Aperto

Professions

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

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.

The 2024 edition of Aperto offers 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 Writing in Action (24-26 October), Arte in pratica: allestimento e produzione /Art in Practice: Creation and Production (27-30 November), Management e sostenibilità dei progetti culturali / Management and Sustainability of Cultural Projects (January 2025).

Each seminar lasts four days and is given by Italian and international lecturers and guests. They are open to a maximum of 25 participants between the ages of 22 and 35 who are 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 2024 edition of Aperto involves Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Almanac, Cripta747, Mucho Mas!, Feat Venture.

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SEMINARI

Seminar 1 | PRACTICE – BASED RESEARCH
26-29 June 2024

Curated by Alessandra Ferrini and Bernardo Follini.

The Practice-based research seminar aims to explore the relationship between research and practice in artistic and curatorial contexts and in the context of academic or independent studies, reflecting on the proliferation of practices in contemporary art that are located within the framework of academic research and the proliferation of critical modes in academic studies towards theoretical knowledge detached from practice.

 

 

To apply: send your application by 19 May 2024

to the address  applications@aperto-crt.it

Download the 1^ open call

 

Seminar 2 | RELAZIONARSI AL PRESENTE / RELATING TO THE PRESENT
16-19 July 2024

Curated by Almanac Inn, Cripta747 and Mucho Mas! 

In today’s changing and complex context, it is crucial to reflect on one’s own positioning and how artistic practice relates to the present and its surroundings. By exploring the concepts of community and belonging, the module aims to examine the political and plural potential of art through a reflection that moves from the personal to the collective. How can an art project enter into dialogue with a community? What is the role of activism in artistic debate and how do we define the relationship between art and social change? Relating to the Present invites participants to explore these questions through theoretical reflection and practical exercises.


To apply: send your application by 16 June 2024

to the address  applications@aperto-crt.it

Download the 2^ open call


Seminario 3 | PROLOGUE FOR A SCHOOL IN THE MAKING 
23- 26 September 2024

Curated by Cally Spooner & Lilou Vidal, organised by UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI with the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and the CRRI – Centro di Ricerca Castello di Rivoli.

The seminar Prologue for a School In the Making is the pilot seminar of UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI, a new postgraduate course in art education founded in 2024 and hosted by the Castello di Rivoli; in Prologue for a School in the Making, each day will begin with two hours of radical pedagogy by the facilitators, followed by the sharing of material presented by The Ensemble on power structures, institutional psychoanalysis, transmission through bodies and places, as well as horizontality and dormancy, collections and research. Each day will end with some exercises in publishing channels with The Medium.

After the pilot seminar Prologue for a School in the Making, in the framework of APERTO, UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI will continue the following week with its group of twelve practitioners, from 30 September to 3 October 2024.

To apply: Dowload the 3^ open call

Send your application by 11 august 2024 h 12.00.

 



Seminar 4 | ARTE E SCRITTURE IN ATTO
24-26 October

Curated by Giorgina Bertolino and Vittoria Martini.

Art and writings in action aims to address, explore and discuss the practice of writing as an evolving tool at the intersection of historiographic, critical, theoretical and artistic production. The seminar focuses on hybrid and experimental forms of art texts, those that question and break the boundaries between non-fiction, fiction, poetry, performance and mobilise academic canons, sedimented formulas of art writing and patriarchal logics that permeate language. Arte e scritture in atto explores art writing as a practice and as a medium, starting from the positions, projects and texts of authorsǝ who have measured themselvesǝ with the themes of the first person, the relationship between writing, life, affects, narration, and the inventive, prefigurative and political power of language.

Arte e scritture in atto is addressed to writers, artists, curators, researchers; to those who have just begun to approach art writing and those who have been using it for some time for work; to those who are looking for new ideas, spaces and styles of expression; to those who wish to measure themselves against experimental models and the history of art writing.

The seminar will take place from 23 to 26 October in Turin and will have its main venue in the rooms of the Biblioteca civica Alberto Geisser, one of the hubs of the Civic Libraries of Turin’s Librarian circuit. Two sessions will take place in the spaces of Archivio Tipografico and Pressato Coffee & Books.

 

To apply: Download the 4^ open call

Send your application by 16 settembre 2024 h 12.00 to the address  applications@aperto-crt.it



Seminar 5 | ARTE IN PRATICA: ALLESTIMENTO E PRODUZIONE
27-30 November

Curated by Giuseppe Tassone, Head of the Technical Department of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, with which he has worked for twenty years, organising exhibitions in the Fondazione’s own premises and in external venues, and supervising the production of exhibitions and works.

Art in Practice: Exhibition Design and Production is the fifth seminar in the Aperto 2024 programme and is designed to provide tools, techniques, content and insights into the key figures of the exhibition designer, exhibition designer and producer, giving visibility and attention to skills and functions often confined to the backstage of exhibitions and art projects.

Through lectures, workshops and discussions, the seminar has two main objectives. The first is to address and deepen the role of these professionals within the processes and phases that prepare the public presentation of a work or an exhibition; the second is to acquire new knowledge and experience directly in the field, in the places where art is produced.

 

To apply: Download the 5^ open call

Send your application by 20 october 2024 h 12.00 to the address  applications@aperto-crt.it

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Seminar 6 | MANAGEMENT E SOSTENIBILITÀ DEI PROGETTI CULTURALI (5-8 February 2025)

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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 offers 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 Writing in Action (24-26 October), Arte in pratica: allestimento e produzione /Art in Practice: Creation and Production (27-30 November), Management e sostenibilità dei progetti culturali / Management and Sustainability of Cultural Projects (5-8 February 2025).

The 2024 edition of Aperto involves Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Almanac, Cripta747, Mucho Mas!, Feat Venture.

For more information on how to apply, please visit the project website.

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