Di fifth edition of Diffusissima go open from 19 October to 1 November 2026, and e go turn Torino into one museum wey scatter across di city.
Di event na for invite di public to discover contemporary art inside locations wey no dey conventional.
Arteaporté na di organizer, and Diffusissima na di off offer of Torino Art Week, set up to bring everybody closer to contemporary art.
Di location na Torino TO, Italia.
Artissima 2026 theme na Fancy: A Flexible Acrobatic Body, and e come from one image by philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
Di theme talk say art language wey fancy dey guide — fancy mean di forward projection of imagination — get flexible and acrobatic body, and e fit poetically traverse complexity and differences.
According to director Luigi Fassi, dis kind fancy no be escape from reality, but na di power of imagination wey dey forge future inside present.
Before di fair start, dem present six dialogues inspired by Martha C. Nussbaum visionary thought and di power of imagination as civic and democratic exercise.
Some galleries wey dey participate share their reflections on wetin e mean to be gallerist today, between commitment, vision and ability to reinvent.
Sylvia Kouvali from Glasgow get di word.
She talk say to be gallerist today require almost acrobatic ability to hold vision, research, market and financial sustainability together, without losing your own identity.
She talk say as long as person focus on him own vision and ideas — meaning di artists and di ethos of di gallery — and e no let market trends make am insecure or carry am away, e go shape him own market no matter wetin trend dey.
She call am slower process, but authentic.
She talk say di ability need constant sharpening and plenty introspection. No social media, etc.
She see positive future for gallery, as long as people, gallerists, collectors and artists no let distractions carry dem away and no confuse demselves.
Make dem remain focused on quality and historical relevance of di work, and allow some moments where art let dem go off piste and have fun.
On wetin e mean for her to participate for Artissima and choose Italy as international market to invest, she talk say she don dey do Artissima since 2008.
For her, Torino, with its landscape, inhabitants and people wey shape dis magical city, feel more than home.
Italy dey extremely relevant to her and di gallery artistically, curatorially, institutionally and for collectors.
She talk say e be like home, and over di years dem don do many things for Italy and more still dey come.
Artists represented include Anna Boghiguian, Duncan Campbell, Guglielmo Castelli, Banu Cennetoğlu, Leidy Churchman, David Douard, Haris Epaminonda, Apostolos Georgiou, Shadi Habib Allah, Tamara Henderson, Emre Hüner, Iman Issa, Ian Law, Liliane Lijn, The Estate of Yiannis Maniatakos, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Nour Mobarak, Liliana Moro, Ulrike Müller, Shahryar Nashat, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Eftihis Patsourakis, James Richards, Leslie Thornton, Thanasis Totsikas, Iris Touliatou.
