The Exhibitions

The Museum’s temporary exhibitions at Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile are the result of collaboration with leading institutions and partners on a national and international scale. These events enrich MAUTO’s cultural offerings with insights into the theme of the automobile, considered not only as a means of transportation, but also as an object of worship, transversal to all arts and disciplines. In addition to major exhibitions, artist installations and research exhibition projects, characterized by an experimental and innovative approach, are presented in the project rooms.

THE EXHIBITIONS

Project Room

Large exhibitions are joined in project rooms by artist installations and research exhibition projects with a more experimental slant.

Design Space

Motion – Video art in motion

The LED wall’s programming features works by international and Italian artists who explore, through experimental visual languages, the theme of movement in all its forms—physical, perceptual, urban, and emotional.

Irene Dionisio

A Germ Theory

2020 /video, Super 8, 35mm, HD, 1'

A Germ Theory is a work by artist and director Irene Dionisio that places change at the center of the visual-sound experience: it is a reflection on the concept of germination, understood as a vital propulsion that generates movement. In a broader and more metaphorical sense, the work examines the relationship between the digital and physical worlds, seeking new insights and possible solutions in the spaces where they overlap.

Supercar

Supercar is the title of the light installation that combines light, architecture, automobiles, science fiction, customization, movement, and the collective imagination.

A work with multiple layers of interpretation and explicit references to popular culture and collective memory, it explores the more contemporary concept of the “supercar,” the sapiens automobile capable of interacting with the user and its surroundings, processing information, learning, and acting autonomously according to human-like methods and criteria.

Irene Dionisio

A Germ Theory

2020 /video, Super 8, 35mm, HD, 1'

A Germ Theory è un’opera dell’artista e regista Irene Dionisio che pone il mutamento al centro dell’esperienza visivo-sonora: è una riflessione sul concetto di germinazione intesa come propulsione vitale che genera movimento. In un senso più ampio e metaforico, l’opera esamina la relazione tra il mondo digitale e quello fisico, cercando nuove chiavi di comprensione e possibili soluzioni negli spazi in cui si sovrappongono.

Discover the exhibitions at the Centro Storico Fiat

To support the archive’s valorization efforts, the exhibition program draws on the archive’s documentary heritage to uncover previously untold stories, not only of automobiles but of technologies, products, and projects. Original documents resurface to tell the story of the twentieth century through Fiat, its relationship with Turin, the evolution of customs and ways of designing, building, and communicating: a reinterpretation that opens new perspectives on the meaning of our past, the challenges of our times, and the goals of the future.

TORINO-TOGLIATTI 1966-2026. A Factory Built Fast and Big

22 May – 4 October 2026

Public Program

Talks, screenings and opportunities for discussion as a corollary to the temporary exhibitions.
The Public Program completes the MAUTO cultural schedule and broadens the discussion on the subject of cars and mobility. A program that explores different languages and transversal approaches, opening up to a contemporary and transmedia discussion.
STORIES, VISIONS, SOUNDS. A  calendar of meetings that alternates between conversations, editorial presentations, projections, musical and performance events: stories that embrace art, design, literature and current affairs; visual explorations ranging from auteur films to artist videos and documentaries; sound proposals that move between musical genres, with authors and performers, ensembles and soloists.

Some of the scheduled meetings – all free and upon reservation – develop from the themes addressed by the temporary exhibitions and research activities of the Museum’s Conservation and Restoration Centre and Documentation Centre.

Exhibition archive

Alle grandi mostre si affiancano, in project room, installazioni d’artista e progetti espositivi di ricerca, dal taglio più sperimentale.

30/10/2025 –  8/3/2026

29/10/2024 –  12/01/2025

12/06/2024 –  13/10/2024

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