As the third edition of the international photography festival EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival kicks off, Untitled Association invites you to explore the city’s vibrant art scene. This itinerary is designed for industry professionals, art connoisseurs, and enthusiasts alike, featuring a curated selection of exhibitions, events, and essential venues.
Today’s journey begins in the city center, venturing through Vanchiglia, Vanchiglietta, Aurora, and Barriera. Our route takes us north of the Quadrilatero, encompassing the MAO and State Archives, followed by the National Cinema Museum and Recontemporary. We’ll also visit the Giorgio Griffa Foundation, Mucho Mas!, Franco Noero Gallery, and Almanc Inn, concluding with Associazione Barriera and Gagliardi e Domke.
Exploring EXPOSED: Exhibitions and Unmissable Appointments
The central theme for the third edition of EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival is Mettersi a nudo (Laid Bare). This theme encourages introspection and a look beyond appearances, questioning the relationship between identity and representation, body and image, the visible and the invisible.
One of the festival’s most innovative projects is I Tuffatori (6×3) (The Divers), curated by Walter Guadagnini. This open-air exhibition is spread across 26 billboards throughout the city, primarily showcasing young emerging artists. Featured artists include Federica Belli, Silvia Camporesi, Sara Lorusso, Claudio Majorana, Zoe Natale Mannella, Fabio Paleari, Camillo Pasquarelli, and Leila Erdman Tabukashvili. Notably, the renowned Swiss photographer Walter Pfeiffer, who will also be featured in the exhibition In Good Company at the Pinacoteca Agnelli starting April 30th, is participating. The exhibition title pays homage to Nino Migliori, a master of Italian photography nearing his centenary, and echoes the symbolic power of water, the body, and immersion as a conduit for transforming urban spaces into realms of imagination, where nudity becomes a physical experience and a symbolic act of exposure.
Our itinerary then leads us to the MAO, the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin. Alongside the major monographic exhibition The Soul Trembles dedicated to Chiharu Shiota and the third installment of Declinazioni Contemporanee (Contemporary Expressions)—a program of residencies and site-specific commissions inviting contemporary artists to engage with the museum’s collection—the MAO presents works by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Sunmin Park, and Francesco Simeti, all on view until the end of June. Additionally, starting yesterday, the museum features a site-specific work by Mongolian artist Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 1994) in the Central and South-Central Asian gallery. Titled Untitled (2026), this hand-molded beeswax sculpture reinterprets the concept of religious offerings, drawing inspiration from guardian lions—symbolic figures of protection traditionally placed at temple entrances and prevalent in Inner Asia, including Mongolia during the Qing Dynasty.
The State Archives of Turin, Court Section, hosts two exhibitions. Messi a nudo (Laid Bare), curated by Barbara Bergaglio, delves into the work of three pivotal figures in photographic history: Auguste Belloc, Wilhelm von Gloeden, and Carlo Mollino. The exhibition examines the evolution of the nude, from an academic exercise to an introspective and often unsettling investigation, highlighting its potent erotic content that continues to resonate with contemporary sensibilities through the voyeuristic pleasure it evokes.
Alongside this is Self Exposed, a solo exhibition by Ralph Gibson, curated by Giangavino Pazzola and realized in collaboration with Paci Contemporary Gallery in Brescia. This exhibition presents a selection of 70 works spanning over fifty years of Gibson’s career, celebrating one of the 20th century’s photographic giants. The display showcases the evolution of his distinctive visual language, characterized by stark contrasts, bold framing, and a constant tension between abstraction and reality.
Still in the city center, the National Cinema Museum, on the façade of the Mole Antonelliana, presents FUORICAMPO. Il cinema svelato (Off-Camera. Cinema Unveiled). This exhibition features 20 large-format images from the museum’s collections, revealing surprising scenes of figures in togas near cameras, medieval characters reading sports newspapers, and intricate lighting and set designs, all demystifying the mechanisms that construct cinematic vision.
A short walk away, at Recontemporary Foundation ETS on via Gaudenzio Ferrari, the exhibition Sometimes I get goosebumps features a solo show by Swiss artist Anouk Chambaz, curated by Ghëddo. The project presents three video works that explore the human relationship with nature as a transformative, ambiguous, and generative force. The pieces weave together contemporary issues, scientific research, and performance practices, offering an ecological (Vegetation Walk), political (Di Notte), and sensory (Marica) reflection on the living. Through a cinematic and poetic language, Chambaz investigates processes of metamorphosis that traverse the body, memory, and landscape, employing the feminine dimension as a key lens.
Moving from the center towards Vanchiglietta, the Giorgio Griffa Foundation presents Summer 69, an exhibition celebrating the artist’s 90th birthday. This show revisits a pivotal moment in 1969: Giorgio Griffa’s exploration of the new, not-yet-opened spaces of Galleria Sperone. The exhibition features 12 historical works characterized by lines and notches, alongside 8 canvases from earlier this year displaying marks and color fields. It is complemented by photographs from the era by Paolo Mussat Sartor, as well as new shots taken by the photographer of the artist 57 years later.
From Vanchiglietta, we head to the Aurora district, where the Mucho Mas! gallery on corso Brescia hosts the fifth chapter of Metamorphosis. This collective exhibition, created for EXPOSED, is spread across six research centers, self-managed spaces, and independent venues, bringing together works by six young international artists selected by the FUTURES Photography platform. Mucho Mas! features Hypersea by Claudia Amatruda, a project combining photography, video, and sculpture to investigate metamorphosis as an individual, social, and environmental process. Inspired by the concept of the margin as a space of resistance, Amatruda’s research imagines new forms of evolution and hybridization between the human, the animal, and the artificial. Mucho Mas! was established in 2018 as an artist-run space dedicated to fostering new connections and critical discussions on experimental contemporary photography.
Open today from 3 PM to 8 PM, all stops on the Metamorphosis circuit will be accessible by appointment for the duration of the festival until June 2nd.
Just a short walk away, on the border of the Barriera di Milano district, at Galleria Franco Noero on via Mottalciata, is the exhibition PENSIERI BELLI (Beautiful Thoughts), a solo show by Gabriel Sierra. The title refers to a specific work: a group of letters made from cut sandpaper, affixed to the wall with nails to form the phrase “Pensieri Belli.” These words can suggest various concepts, such as possibility and development, but in a particular sense, they can allude to the idea of creation—creation as pure optimism. Optimism is presented as a rare and transcendental inner abstract feeling that confronts chaos and uncertainty.
Venturing further into the Barriera district, to Almanac Inn on corso Novara, we reach the final stop of Metamorphosis. (After) All things laid dormant showcases the results of Benedetta Casagrande‘s research over recent years. Her biocentric practice uses photography to investigate more-than-human life forms and interspecies relationships in an era of environmental decline. Casagrande approaches photography as a process of contamination, encounter, and material metamorphosis, situating her work at the intersection of art and ecology.
Also on view at Almanac until May 15th is E non dono celeste (And not a celestial gift), the first solo exhibition in Italy by Cristina Lavosi. This exhibition revolves around two new participatory films, conceived as stages in a broader artistic inquiry. These films are nodes within a constellation of practices exploring the punitive universe and contemporary visions of restorative justice. Through film and audiovisual installation, Lavosi examines the role of institutions in constructing dominant narratives, legitimizing unequal power relations, and imposing norms of living.
Associazione Barriera presents A mali risposte (Remedies for ills), an exhibition born from a three-month residency by Pietro Agostoni. This show marks a new chapter in the experimentation and systematization of his soot-drawing cycle, Ascendo. It features full-figure and group compositions for the first time, showcasing the figures that have characterized the series since its debut in 2018. These works, oscillating between stain and mirage, are created using a self-designed system of foil cones that channel candle flames, allowing soot to deposit onto old paper surfaces.
We conclude our itinerary on via Cervino, at the Gagliardi e Domke gallery, with Più delle Parole (More Than Words), an exhibition by JANDPEG, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio. J&PEG, now known as JANDPEG, is an artistic group formed by Antonio Magano and Simone Zecubi. They return with a series of new medium and large-format analog photographic works titled Transfer, displayed on the ground floor of the gallery. For the duo, this represents a return to foundational photographic techniques where the image cannot be purely invented, as with digital technology, but must confront the lens. As always with images, and even more so with photographs, the focus is on image philosophy, aiming to debate the concept of truth, which has become even more urgent in a historical period increasingly dominated by post-truth.
Today’s Itinerary
EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival
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Mettersi a Nudo (Laid Bare)
III edition EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival 2026
09.04 → 02.06.2026
At Archivio di Stato di Torino – Court section
Messi a nudo. Auguste Belloc, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Carlo Mollino
Group show curated by Barbara Bergaglio
09.04 → 02.06.2026
Self Exposed
Ralph Gibson solo show curated by Giangavino Pazzola realized in collaboration with Paci contemporary Gallery, Brescia
09.04 → 02.06.2026
At Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino – Mole Antonelliana Historic Gates | Via Montebello, 20
FUORICAMPO. Il cinema svelato
Group show curated by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino
09.04 → 02.06.2026
At several cornices throughout Turin
I Tuffatori (6×3) / The Divers (6×3)
26 billboards scattered throughout the city: Federica Belli, Silvia Camporesi, Sara Lorusso, Claudio Majorana, Zoe Natale Mannella, Fabio Paleari, Camillo Pasquarelli, Walter Pfeiffer, Leila Erdman Tabukashvili with the special participation of Walter Pfeiffer
Curated by Walter Guadagnini
Releases from: 07.04.2026, 20.04.2026, 04.05.2026, 18.05.2026
MAO – Museo d’Arte Orientale
Via San Domenico, 11
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@mao_torino
Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles
Solo show curated by Mami Kataoka and Davide Quadrio
→ 28.06.2026
At corridor between Chinese and Japanese galleries
Contemporary Expressions #3
Francesco Simeti site specific installation
→ 26.04.2026
At Chinese galleries
Contemporary Expressions #3
Sunmin Park video installation
→ 26.04.2026
At Tibetan section
Contemporary Expressions #3
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam sound installation
→ 26.04.2026
Recontemporary Fondazione
Via Gaudenzio Ferrari, 12/B
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@recontemporary
Sometimes I get goosebumps
Anouk Chambaz solo show curated by Ghëddo
09.04 → 03.05.2026
Fondazione Giorgio Griffa
Via Oropa, 28
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Summer 69
Giorgio Griffa solo show with Paolo Mussat Sartor photographs
09.04 → 02.07.2026
Mucho Mas!
Corso Brescia, 89
muchomas.gallery
@muchomas.project
Metamorphosis | Hypersea
Claudia Amatruda solo show, part of EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival 2026
09.04 → 02.06.2026
Galleria Franco Noero
Via Mottalciata, 10/B
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@galleriafranconoero
Pensieri Belli
Gabriel Sierra solo show
→ 20.06.2026
Almanac Inn
Via Reggio, 13
almanacprojects.com
@almanac_eu
E non dono celeste
Cristina Lavosi solo show
→ 15.05.2026
Metamorphosis | (After) All things laid dormant
Benedetta Casagrande solo show, part of EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival 2026
09.04 → 15.05.2026
Associazione Barriera
Via Crescentino, 25
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@associazionebarriera
A mali risposte
Pietro Agostoni solo show with a text by Caterina Avataneo, hosted by Katya Kabalina and Sergey Kantsedal
01.04 → 19.04.2026
Gagliardi e Domke
Via Cervino, 16
gagliardiedomke.com
@gagliardiedomke
Più delle Parole
JANDPEG solo show curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
28.03 → 30.05.2026
