Luci d’Artista exhibition illuminates Turin

The 28th edition of Luci d’Artista will once again illuminate Turin from October 24, 2025, to January 11, 2026, transforming the city into an open-air museum where light becomes both artistic language and urban experience. Streets, squares, and buildings will come alive through an exhibition program featuring no fewer than thirty-three light installations—both historic and brand new—created by leading Italian and international artists. This year’s itinerary is enriched by four new works, blending visual research, poetry, innovation, and civic engagement, confirming Turin as a capital of contemporary creativity.

Curated for the third time by Antonio Grulli, the project confirms the event as an international benchmark for the dialogue between art and public space. Supported by the Fondazione Torino Musei, the City of Turin, and partners such as Fondazione Arte CRT and OGR, Luci d’Artista forms part of a strategic cultural plan involving GAM, MAO, Palazzo Madama, and Artissima, consolidating Turin’s role as a permanent cultural laboratory. The 28th edition extends beyond the traditional winter season and, through historic collections, restorations, international collaborations, and educational programs, grows both in its exhibition scope and in its social message.

The new 2025 installations are the beating heart of the edition: British artist Tracey Emin presents a spectacular neon work for the city, a gift from Fondazione Arte CRT on its anniversary, embodying her distinctive direct and incisive poetics recognized worldwide. Emin, celebrated for her ability to translate emotions, relationships, and introspection into the purity of light, introduces into the urban landscape an artistic sign that invites dialogue and reflection, making the city itself a protagonist on the international stage.

Alongside Emin, Riccardo Previdi unveils one of the most anticipated works: a public art intervention with an experimental character, deeply engaged with innovation and environmental themes, promoting sustainability, awareness, and respect for the urban landscape. Previdi, a leading figure in the Italian art scene, brings to the event a light that sparks ecological thinking—an invitation to perceive Turin as a shared and vital space.

Completing the roster of new authors, Lithuanian artist Gintaras Didžiapetris offers an alternative perspective on the aesthetic identity of light. With a style rooted in experimentation and cross-disciplinary contamination, Didžiapetris traverses the boundaries of visual art, music, and popular culture, introducing a light that acts as a bridge between multiple languages and European artistic traditions, interpreting the synergies that connect Turin with the international avant-garde.

A special project comes from OGR Torino, where the Soundwalk Collective realizes a monumental video-light installation together with poet and rock icon Patti Smith and minimalist composer Philip Glass. This extraordinary collaboration fuses sound art, spoken word, and light in an immersive narrative that transforms the East Court into a space of beauty and wonder. Conceived to evoke energy, rhythm, and visual power, the work accompanies visitors on an artistic journey that transcends the boundaries of music and urban art, reaffirming OGR as a crossroads of international creativity and innovation.

Luci d’Artista stands out for its truly innovative vision of a diffused museum, able to engage in constant dialogue with national and international institutions and strengthen Turin’s role within the European cultural scene. This process, inaugurated years ago and destined to grow, is exemplified by the DUET platform for international collaborations, the Costellazione network of light works, and the public program Accademia della Luce, developed with the educational input of the city’s museums. The visual identity, once again designed by Studio Fludd, is expressed through a luminous glitch—a graphic play evoking the movement and energy of the ongoing transformation.

The exhibition path lights up both iconic and hidden locations: each work interacts with architecture, collective memory, and the city’s social fabric, sparking wonder and participation. Light as art is not mere decoration but becomes an active experience, a tool that enhances urban heritage and amplifies the stories and emotions of the Turin community. Historic installations such as Francesco Perilli’s Volo su, Domenico Luca Graceffa’s L’amore non fa rumore, and Giulio Paolini’s Palomar return in renewed form alongside new works, emphasizing the intergenerational character of the event and its ability to connect diverse voices and sensibilities.

The program also includes a series of collateral activities: art workshops, guided tours, talks, experiential itineraries, and inclusive projects for schools and vulnerable groups, aiming to make the event a model of accessible and participatory culture. The integrated communication strategy, the involvement of all neighborhoods, and the event’s free admission reinforce the social value of Luci d’Artista, confirming it as one of the most eagerly awaited appointments of the Italian autumn-winter season.

At a tourism and economic level, the festival generates positive impacts across the city. Turin is transformed, attracting Italian and international audiences, enriching the city’s autumn calendar of events, and bringing visibility to galleries, exhibition spaces, businesses, and artisanal enterprises. The bond between the city and luminous art strengthens Turin’s very identity, rediscovered as an experimental laboratory and permanent platform of innovation within the European panorama.

Luci d’Artista stands as one of the most significant examples of how public art—especially contemporary art—can permeate the city, enrich everyday life, and foster a climate of participation, inclusion, and beauty. The 2025–2026 edition marks a crucial stage in this journey, with new artists, collaborative projects, and a renewed commitment to sustainability, ready to illuminate Turin and offer it new visions for the future.