APERTO 2025

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The 2025 edition of Aperto, the free advanced training programme promoted by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and dedicated to the professions, practices and theories of contemporary art, kicks off in summer.

From July 2025 to February 2026, there will be a new season of seminars led by Italian and international teachers, curated by a network of Turin-based organisations:
Castello di Rivoli, Almanacco Inn, Cripta747, Mucho Mas!, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and Artissima.

Open calls for individual seminars will be published shortly.

 

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aulArte 2025-2026

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The aulArte call is back once again this year. Conceived and promoted by the art-oriented organisation Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, a entity of Fondazione CRT, it is aimed at schools in Piedmont and is designed to foster knowledge of and engagement with contemporary art within the school curriculum.

Building on the success of previous editions, the third aulArte edition has two key objectives: encouraging engagement with contemporary art in schools and promoting access to cultural venues for students, as well as providing professional development opportunities for teachers. The 2024 edition involved 25 Piedmontese schools, with over 1,300 students in total.

Through the call for proposals, which is open to all Piedmont schools, the Foundation will provide a total contribution of €60,000, €2,000 for each of the 30 beneficiary schools (an increase from 25 in the previous edition). This funding is intended to support the costs of educational trips to Piedmont’s museums and contemporary art foundations: these include the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rivoli), Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), Fondazione Ferrero (Alba), GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fondazione Merz, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, PAV Parco Arte Vivente and Pinacoteca Agnelli (Turin).

The deadline for submitting applications is 13 June 2025, with the selected schools being announced on 30 June.

A free teacher training programme run by the Education Departments of the contemporary art institutions involved will accompany the grant. Starting in autumn 2025, it will provide teachers with the tools to independently develop a didactic approach that uses contemporary art within the school curriculum. The last edition involved over 400 teachers from all levels of education.

The Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT’s commitment includes the conception and design of the initiative, the guidelines for its implementation, and the grant awarded to the 30 institutes, selected by a special commission according to the criteria set out in the call for proposals, drawn up in collaboration with the Piedmont Regional School Board.

Link to the call

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RADIS 2025

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Radis, is an art project in the public space developed and promoted by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the art-oriented body of the Fondazione CRT. It is now in its second edition following the extremely successful experience of the first edition with Giulia Cenci’s work le masche in the town of Rittana. This second edition is a new curated by Marta Papini once more in collaboration with the Fondazione CRC, with the Kosovar visual artist Petrit Halilaj who will create a site-specific work in Borgata Valdibà, in the district of Dogliani (Cuneo).

The curator Marta Papini invited artist Petrit Halilaj (1986, Kostërrc, Kosovo) to work in the Borgata Valdibà. The area lies in a belvedere at the heart of the Langhe along a road connecting Dogliani to Monforte d’Alba, that walkers, ramblers, hikers and cyclists can enjoy from Spring through Autumn. Here, alongside the Church of San Bartolomeo (Saint Bartholemew) and its rectory, lies a compact two storey building that was the school of the hamlet until the 1960s, a point of reference for all the boys and girls of the surroundings. The school is no longer usable but where artist Petrit Halilaj will create a work as part of the Abetare (Primer Book) series, created from doodles scribbled on school desks.

The Abetare series started in 2015, using the archive of the doodles and drawings on the desks in the school in Runik (Kosovo), the village where Halilaj grew up in. Over the past ten years the artist has created a doodle and drawing archive that inspire him: the results are monumental steel and bronze sculptures, drawing from the childhood imaginaries in different times and space overlapping into a single language. The Abetare series has been exhibited in several major institutions, including the roof top of the New York Metropolitan Museum in 2024, as part of the Roof Garden Commission.

For Radis Halilaj will work starting with the doodles and drawings found on the Dogliani school desks combined with those from his archive.  The work will occupy the space once filled by the former school, as if a stylized house with no walls, inhabited by imaginary creatures from the school desks of the Langhe and the Balkans: their meeting will shape a monument to the universal language of imagination and fantasy. The work will be inaugurated in October.

 

 

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For details please visit the website: www.radis-crt.it

RADIS | LE MASCHE DI GIULIA CENCI

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Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the art oriented entity of Fondazione CRT, presented Un’arca per le stelle (An Ark for the Stars), a collective work realised by the students of the schools that took part in the educational activities within the first edition of Radis, realised with the support of Fondazione CRC.

After its broadcast on SkyArte, from today you can see the documentary ‘Radis – le masche di Giulia Cenci’ – made by Cucù Milano and TIWI – on the Fondazione Arte CRT’s YouTube channel.

 

 

 

Photo credit Giorgio Perottino

Radis presenta Un'arca per le stelle, frutto delle attività educative realizzate con le scuole e curate da Feliz con l'Associazione La Scatola Gialla.

RADIS PRESENTA UN’ARCA PER LE STELLE

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A new date for Radis, the public art project of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year: on Saturday 22 March from 15.00 and Sunday 23 March from 10.00, Un’Arca per le Stelle (An Ark for the Stars), the collective work created by the students who took part in the educational activities curated by Feliz with the La Scatola Gialla association as part of the educational project linked to Radis.

The day will also be an opportunity to present the documentary on the first edition of the project, produced by Cucù Milano and TIWI, which will be broadcast by Sky Arte on Tuesday 25 March 2025.

The Radis project – from the Piedmontese radis (root) – was created with the aim of enriching the Piedmontese territory with a heritage of public works of art that are made available to the community, in dialogue with educational programmes, public meetings and exhibition projects that return part of the collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT to the community. The first edition, curated by Marta Papini and realised in collaboration with the Fondazione CRC, culminated last October with the inauguration in the Chiot Rosa clearing of the site-specific work le masche by the artist Giulia Cenci; the work consists of a series of aluminium sculptures made by the artist from casts of birch trees in the clearing, combined with elements typical of her sculptural language.

The commissioning of Giulia Cenci’s work at Chiot Rosa was accompanied by an educational programme for local schools, curated by Feliz in collaboration with the association La Scatola Gialla. The first cycle of meetings, entitled L’Attesa (Waiting), involved thirteen primary school classes from the Borgo San Dalmazzo and Demonte Comprehensive Institutes in June 2024, who worked in the classroom to discover public art and in Chiot Rosa to imagine their own work at the same time as the artist conceived hers. In the autumn, the project continued with the activities of Costruire i sensi (Building Sensories), which also involved secondary schools, with a total of 38 classes, or 694 students, involved in a first-person confrontation with the work installed at Chiot Rosa, with Giulia Cenci’s language and research. The result of the workshops is L’arca delle stelle (The Ark of the Stars), a collective work whose return is a further opportunity to involve families and the local area in the themes of public art, and an invitation to visit Chiot Rosa to discover the work of public art that has inspired children and young people.

On Saturday 22nd March, the day will begin at 15.00 at the Centro della Comunità (former bowling alley) in Rittana, with institutional greetings by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, and Mauro Gola, President of the Fondazione CRC; followed by a presentation of the schools’ activities and the final project by Elena Valsania and Christian Grappiolo of Feliz; this will be followed by a talk by Marta Papini, curator of Radis, and the presentation of the documentary film dedicated to the first edition of the project. The day will end with a visit to the students’ work, which will also be open to the public on Sunday 23rd March from 10am to 6pm.

Admission free of charge – reservation available HERE

 

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APERTO | 2024

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With a total of 372 applications received for more than 110 participants selected from all over Italy, the first edition of Aperto, the cycle of free training seminars for contemporary art professionals promoted and financed by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, which aims to provide Turin and Piedmont with a free high-level training programme, has come to a successful close and will soon launch its second edition.

With the Aperto programme, we set ourselves the challenge of making Turin a city laboratory for contemporary art professions, in line with its vocation as a reference city in the Italian and European art scene,’ explains Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. Among the lines for the four-year period 2024-27, the Foundation has strategically chosen to give centrality to the offer of specialised training, with the precise aim of preparing professional figures for the art sector, providing skills, spaces, content and economic resources. This is precisely Aperto‘s purpose: to invest in a high-quality training programme, from a theoretical, methodological and operational point of view, which has already produced significant results in the first edition of the programme.

Conceived by a team made up of Giorgina Bertolino, Irene Calderoni, Bernardo Follini and Vittoria Martini, Aperto involved contemporary Turin-based institutions and spaces with recognised expertise in the field of education: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Almanac, Cripta747, MuchoMas! Feat Venture, each of which has collaborated with universities, educational institutions, archives, libraries and cultural associations, including the University of Turin, Dipartimento Culture Politiche Società, Polo del ‘900, Istoreto – Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea “Giorgio Agosti”, Città di Torino, Biblioteca Civica Alberto Geisser, Archivio Tipografico, Pressato Coffee & Books, De Carli Fonderia Artistica.

Aperto‘s 2024 programme proposed six free intensive seminars, each lasting four days, with a total of 55 visiting professors, including Italian and international guests, at the venues of the participating institutions and partners; each seminar explored a specific area: Practice-based research, on the relationship between research and practice in the context of art and curating and of academic or independent studies; Relazionarsi al presente / Relating to the present, to reflect on how an artistic practice relates to the present, through the exploration of the concepts of community, belonging and relationship; Prologue for a school in the making. A Project by Una Scuola al Castello di Rivoli, a pilot seminar of the Castello di Rivoli Postgraduate Art Training Programme, to work collectively and critically on deconstructing one’s own disciplines and delaying production in a spirit of open dialogue; Arte e scritture in atto / Art and Writings in Action to address, explore and discuss the practice of writing as an evolving tool at the intersection of historiographic, critical, theoretical and artistic production; Arte in pratica: allestimento e produzione / Art in Practice: Installation and Production, to provide tools and techniques for two central aspects of the organisation and system of contemporary art that require professionals with a variety of increasingly specialised and up-to-date skills; Management e sostenibilità dei progetti culturali / Management and Sustainability of Cultural Projects, to explore the fundamental tools for projects that are intended to last, evolve and leave a mark on the community.

 

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APERTO is a free training programme for contemporary art professionals, promoted and financed by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

The seminar is the format chosen to deepen a specific field: it combines the acquisition of new skills with the theoretical and reflective dimension and workshop activity.

Each seminar lasts 4 days and is given by Italian and international teachers and guests. It is aimed at a maximum of 25 participants aged between 22 and 35, who are admitted through individual open calls. Participants can apply for one or more seminars.

It is a network of contemporary institutions and spaces with recognised expertise in the field of education and takes place in their premises in Turin.

For more information visit the website.

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PASTIS | BOLOGNA

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Museum directors, curators, artists, students, critics, professionals of the contemporary art system and personalities from different backgrounds, together in an informal meeting in symbolic spaces throughout Italy: the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT is launching Pastis, the ‘secret breakfast’ conceived by art critic, journalist and populariser Nicolas Ballario, which the Foundation has decided to organise at key moments for contemporary art in Italy, in order to help build a more cohesive, inclusive and open art community.

“Conceived and curated by Nicolas Ballario, Pastis is a format that had its first stop in Turin last November on the occasion of the Artissima International Fair. We are delighted to be able to renew this appointment in Bologna during Artefiera,” says Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. “Pastis is a breakfast and much more: it is an opportunity for networking outside the canonical venues of contemporary art; a moment of convivial meeting and discussion among people who are attracted to and work in this world; a way of discovering and rediscovering significant and symbolic places in the cities where it takes place. Of course, it is also an opportunity to make the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, of which I have the honour to be President, known, to tell those who do not yet know about its activities and projects, so that they can spread them in their own professional and personal spheres.”

“Pastis is a convivial moment with no apparent purpose other than to meet, to get to know each other, to chat,” says Nicolas Ballario. “The format was first experimented with during Artissima in the Pastis bar of the same name in Turin, but that is not why it is called Pastis: Pastis in Piedmontese means ‘chaos’, and that is precisely the purpose, to bring together different personalities, to mix and network from the early hours of the morning; rumours circulate a few days in advance, but only on the morning of the breakfast do we really know the exact location of the meeting, which is always and in any case a historic venue in the host city, an important place for art or for the artistic community.”

The next Pastis event will take place in Bologna during ARTEFIERA, on the morning of Friday 7 February.

 

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Visual Identity: Creative studio Cucù Milano

APERTO | MANAGEMENT E SOSTENIBILITÀ DEI PROGETTI CULTURALI

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Seminar 6 | Management e sostenibilità dei progetti culturali | from 5 to 8 February 2025

Aperto, the free training programme for contemporary art professionals, promoted and funded by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, announces the sixth seminar of its first edition.

Designing culture is as much about vision as it is about strategy: the ‘Management e sostenibilità dei progetti culturali (Management and Sustainability of Cultural Projects)’ seminar will explore the fundamental tools for creating projects that can last, evolve and leave a mark on communities.

Cultural design is not only a creative exercise, but also a management process that must take into account available resources, costs, socio-cultural impact and public policies. The seminar will address the issues of sustainability and management from an integrated cross-cutting perspective: sustainability will be interpreted in an economic and socio-political sense, where being sustainable means first and foremost creating projects that have a lasting positive impact on communities, while management will be understood as the operational ability to strategically manage resources and project development phases.

Management and sustainability of cultural projects’ is a seminar by Riccardo Lazzarato, organised by Feat.Ventures and reserved for a group of people who have attended one of Aperto’s previous seminars.

 

 

The 2024 edition of Aperto offered 6 seminars: Practice-based research (26-29 June), Relazionarsi al presente / Relating to the Present (16-19 July), Una scuola al Castello di Rivoli /A School at the Castello di Rivoli (23-26 September), Arte e scritture in atto / Art and Writings in Action (23-26 October), Arte in pratica: allestimento e produzione /Art in Practice: Installation and Production (27-30 November), Management e sostenibilità dei progetti culturali / Management and Sustainability of Cultural Projects (5-8 February 2025).

Each seminar lasted four days and is given by Italian and international lecturers and guests. They were open to a maximum of 25 participants between the ages of 22 and 35 who were admitted through individual open calls. Participants could apply to one or more seminars.

Aperto is a network of contemporary institutions and spaces with recognised expertise in the field of education and takes place in their premises in Turin. The partners design the seminars together with the team that conceived the project (Giorgina Bertolino, Irene Calderoni, Bernardo Follini, Vittoria Martini). The 2024 edition of Aperto involved Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Almanac, Cripta747, Mucho Mas!, Feat Venture.

For more information visit the website.

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EXPOSED TORINO FOTO FESTIVAL 2025

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Introduced today the first news on the second edition of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival (April 16-June 2, 2025). 12 solo and group exhibitions, 16 artists from 12 countries (Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Palestine),  7 prestigious exhibition venues (Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Archivio di Stato, Camera – Italian Centre for Photography, Gallerie d’Italia – Turin, GAM – Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, OGR-Officine Grandi Riparazioni and Palazzo Carignano): these are the numbers of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival, a cultural event that offers an international overview of the latest trends in contemporary photography.

 

“Beneath the Surface” is the topic chosen for the second edition of the Festival, organised by Fondazione per la Cultura Torino under the guidance of artistic directors Menno Liauw and Salvatore Vitale, and promoted by Città di Torino, Regione Piemonte, Camera di commercio di Torino, Intesa Sanpaolo, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione CRT in cooperation with Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

The theme of the festival is a call to explore the contents and worlds that hide under the surface of images – not only those captured by the artists’ shots, but also those generated, transformed, and retouched through increasingly advanced and interconnected technologies. The artists’ gaze shows the complexity of present times from different perspectives, capturing unprecedented angles. Photography brings back to the forefront of contemporary debate the critical reflection on current issues, such as climate change, the postcolonial perspective, and fast-changing geopolitical balances.

Always at the forefront in supporting Turin’s cultural system, the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has stimulated the creation of yet another moment of great events dedicated to contemporary creativity, to be added to the extraordinary programme that comes to life in Turin every November.

“For 25 years, the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has been working in synergy with the Fondazione CRT to support our cultural system, both in terms of the provision of resources and in the important role of liaison, facilitating the creation of networks and cooperation between different cultural institutions. In this spirit, this year we are renewing our collaboration with EXPOSED. Torino Foto Festival, an event that aims to position Turin in national and international cultural circuits and make the city a point of reference for Italian and European photographic culture, also thanks to the involvement of the territory’s cultural network“, says Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

 

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FONDAZIONE ARTE CRT AND THE TURIN’S ART WEEK

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La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT si conferma grande protagonista della Art Week torinese attraverso il sostegno a numerose iniziative nell’ambito della Fiera Internazionale di Artissima, nella Città di Torino ma anche fuori città!

AD ARTISSIMA

La campagna acquisizioni
In occasione della trentunesima edizione di Artissima, la Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT incrementa a 280.000 euro lo storico Fondo Acquisizioni a beneficio delle collezioni di GAM – Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna di Torino e Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, il budget più elevato degli ultimi dodici anni.

le masche | Conversazione tra Marta Papini e Giulia
3 novembre h 16.30
Meeting Point, Oval

Conversazione tra l’artista Giulia Cenci e la curatrice Marta Papini a proposito della prima opera permanente dell’artista, le masche, inaugurata il 6 ottobre al Chiot Rosa di Rittana (CN), nell’ambito del progetto Radis, promosso dalla Fondazione Arte CRT in collaborazione con Fondazione CRC.

 

IN CITTA’
2-3 novembre

Partner storico di numerosi progetti e iniziative della Art Week, la Fondazione si conferma sostenitore unico degli eventi organizzati da TAG Torino Art Galleries sin dalla prima edizione. Sabato 2 novembre le gallerie aprono contemporaneamente dalle h 18 alle h 23 per la Notte delle Arti Contemporanee, e siete tutti invitati alle Tag Art Coffee Break di sabato 2 e domenica 3 novembre dalle h 10 alle h 12.

Inoltre le opere della collezione della Fondazione Arte CRT saranno grandi protagoniste dei riallestimenti delle collezioni della GAM e del Castello di Rivoli, oltre che presenti nelle grandi mostre temporanee di prossima apertura.

Per maggiori dettagli vi invitiamo a visitare i siti dei musei.

 

FUORI CITTA’

La Art Week rappresenta un’occasione imperdibile per una gita fuori porta e scoprire “le masche”, la nuova opera pubblica realizzata da Giulia Cenci per la prima edizione di Radis a Rittana (CN).
Sempre a Rittana sarà possibile visitare fino al 10 novembre (sabato e domenica, dalle h 10 alle h 18) “L’opera al nero”, mostra curata da Marta Papini e Leonardo Pietropaolo nell’ambito del progetto Radis che mette in dialogo opere della Fondazione Arte CRT e della Fondazione CRC. La mostra sarà visitabile fino al 11 novembre.