October 31, 2025–April 6, 2026
Turin 10126
Italy
Alice Neel: I Am the Century
Pinacoteca Agnelli will present the first retrospective in Italy dedicated to American artist Alice Neel (Merion Square, Pennsylvania, 1900–New York City, New York, 1984), one of the most significant painters of the 20th century. Curated by Sarah Cosulich and Pietro Rigolo, I Am the Century will highlight Neel’s pioneering gaze and interest in humanity in all its forms.
Neel’s trailblazing approach to portraiture touched upon fundamental human, social and political issues. Merging realism with surrealism and a critical gaze with empathic brushstrokes, Neel succeeded in reading the human soul in its most hidden folds. Neel’s work continues to influence generations of artists today.
The exhibition will delve into the idea of Neel as a “chronicler of life”, and her paintings as representations of the “human comedy”. Structured into six chapters, chronologically intertwined with the artist’s biography, the exhibition will trace the artist’s style as it evolved over time, while indirectly emphasising how her revolutionary practice confronts the art historical canon and traditionally male perspective of portraiture.
Piotr Uklański: Faux Amis
Piotr Uklański will present the latest iteration of Pinacoteca Agnelli’s exhibition series Beyond the Collection. Uklański chose to interact with the entire space of Pinacoteca’s Permanent Collection, in a provocative game of associations, references and relationships with his own paintings, installations and photographs.
In Faux Amis (false friends)—a French expression referring to words in different languages that sound similar but have different meanings—Uklański sets his works in dialogue with those of Bellotto, Matisse, Renoir, Canova and Manet to create complex readings of art history in relation to the artist’s identity. Love, fashion, and geographical provenance become the pretexts through which Uklański sheds light on issues such as colonialism, cultural appropriation, and the building of history through symbols.
The exhibition will be complemented by interventions by the artist at the “Luigi Rolando” Museum of Human Anatomy, University of Turin and the “Francesco Garnier Valletti” Museum of Fruit, City of Turin.
Launched in 2022, Beyond the Collection is aimed at reactivating Pinacoteca Agnelli’s Permanent Collection by commissioning artistic interventions by contemporary artists and collaborations with prestigious national and international institutions.
Paul Pfeiffer: Vitruvian Figure (Juventus)
Paul Pfeiffer will present a major new site-specific installation on La Pista 500, Pinacoteca Agnelli’s outdoor rooftop exhibition space. Vitruvian Figure (Juventus), developed in collaboration with Juventus, will comprise an immersive sound-installation and large-scale photograph exhibited on La Pista 500’s billboard.
With Vitruvian Figure (Juventus), Pfeiffer continues his investigation into mass behavior and spectacle, engaging with the specific history of Turin and the Lingotto—the former FIAT factory—through themes of performance and speed and the production of a technological object as both a mass-consumed commodity and symbol of desire.
Pfeiffer was awarded the 2024 edition of La Pista 500 Prize. His installation joins artworks on La Pista 500 by Allora & Calzadilla, Rong Bao, Thomas Bayrle, Monica Bonvicini, VALIE EXPORT, Sylvie Fleury, Francesco Gennari, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Marco Giordano, Louise Lawler, Finnegan Shannon, and SUPERFLEX.
La Pista 500 Prize, organised in collaboration with Artissima, gives one of the artists exhibited by the galleries present at the fair the opportunity to create a project on the billboard of La Pista 500. The winner of La Pista 500 Prize 2025 will be announced at the fair.
About Pinacoteca and La Pista 500
Located in the former FIAT car factory of Lingotto in Turin, Pinacoteca Agnelli was relaunched in 2022 with a new contemporary mission. The exhibition programme comprises temporary exhibitions and outdoor site-specific installations on La Pista 500, the car testing track on the building’s rooftop, now a suspended garden. Pinacoteca Agnelli also features an important permanent collection with masterpieces by artists such as Canova, Canaletto, Picasso, Manet, Modigliani and Matisse. The new identity of Pinacoteca creates a link between past and present, through its direct dialogue with the unique history, architecture and legacy of the Lingotto building that houses the institution.
