Pinacoteca Agnelli
The Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli is the museum of Lingotto, at via Nizza 230, established in 2002 to preserve and display the collection donated to the city by Giovanni and Marella Agnelli; it was designed by Renzo Piano, who also led the redevelopment of the former FIAT factory.[1][2][3]
The Scrigno
The redevelopment of Lingotto, entrusted to Piano in 1983 after an international competition and completed in 2003, preserved the rooftop test track.[4] In 2002 the «Scrigno» was added, a projecting steel volume with a glass roof beneath a metal sunshade that filters the light, where the collection's works are displayed; the lower levels house temporary exhibitions, educational workshops and a reading room, across five levels in all.[1][2] The museum was presented to the press on 19 September 2002.[2]
The collection
The 25 masterpieces span from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century: six views of Venice by Canaletto, two views of Dresden by Bernardo Bellotto, the «Alabardiere» by Giambattista Tiepolo, two plaster «Dancers» by Antonio Canova, seven paintings by Henri Matisse, a large 1913 canvas by Giacomo Balla on the theme of speed, and works by Severini, Modigliani, Manet, Renoir and Picasso.[2] Among the Matisse works are «Tabac Royal» and «Michaella, robe jaune et plante», from 1943; «Intérieur au phonographe» and «Branche de prunier, fond vert» returned to the Pinacoteca on 4 February 2025.[5]
Exhibitions and the new direction
Chaired by Ginevra Elkann since 2007, until 2021 the Pinacoteca devoted its temporary exhibitions to collecting, with shows such as «The Museum of Everything» (2010) and «Una passione per Jean Prouvé» (2013).[2] In 2022, in its twentieth year, a new direction began: on 27 May, under director Sarah Cosulich, the Pinacoteca reopened with the exhibitions «Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar» and «Turn Me On» by Sylvie Fleury, and on the rooftop Pista 500 a garden was created with 40,000 plants of more than three hundred native species, featuring works by seven artists.[6] On the fourth floor, on the roof, is the FIATCafé500, born from the space once dedicated to the FIAT 500.[7] In 2026 the accessibility project «WE ARE OPEN!» produced sign-language videos about the works in the collection.[8]
Related articles: Gianni Agnelli, Lingotto
Pages linking here
Sources
- MuseoTorino
- Pinacoteca Agnelli — 10 January 2025
- Pinacoteca Agnelli — 17 January 2025
- MuseoTorino
- Città di Torino, Eventi — 16 June 2025
- ANSA — 26 May 2022
- Pinacoteca Agnelli — 31 August 2023
- Pinacoteca Agnelli — 26 May 2026