Overview
The Pinacoteca Agnelli is an art institution that connects the precious historical masterpieces of its Permanent Collection with exhibitions and projects by leading Italian and international artists. Since 2022, the Pinacoteca Agnelli has undergone a renovation, expanding its exhibition spaces to include the spectacular Pista 500, the iconic racetrack on the roof of the former FIAT factory in Lingotto.
The famous FIAT track, a symbol of industrial Turin, has been transformed into Pista 500: a one-of-a-kind rooftop garden, suspended between city and sky, inviting visitors to discover new visions and stories.
Here, the works of international artists dialogue with the architecture and memory of the place: sculptures, light and sound installations, expanded cinema projects. Interventions that reinterpret Lingotto’s productive past and open it up to a shared future, transforming the old test circuit into a collective road for art and imagination.
Since 2021, Pista 500 has become a social and inclusive space, enriched by a program of contemporary installations promoted by the Pinacoteca Agnelli. Among the most emblematic works: Beneath My Feet Begins to Crumble (2022) by Mark Leckey, with its monumental LED wall reproducing the Alps along the parabolic curve of the track; Monopoly Game, New York (1980) by Nan Goldin, a billboard-size photograph evoking American urban landscapes and intimate reflections; and PISTARAMA (2023) by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, a mural celebrating bodies as protagonists of social change in urban space.
Pista 500 is no longer just a memory of an industrial past, but a living place, where art, city, and nature intertwine in an immersive and panoramic experience, capable of surprising and inspiring anyone who walks along it.
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The Permanent Collection represents the core identity of the Pinacoteca Agnelli and includes 25 masterpieces donated to the institution by Giovanni and Marella Agnelli. The collection, of exceptional historical and artistic value, includes works of 18th-century Venetian art and neoclassical plaster casts by Canova, the pre-Impressionism of Édouard Manet and the classicism of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Giacomo Balla's large Futurist canvas, and the Cubist expressions of Pablo Picasso and Gino Severini, concluding with Amedeo Modigliani's return to figurative art and seven paintings by Henri Matisse. The masterpieces are presented in the Scrigno, a structure suspended from the roof of the Lingotto building designed by Renzo Piano.
