Welcome to GAM, the Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art inTurin!
Turin was the first Italian city to promote a public collection of modern art as a constituent part of its Civic Museum, opened in 1863. The GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art – today preserves approximately 45,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, a significant collection of graphics, and an essential collection of films, artist videos, and documentaries. The building also houses the Art Library and the Photographic Archive of the Fondazione Torino Musei. GAM offers the public a broad program of exhibitions with Italian and international artists that also address the most current contemporary research.
It is a lively museum, capable of curating and organizing debates, conferences, and meetings, as well as collaborating with museums and other national and international institutions in a continuous dialogue between the past and the present.
Furthermore, the Education Department constantly updates and reinforces its commitment, with a rich program that facilitates the learning process by combining an aesthetic approach to the works with the creative reworking of the experience for school students of all levels, families, young people and adults. It proposes various accessibility and inclusion projects by working closely with local associations.
The collection is constantly growing thanks to donations, with the decisive contribution of the Fondazione Guido ed Ettore De Fornaris and the Fondazione CRT per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.
Drawing upon this heritage, GAM is steadfast to its original mission as regards contemporary research while encouraging constant exchange between its historical works and today’s cultural debate and basing its exhibitions on the close relationship between contemporary practices and historical collections..
The Museum holds works by some of the most illustrious 19th-century Italian artists like Canova, Fontanesi, Fattori, Medardo Rosso, and Pellizza da Volpedo as well as 20th-century masters including Balla, Boccioni, Casorati, Modigliani, De Chirico, Martini, Morandi, De Pisis, and Fontana. GAM also possesses significant works by masters from the international historic avant-gardes like Klee, Picabia, Picasso, Ernst, Dix, Calder, along with works from the new avant-gardes from after World War II, through one of the most important collections of Arte Povera with artists like Merz, Boetti, Pistoletto, Paolini, Zorio, Anselmo, and Penone.
The Museum also pays great attention to more recent practices, like Warhol, Twombly, and Kiefer, and offers the public a series of events with the most interesting exponents from the art world as well as major exhibitions with Italian and foreign artists on topics concerning cutting-edge artistic research.
