Intesa Sanpaolo, which recorded 420,000 visitors to its four Gallerie d’Italia museum venues in Milan, Naples, Turin and Vicenza in the first half of 2025, announces a fall season full of exhibition events as part of Progetto Cultura, the multi-year program through which the bank supports and promotes art and culture in Italy.
The calendar opens Sept. 11 at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin with a project by Dutch artist Erik Kessels, who will create a multimedia installation from more than 60,000 photographs from Intesa Sanpaolo’s Publifoto Archive. The images, all “stitched” and “transformed” through artificial intelligence, will compose a large, ever-changing portrait of Italy, where faces, news, politics, work, sports, merge into a single vision.
From October 3, the Gallerie d’Italia in Vicenza will host Cristina Mittermeier. The Great Wisdom, an exhibition curated by Lauren Johnston in collaboration with National Geographic. After the success in Turin and the presentation at GAM in Palermo, the exhibition comes to Vicenza enriched with new shots: images with which the Mexican photographer and activist invites us to reflect on the beauty of the planet and the need to protect its nature.
From October 9, still in Turin, there will be a retrospective dedicated to Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946), among the most influential photographers of the contemporary scene. Jeff Wall. Photographs, curated by David Campany, will collect the artist’s most significant photographs from the late 1970s to the present, works that oscillate between staged photography and documentary observation, exploring the multiple aspects of contemporary society.
On Nov. 12, also in Turin, the Gallerie d’Italia will open an exhibition on Riccardo Ghilardi, a photographer known for his celebrity portraits, in collaboration with the National Cinema Museum, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2025. Curated by Domenico De Gaetano, the exhibition is proposed as a long “piano sequenza” that traverses the history of cinema from its origins to the present, involving the Mole, the Museum’s collections and great protagonists of national and international cinema.
At the Gallerie d’Italia in Naples, from November 20, the exhibition Women in Spanish Naples will open instead. Another Seventeenth Century, thus continuing the path started with the exhibition on Artemisia Gentileschi in 2023. The exhibition, curated by Raffaella Morselli, Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Giuseppe Porzio and Antonio Ernesto Denunzio, with the moral patronage of the Cultural and Scientific Office of the Embassy of Spain in Italy, will highlight women’s contribution to the figurative arts of the 17th century in Naples, giving space both to figures already known and to others that have long remained confined to specialized or local bibliography. The survey will also extend to female writers, musicians, singers and comedians of the time.
Finally, from Nov. 28, the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan will host Eternity and Vision. Rome and Milan Capitals of Neoclassicism, curated by Francesco Leone and Fernando Mazzocca, with the collaboration of Elena Lissoni, and organized in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The exhibition aims to reconstruct the dialogue between Rome, the universal capital of the arts, and Milan, the great center of European Neoclassicism, through works by Antonio Canova, Giuseppe Bossi, Andrea Appiani and other leading figures. Among the most prominent pieces are the Honors of Italy, the ceremonial apparatus worn by Napoleon during his coronation as King of Italy in Milan Cathedral (1805), recently restored as part of the 19th Restitutions. Introducing the exhibition will be Canova’s colossal plaster Horse, from the Museo Civico in Bassano del Grappa and restored as part of the 20th edition of the Restituzioni program.
Intesa Sanpaolo’s Progetto Cultura is promoted by the Arts, Culture and Historical Heritage Department, headed by Michele Coppola.
“The Gallerie d’Italia continues to enthrall visitors with an exhibition proposal of extraordinary variety, openness and value, the result of work with important artists and curators, together with prestigious national and international partners,” Coppola said. “The fall program confirms the concreteness, consistency and comprehensiveness of the commitment to culture of the country’s leading bank. There will be no shortage of reflections on current issues, thanks to exceptional interpreters of contemporary photography, continuing work on our Publifoto Archive. Original projects dedicated to Italian art will arrive, with masterpieces of Neoclassicism and the artists of the Neapolitan seventeenth century, without forgetting to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the National Museum of Cinema. Each initiative stems from the desire to intercept, intrigue and involve different audiences, offering, in all the Bank’s four museum venues, opportunities for knowledge, sharing of values and civil and social growth. The Gallerie d’Italia are living places, open to communities, and reference interlocutors in the enhancement of the country’s precious artistic and cultural heritage, on a par with the greatest European realities.”
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