Fondazione CRT unveils 2024-2027 plan: international loans, new school, public art

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, elected president of the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT in July, presented a four-year cultural program at OGR Torino. Key initiatives include increasing acquisition funds to €1 million (up from €515,000), lending the collection of 930 works by over 300 artists (including Lucio Fontana, Mario and Marisa Merz, Marina Abramović, Olafur Eliasson, William Kentridge, Liam Gillick, Monica Bonvicini) to GAM, Castello di Rivoli, and OGR; a major Arte Povera exhibition at Bourse de Commerce in Paris in October curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and promoted by Pinault Collection; first participation in ARCOmadrid (March 6-10, 2024) with a new acquisition prize alternating between GAM and Castello di Rivoli; a free training program called Aperto starting June 2024 with six intensive seminars for 25 participants aged 22-35 on curatorial, educational, archival, registrar, art writing, and communication roles, held at partner spaces including Fondazione Sandretto, Castello di Rivoli, Almanac, Cripta, Mucho Mas, and OGR Tech; and a public art project named Radis, first edition October 4-5 curated by Marta Papini in Cuneo province, with a residency in Valle Stura between Rittana and Paraloup, involving a public program for schools.