Artissima 2024, with a focus on this year’s theme The Era of Daydreaming, celebrates its approach of discovery and rediscovery of talents, and the constant pursuit of beauty that has always been its trademark, through the awarding of 13 among prizes, honours and funds. Aimed at highlighting the work of artists and galleries, the Artissima 2024 prizes will be awarded at the fair by international juries composed of curators and directors of the world’s leading contemporary art museums.

Jury: Krist Gruijthuijsen, Céline Kopp, Alberto Salvadori

The prize, produced in collaboration with illicaffè, has been assigned for 24 years to an artist of the Present Future section – since always a launching pad for new talents – confirming itself as an important contribution to the success of emerging artists at international level.

Jury: Maurin Dietrich, Joao Laia, Manuela Moscoso, Vittoria Matarrese, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

The prize, supported by VANNI occhiali since 2019, continues its exploration of the possible contaminations between contemporary art and eyewear design. It will be assigned to an artist presented at the fair whose research can offer an original perspective on reality, triggering an unexpected and surprising gaze, like looking through a lens.

Jury: Dimitri Borri, Loredana Longo, Dino Vannini

Jury: Lucrezia Cippitelli, Walter Guadagnini, Lorenzo Vitturi

The honour, coordinated by Collezione La Gaia and now in its third edition, is created to commemorate Matteo Viglietta: an outstanding, passionate collector who had a very strong bond with Artissima from the outset. It will consist in the acquisition of an artwork that will become part of the Collection.

Jury: Eva Brioschi, Lilou Vidal, Luca Lo Pinto

Promoted by Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte and now in its fifth edition, the honour will be assigned to the artist who embodies, through research and work, the ideal of unconventional female creativity and artistic freedom Carol Rama enacted and transmitted with her works and personality.

Come into being in 2023 thanks to a novel initiative organized by Fondazione Bracco in collaboration with Fondazione Roberto De Silva e Diana Bracco of Milano, this prize focuses on the figure of the gallerist as a female entrepreneur. It will be assigned to a rising woman gallerist, Italian or international, whose gallery has at least one location in Italy and whose entrepreneurial history demonstrates a vivid interest in artistic research and quality.

Created in 2023 in collaboration with Pinacoteca Agnelli, this prize will grant an artist the opportunity to produce an artwork on a permanent billboard for the track on the roof of the Lingotto, in the proximity of Artissima. Inside the fair, an international jury will select one artist, who will have the opportunity to create a specific work for the monumental poster that will be unveiled at the time of Artissima 2025.

Fondazione Merz returns for the fourth year with the prize that aims to select the international artist that corresponds best to the Foundation’s research on young artists of the Mediterranean. The selected artist will have the possibility of taking part in a residency in Sicily.

Organized with MEF Museo Ettore Fico of Torino and now at its 15th iteration, the prize continues to promote and support the work of young artists, through an acquisition. The winner will be selected among the artists showing at Artissima, thanks to his/her international research and poetics.

Fondazione Oelle promotes for the third year the prize for which an international jury selects one artist from those represented by the galleries in the fair. The artist will have the opportunity to take part in a residency in Catania, aimed at producing a work that enhances the contemporary Sicilian and Mediterranean context. At the end of the residency, an exhibition will be produced and organized which will be hosted in one of the Foundation’s exhibition venues.

For the 31st edition of Artissima, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT increases for the second consecutive year to 280,000 euros the historic Acquisitions Fund for the benefit of the collections of GAM – Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna di Torino and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.