Il MAUTO – Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile presents a new cultural project that definitively places the Museum within the circuit of contemporary art. The collaboration with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, celebrating the Foundation’s thirtieth anniversary with the exhibition News from the Near Future, marks the first step in a multi-year project entitled Convergenze, which creates a dialogue between the automobile and modern and contemporary art.

MAUTO – Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile will host in its spaces – from Thursday, 30 October 2025 to Sunday, 8 March 2026 – the exhibition News from the near future, an extension of the project displayed at the Foundation’s headquarters in Via Modane, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

The exhibition represents the first step in a new design trajectory for MAUTO, inaugurating a cycle of collaborations with contemporary cultural institutions, in the spirit of a renewed, open and intersectional vision that characterizes the new energy of the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile. Conceived by the Museum’s Board and President Benedetto Camerana and led by Director Lorenza Bravetta, this vision defines the Museum as a platform for dialogue between disciplines and languages, combining its historical identity with a dynamic, relational and critical approach.

News from the near future

The collaboration with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo – a key player in the cultural life of Turin and Italy, and among the most authoritative voices on the international contemporary art scene – marks the concrete start of this process. The project is founded on the deep understanding between two institutions sharing the desire to engage with the complexity of the present and to reinterpret their heritage through new narrative paradigms.

Between MAUTO and the Fondazione Sandretto, a visual, emotional and conceptual archive takes shape – non-chronological, built over time from the sensitivity of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, through exhibitions, commissions, institutional collaborations, residencies, and educational and training projects. A mosaic of stories, experiences and research that, in dialogue with MAUTO’s history and identity, generates new perspectives and meanings.

Convergenze

Alongside the temporary exhibition News from the near future, a selection of works from the Sandretto Collection will be integrated into MAUTO’s permanent display, generating unexpected intersections between industrial objects and artistic imagery, between design, memory and imagination. The project, entitled Convergenze, is curated by art historian Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

Eight contemporary works spanning from 1998 – with the photographic work 100 cinesi by Paola Pivi – to Nudeltisch (Spaghetti painting) by Giulia Andreani in 2019. Also included are Cremaster 2: the ballad of Max Jensen, a photographic triptych by Matthew Barney; the video-installations La pista degli angeli by Grazia Toderi, Democracies by Artur Zmijewski and Untitled version (I see a darkness) by João Onofre; as well as Gummo V by Lara Favaretto and The Abc of racist Europe by Daniela Ortiz.