The Others Art Fair – The Future is Here, Right Now!

ILO – UN International Training Centre
Viale Maestri del Lavoro 10, Turin

www.theothersartfair.com

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For the second consecutive year, the event will take place at the ILO (International Labour Organization), the UN International Training Centre in Turin, usually accessible only with special permission. From 30 October to 2 November 2025, emerging galleries, independent spaces, and transdisciplinary projects will present new installations, immersive performances, and sculptures reflecting the nature of time and the experience of collective regeneration.

Over the course of four days, the ILO building and its shared spaces (including the central arena and café) will once again provide an ideal setting to reflect on the value of intercultural dialogue and the importance of confrontation – both in international politics and in the contemporary art system.

The Others Art Fair 2025 continues the path set since 2019 under the leadership of Lorenzo Bruni, presenting itself not only as a fair but as a genuine platform for connections and alliances, a relational ecosystem that places regeneration, symbiosis, and imagination at the centre as a collective act.

“Since its foundation in 2010,” say founders Roberto Casiraghi and Paola Rampini, “The Others has distinguished itself as a fair without separate sections: within the exhibition journey, there are no genre or other divisions. Galleries, alternative spaces, artist-run spaces, and independent projects coexist on a horizontal level, where the methodology of the exhibitors determines the creation of an inclusive dialogue between the works and various audiences, which constitute or may constitute an artistic system. Since 2019, The Others responds to urgent new themes shaping young artists’ research: it not only provides space for new creativity but also fosters intergenerational dialogue, inviting established artists to confront new works capable of opening broader reflections.”

In the past three years, this vision has been significantly fulfilled thanks to the presence of international artists invited by Italian spaces, as well as galleries and projects from Eastern Europe, South America, and other parts of the world. This approach was further strengthened last year – and will be even stronger this year – by hosting the fair precisely in the ILO premises: a place that, by its nature, recalls and encourages an intercultural and transnational horizon.

Collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and NABA Milan

This year, The Others will again feature performances by students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, curated by Maja Štefančíková, visual artist and pedagogue of the Performance Laboratory at the Academy, in collaboration with curator Lýdia Pribišová from the fair’s curatorial board, who curates the performative programme of The Others. The theme of the students’ presentation is In the Rhythm of the Algorithm. Students of the Intermedia Department of the Academy in Bratislava – Tomáš Brichta, Michaela Prablesková, and Julia Pabst – will present new performances exploring how algorithms and digital surveillance transform urban space and our bodies, questioning how imagination can serve as a form of resistance against the pressure for constant optimisation. The audience will have the opportunity to experience the city and its digital layer through new sensory perspectives. From NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) participate students Damini Yadav, Filippo Paci, Penelope Andronico, and Sidonie Pellegrino.

Looking Forward to The Others: Artist Residency – PDA Amore e Colore Award

A preview of the XIV edition of The Others is the arrival of Giacomo Erba in Turin, winner of the 2024 residency award “PDA Amore e Colore” at The Others, represented by Stay On Board Gallery from Milan. This young and talented Milanese artist (b. 2001) bases his practice on nocturnal exploration of the Alpine environment with particular attention to digital media and their folklore, seeking a hybridisation between imagination and themes of both realities.

He has previously exhibited at spaces such as Area Treviglio (Treviglio), Condominio (Milan), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), and held a solo exhibition at Stay On Board Gallery (Milan). During his residency in Turin (10 July – 10 August) at Docks Dora, he will develop a new artistic project to be presented during The Others 2025.

News of the XIV Edition

“In the era of likes and flash polarizations on social networks,” says artistic director Lorenzo Bruni, “The Others Art Fair raises, among other things, a fundamental question: what is and what will be the role of imagination and creativity in the ChatGPT era?” A single answer in such a globalised and simultaneously ‘localising’ world is impossible. It is therefore not meaningful to think in terms of constellations, as Walter Benjamin suggested decades ago.

This reflection finds concrete space at the fair through five new Focus projects presented by curatorial board members, highlighting the research of selected artists – chosen from exhibitors – in the shared spaces of the building.

The Focuses are:

• “Works and Sound Interventions” – curator Caterina Angelucci
• “Video Art Showcase” – curator Carolina Ciuti
• “Performance Programme” – coordinator Lýdia Pribišová
• “Discussion and Meeting Programme” – curator Elisabetta Roncati
• “Open Call and Awards” – coordinator Lorenzo Bruni

These elements help visitors navigate the experience across different levels of reception, without imposing a single interpretation but allowing everyone to create an open and plural path.

Experimentation and Creativity: Two New Open Calls

This year, the word will not only belong to exhibition spaces with site- and time-specific projects, but also to young artists/students from Italian Academies of Fine Arts and those dedicated to pure experimentation, such as sound art or information innovation.

In 2025, two new open calls will be presented to expand the inclusive mission of The Others and provide space for emerging and alternative perspectives:

• Digital-Craft Journey AI (Video) – a challenge for students from five Italian academies (Turin, Milan, Bologna, Florence, and Catania), inviting them to submit video works exploring the boundaries and possibilities of artificial intelligence.
• “Risonanze Urbane” – an international call for sound site-specific works examining the role of urban space in the era of smart cities and digital connections. The winning work will be presented on the entrance staircase, transformed into an ‘immersive’ threshold between the city and the fair.

Selection will involve cultural associations and institutions active in sound art. They will also participate in a roundtable dedicated to sound experimentation, including Ram and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, jointly supporting this artistic direction.

Galleries and Suite

The complete vision of The Others content will only be visible upon the arrival of all projects – the application deadline is 5 September. Meanwhile, the curatorial board has finalised the selection of six “suites”, whose projects already hint at what will be seen at The Others 2025.

Artra and Galleria Davide Di Maggio

Artra and Galleria Davide Di Maggio (Milan) decided to create a dialogue between young artists fresh from academies and works by established authors. The result is an interesting balance between the freshness of new generations and a conscious confrontation with the memory of the past.

• Artra presents Martina Franchini, who examines the basic silhouettes of urban spaces through assemblages of found objects (meta-sculptures), alongside the paintings of Han Tao, in which Oriental religious motifs confront Western icons. All of this is in dialogue with the paintings of Giovanni Asdrubali (1955), a master of abstraction and the concept of emptiness.
• Galleria Davide Di Maggio builds its group exhibition around the iconic work of Wolfgang Vostell – V40 (Vostell 40 Jahre alt) from 1973/76, a tribute to Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise. The suitcase installation reflects the regenerative power of the ready-made and offers an interpretive framework for reading the works of young graduates from the Brera Academy, including Leonardo Fenu and Nerina Toci.

Contour Art Gallery

Contour Art Gallery (Vilnius) and Gaze-Off (Switzerland, founded by Franco Marinotti and Guido Tognola) present projects connecting diverse cultural perspectives, perfectly aligned with the ILO environment.

• Contour Art Gallery introduces a purely female project with artists such as Diana Remeikyte and Raminta S.R. Mint.
• Gaze-Off reflects dialogue between individual and collective memory through works created specifically for the fair (Jean-Marie Reynier, Gaia Renis, and Angelo Mosca).

A.MORE Gallery and Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea

A.MORE Gallery and Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea complete the group of six suites.

• A.MORE Gallery offers photographs by Aldo Salucci and an installation by Vittorio Valiante.
• Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea presents an inner journey through ceramics and paintings by Daphne Christoforou and tapestries made from recycled fabrics by Iryna Maksymova.

Slovak participants Banská St a nica Contemporary from Banská Štiavnica and A 7 Gallery from Banská Bystrica will also present this year.

It is now clear that the exhibitors selected for The Others Art Fair aim to support artists capable of opening dialogue between cultures, experiences, and different visions of our globality.

The Others Art Fair, always oriented toward discovering spaces and artists outside established circuits, combines a democratic open call model with a curatorial spirit close to the invitation-only fair model. The result is a collective platform where the plurality of voices is arranged to be heard with clarity, intensity, and engagement.

Curatorial Board 2025

Also this year, under the leadership of Lorenzo Bruni – art critic, independent curator, and lecturer of digital culture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, who is also the artistic director of the XIV edition of The Others – the curatorial board reflects various forms, approaches, and experiments it wishes to welcome and let communicate this year.

• Caterina Angelucci lives in Milan, founded the Lido La Fortuna artist residency in Fano in 2021, and published a book on the role of artist residencies (Postmedia Books) in 2023. Since 2024, she has been an editor of Artribune magazine, also covering emerging and non-profit spaces.
• Carolina Ciuti lives in Madrid, dedicated to video experiments. Until 2022, she directed LOOP fair in Barcelona; she is now director of Exibart España (exibart.es) and collaborates with KBr Fundación MAPFRE in Barcelona. She has published books with Mousse Publishing and RAM Editions.
• Lýdia Pribišová lives in Bratislava, was curator of the Slovak Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, curates the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, and is a member of the Trenčín – European Capital of Culture 2026 team. From 2020–2024, she served as curator at Kunsthalle Bratislava; since 2006, she has been an editor of Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition and its editor-in-chief since 2015.
• Elisabetta Roncati lives in Milan, founded the blog Art Nomade Milan in 2018, focused on making art accessible to a broader public, with particular emphasis on textile, African, and Islamic art. She works in TV and radio, creates digital content for multiple media, and is author of books including Arte Queer (Rizzoli, 2023).