3-5 November

OVAL, Lingotto Fiere

Director: Luigi Fassi

Artissima is Italy’s most important contemporary art fair. Since its establishment in 1994, it has combined the presence of an international market with a focus on experimentation and research.

From Friday 3 November to Sunday 5 November 2023, the spaces of the Oval in Torino welcomed the four flagship sections of the fair – Main Section, New Entries, Monologue/Dialogue and Art Spaces & Editions – and three curated sections – Disegni, Present Future and Back to the Future – also hosted on digital platform Artissima Voice Over. Artissima 2023 involved the participation of 181 Italian and international galleries, including 68 monographic and curated projects to present the work of represented artists to the public.

The theme was Relations of Care. Suggested by Brazilian anthropologist Renzo Taddei in a recent essay, the concept identifies and proposes care as a premise and as the ultimate aim of the advancement of knowledge, which first of all must be directed toward preserving the diversity and value of every form of life in the world.