Exhibitions in Turin: the 10 to see during Turin's Art Week

Art Week in Turin is off to a good start: the first weekend in November, the one in which the contemporary art fairs are traditionally held, namely the now historic Artissima, which reaches its 30th edition this year, and the younger Flashback, which mixes ancient and contemporary art, Paratissima, Diffusissima, and The Others. And of course there are several exhibitions to see in this weekend all devoted to art. Here are ten that we have selected for you if you have decided to spend these first days of November in Turin.

1. Turner’s landscapes and sovereigns at the table at Venaria Reale.

When: Turner from 10/13/2023 to 01/28/2024, sovereigns at the table from 9/28/2023 to 01/28/2024

Where: Reggia di Venaria Reale

Two interesting exhibitions at Venaria Reale, one on Turner’s landscapes, the other on banquets in the history of art from the 16th to the 19th century. The exhibition Turner. Landscapes of Mythology, curated by British art historian Anne Lyles, dedicated to British Romantic painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 1775 - 1851), thus continuing the prestigious collaboration with the Tate UK after the exhibition held last year at the Reggia di Venaria dedicated to John Constable. On display are more than forty works, including oil paintings, drawings, etchings and watercolors (the famous color beginnings) made in the 1920s and from the British institution. In the exhibition Sovereigns at the Table. Banqueted Lunches in the Italian Courts, visitors can thus admire more than two hundred paintings, table furnishings, and splendid porcelain and silver services from the major Italian courts through which it is intended to document and tell the story of the lunches of popes, princes and kings. The king’s lunch is one of the moments that the collective imagination usually associates with the life of the courts, but it has very rarely been treated by painters in their works. Thanks to extensive and unpublished research, the exhibition aims to recount the royal tables in their symbolic representation and daily practices that have maintained influences to the present day.

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2. Hayez at GAM

When: 17/10/2023 to 01/04/2024

Where: GAM

The Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino (GAM) is dedicating a major exhibition to Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882), scheduled from October 17, 2023 to April 1, 2024, and entitled Hayez. The Workshop of the Romantic Painter. The exhibition, curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Elena Lissoni, makes art, history and politics intertwine, accompanying the public to discover the artist’s world, inside the painter’s workshop, to reveal its techniques and secrets. An original itinerary that compares paintings and drawings, with more than 100 works from prestigious public and private collections to which are added some important paintings by the artist kept at GAM.

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3. Art Nouveau at Palazzo Madama

When: Oct. 26, 2023 to June 10, 2024

Where: Palazzo Madama

Palazzo Madama - Museo Civico d’Arte Antica di Torino presents the exhibition Liberty. Turin Capital, curated by Palazzo Madama and SIAT - Society of Engineers and Architects in Turin with the collaboration of MondoMostre. About one hundred works will be on display with the intention of recounting the fundamental role of Turin in the establishment of Art Nouveau and addressing every aspect of the artistic manifestations of Art Nouveau in an original and unprecedented way, in order to make the public understand the mechanisms of the architectural and aesthetic creation of this style. A style that finds in Turin its capital and its sounding board in Valentino Park, the protagonist of the nation’s new values and progress, an ideal setting to showcase Italian production in the industrial, agricultural and artistic fields.

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4. Tim Burton at the National Cinema Museum

When: 11/10/2023 to 07/04/2024

Where: National Cinema Museum

A major exhibition dedicated to one of the most beloved contemporary directors, Tim Burton, for the first time in Italy: this is The World of Tim Burton, an exhibition that can be visited at the National Cinema Museum in Turin from October 11, 2023 to April 7, 2024. The exhibition, conceived and co-curated by Jenny He in collaboration with Tim Burton and adapted by Domenico De Gaetano for the spaces of the Mole Antonelliana, home of the Cinema Museum, aims to be a journey into the visionary universe and creativity of Tim Burton. On display are objects, drawings, sketches and documents from the director’s personal archive to show the variety of his intense creative output.

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5. African Art at the Royal Museums

When: 10/27/2023 to 02/25/2024

Where: Royal Museums

From Oct. 27, 2023 to Feb. 25, 2023, the Sale Chiablese of the Royal Museums in Turin will host the exhibition AFRICA. The Forgotten Collections, dedicated to African art collections set up since the second half of the 19th century in the city, curated by Elena De Filippis, Enrica Pagella and Cecilia Pennacini, produced by the Musei Reali with the Regional Directorate Museums of Piedmont and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of theUniversity of Turin (MAET), the collaboration of CoopCulture and the support of the Santagata Foundation for the Economy of Culture for the program of collateral activities. On display are more than 150 objects including statues, tools, amulets, jewelry, weapons, shields, drums and photographs from the Savoy collections and MAET in Turin, with loans from Palazzo Madama - Museo Civico d’Arte Antica in Turin and the Museum of Civilizations in Rome.

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6. Michelangelo Pistoletto at Rivoli Castle

When: 02/11/2023 to 02/25/2024

Where: Rivoli Castle

From November 2, 2023 to February 25, 2024, Castello di Rivoli, in the spaces of the Manica Lunga, is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933) on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Michelangelo Pistoletto. Many of one, this is the title of the exhibition project curated by Carolyn Christov - Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria, intends to reinvent the orthogonal architecture of the Manica Lunga to transform it into an irregular and free urban device through which to collect and reread all his art in a gigantic self-portrait that functions as the map of an ideal City of the future.

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7. André Kertész at the Camera Center

When: 19/10/2023 to 04/02/2024

Where: Camera Center

From Oct. 19, 2023 to Feb. 4, 2024 CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin is hosting a major anthological exhibition dedicated to one of the masters of twentieth-century photography, André Kertész, curated by Matthieu Rivallin and Walter Guadagnini and realized in collaboration with the Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie (MPP) in Paris. The entire career of André Kertész, a Hungarian-born photographer who was born in Budapest in 1894, came to France in 1925 and finally moved to the United States in 1936, where he died in 1985, will be covered on this occasion by more than one hundred and fifty images.

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8. The beginnings of Piero Gilardi at PAV.

When: 04/11/2023 to 28/04/2024

Where: PAV - Parco Arte Vivente

PAV Parco Arte Vivente presents as part of Artissima the exhibition Car Crash. Piero Gilardi and Arte Povera, curated by Marco Scotini. The exhibition, which can be visited Nov. 4, 2023 to April 28, 2024, aims to investigate the production of Piero Gilardi (Turin, 1942-2023) during the 1960s and offer itself as a tribute to the founder of PAV. The itinerary focuses on a rich, albeit brief, moment (five years in all) characterized by Gilardi’s involvement in some of the most important stages of the poverist movement

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9. Khalil Rabah at the Merz Foundation

When: 10/30/2023 to 01/28/2024

Where: Merz Foundation

In Turin, Fondazione Merz presents, from Oct. 30, 2023 to Jan. 28, 2024, the exhibition project by artist Khalil Rabah (Jerusalem, 1961) entitled Through the Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind, curated by Claudia Gioia, created for the spaces of Fondazione Merz. It is a new edition of the Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind, the nomadic project that Rabah inaugurated in 2003 and carried on, in continuous evolution, until today, presenting it in different places such as Istanbul, Amsterdam, London, New York, Rome, Athens and Sharjah. The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind aims to question the power of official bodies in writing history and also the exhibition methodology of museums that present their content from a one-sided perspective.

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10. Mimmo Jodice at Gallerie d’Italia

When: 29/06/2023 to 07/01/2024

Where: Gallerie d’Italia

The exhibition offers a significant summary of the production of photographer Mimmo Jodice, tracing the main themes that inspire his art in as many sections of the exhibition: Anamnesis, Languages, Views of Naples, City, Nature, Seas. On display are eighty photographs taken from 1964 to 2011, including some of the Neapolitan master’s iconic works. From photos immortalizing statues and mosaics, vestiges of ancient Mediterranean civilizations, to an experimental and conceptual interest in the language of photography; from urban views of Naples and other contemporary metropolises, charged with absence and silence, in which, as the author writes, “reality and my inner vision coincide,” to transfigurations of the natural landscape to the poignant melancholy of its seas. The Nature section, with works exhibited for the first time, adds a new and further chapter to his research.

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Exhibitions in Turin: the 10 to see during Turin's Art Week

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