THE OTHERS ART FAIR – XIVTH EDITION

OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 2 2025
International Training Centre of the ILO
Viale Maestri del Lavoro, 10 – Torino

Turin, July 28, 2025 – The 14th edition of The Others Art Fair presents itself with a title that is already a manifesto: ‘The future is here, right now!’. An invitation to imagine a future that should not simply be waited for or observed, but inhabited, crossed and rewritten through the proposals of young galleries and non-profit spaces: realities capable of anticipating what will be – or could be – the art system of tomorrow, or at least a possible declination of it.

Hosted for the second year in a row in the spaces of the ITCILO, the International Training Centre in Turin of the ILO (International Labour Organization), normally accessible only with a special permit, the fair will be held from October 30th to November 2nd, 2025 and will involve emerging galleries, independent spaces and transdisciplinary projects that will give life to brand new installations, immersive performances, sculptures reflecting on the nature of time and collective regeneration experiences.

For four days, the ITCILO Building and its common areas (including the central arena but also the cafeteria spaces) will once again become the perfect setting to reflect on the value of intercultural dialogue and the centrality of confrontation, both in international politics and in the contemporary art system.

The Others Art Fair 2025 therefore continues in full continuity with the line taken since 2019 – under the direction of Lorenzo Bruni – in proposing itself not only as a fair, but as a true platform of connections and alliances, a relational ecosystem that focuses on regeneration, symbiosis and imagination as a collective act.

‘Since its creation in 2010,’ say founders Roberto Casiraghi and Paola Rampini, “The Others has distinguished itself for being a fair without watertight compartments: there are no sections or genre divisions within the exhibition itinerary. Galleries, alternative spaces, artist-run spaces and independent projects coexist on a horizontal level, where what counts is the methodology adopted by the exhibitors, their ability to create an inclusive dialogue between the works and the different publics that shape or can shape the art system. Welcoming the new urgencies that animate the research of young artists, since 2019 under artistic direction of Lorenzo Bruni, The Others has given space not only to emerging creativity, but has also promoted dialogue between generations, inviting established artists to confront themselves with new productions capable of triggering a broader reflection“

A vision that has been achieved particularly in the last three editions thanks to the presence of international artists invited from Italian spaces, as well as galleries and projects from Eastern Europe, South America and other areas of the world. An approach, the latter, that was amplified last year – and will be even more so this edition – by the choice to develop the fair within the spaces of the ITCILO: a place that, by its very nature, recalls and encourages an intercultural and transnational horizon.

Waiting for The Others: the Artist Residency of the PDA Amore e Colore Prize

Anticipating the 14th edition of The Others is the arrival in Turin of Giacomo Erba, winner of the ‘PDA Amore e Colore’ 2024 residency prize at The Others and represented by the Stay On Board gallery in Milan. A young and talented Milanese artist, born in 2001, his practice is rooted in the nocturnal exploration of the Alpine territory with a particular focus on the digital and its folklore, seeking hybridisation between the imagery and subjects of the two realities. To date, he has exhibited in spaces such as Area Treviglio (Treviglio), Condominio (Milan), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan) and had a solo show at Stay On Board Gallery (Milan). During his residency in Turin, from 10 July to 10 August in the Docks Dora spaces, Giacomo Erba will develop a new artistic project that will be presented at The Others 2025.

The news of the 14th edition

“In an era of likes and lightning polarisations on social networks – as artistic director Lorenzo Bruni declares – The Others Art Fair proposes, among others, an essential question: what is today, and what will be, the role of imagination and creativity in the age of ChatGPT? An unambiguous answer in such a globalised, and at the same time “localising”, world is impossible to identify. Is the only sensible approach then to think in terms of constellations, as Walter Benjamin suggested many decades ago?” This reflection was addressed, analysed and discussed extensively by the curatorial board and will also find concrete space at the fair thanks to five new Focuses, which will highlight the research of some artists – among those proposed by the exhibitors at the fair – within the common spaces of the venue.

The Focuses are: ‘Works and sound interventions’, identified by Caterina Angelucci; ‘Review of art videos’, selected by Carolina Ciuti; ‘Performance programme’, coordinated by Lydia Pribisova; ‘Palimpsest of talks and meetings’, animated by Elisabetta Roncati; ‘Open Call and Prizes’, coordinated by Lorenzo Bruni. Basic points to orientate the visitor within an experience made up of different levels of fruition, which does not impose a univocal reading, but let each one contribute to define an open and plural path.

Experimentation and creativity: two new open calls

In this edition, the spotlight will not only be given to exhibition spaces, which will respond with site- and time-specific projects, but also to young artists/students from Italian Fine Arts Academies and those who carry out pure experimentation such as sound art, but also to those who renew information through new forms. In the 2025 edition, in fact, two new open calls are proposed, designed to broaden the inclusive vocation of The Others and give space to emerging and alternative perspectives.

Rooms and Suites

A complete vision of the content of The Others will only be possible after the arrival of all the projects – the deadline for participation is September 5th. In the meantime, however, the assignment by the curatorial committee of the 6 “suites” has been completed, from whose projects substantial indications of what will be possible to see at The Others 2025 may emerge.

For example, Artra and Galleria Davide Di Maggio, both from Milan, have chosen to create a dialogue between young artists fresh out of the Academies and works by established artists. A choice that confirms their commitment to emerging creativity as well as to witness the continuity of the work carried out with established artists over the previous decades. The result is an interesting balance between the freshness of the new generations and the conscious confrontation with the memory of the past. Artra presents Martina Franchini, who explores the essential outlines of urban spaces through assemblages of found objects, creating a sort of meta- sculpture, alongside the works of Han Tao, who proposes paintings in which subjects linked to oriental religions confront western icons, golden calligraphies are superimposed on modernist monochromes; all of this, however, in dialogue with the pictorial works of Giovanni Asdrubali (1955), master of abstraction and the concept of emptiness. The common thread thus appears to be the search for moments of pause, suspension and silence within the flow. Davide Di Maggio Gallery, on the other hand, entrusts an iconic work by the great Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell – V40 (Vostel 40 Jahre alt) from 1973/76, a homage to Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise – with the interpretative key to its collective. The installation, contained in a suitcase, reflects on the regenerative power of the alienating gaze and the ready-made, offering an interpretative framework for reading the works of young artists who have just graduated from the Brera Academy, including Leonardo Fenu, but also the more mature Nerina Toci.

Two international galleries, Contour Art Gallery in Vilnius and Gaze-Off, a project by Franco Marinotti between Lugano and Barcelona, have chosen to bring different cultural perspectives into dialogue – a selection perfectly in tune with the headquarters of the ITCILO, the United Nations campus. Contour Art Gallery presents an all-female project, with female artists including Diana Remeikyte, Jurate Kazakevičiūtė and Raminta S.R. Mint investigating the relationship between subject and global context using different techniques from performance to tapestry. Gaze- Off reflects on the possible dialogue between the construction of individual and collective memory with works conceived for the occasion by the photographers Juande Jarillo, Gaia Renis, Prisca Groh who will dialogue with works by other artists including paintings by Angelo Mosca.

A.MORE Gallery and Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea complete the group of six suites. A.MORE Gallery, among others, a new photographic/pictorial cycle by Aldo Salucci on Japanese carp and an installation by painter Vittorio Valiante. Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea also tackles the theme of the inner journey, but through works by artists of various nationalities including the Greek Daphne Christoforou, with her ceramics and paintings, or the Ukrainian Iryna Maksymova with tapestries produced from recycled fabrics.

The Curatorial Board is keen to point out that: ‘What is already clearly evident, with the previews of the six projects of the six suites, is the will, on the part of the exhibitors who choose The Others Art Fair, to support artists capable of activating a confrontation between different cultures, experiences and visions of our being global and in wanting to watch, finally, with a critical/propositive look at the impact of the digital revolution’. The Others Art Fair, which has always been committed to the scouting of spaces and artists outside the established circuits, succeeds in combining the democratic model of the open call with a curatorial spirit that brings it closer to an invitation-only fair model. The result is a choral platform, where the plurality of voices is organized to be heard with clarity, intensity and participation.

The 2025 Curatorial Board

Guided again this year by Lorenzo Bruni, art critic, independent curator and lecturer in Digital Cultures at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, as well as artistic director of the 14th edition of The Others, the curatorial board for 2025 reflects the different souls, aspects and experimentations that this year edition intends to welcome and bring into dialogue.

Caterina Angelucci, lives in Milan and founded the Lido La Fortuna artists’ residency in Fano in 2021. In 2023 she published a book for Postmedia Books on the role of art residencies, while since 2024 she has been the editor of Artribune, where she edits, among other things, a column dedicated to emerging and non-profit spaces.

Carolina Ciuti, lives in Madrid and is involved in video-related experimentation: she directed the LOOP fair in Barcelona until 2022 and today she directs Exibart España (exibart.es) and collaborates with the KBr Fundación MAPFRE Centre also in Barcelona. She has published with Mousse Publishing and RAM Editions.

Lýdia Pribišová, lives in Bratislava and was curator of the Slovak Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 and is a member of the Trenčín European Capital of Culture 2026 team. From 2020 to 2024 she was curator at the Kunsthalle in Bratislava; since 2006 she has been editor for Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition and, since 2015, editor-in-chief.

Elisabetta Roncati, lives in Milan and founded in 2018 Art Nomade Milan, a blog created to review events with the aim of making art accessible to a wider audience, with a focus on textile, African and Islamic art. She is a television and radio face, creator of digital content for various newspapers and author of books, including Arte Queer for Rizzoli published in 2023.

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