News from the Near Future

In celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents “News from the Near Future”, a major collective exhibition curated by Bernardo Follini and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo. Spread across the Foundation and the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, the show traces three decades of artistic research through a selection of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, reflecting the institution’s history and the evolution of contemporary art from the 1990s to today.

The Foundation’s spaces juxtapose historical works with recent or previously unseen pieces, alongside an archival section documenting thirty years of activity through documents, media, video, images, and artworks. At the Automobile Museum, the exhibition explores genealogies connecting contemporary art to the Foundation’s trajectory, highlighting dialogues, lineages, and points of friction. Over a hundred works feature key artists across video, videoinstallation, sculpture, installation, photography, and painting, including Doug Aitken, Steve McQueen, Urs Fischer, Cindy Sherman, Glenn Brown, and Adrian Villar Rojas. The presentation is not chronological, but forms a visual, emotional, and conceptual archive shaped by exhibitions, commissions, collaborations, residencies, and educational projects.

The title references Fiona Tan’s 2003 videoinstallation, which weaves historical footage to explore humanity’s relationship with water, from daily use to destructive power, resonating with contemporary environmental concerns. In parallel, a selection of Collection works is integrated into the Automobile Museum’s permanent exhibition through the project “Convergenze”, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, establishing a dialogue between the two institutions and proposing new ways of reading art and automotive history. The exhibition emphasises the role of artists in addressing present issues, connecting past visions to future imaginaries and reaffirming the Foundation’s commitment to contemporary discourse.