News from the Near Future
30 Years of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
October 28, 2025 – March 8, 2026
Venues:
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Via Modane 16, Turin
Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Corso Unità d’Italia 40, Turin
News from the Near Future is a group exhibition organized on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Presented across two venues—the Foundation’s own spaces and the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin—the exhibition retraces, through a wide selection of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, three decades of commitment to the promotion of contemporary artistic research. Around one hundred and fifty works by artists who have most significantly shaped the institution’s history explore the evolution of artistic language and media, from painting to photography, sculpture to installation, and video art, spanning from the early 1990s to the present day.
We have chosen to tell the story of the Foundation by constructing a visual and emotional archive—not a chronological account, but an ensemble that brings together the artists and works involved in these thirty years of exhibitions, commissions, institutional collaborations, residencies, and educational projects. Like a large collective portrait, News from the Near Future reaffirms the role of artists in confronting the issues and urgencies of the present, offering critical readings and new interpretations of society.
The section of the exhibition hosted at the Foundation juxtaposes historic works with recent or previously unseen pieces, creating intergenerational dialogues. The exhibition follows a thematic horizon divided into three sections. The first is dedicated to the body and its physical and psychological tensions, through pairings of works. The second introduces a social and political lens to explore the points of friction between individual and collective identity. The third envisions future imaginaries, inhabited by hybrid subjects suspended between intimacy, desire, and self-affirmation. The exhibition route begins in the Project Room with Fade to Black (2013) by Philippe Parreno—an installation devoted to evanescent fragments of memory—and concludes with Electric Earth (1999) by Doug Aitken, an immersive and dreamlike video installation produced by the Foundation for the 48th Venice Biennale.
The section hosted at MAUTO reconstructs genealogies that connect recent art history with the history of the Foundation, through iconic works from the Collection that emphasize lineages, dialogues, and frictions. This exhibition path is divided into four thematic sections. The first retraces representations of the body from the 1990s onward, beginning with the exploration of the restless and abject body and its performativity typical of that period. The second revolves around the themes of time, history, memory, and reenactment. The third brings together works linked by ideas of digitalization, virtuality, and the dematerialization of the body. The fourth and final section is conceived as a nocturne, where the body disappears to make space for new scenarios to investigate. The exhibition ideally concludes with The End – Rocky Mountains (2009) by Ragnar Kjartansson—a poetic and solitary concert performed by the artist and a collaborator on the snow-covered Canadian Rockies—an invitation for audiences to gather in listening.
Alongside the exhibition, a selection of works from the Collection is interspersed throughout the permanent exhibition route of the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile—recently updated in content and completely reimagined in its curatorial approach and narrative tools—to highlight institutional interaction and the dialogue between the two collections. Convergenze is the title of this project—curated by art historian Giacinto di Pietrantonio—aimed at offering a renewed interpretation of the history and culture of the automobile and re-reading both institutions’ heritage through new narrative paradigms that reveal numerous and unexpected resonances. What arises from the union and collaboration between the two institutions goes beyond simple coexistence, defining a curatorial gesture that expands the codes of museum storytelling and invites audiences to new forms of engagement and reflection. This direction aligns with MAUTO’s structural renewal plan, which involves its contents, display systems, and communication languages.
The title of the exhibition is drawn from a video installation by artist Fiona Tan, created in 2003 and exhibited in the Foundation’s auditorium. Composed of excerpts from early twentieth-century newsreels sourced from the archives of the Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Tan’s News from the Near Future is a visual repertoire exploring humanity’s relationship with water—from its domestic role to its destructive power, amplified by the climate crisis. Like the work itself, the exhibition seeks to weave together fragments of different stories, materials from a collective archive, and elements of a living memory, to generate new visions and possibilities, always responsive to the urgencies of the contemporary world.
The collaboration with the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile is part of the Foundation’s mission to create synergies with other cultural institutions in the region—in this case, with a museum that has embarked on a new programmatic path, seeking to assert itself not only as a place of preservation and memory but also as a true device of contemporaneity.
This You by Tino Sehgal (2006), presented in the exhibition News from the Near Future (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo), is performed by Giulia Magnani Ferrario and Daniela Pagani.
Artists
FSRR:
Doug Aitken, Lara Almarcegui, Michael Armitage, Lucas Arruda, Ed Atkins, Glenn Brown, Maurizio Cattelan, Giulia Cenci, Enrico David, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Urs Fischer, Alberto Garutti, Isa Genzken, Klára Hosnedlová, Arthur Jafa, Sanya Kantarovsky, Anish Kapoor, Simone Leigh, Sarah Lucas, Victor Man, Margherita Manzelli, Helen Marten, Paul McCarthy, Danielle Mckinney, Senga Nengudi, Katja Novitskova, Albert Oehlen, Paulina Olowska, Philippe Parreno, Charles Ray, Tobias Rehberger, Magali Reus, Pietro Roccasalva, Mohammed Sami, Thomas Schütte, Tino Sehgal, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Fiona Tan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Ambera Wellmann, Pae White, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
MAUTO:
Paola Agosti, Pawel Althamer, Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Benni Bosetto, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Guglielmo Castelli, Maurizio Cattelan, Giulia Cenci, Manuele Cerutti, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Ian Cheng, Tony Cragg, June Crespo, Roberto Cuoghi, David Czupryn, Thomas Demand, Patrizio Di Massimo, Trisha Donnelly, Ana Elisa Egreja, Jana Euler, Cerith Wyn Evans, Harun Farocki, Fischli & Weiss, Claire Fontaine, Sharona Franklin, Luigi Ghirri, Andreas Gursky, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Stefanie Heinze, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Iman Issa, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Ragnar Kjartansson, Josh Kline, Pia Krajewski, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Sharon Lockhart, Goshka Macuga, Mark Manders, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Steve McQueen, Reinhard Mucha, Sandra Mujinga, Oscar Murillo, Shirin Neshat, Cady Noland, Paulina Olowska, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Damian Ortega, Daniela Ortiz, Tony Oursler, Eva Helene Pade, Diego Perrone, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Lari Pittman, Paola Pivi, Charles Ray, Thomas Ruff, Wael Shawky, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Avery Singer, Slavs and Tatars, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pol Taburet, Andra Ursuța, Adrián Villar Rojas, Jeff Wall, Liu Wei, Rachel Whiteread, Luiz Zerbini.
