Reconfirmed for edition No. 25 the huge success of Artissima: 54800 visitors in the four days of opening

Huge success for the 25th edition of Artissima, the international contemporary art fair at theOval in Turin, which ended on November 4, 2018. The numbers were once again very high: 54800 visitors registered during the four days of the opening (November 1-4), 2800 more entries than last year; 35 countries represented by 195 galleries, 47 of which were at the fair for the first time (79 Italian and 116 foreign). More than 1,000 works were exhibited in the 8 sections that made up Artissima. 300 curators and museum directors from around the world were present, 154 professionals participated in the various initiatives, and 5500 collectors and acquisition managers from 30 countries were counted at the fair and in the city of Turin. Numerous foreign collectors were present at international fair number 25 for the first time, while 48 were partners and sponsors.

For the second year, Artissima was directed by Ilaria Bonacossa and supported for the 16th year by UniCredit. Dealing with the theme of Time, the fair developed along an imaginary timeline that crossed the past and the future open to creative inquiry; to this end, a new section dedicated to contemporary sound investigations, Sound, was created and held at OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin.

The curator said, “Artissima is the most important national exhibition event for contemporary art. It brings together market, collecting, commissioning, education and curatorial research under one mission and reverberates on the territory as a contemporary art festival. We are happy and proud of this edition, in which we celebrated the first 25 years of the kermesse by recounting its journey and paying tribute to those who came before me, but also casting our gaze toward the future. In these days we have felt all the energy of an event that puts Italy at the center of contemporary research and makes Turin an obligatory stop for the art world. Galleries, collectors, museum directors, curators and institutions from all over the world, as well as visionary companies that invest in culture, all the way to the public of curious and passionate people: all protagonists of that special way of doing fairs that is the distinguishing characteristic of Artissima, in which every proposal, even the discovery of the city remains special. I would like to thank the galleries and artists who have believed in Artissima’s ability to provide answers to an ever-changing world. This year we have experimented with Sound, the new outdoor section we wanted at OGR; from tomorrow we will already be at work to imagine the future of an event whose ambition is to anticipate the transformations of the art world and contemporary society.”

In addition, during Artissima, Turin hosted for the first time the annual summit of the Global Private Museum Network, an association that brings together the founders of major art institutions from more than 20 countries including China, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and the United States. The fair welcomed more than 15 patron groups from prestigious museums, including the Tate European Collection Circle, the Tate International Council, SahaAssociation, Camden Arts Center, the Friends of the Triennale, the Rembrandt Association, Mecenes Du Sud, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Reconfirmed for edition No. 25 the huge success of Artissima: 54800 visitors in the four days of opening

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