From October 28, 2025 to March 8, 2026, Turin will host News from the Near Future, a group exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The exhibition, curated by Bernardo Follini and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo, is spread over two city venues: the Foundation’s spaces at 16 Via Modane and the National Automobile Museum at 40 Corso Unità d’Italia. The public opening will take place on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Foundation and on Oct. 29 at the same time at the Automobile Museum. The initiative traces three decades of the Foundation’s activities through a selection of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection. The Collection, which began in 1992 and was formally integrated with the Foundation in 1995, serves as a research and documentation tool, offering insight into the history of the institution’s exhibitions and projects and outlining a possible narrative of art from the 1990s to the present, with roots in earlier decades.
In the Foundation’s spaces, historical works are juxtaposed with recent or never-before-exhibited works, flanked by an archive section documenting the institution’s 30-year history. The archive includes media materials, videos, images and documents, creating both a historical and conceptual reading of the Foundation’s activities. The National Automobile Museum, on the other hand, hosts a section highlighting the connections between recent art history and that of the Turin institution, enhancing dialogues, lineages and frictions among the iconic works in the Collection.
The exhibition includes more than one hundred works by prominent artists who have marked the Foundation’s path, exploring the evolution of artistic languages and media over a wide time span. These include videos and video installations by Doug Aitken, Steve McQueen and Ian Cheng; sculptures by Urs Fischer, Berlinde De Bruyckere and Andra Ursuta; installations by Tobias Rehberger and Adrian Villar Rojas; photographs by Cindy Sherman and Wolfgang Tillmans; and paintings by Glenn Brown, Tauba Auerbach and Ambera Wellmann. The display does not follow a chronological order, but offers a visual, affective and conceptual archive built through exhibitions, commissions, institutional collaborations, residencies and educational projects.
News from the Near Future is in continuity with the Foundation’s previous triennial exhibitions dedicated to its anniversaries: 2005’s Bidibibodibiboo, hosted at the Foundation and at the Cavallerizza Reale for the first 10-year anniversary, and 2015’s Somethingold, something new, something borrowed, something blue, held in the industrial spaces of Asja Ambiente Italia in Rivoli. The current exhibition reaffirms the role of women artists in the critical analysis of the present, showing how works can cross different temporal coordinates and offer new keys to interpretation. The curatorial intent is twofold: to restore the future heralded by the works from the Foundation’s beginnings and to confirm its function as an observatory on emerging artistic trends.
In parallel, some works from the Collection will be integrated into the permanent exhibition itinerary of the National Automobile Museum, recently updated in content and narrative modes. The project, entitled Convergenze and curated by art historian Giacinto di Pietrantonio, aims to offer a new reading of the history and culture of the automobile, rereading the heritages of the two institutions according to new narrative paradigms. The initiative is proposed as a curatorial gesture that expands the codes of the museum narrative and invites the public to engage with innovative perspectives. The title of the exhibition comes from Fiona Tan’s video installation of the same name, made in 2003 and previously exhibited at the Foundation. The work consists of excerpts from newsreels from the early decades of the twentieth century, preserved in the archives of the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, and examines the relationship between human beings and water, from the domestic dimension to the destructive force, highlighting the implications of the climate emergency. Following the installation model, the exhibition combines fragments of different histories and archival materials, building a collective memory capable of suggesting new interpretive possibilities and sensitivities with respect to contemporary urgencies.
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