In anticipation of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, gres art 671 presents an exhibition dedicated to winter sports, offering a perspective that spans art, architecture, and research.

FUORIPISTA is a multidisciplinary journey that brings together historical and contemporary works, archival materials, photographs, video pieces, and installations, alongside three new works commissioned specifically for the project. The exhibition presents works that become a lens through which to observe not only the beauty of athletic movement, but also the social, technological, and climatic transformations that are redefining our relationship with the mountains.

"The upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games are an extraordinary opportunity to strengthen our mission by presenting art in dialogue with winter sports and continuing the creation of a cultural hub with an international vision — one capable of engaging visitors as much as possible on issues of contemporary relevance,” said Roberto Pesenti, President of gres art 671.

The exhibition unfolds across five sections — Olympics +, Winter Sports, Micro-stories, Artificial Winter, Cryosphere — guiding visitors through a complex landscape where snow becomes a narrative structure, an archive of memories, and also an indication of a world in transformation. From the first Winter Olympics to the production of artificial snow, from well-known disciplines to the hidden stories that redefine sport as a space of freedom and possibility, FUORIPISTA invites visitors to explore winter beyond rhetoric, entering its most human and shared dimension.

A central chapter of the project is represented by the three new commissions, marking an important step in the evolution of Gres Art 671. Masbedo tell the story of Andrea Lanfri, mountaineer and former Paralympic athlete of the Italian national track and field team, in a video installation reflecting on inclusion and overcoming limits. Studio Folder translates environmental and statistical data from the Olympic Games into a skating choreography, transforming information into gesture. Numechi.studio dedicates two works to IceLab Bergamo, transfiguring Carolina Kostner’s movement into an immersive experience of body, space, and temperature.

“For the first time, this exhibition presents artworks and previously unseen research projects produced and commissioned specifically for the occasion by gres art 671,” emphasizes Francesca Acquati, General Manager of gres art 671. “It is an important step in the history of gres, part of whose mission is to support and encourage contemporary artistic production in Italy by concretely investing in the art system and offering artists spaces for experimentation and research.”

FUORIPISTA was made possible thanks to the support of Fondazione Pesenti Eta and Italmobiliare.