Don't-miss exhibitions in Turin

The crisp autumn air is already upon us, and with it, Turin is ready to shine with a new cultural light. Our city, a constant crossroads of history and innovation, is preparing to unveil a calendar of can't-miss exhibitions and events that will enliven the colder months.

From the timeless elegance of 17th-century masters to art that explores humanity and photography, and to the most stimulating contemporary avant-garde, the Piedmontese capital confirms its status as a vibrant destination for art lovers and beyond.

Get ready for a fascinating journey: an immersion into visual narratives, unique perspectives, and inspirations that will warm both the heart and mind. Here's a selection of exhibitions to put on your calendar for the autumn-winter 2025-2026 season.

Exhibitions not to be missed in Turin: autumn-winter 2025

Fernand Léger!

Reggia di Venaria Reale

September 27 - February 1, 2026

An internationally acclaimed exhibition celebrating the genius of Fernand Léger, a pioneer of contemporary art. The show at the Reggia di Venaria Reale features over thirty of his works in a stimulating dialogue with European and American avant-garde artists from the 1960s to the present day. Through this comparison, you can discover how Léger's multidisciplinary vision influenced artists of the New Realism movement like Arman and César, American Pop Art icons like Robert Indiana, and figures such as Gilbert & George and Keith Haring. It's a visual journey that explores the connections between past and present and his enduring artistic legacy.

Lee Miller. Opere 1930-1955

CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia

October 1 - February 1, 2026

A can't-miss exhibition at CAMERA celebrating the incredible figure of Lee Miller, an American photographer who navigated eras and genres with a unique gaze. The show features over 160 shots from the photographer's archives, many of which are previously unseen, that recount her evolution: from her immersion in Surrealism and her collaboration with artists like Man Ray, to her powerful and dramatic work as a war reporter. This is an opportunity to explore her multifaceted vision and her role as a cultural bridge, which profoundly shaped the history of photography.

Alice Neel: I Am the Century and Piotr Uklański: Faux Amis

Pinacoteca Agnelli

October 30, 2025 - April 5, 2026

The Pinacoteca Agnelli is preparing for an exceptional exhibition season, hosting two shows that engage in a unique dialogue with art and history. The first retrospective in Italy dedicated to Alice Neel, one of the greatest portraitists of the 20th century, is an emotional journey through the work of an artist who, ahead of her time, explored humanity and its stories with a singular gaze. The exhibition "I Am the Century" traces seven decades of her career, delving into the great themes of life and celebrating the revolutionary impact of her style. Simultaneously, the museum presents Piotr Uklański: Faux Amis, a project that creates a provocative dialogue between the Polish artist's works and the museum's own collection. The exhibition also extends to the Museum of Human Anatomy and the Museum of Fruit, located 300 meters from our hotel, offering a new perspective that connects art history to the city's scientific collections.

Vedova-Tintoretto. In dialogo

Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica

September 19, 2025 - January 12, 2026

A unique opportunity to witness an extraordinary confrontation between two masters of Venetian art: Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto, and Emilio Vedova. This exceptional exhibition places their works in dialogue, inviting visitors to explore Vedova's evolution in relation to the great Renaissance master he chose as his point of reference. The exhibition reveals affinities and differences in their expressive choices and themes, offering a new perspective on how both artists interpreted their own eras, making an indelible contribution to the history of art.

Hotel guests are entitled to a reduced rate; at check in they can request a card at the front desk to present at the museum's ticket counter.

World Press Photo Exhibition 2025

Pinacoteca Albertina

October 2 – November 16, 2025

Photography reconfirms itself as a highlight of the Turin autumn with the highly anticipated return of the World Press Photo Exhibition. This event brings the best of global photojournalism to the Pinacoteca Albertina, showcasing the winning images from the world's most prestigious international photography contest. Each shot is a window into our time, telling stories of conflict and hope, major environmental challenges, and profound social transformations. The exhibition is an intense and poignant visual journey that stimulates reflection and connects us with global events, offering a powerful and visceral testimony to our complex reality.

Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles

MAO – Museo d'Arte Orientale

October 22, 2025 - June 28, 2026

Get ready for a powerful and immersive experience with the MAO's major monographic exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. This show traces her entire body of work through drawings, photographs, sculptures, and some of her famous environmental and monumental installations. Shiota's works, often inspired by personal experiences, explore intangible concepts like memories and emotions, posing universal questions about identity, life, and death. Her iconic installations, with intricate webs of red or black threads, envelop spaces, creating an atmosphere that oscillates between fascination and unease, inviting a deep contemplation of the human soul.

Hotel guests are entitled to a reduced rate; at check in they can request a card at the front desk to present at the museum's ticket counter.

Bruno Barbey. Gli italiani

Palazzo Falletti di Barolo

September 12, 2025 - January 11, 2026

An exhibition that will take you on a fascinating journey back in time, to the heart of Italy in the 1960s. Through about a hundred black and white shots personally selected by Bruno Barbey, the celebrated Magnum Photos photographer, you'll discover a country in a state of ferment, caught between the hopes of the economic boom and the challenges of the postwar period. With an empathetic and discreet gaze, Barbey captured the daily life, social contrasts, and profound humanity of the Italian people, creating a valuable visual fresco that invites reflection on our country's identity and recent history.

Orazio Gentileschi. Un pittore in viaggio and Il "divino" Guido Reni nelle collezioni sabaude e sugli altari del Piemonte

Musei Reali di Torino

November 8, 2025 - April 14, 2026 (Gentileschi) and October 11, 2025 - January 18, 2026 (Reni)

The Musei Reali di Torino are preparing for an autumn season dedicated to the great masters of the Italian 17th century, hosting two exhibitions celebrating the talents of Guido Reni and Orazio Gentileschi. The exhibition dedicated to Orazio Gentileschi will take you on a fascinating journey through Europe, exploring the influence of his travels on his style and his success with the most important courts on the continent. You can admire masterpieces like the great altarpiece "Annunciation" in a path that reveals his pictorial genius. At the same time, the exhibition dedicated to Guido Reni celebrates the 450th anniversary of his birth. The show illustrates the Savoy court's appreciation for Bolognese classicism through works from the museum's collections and significant regional and international loans. It's a chance to admire his composed and luminous style that made the "divine" Reni a protagonist of his time.

Elisabetta di Maggio. Frangibile, Linda Fregni Nagler. Anger Pleasure Fear, Notti. Cinque secoli di stelle, sogni, pleniluni and Omaggio a Lothar Baumgarten

GAM – Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

October 29, 2025 - March 1, 2026

The GAM confirms its status as an essential stop this autumn with three exhibitions offering diverse and fascinating artistic visions. With Elisabetta di Maggio. Fragile, you can admire a broad retrospective that explores the power of fragility through works in paper, soap, and porcelain—an art that reflects on our own human condition. In parallel, Linda Fregni Nagler. Anger Pleasure Fear, the first Italian retrospective dedicated to the photographer, will lead you on a poetic and visceral journey into memory and the materiality of the image. Lastly, the exhibition Nights. Five Centuries of Stars, Dreams, Full Moons invites you to discover how the theme of the night has inspired artists and scientists for over five hundred years, in a journey that ranges from the illustrations of Galileo Galilei to the masterpieces of Picasso and de Chirico. Additionally, the museum's Videoteca hosts a touching tribute to Lothar Baumgarten, an artist who intertwined his aesthetic research with a profound ecological and anthropological reflection.

Hotel guests are entitled to a reduced rate; at check in they can request a card at the front desk to present at the museum's ticket counter.

Enrico David: Domani Torno

Castello di Rivoli

October 29, 2025 - March 22, 2026

The Castello di Rivoli is hosting a captivating and profound exhibition dedicated to Enrico David, an artist whose work spans painting, textiles, drawing, sculpture, and large-scale environmental installations. This comprehensive show delves into the psychological and interior condition of the contemporary human being, using the body as a metaphor for transformation. Through a suggestive scenography that evokes theatrical design, you can admire iconic works like "Madreperlage" and "Ultra Paste," alongside new productions, sculptures, large paintings, and his fascinating "teatrini" (small theaters) series. It's a visually rich experience that will lead you into the multifaceted universe of Enrico David.

Jeff Wall: Photographs

Gallerie d'Italia

October 7, 2025 - January 30, 2026

The Gallerie d'Italia is dedicating a major exhibition to Jeff Wall, one of the masters of contemporary photography. With a selection of 27 works, the exhibition invites you on a visual journey through shots that investigate complex and current themes such as nature, war, social class, and identity. Influenced by Italian Neorealism, Jeff Wall transforms his photographs into enigmatic scenes, creating a dialogue between art, cinema, and reality. It's a unique opportunity to reflect on the social and political dynamics of our time through the eyes of an artist who revolutionized the language of photography.

Exhibitions Expiring This Autumn in Turin: Last Call for...

Alfred Eisenstaedt

CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia

Until September 21, 2025

A unique opportunity to see the extraordinary work of Alfred Eisenstaedt, a master photographer and author of iconic shots like "V-J Day in Times Square," for the first time in Italy since 1984. With 170 images, many of them unpublished, this exhibition will guide you through his incredible career: from his portraits of 1930s Germany to the vivid scenes of the American economic boom, and to post-nuclear Japan. It's a journey that reveals his unique style, which combines the great American documentary tradition with a poetic vision and subtle irony. This is a final, unmissable call to immerse yourself in the history of modern photography!

Ritratti. Collezione Florence e Damien Bachelot

Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano

Until October 5, 2025

A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the art of photographic portraiture through about 90 original works from one of Europe's most important private collections. This fascinating exhibition will take you on a journey through the faces of humanity, exploring myths, emotions, and major events captured by masters of photography such as Lewis Hine, Arnold Newman, and Dorothea Lange. It's an intense and evocative journey that invites you to engage in a dialogue with the immortalized gazes, discovering stories and reflecting on our own identity.

Il Deposito Vivente

GAM – Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

Until October 31, 2025

Experience something completely new at the GAM with "The Living Depository," a project that revolutionizes how the museum's rich collections are enjoyed. It's not just a temporary exhibition, but a dynamic exploration of the storerooms and artworks that are not usually on public display. This initiative allows you to discover hidden gems and see the permanent collection in a new light, with continuous rotations and new narratives. It's a deep dive into the pulsating heart of the GAM, where art comes to life and is constantly renewed.

Hotel guests are entitled to a reduced rate; at check in they can request a card at the front desk to present at the museum's ticket counter.