Aperto
Professions
Aperto, a free training programme for contemporary art professionals, promoted and financed by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
After the success of the first series of seminars, the 2025 programme comprises four seminars, running from July 2025 to February 2026.
The seminar is the format chosen to deepen a specific area: it combines the acquisition of new skills with the theoretical and reflective dimension and workshop activity. Each seminar lasts four days and is given by Italian and international lecturers and guests. They are open to a maximum of 25 participants admitted through individual open calls. Participants can apply for 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 2025 edition of Aperto will involve the Castello di Rivoli, the Almanac Inn, Cripta 747, Mucho Mas!, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation and Artissima.
SEMINARS
Edition 2025
OPEN CALL
Seminar 1 | RACCONTARE LE MOSTRE. Per una storia della curatela al Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Testimonianze e confronti.
24–25 July and 25–26 September 2025.
Conceived and organised by the CRRI – Centro di Ricerca Castello di Rivoli and curated by Antonella Soldaini, an art historian, curator, author and curatorial consultant, as well as the head of research at Studio Celant.
The opening seminar of the second cycle of Aperto, developed by Marcella Beccaria (Head of CRRI), aims to contribute to the training of a new generation of researchers in exhibition history and curatorial practices. Through the analysis of texts and presentations by professionals in the sector, the seminar will explore the theme “Raccontare le mostre” (Telling the story of exhibitions). The Castello di Rivoli, founded in 1984 as the first museum in Italy exclusively dedicated to contemporary art, will serve as a case study and reference context for the seminar’s activities, which will also consider other cases.
To apply: Download the 1^ open call
Send your application by 23 June 2025 h 12.00 to the address applications@aperto-crt.it
Seminario 2 | FICTIONING PRACTICES. Produzioni artistiche e strategie mimetiche per reimmaginare il reale
16 – 18 October 2025
Fictioning practices. Artistic productions and mimetic strategies for reimagining reality is the seminar, conceived and curated by Almanac, Cripta747 and Mucho Mas!, three non-profit organisations in Turin that have collaborated on the NewGen project for years, explores artistic productions and mimetic strategies for reimagining reality.
The programme explores the use of artistic practice as a strategy of disidentification and reaffirmation, with the aim of problematising existing structures. Imaginary institutions, fictitious identities and speculative models are critical tools that aim to subvert dominant narratives and create new spaces and possibilities in the collective imagination.
Designed for artists, curators and researchers, the seminar takes a hybrid approach, combining theoretical discussions, case studies and practical workshops. ‘Fictioning Practices’ aims to activate a space for shared research in which fiction is configured as an epistemological and political tool capable of critically questioning the present and imagining alternative forms of subjectivation, self-narration, and relationships.
The event will take place at Almanac, Cripta747 and Mucho Mas in Turin.
To apply: Dowload the 2^ call
Send your application by September 15 h 12 to the address applications@aperto-crt.it
SEMINARS
2024 Edition
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Past editions
Aperto 2025
Aperto, a free training programme for contemporary art professionals, promoted and financed by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
The 2025 program of Aperto offers 4 seminars da luglio 2025 a febbraio 2026
The 2025 edition of Aperto involves Castello di Rivoli, Almanac Inn, Cripta 747, Mucho Mas!, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo e Artissima.
For more information on how to apply, please visit the project website.
Aperto 2024
Aperto, a free training programme for contemporary art professionals, promoted and financed by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
The 2024 edition of Aperto involved Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Almanac, Cripta747, Mucho Mas!, Feat Venture.
The 2024 edition of Aperto offered 6 seminars:
- Seminario 1 | PRACTICE – BASED RESEARCH | 26-29 June 2024
curated by Alessandra Ferrini and Bernardo Follini - Seminario 2 | RELAZIONARSI AL PRESENTE | 16-19 July 2024
curated by Almanac Inn, Cripta747 and Mucho Mas! - Seminario 3 | PROLOGUE FOR A SCHOOL IN THE MAKING | 23-26 settembre 2024
curated by Cally Spooner & Lilou Vidal. The seminar was organized by UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI in collaboration with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and CRRI – Centro di Ricerca Castello di Rivoli. - Seminario 4 | ARTE E SCRITTURE IN ATTO | 23-26 ottobre 2024
Conceived and curated by Giorgina Bertolino and Vittoria Martini - Seminario 5 | ARTE IN PRATICA: ALLESTIMENTO E PRODUZIONE | 27-30 novembre 2024
curated by Giuseppe Tassone. - Seminario 6 | MANAGEMENT E SOSTENIBILITÀ DEI PROGETTI CULTURALI | dal 5 al 8 febbraio 2025
curated by Riccardo Lazzarato and Conceived by Feat.Ventures reserved for a group of people who took part in one of the previous Aperto seminars.
