Artissima is held in the Oval, the speed-skating hall built for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and is the only major Italian fair devoted strictly to contemporary work — no modern section, which is what distinguishes it from miart in Milan. Its curated sections for emerging and single-artist presentations give it a research reputation that outweighs its commercial size.
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It anchors Turin Art Week, when the Castello di Rivoli, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the GAM and a string of private foundations open simultaneously — a concentration of contemporary institutions unmatched elsewhere in Italy.
The month is November. Turin in November is cold, cheap and largely free of tourists, which makes this one of the more comfortable art fairs to attend.
PlanningNovember, not October — and it anchors a city-wide Art Week with the Turin museums.