IRIS TOULIATOU HAS BEEN AWARDED THE PISTA 500 PRIZE 2025

The Pista 500 Prize 2025 has been awarded to Iris Touliatou presented by the gallery Sylvia Kouvali, London and Piraeus.

Born in 2023 in collaboration with the Pinacoteca Agnelli, the prize offers the winning artist the opportunity to create a work on the permanent billboard of the circuit on the roof of the Lingotto, the ex FIAT car testing track.

Jury: Claude Adjil, Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Hendrick Folkerts, Curator and Head of Exhibitions, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Pietro Rigolo, Chief Curator, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino; Nicola Trezzi, Curator, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino.

Their remarks: Iris Touliatou’s work is always situated, meaning that she, as an artist and writer, applies whichever discipline or approach is necessary for each intervention. She probes, on equal terms, the conditions of her own labor as an artist, and the infrastructures that produce institutional, social, economic, psychological, and libidinal conditions and relationships. She does this with a profound poetic sensibility. In her hands, situation—and thus site-specificity—becomes a play of appearance and disappearance, where her poignant questions linger between her work and the context it is embedded in. Pinacoteca Agnelli—a former factory that is now a shopping mall ‘crowned’ by museum and by a sculpture garden overviewing Torino, flanked by the Alpine landscape—invites such a situated approach, as it evokes questions of post-industrial labor, consumerism, and the relationship between the art institutions and its city. We are deeply excited to welcome Iris’s voice and work into this context, by inviting her to create the billboard for the 2026 Premio Pista 500.

The prize provides an artist with the opportunity to create a permanent artwork for a billboard on the track of the roof of the Lingotto — a monumental poster featuring photographs, images, and other visual projects. The work by Paul Pfeiffer, the winner in 2024, will be presented during Artissima 2025.