Luigi Fassi

Luigi Fassi has been the artistic director of the Artissima Art Fair in Turin since 2022. Previously, he was the artistic director of MAN, the Museum of Art of the Province of Nuoro, from 2018 to 2022. He held the position of visual art curator at the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria, from 2012 to 2017, and from 2009 to 2012 he was the artistic director of Kunstverein ar/ge kunst in Bolzano. A Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum ISP of New York in 2008–09, he has organized exhibitions for various institutions on an international level. From 2010 to 2017 he was the curator and coordinator of the Present Future section of Artissima, Torino. In 2016 he was a fellow of the Artis Research Trip programme in Tel Aviv, Israel, co-curator of the festival Curated_by in Vienna, Austria, and of the 16th edition of the Art Quadriennale of Rome. From 2016 to 2018, he served as a curatorial committee member at Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, UAE. 

He was also a member of the selection committee for the Artorama contemporary art fair in Marseille (2019–22), and curator (with Nkule Mabaso) of the Tomorrows/Today project at the Cape Town Art Fair in South Africa (2019–22). An author of books and monographs, his articles and essays have appeared in Artforum, Mousse, Flash Art, Camera Austria, Site and Domus.