The Cavallerizza Reale opens its doors to the city with Crossroads, a year-long cultural festival designed to energise the evolving complex and bring artistic expression to the wider community. Organised by C2C Festival, Graphic Days® and Paratissima, with support from the Foundation, the festival marks a new chapter in the site’s transformation, reclaiming a shared public space through culture and creative engagement.
With Crossroads, the Cavallerizza Reale takes an active role in its redevelopment, becoming a vibrant cultural hub open to all. Running for eighteen months, the festival kicks off a collective journey fuelled by art, community involvement and experimentation, with contemporary forms of expression and wide-reaching initiatives guiding the revival of one of Turin’s most iconic landmarks.
The Cavallerizza Reale is in fact at the heart of an ambitious regeneration project promoted by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo in association with the City of Turin, the University of Turin, Fondazione Collegio Einaudi, Conservatorio Statale G. Verdi, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Fondazione 1563, SECAP S.p.A., Fantino Costruzioni, Politecnica Building for Humans and the Cino Zucchi Architetti firm of architects.
A multidisciplinary alliance intended to return a site of deep symbolic significance to the city, transforming it into an open, sustainable and creative space.
At the heart of this effort is a shared commitment to transparency, allowing the public to experience the transformation of the Cavallerizza Reale as it unfolds.
This is the spirit behind Crossroads, which marks the tangible beginning of a new chapter, turning the Cavallerizza Reale into a true creative worksite with a rich programme of events designed to transform its spaces into hubs for art, community and new urban visions to come together.
The Festival launches on 23 July with a curated artistic intervention by C2C Festival. This first event will take the form of a site-specific sound experience designed in close connection with the venue itself, such that it could never be replicated elsewhere without losing its meaning and impact. Leading the performance will be Kelman Duran, who will use sound to interpret and reflect the ongoing transformation of the Cavallerizza Reale.
Adding depth to the opening performance will be two artists from Turin’s vibrant creative scene: composer and sound artist Sara Berts, and visual artist, writer and musician Francesco Cavaliere.
Crossroads is a continuous festival, a sprawling journey through visual art, music and contemporary creative languages. Promoted by C2C Festival, Graphic Days® and Paratissima, with support from Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, the project will feature twenty artists, spanning established figures and emerging talent alike.
Through residencies, performances and public involvement, Crossroads seeks to spark both physical and cultural transformation, turning spaces into places of encounter, dialogue and creative exchange across disciplines and communities. The festival will weave together music, visual design and photography to craft new narratives and fresh connections with the spaces they inhabit.
While rooted in the Cavallerizza Reale complex, Crossroads will gradually branch out across the city, creating new cultural focal points and reaching diverse audiences. In doing so, it places particular emphasis on engaging younger generations.
Two open calls, scheduled for autumn 2025 and spring 2026, will select artists under 30 working in the fields of photography and visual design, encouraging experimentation and innovation in contemporary visual languages.
With the launch of Crossroads, the Cavallerizza Reale once again becomes a place to inhabit, explore and reimagine: a creative laboratory that shows how culture can drive urban regeneration, foster social cohesion and spark civic engagement.
A shared public asset which, through the collaboration between all the partner organisations, reopens to the city today to lay the foundation for the city of tomorrow.
Visit the Crossroads website for the full programme of events and find out more about the site redevelopment project on the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo website.