EXPOSED TORINO FOTO FESTIVAL 2025 | ECHOES

The second edition of the EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival, an international exhibition dedicated to contemporary photography, opened today. This year, the festival is directed by Menno Liauw and Salvatore Vitale and revolves around the theme ‘Beneath the Surface’. This theme invites spectators to explore the hidden realities beneath the surfaces of images and their stories. These are not only those captured by artists’ lenses, but also those transformed, retouched, and generated by digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Sixteen international artists are exhibiting in Turin, and through their work they highlight themes such as social inequalities, climate change, postcolonial perspectives and shifts in geopolitical balance.

The festival is organised by the Fondazione per la Cultura Torino and promoted by the Municipality of Turin, the Piedmont Region Government, the Turin Chamber of Commerce, Intesa Sanpaolo, the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and the Fondazione CRT , in collaboration with the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival opens at the Gallerie d’Italia – Torino di Intesa Sanpaolo in the presence of Carrie Mae Weems, one of the most important figures in international photography. The exhibition, which is part of the EXPOSED programme, is a retrospective featuring works from her most famous photographic series, centring on an original Preach project commissioned by Intesa Sanpaolo. It is curated by Sarah Meister, Executive Director of Aperture, who has a curatorial background at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The artist and curator will meet the public on 17 April at 6 p.m. at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin.

EXPOSED‘s headquarters are at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, which is hosting five exhibitions. The artists on show are Lisa Barnard, Valeria Cherchi, Gregory Halpern, Silvia Rosi and Georges Senga. Their works offer powerful reflections on our time and draw on their personal and cultural experiences to create narratives.

This year, the festival will be almost entirely free of charge for the first time. The declared aim of this second edition of the EXPOSED Turin Photo Festival is to engage a broad audience, particularly young people. This is why the event is accessible to everyone free of charge (by reservation via QR code) or at the special price of €5 for the exhibition at the Gallerie d’Italia – Turin: Carrie Mae Weems – The Heart of the Matter.

You can use the Digital Pass from 16 April to 2 June. To obtain it, simply click on https://bit.ly/passexposed2025.

The Digital Pass can be used from 16 April to 2 June. To get it, simply click on ‘Echoes’, a widespread programme covering the whole city and accompanying the 12 exhibitions of the main programme. Echoes involves archives, museums, and independent spaces for special projects, events, and workshops at the intersection of art and experimentation. A variety of exhibitions, screenings, meetings and special projects explore the intersection of photography, contemporary art and culture. Talks, workshops and video projections will take visitors on a journey through the world of contemporary art under the banners of artistic experimentation and reflection on the new frontiers of photography in its broadest sense. Echoes aims to stimulate dialogue between the public, artists and curators, creating a network between different cultural institutions to bring the festival to life across the city. This will enable photography to be taken into new and seemingly distant contexts, while encouraging reflection on its many evolutions.

For more information on the complete programme and special projects, please visit the event website.

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Link – Press folder

Homepage photo credit: RE:Birth, Father 01, Sardinia, Italy – 2021
Valeria Cherchi