• Free admission forever to all OGR exhibitions


• On Saturday 10 October, to celebrate OGR's third year, the event Continuum begins: music, performances, talks, guided tours and the opening of Trevor Paglen's Unseen Stars, with its satellites “made in NASA”


• Turin-Glasgow digital bridge and collaboration with the British Council


• Officine Grandi Riparazioni in virtual and augmented reality on the new website www.ogrtorino.it


• Inauguration of the Didactic Hall and "Workshop Wednesdays" with Fondazione CRT's Talents

Turin, 29 September 2020 – in a fusion among art, science and technology, cultural activities once again become the protagonists at the Cult area of OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni of Turin, where the third year of activity is celebrated with a revolutionary choice: free admission forever to all OGR exhibitions starting from Saturday 10 October, to bring new and broader audiences to contemporary art.

Another novelty: on the weekend of 10 and 11 October (from 10.00 to 20.00) OGR will launch Continuum, a great event, open to everyone, that looks to the future in continuity with the mission of the reborn Officine Grandi Riparazioni, transformed by Fondazione CRT into workshops for the production and experimentation of creativity and innovation The rich programme of live events, which may be attended in-person or enjoyed by streaming, features art, music, performances, guided tours, seminars, educational activities and the opening of the exhibition Unseen Stars by Trevor Paglen, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa together with Valentina Lacinio: a number of satellites, developed in collaboration with NASA's aerospace engineers, will be on display at OGR Cult’s Binario 1 until 10 January 2021.

New international partnerships will characterise the autumn reopening of the Officine. OGR' s collaboration with the British Council, in the context of the “UK-Italy Season 2020” initiative, will create and consolidate relationships between cultural institutions of both countries, taking the “Being Present” subject of the 2020 edition as a reference. Thanks to the digital bridge connecting Turin’s OGR Cult and Glasgow’s Tramway, two former industrial sites transformed into multi-purpose spaces for visual and performing arts, a selection of videos will be simultaneously project in both twinned cities. And more: for the first time in Italy, OGR’s Duomo will host the video installation “Dear, Can I Give You a Hand?” by the artist Wong Ping who, from the Hong Kong underground scene, has reached world-class institutions and museums such as the Guggenheim and the New Museum in New York. Performing arts will be the protagonists at the Officine thanks to the presence of the Scottish choreographer Colette Sadler while music is back on stage with the OGR SoundSystem project, born out of the collaboration between OGR Torino and Club To Club Festival.

Sunday 11 October, a new Sunday appointment with Domeniche in Festa,  organised by ZonArte, the network of Turin's educational departments of museums and foundations, supported by Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. In the afternoon, the protagonists of the “Talenti per la Scuola” ("Talents for School") project will meet for the first time at OGR. The project, launched by Associazione Asai and Fondazione CRT during lockdown, involved  over 50 young graduates – former students who had received scholarships and advanced training courses from Fondazione CRT – providing distance education support to about 200 teachers and students from Turin schools in the Asai network.

Even the website www.ogrtorino.it has been renovated to offer a more engaging, interactive and "futuristic" visit experience, with features like the 3D tour of the historic Train Workshops and the Augmented Reality reproduction of OGR for smartphones. Two innovative tools created by two local start-ups - Mixed Bag and 3X1010 – both based at OGR Tech. In terms of content, an online section entirely dedicated to educational offerings for schools has been introduced by OGR’s Education Department.

With Aula Didattica (Didactic Hall) situated inside the green "superfetation" in the Corte Est yard), OGR inaugurate a new educational space. From 14 October, at 18.00, “I Mercoledì delle Officine” will begin: free monthly appointments – enjoyable either in-person or by interactive streaming – with young entrepreneurs coming from Fondazione CRT’s Talenti programme for talented young people, who will share their experience. A contemporary reinterpretation of the meetings organised every Wednesday evening by the workers of the old train workshops. Booking by e-mail at: prenotazioni@ogrtorino.it.

“A new phase begins, with OGR as a workshop where projects creating value for the community by intertwining art, science, technology come to life: an evolutionary trajectory consistent with one of the priorities on the European Union's agenda: rethinking and building the future of cities and the planet in the name of social and environmental sustainability– says Massimo Lapucci, General Manager of OGR as well as General Secretary of  Fondazione CRT – Let's start again, with courage and responsibility, with an event open to all: 'Continuum', a paradigm of the path of cultural experimentation begun a thousand days ago at OGR, the Dna of which contains three founding elements: inclusion, internationality, innovation”.

“At a time of deep social rethinking, on the occasion of OGR’s third birthday, our commitment to culture is strengthened and the inclusiveness of this cultural hub reaffirmed by choosing and announcing free exhibitions forever, starting from the long weekend of 10 October. An act of great social value, conceived to bring different audiences closer to the world of art”, states OGR’s Chairman Fulvio Gianaria.

“Continuum is a project that recounts and condenses the first three years of OGR's activity in 10 hours of exhibitions, performances and music, mixing echoes of the recent past with visions of possible futures – explains OGR’s Artistic Director Nicola Ricciardi – Using languages and references that are typical of Science Fiction, Continuum brings to completion projects that were interrupted at the beginning of 2020 due to the health emergency, at the same time offering its own interpretation of the scenarios that are awaiting us, in a never-ending movement along an imaginary time axis. A perpetual motion making OGR cross new boundaries, generating new synergies, such as the one with the British Council and cultural institutions of Glasgow, a city twinned with Turin, which shares the spirit of experimentation in figurative art and music fields”.