with the most advanced digital technologies, while maintaining a critical and non-apologetic gaze toward them.”

The Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT is supporting Artissima and Beyond Production in the belief that investigating new languages of artistic expression is essential to enable art to reflect the complexity of the contemporary world. To this end, the Fondazione has provided a production budget for the development of the winning artist’s project idea. The President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Luisa Papotti, said, “The intertwining of emerging technologies and art, from photography to the Metaverse, has always offered creativity renewed tools, opening wider expressive horizons. Beyond Production is the project that the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT wanted to promote with Artissima to investigate its potential and explore its latest boundaries. The outcome of this journey, launched in the 2022 edition of Artissima, is combined with the OGR Award, the prize that the Foundation has been dedicating to OGR Torino since 2017, awarded this year to Rebeca Romero. For the first time, the award-winning work, Semilla SAGRADA, will find complementary spaces in the imposing halls of the OGR Torino and their Metaverse, offering the public an unprecedented experience, between the tangible and the virtual.”

 

OGR Award in dialogue with METAmorphosis

The OGR Award was created in recognition of the artist who best renders the complex and sophisticated relationship between art, technology and innovation, with a particular emphasis on digital developments.

The winner was chosen from among the artists selected during the 2022 edition of Artissima: Marcos Lutyens – Alberta Pane, Paris and Venezia; Eva & Franco Mattes – Apalazzogallery, Brescia; Rebeca Romero – Copperfield, London; R M – Martina Simeti, Milano.

The prize was awarded by an international jury composed of Amira Gad, curator and writer, Rotterdam, Lars Henrik Gass, director, Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Samuele Piazza, senior curator, OGR Torino, and Domenico Quaranta, art critic, curator and lecturer specialised in media art, Milan.

Under the guidance of technical partners Artshell, LCA Studio Legale and Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory – specialists in digital technologies, legal issues connected with NFTs and the computer 3D graphics inside the metaverse respectively, the artists participated together with their galleries in an educational series of meetings on the Metaverse and its potential and limitations in the artistic sphere.

The four artists then created a physical artwork and a digital alter ego of the work in the Metaverse, supported by Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale in Milano, with budget provided by the Fondazione per l’Arte Contemporanea CRT. The projects are hosted online on a digital platform by Artshell.

 

Bio Rebeca Romero

Rebeca Romero is an interdisciplinary artist born in Peru and based in London. She received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London (2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally with exhibitions including Oracles and Algorithms, Copperfield London, UK (2022), and so on, Das Weisse Haus, Austria (2022), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite Colchester & South London Gallery, UK (2021), The Obsolete in Reverse, Springseason Gallery, UK (2020) and London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, UK (2020), Her text/sound work has been featured in platforms like New Writing with New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, UK (2022) and Future Artefacts, RTM.FM (2021).

Through a wide range of media including sculpture, ceramics, textiles, sound performance, and video, Rebeca Romero explores concepts of diasporic identity, truths, fiction, and their relationship to the digital age.

è un’artista interdisciplinare nata in Perú e con base a Londra.

Nel 2020 ha conseguito un master in discipline artistiche alla Goldsmiths University di Londra. Le sue opere sono state esposte in tutto il mondo in importanti mostre come Oracles and Algorithms, Copperfield Londra, UK (2022), and so on, Das Weisse Haus, Austria (2022), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite Colchester & South London Gallery, UK (2021), The Obsolete in Reverse, Springseason Gallery, UK (2020) e London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, UK (2020). Le sue performance sonore e i suoi video sono stati ospitati su piattaforme come New Writing with New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, UK (2022) e Future Artefacts, RTM.FM (2021).

Attraverso un’ampia gamma di media che includono sculture, ceramiche, tessuti, performance sonore e video, Rebeca Romero esplora i concetti dell’identità diasporica, le verità, la finzione e il loro rapporto con l’era digitale.

 

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Photo credit: METAmorphosis Project: OGR Award. Winning artist Rebeca Romero together with project partners, a jury member of the OGR Award and the curator of METAmorphosis. Photo © Giorgio Perottino / Artissima

From left to right: Flavio Trione (Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory), Ilaria Bonacossa (Curatrice del progetto e Direttrice Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale di Milano), Luigi Fassi (Direttore Artissima), Rebeca Romero (artista), Luisa Papotti (Presidente Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT), Lars Enrik Gass (Direttore Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen e membro della giuria dell’OGR Award), Miriam Loro Piana (LCA Studio Legale), Bernabò Visconte di Modrone (Artshell), Fulvio Gianaria (Presidente OGR Torino).

 

METAMORPHOSIS PRESENTA OGR AWARD

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Nel 2021 Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT e Artissima hanno dato il via a Beyond Production, una piattaforma concettuale in sinergia con OGR Torino nell’ambito di OGR Award, capace di stimolare e promuovere riflessioni sulle tendenze più innovative dell’arte contemporanea per indagare come queste si relazionino con le trasformazioni della società mettendo al centro le opere d’arte e il valore storico e culturale del collezionare.

Beyond Production sintetizza i tratti focali dell’identità di entrambi i soggetti: la ricerca di progettualità innovative, l’attenzione alla curatela, l’apertura alla contaminazione e alla sperimentazione.

Dopo il primo capitolo dedicato agli NFT, il nuovo progetto METAmorphosis si propone di indagare il fenomeno del Metaverso, mettendone in risalto i punti di forza e di debolezza, offrendo una visione critica, formativa ed educativa per il professionisti del mondo dell’arte (gallerie e artisti) e per il pubblico.

Il 17 maggio il progetto giungerà alla sua tappa conclusiva, presentando al pubblico “Semilla SAGRADA”, l’opera prodotta dall’artista vincitrice dell’ultima edizione di OGR Award, Rebeca Romero; l’opera verrà infatti allestita nella sua forma fisica all’interno del Duomo di OGR Torino, e sarà fruibile nella sua forma digitale nel Metaverso delle OGR, sia attraverso la navigazione sul web che attraverso una esplorazione immersiva, utilizzando appositi visori. Un’occasione unica per fare esperienza delle potenzialità del Metaverso nel mondo dell’arte.

Interverranno: Luigi Fassi (Direttore della Fiera internazionale di Artissima), i partner di progetto Artshell e Studio Legale LCA, Ilaria Bonacossa (Direttrice del Museo Nazionale di Arte Digitale di Milano), Lars Henrik Gass (Direttore del Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen), Rebeca Romero (artista), Revibe Metaverse Experience Factory.

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Rebeca Romero, winner of the 5th edition of the OGR Award.Ingrid Pumayalla

ARTISSIMA OGR AWARD

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Torino, 9 March 2023 – Rebeca Romero represented by Copperfield gallery based in London is the winner of the OGR Award 2023 with the project Semilla SAGRADA. Organised by Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the OGR Award has been created to identify an artist who effectively conveys the complex, sophisticated relationship between art, technology and innovation, with a particular focus on digital.

This year, the prize was awarded by an international jury composed of Amira Gad, curator and writer, Rotterdam, Lars Henrik Gass, director, Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Samuele Piazza, senior curator, OGR Torino, and Domenico Quaranta, art critic, curator and lecturer specialised in media art, Milan.

The jury expressed the following statement:

“We decided unanimously to award Rebeca Romero, represented by Copperfield gallery based in London, for her project Semilla SAGRADA. As is exemplified by her artistic practice whereby she adopts an archaeological approach, the project excavates ancient histories into a future civilization, evoking the complex relationships between the real and the virtual, the digital and the material, heritage and symbolism. The jury appreciates the analogue angle of using materials such as textiles in her engagement with the metaverse as well as the links drawn between shamanism and the digital. Additionally, with this prize, the jury supports a project that addresses the metaverse as a shared place that can be actively and collectively designed, contributing alternative, non-Western histories and imaginations to its development.”

Link – images of the winning project Semilla SAGRADA

 

OGR Award in dialogue with METAmorphosis

 In this edition, the Award has been in dialogue with METAmorphosis, the second initiative of the Beyond Production platform, in which Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT reflect annually on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. The 2022 edition is focused on the complex phenomenon of the Metaverse and was divided into four phases.

Four artists were shortlisted for the OGR Award during Artissima 2022: Marcos Lutyens – Alberta Pane, Paris and Venice; Eva & Franco Mattes – Apalazzogallery, Brescia; Rebeca Romero – Copperfield, London; R M – Martina Simeti, Milan.

Artists and their galleries were subsequently involved in a training cycle that enabled them to explore the potential and limits of the metaverse under the guidance of technical partners Artshell, LCA Studio Legale and Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory – specialists in digital technologies, legal issues connected with NFTs and the computer 3D graphics inside the metaverse respectively.

The four artists then created a physical artwork and a digital alter ego of the work in the Metaverse, supported by Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale in Milan, with budget provided by Fondazione per l’Arte Contemporanea CRT. The projects are hosted online on a digital platform by Artshell.

Finally, the jury determined the winner of the Award, bestowing it on Rebeca Romero. The artwork Semilla SAGRADA will be mounted in the Metaverse and will be unveiled to the public on 17 May 2023, in a dedicated event at OGR Torino. The winning works will be acquired into the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT collection and will go on display at OGR Torino.

 

Upcoming events and presentation of the winning work

Before the closing event on 17 May 2023, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT will organise two talks on the occasion of METAmorphosis that will be open to the public.

 

29 March 2023

Metaversando… Prospettive e percorsi nei metaversi dell’arte

6 pm – Duomo, OGR Torino

Speakers: Luisa Ausenda, curator and digital art specialist, Milan and Marco Mancuso, critic, curator, lecturer and founder of the Digicult project, Milan.

Moderator: Ilaria Bonacossa, director of Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale, Milan.

* The event precedes the 8.00 pm opening of the group exhibition Perfect Behaviors, curated by Giorgio Olivero, hosted at Binari 1 and 2 of the OGR Torino from 29 March to 25 June 2023.

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26 April 2023

Sviluppi METAmorfici. Come si trasformeranno l’arte, la produzione creativa?
6.30 pm – Duomo, OGR Torino
Speakers: Elisabetta Rotolo, business strategist, CEO and founder of MIAT Multiverse Institute For Arts and Technology, Milan and Valentino Catricalà, scholar, curator, contemporary art critic and artistic director of Media Art Festival at Museo MAXXI, Roma.

Moderator: Ilaria Bonacossa, director of Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale, Milan.

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17 May 2023

METAmorphosis presents OGR Award

6.30 pm – Duomo, OGR Torino

Public presentation of the physical and virtual work Semilla SAGRADA by Rebeca Romero. The physical work will be displayed at the Duomo of OGR Torino and the digital one will be in a 3D version of the Duomo hosted on the Spatial platform on the Metaverse, coordinated by Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory.

 

OGR Award winners over the years

Previous OGR Award winning artists include Rokni Haerizadeh (Isabelle van den Eynde gallery, Dubai) in 2017, Tomás Saraceno (Pinksummer gallery, Genova) in 2018, Yuri Ancarani (Isabella Bortolozzi gallery, Berlin) in 2019 and Damon Zucconi (VEDA gallery, Florence) in 2021.

 

Bio Rebeca Romero

Rebeca Romero is an interdisciplinary artist born in Peru and based in London. She received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London (2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally with exhibitions including Oracles and Algorithms, Copperfield London, UK (2022), and so on, Das Weisse Haus, Austria (2022), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite Colchester & South London Gallery, UK (2021), The Obsolete in Reverse, Springseason Gallery, UK (2020) and London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, UK (2020), Her text/sound work has been featured in platforms like New Writing with New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, UK (2022) and Future Artefacts, RTM.FM (2021).

Portrait of the artist. Photo Credit: Ingrid Pumayalla

METAMORPHOSIS: THE TRAINING CYCLE AND THE JURY

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METAmorphosis, the second episode of Beyond Production, the project organized by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT together with Artissima, in collaboration with OGR Torino, begins with the involvement of four artists and four galleries, taking part in an educational voyage to discover the potential of the Metaverse, and with the announcement of the jury of the OGR Award.

As in Surfing NFT, the first episode of Beyond Production, the Metaverse is approached through a critical perspective on the phenomenon, to train art world professionals and to inform the public at large. As in the first chapter, the METAmorphosis project moves forward with the partnership of Artshell software house for the art market, and LCA Studio Legale for the legal aspects. A new dialogue has been initiated with REVIBE – Metaverse Experience Factory, residing in OGR Tech.

The four artists and the respective galleries participating in the project were selected during the fair, based on careful study on the part of Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan and creator of Surfing NFT. They are: Marcos Lutyens – Alberta Pane, Paris, Venice / Eva & Franco Mattes – Apalazzogallery, Brescia / Rebeca Romero – Copperfield, London / R M – Martina Simeti, Milan.

The participating artists, thanks to a training cycle of three sessions, are presently exploring the politics and visions of new digital worlds, with the support of the project partners and experts in the field. Above all, they investigate the potentialities and limits of creativity in the Metaverse. The encounters set out to provide the artists with the correct foundations on which to invent a project – thanks to a production budget provided by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT – that narrates the digital transformation one of their physical works might have in the Metaverse, particularly in a 3D digital version of the dome of OGR Torino, uploaded and visible on the Spatial platform.

The projects will be submitted to the jury of the OGR Award, which will choose the artist who has formulated the most innovative, stimulating and critical interpretation of the initial brief: to imagine how their own research and their own physical artworks could be transformed in response to the potential and limits of the Metaverse.

The international jury of the OGR Award will be composed of: Amira Gad, head of programmes of LAS – Light Art Space in Berlin; Lars Henrik Gass, director of the International Festival Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Samuele Piazza, senior curator of OGR Torino; and Domenico Quaranta, art critic, curator, lecturer and author of Beyond New Media Art and Surfing with Satoshi. Arte, blockchain e NFT.

The winner, to be announced at the start of March 2023, will have the opportunity – thanks to the technological support of the partners involved in the project – to concretely produce their project idea, digitalizing their own physical work in the ways they have imagined. Both the physical work and its digital counterpart will be acquired thanks to the budget of the OGR Award, becoming part of the collection of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT on loan to OGR Torino.

The winning physical and digital works will also be set up in the physical and virtual dome of OGR Torino, during an event on METAmorphosis in the month of May 2023.