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SUMMARY:OPEN INDEX. An investigation of independent art publishing in Italy | Public Programme
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Salone Internazionale del Libro OFF \nMay 19 – 29\, 2026 \nOpening: May 19\, 7:00 PM  \nFrom May 20–29: during museum opening hours  \nCastello di Rivoli Restaurant  \nFree admission  \nOn the occasion of the Turin International Book Fair 2026\, phonetics\, born from the collaboration between Axis Axis and Paint It Black\, presents a curatorial platform at the Castello di Rivoli dedicated to Italian art publishing\, featuring a selection of the leading independent publishers active today. The project features a reading room and an immersive sound installation\, exploring books and publishing formats as critical spaces for research\, interaction\, and experimentation.  \nhttps://www.salonelibro.it/programma-eventi/open_index/22117 Info Public.program@castellodirivoli.org \n  \nInfo \nPublic.program@castellodirivoli.org
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/158378/
CATEGORIES:conferenza
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SUMMARY:Paolo Spaccamonti & Ramon Moro Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer
DESCRIPTION:Paolo Spaccamonti & Ramon Moro\nVampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932\, 73′) \nSaturday\, May 23\, 6:00 PM\nCastello di Rivoli Theater \nPaolo Spaccamonti: guitar\, synth\nRamon Moro: trumpet\, flugelhorn \nMusicians Paolo Spaccamonti & Ramon Moro made their debut in 2018 with the soundtrack for Vampyr\, which premiered at the Pesaro International Film Festival\, which co-produced the film-concert with the National Cinema Museum. Australian Jim White\, drummer for the Dirty Three\, participated in the Turin performance that year. The project was well received and was repeated a few months later at the Palazzo Reale in the summer\, as part of the Cinema District\, with the participation of Canadian cellist Julia Kent. \nAfter a hiatus of several years\, the duo resumed their work and brought it back on tour. A stop at Castello di Rivoli on May 23rd will present the restored version by the Cineteca di Bologna. \nFifty years after the death of the great master of Nordic cinema Carl Theodor Dreyer\, Paolo Spaccamonti and Ramon Moro transform Vampyr\, one of his most celebrated films\, into a visual and audio experience that brings to contemporary audiences all the mystery and unease of a dreamlike horror film that has influenced generations of filmmakers. Despite being Dreyer’s first sound film\, Vampyr relies very little on dialogue\, leaving room for the visionary incursions of the two musicians\, who use the images to create a counterpoint aimed at exploring and deepening its most mystical and nocturnal soul. \nVampyr – The Vampire (Vampyr – The Dream of Allan Grey) is a 1932 film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Also known as The Strange Adventure of David (or Allan) Gray\, this is Dreyer’s first sound film\, although the actors make little use of spoken language. The film is part of the hypothetical trilogy that gave rise to all vampire films. Although it follows Tod Browning’s Dracula and Murnau’s Nosferatu\, Dreyer is not influenced by them but\, on the contrary\, draws on his own stylistic and content convictions that diverge from his previous works. Above all\, the source of inspiration is no longer Bram Stoker’s novel\, but rather the short stories of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. \nPrices\nShow + museum admission + guided tour (4:00 PM)\n€6.50 per person \nA separate ticket is required for this event\, even for Museum Pass holders. \nOnline purchase is recommended\, given the theater’s limited capacity. \nTickets are also available at the box office until 5:45 pm. \nOnline purchases starting in May https://www.castellodirivoli.org/biglietti/ \n \n  \n  \nPublic Programme 2026 \nBetween spring and summer\, the Castello di Rivoli Public Program showcases music\, performances\, shared\, choreographic\, and editorial practices in relation to the Museum and its architecture. The sequence of events is conceived as a body in constant motion\, capable of traversing and activating the peripheral spaces of the Castle\, transforming them into places of research\, interaction\, and experimentation. The program explores the relationship between the body and the museum space\, inviting the public to experience the architecture in a choreographic manner. The building’s incompleteness thus becomes a resource: an open field of possibilities where movement\, listening\, and imagination continually redefine the meaning of space. A constellation of encounters rather than a succession of events\, the Public Program unfolds in an ecosystem in which artists\, cultural workers\,
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/paolo-spaccamonti-ramon-moro-vampyr-by-carl-theodor-dreyer/
CATEGORIES:concerto
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SUMMARY:Kurtág 100 Deconstructed Mozart
DESCRIPTION:Kurtág 100\nDeconstructed Mozart\nCurated by De Sono \nMay 30\, 2026\, 4:00 PM \nMichele Marelli and the Pars Quartet perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major\, K. 581. \nThe four movements are interpolated with contemporary pieces for solo clarinet by Helmut Lachenmann\, György Kurtág\, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Each intervention\, in different ways\, disrupts the classical linearity\, opening up new dimensions of sound and perception\, and foregrounding the physicality\, gestures\, and listening of the instrument. \nAdmission\nReduced museum ticket (€6.50)\, subject to availability \nReservations \nhttps://www.castellodirivoli.org/biglietti/ \nInfo \nPublic.program@castellodirivoli.org
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/kurtag-100-deconstructed-mozart/
CATEGORIES:concerto
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SUMMARY:Lecture Performance by Huda Takriti
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Performance by Huda Takriti\n  \nCurated by Linda Fossati \nAs part of the exhibition Inserzioni \n  \n20 June 2026\, h 7–8 pm \nTheatre \n  \nHuda Takriti (Damascus\, 1990) develops a practice that intertwines archival research\, moving images\, performance\, and installation\, bringing historical materials and architectural contexts into dialogue to question the processes through which history is recorded\, written\, and erased. \nAmong the artists featured in the second edition of Inserzioni at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea\, Takriti has developed a project for the Museum that investigates the role of images\, cinema\, and industry in shaping postwar historical narratives. The videos Clarity is the Closest Wound to the Sun (2023) and It Is Always Midnight In Their Minds (2026)\, together with a vinyl installation extending along the walls of the Savoy residence\, reflect on the ways in which support for postcolonial liberation movements\, economic strategies\, and film production contributed to shaping the imaginary of decolonization processes. \nThe lecture performance takes shape as an extension of this research: a dispositif through which Takriti stages and navigates her materials\, articulating a narrative that combines text and images. In this live activation\, the working process composed of editing\, rereading\, and rewriting is exposed as a critical practice\, making visible the strategies through which images observe\, construct\, and transform reality.\n  \nHuda Takriti’s lecture performance is part of the programme ARCHIVIARE L’INGOVERNABILE. \nThe performance will be held in English. \nThe event is free and open to everyone; registration is required:https://www.eventbrite.it/e/1990563544145?aff=oddtdtcreator \n  \nHuda Takriti’s project is realised with the support of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing\, Arts\, Culture\, Media\, and Sport (BMKÖS)\, Section IV – Arts and Culture \n \nand is produced in collaboration with Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art \n \n 
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/lecture-performance-by-huda-takriti/
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SUMMARY:Open Call 2026 - Una Scuola al Castello di Rivoli
DESCRIPTION:UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI is a place for postgraduate art education based at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and in the Piedmont area. \nAccompanied by a rotating ENSEMBLE of local Turin-based educators\, a group of 12 recently-graduated PRACTITIONERS work to collectively and critically dismantle their disciplines and delay production in a spirit of open dialogue. \nEach year UNA SCUOLA calls for 12 new PRACTITIONERS and incorporates previous year’s PRACTITIONERS WITH and into THE ENSEMBLE. \nThe first year (2024) of UNA SCUOLA imagined what a postgraduate school could be (time\, place\, and space). Year two (2025) focused on an old world dying and a new world which could not yet be born\, and UNA SCUOLA appeared in this interregnum. For UNA SCUOLA’s third year\, ‘Resilient Mediums’\, we will look towards new worlds of sonic fiction\, archives of affects\, social choreographies\, watery dreams\, earthly tactics\, embodied literature\, and doing more with less\, between 29 September–2 October 2026 at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and 5–8 October 2026 in the city and hills of Turin. \nwww.una-scuola.com \n  \nGLOSSARY \nUNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI is a place for postgraduate art education. Each year 12 PRACTITIONERS build a mutually supportive dialogue at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea\, Rivoli-Turin\, and in the Piedmont area\, supported with material presented by THE ENSEMBLE. UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI is developed in the context of CRRI\, the Research Center of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. \nPRACTITIONERS are 12 recent graduates from Italian institutions enrolled in UNA SCUOLA annually. \nTHE ENSEMBLE is a community of local Turin-based artists\, scientists\, curators\, writers\, performers\, philosophers\, poets\, and economists who share material (workshops\, lectures\, seminars\, screenings\, technical classes\, walks\, exercises\, food) with PRACTITIONERS. \nEach year there is an INCORPORATION of previous year’s PRACTITIONERS WITH and into THE ENSEMBLE\, supported by FACILITATORS. \nFACILITATORS shape UNA SCUOLA through RADICAL PEDAGOGY. \nRADICAL PEDAGOGY comprises material (from yesterday and for tomorrow) on educating ourselves and one another with an emergent curricular from THE ENSEMBLE typeset and disseminated by THE MEDIUM. \nTHE MEDIUM shapes UNA SCUOLA’S graphic identity and\, in 2026\, shows-and-tells various ways in which texts\, images and other forms of work can be meaningfully gathered\, structured\, articulated and channelled.This could apply equally to the specific material generated over the course of two weeks\, or more generally to a body of work collected across a career. For reasons that will become clear\, the catalyst will be an 1846 essay by the inventor of gothic horror and detective fiction\, Edgar Allan Poe. \nUNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI was established in 2024 by FACILITATORS – artist Cally Spooner and curator Lilou Vidal. \n  \nMore info and how to apply here.\n 
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/open-call-2026-una-scuola-al-castello-di-rivoli/
CATEGORIES:CRRI,Dipartimento Curatoriale
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SUMMARY:C2C Festival al Castello di Rivoli
DESCRIPTION:Next week at Castello di Rivoli:\nBILL KOULIGAS\nSTILL\nXIII\n& SISTER EFFECT \n  \nTICKETS & INFO ON DICE \n  \n– €5 – MUSEUM ENTRY INCLUDED [6:30PM—10PM]\n– FREE ENTRY FOR UNDER 25s\, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND RIVOLI RESIDENTS \n[Nearby parking available (until full capacity) or free round—trip shuttle from Fermi metro station / Castello di Rivoli: 7:00 PM — 12:30 AM.] \n  \nSAT 26 SEP 2026\n7:30 PM\nCASTELLO DI RIVOLI / IT \n  \nINFO: PUBLIC.PROGRAM@CASTELLODIRIVOLI.ORG \n 
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/c2c-festival-al-castello-di-rivoli/
LOCATION:Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:XXII Giornata del Contemporaneo
DESCRIPTION:Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea is taking part in the 22nd Contemporary Art Day\, a major event promoted by AMACI – the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums\, with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. \nThe theme of the 2026 edition is “Geographies of the Contemporary”\, an exploration of the present as a space in constant transformation\, in which geographies emerge as dynamic constructs\, subject to ongoing processes of redefinition\, while places become spaces of interaction\, shaped by multiple forces that redefine their boundaries and meanings. \nCastello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art will offer free admission to the public\, alongside a renewed display of its collection and major exhibition projects. \n  \nEVENTS\n  \nMasters of Design. Architecture in Turin between Memory and Innovation: Andrea Bruno\nConference and guided tour\nOrganised by Fondazione per l’architettura di Torino\nIn collaboration with CRRI – Castello di Rivoli Research Institute\nTheatre\, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea\nConference: 10.30 am–12.30 pm\, followed by a guided tour \n  \nFor Contemporary Art Day\, CRRI – Castello di Rivoli Research Institute is collaborating with Fondazione per l’architettura di Torino\, hosting a conference dedicated to Andrea Bruno\, the architect responsible for the restoration of the Castello and its conversion into a Museum of Contemporary Art. \nThe conference is part of the cultural programme “Masters of Design. Architecture in Turin between Memory and Innovation”\, an initiative devoted to a critical reassessment of key figures in Turin’s architecture from the twentieth century to the present day. The programme aims to bring the memory of architectural practice into dialogue with contemporary debate\, highlighting professional archives\, built works and first-hand accounts through a format combining public conferences and guided tours. \nFollowing meetings dedicated to Elio Luzi\, Ada Bursi and Pietro Derossi\, the series concludes with an event at Castello di Rivoli devoted to Andrea Bruno.\n  \n\nAndrea Bruno\nOne of Italy’s most significant architects\, Andrea Bruno (Turin\, 1931–2025) helped redefine the role of the architect as a restorer\, interpreting heritage through a critical approach and developing a design practice based on dialogue between history and the contemporary world. His international career bears witness to an approach grounded in historical knowledge\, reversibility and cultural responsibility. \nHis most important projects include the transformation of Castello di Rivoli into a Museum of Contemporary Art\, the restoration of the Brigittines Church in Brussels and his interventions at the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan. \n  \n\nThe conference\nThe conference will focus on restoration\, museography and the international dimension of architectural practice. Through a dialogue between scholars\, collaborators and members of Bruno’s architectural practice\, it will explore the relationship between design\, time and materials\, while also addressing the archive as a living\, active form of heritage.\n  \nProgramme\nInstitutional greetings\nMarcella Beccaria\, Deputy Director and Head of CRRI\, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea \nIntroduction and chair\nAlessandra Siviero\, President of Fondazione per l’architettura\, Turin \nAndrea Bruno: Personal and Biographical Profile\nAndrea Bruno Jr.\, Architect\, UBA Studio \nThe Project and the Archive: Time\, Materials and Memory in the Work of Andrea Bruno\nGiorgio Danesi\, Art Historian and author of Il progetto del limite. Tempo\, materia e monumento nell’opera di Andrea Bruno; Sara Di Resta\, Professor of Architectural Conservation\, Università Iuav di Venezia \nDiscussion with the audience \nGuided tour of Castello di Rivoli focusing on key aspects of Andrea Bruno’s restoration\nAndrea Bruno Jr.\, Architect\, UBA Studio \n  \nBooking\nRegister for the event: https://ordine.oato.it/formazione/reg/2903/maestri-del-progetto-architetturatorinese-tra-memoria-e-innovazione-andrea-bruno\n  \n  \nOCCULTA. The Body of the Archive\nPerformative lecture based on the Chiara Fumai Archive\nOrganised by OCCULTA – Observatory for the Collective Care of Techno-Archival Languages\nIn collaboration with CRRI – Castello di Rivoli Research Institute\nTheatre\, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea\n2 pm–4 pm\n  \nOCCULTA is a science outreach project funded by the Dipartimento degli Studi Umanistici at the University of Turin\, dedicated to the study of heritage-making processes as practices for the creation of the commons. \nThe project takes the Chiara Fumai Archive as its starting point. Preserved at CRRI\, the archive is dedicated to safeguarding and transmitting the artistic legacy of Chiara Fumai (Rome\, 1978 – Bari\, 2017). \nCRRI is a partner in the initiative\, which also involves the Turin-based association Mucho Mas!. \nOCCULTA was conceived and is coordinated by Cristina Voto\, lecturer and researcher at the Dipartimento degli Studi Umanistici of the University of Turin\, together with Francesca Pegan\, researcher at the Chiara Fumai Archive. \nThrough participatory sessions and activities open to the public\, OCCULTA offers a programme of research and mediation centred on materials from the Fumai Archive. These materials provide a starting point for exploring how an artist’s legacy is constructed\, preserved and made accessible to the community. \n  \nThe conference\nThe public event\, presented in a touch-and-speech format\, will feature contributions from the project’s Scientific Committee\, comprising lecturers Massimo Bonifazio\, Eleonora Chiais\, Daniela Fargione and Emilia Perassi\, together with Guido Costa. \nTheir contributions will explore the artist’s practice through its multiple fields of research. Guido Costa\, the artist’s long-standing gallerist\, will share with the audience a gift he received from Chiara Fumai. \n  \nProgramme\nInstitutional greetings\nMarcella Beccaria\, Deputy Director and Head of CRRI\, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea \nIntroduction\nCristina Voto\, Researcher in Philosophy and Theory of Language\, University of Turin \nTouch-and-speech\nMassimo Bonifazio\, Professor of German Literature\, University of Turin; Eleonora Chiais\, Professor of Fashion Semiotics\, University of Turin; Guido Costa\, Guido Costa Projects\, Turin; Daniela Fargione\, Professor of Anglo-American Literature\, University of Turin; Emilia Perassi\, Professor of Spanish American Literature\, University of Turin. \n  \nBooking\nRegister for the event: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/2001168684405?aff=oddtdtcreator \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe events are organised as part of the 22nd Contemporary Art Day\, promoted by AMACI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/xxii-giornata-del-contemporaneo/
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SUMMARY:Michelle Williams Gamaker
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Williams Gamaker\nSaturday 7 November\, 4.30 pm \nAs part of Contemporanea Film Festival\, curated by Distretto Cinema \nIn collaboration with Contemporanea Film Festival\, Castello di Rivoli presents a focus on Michelle Williams Gamaker\, an artist and filmmaker who critically re-examines the history of British and Hollywood cinema. Through her films and installations\, the British-Sri Lankan artist subverts the codes and conventions of cinematic language to bring marginalised characters to the fore. \nFor the first time in Italy\, her two most recent works will be presented: Oberon (2023)\, commissioned by the British Film Institute\, and Strange Evidence (2026). \n  \nOberon \nMichelle Williams Gamaker\, UK\, 2023\, 8 mins\, original version with Italian subtitles \nThe work takes as its starting point a series of photographs of Merle Oberon held at the BFI\, exploring how the actress’s image was constructed. The artist imagines Oberon during a make-up test for the leading role in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes (1948). Through this fictional screen test\, she stages the power dynamics concealed behind the camera\, exposing the strict control exercised by the studios over the actress’s public image. \n  \nStrange Evidence \nMichelle Williams Gamaker\, UK\, 2026\, 30 mins\, original version with Italian subtitles \nThe artist combines the aesthetics of body horror with the atmosphere of film noir to explore the story of Merle Oberon\, the celebrated actress of the 1930s who concealed her Sri Lankan and Indian origins to escape racism in Hollywood. Throughout her life\, she maintained that she had been born in Tasmania to British parents\, keeping her secret until her death. Alternating between colour and black-and-white imagery\, Strange Evidence retraces the treatments Oberon underwent to lighten her skin\, examining the wounds of a denied identity and the price she paid to establish herself in the film industry. \nThe screenings will be introduced by Paola Zanini\, Head of the Education Department at Castello di Rivoli\, and Giulia Magno\, curator and co-Artistic Director of Contemporanea Film Festival\, who will discuss the artist’s practice and the themes explored in her work. \n  \nAdmission: Reduced museum admission ticket €6.50\, including a visit to the Permanent Collection. \n  \nPhoto: Michelle Williams Gamaker\, Oberon\, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Matt’s Gallery\, London. \n 
URL:https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/evento/michelle-williams-gamaker/
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