NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum today announced a new partnership with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, furthering both organizations’ commitment to supporting the production and exhibition of new work by the most exciting international artists working today. The New Futures Production Fund will be an annual program supporting the production of a major new work to be presented at the New Museum in New York City followed by a presentation at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Expanding on the New Museum’s mission to catalyze the creation and appreciation of the global art of today, the establishment of the New Futures Production Fund builds on the Museum’s long history of collaboration and exchange with arts institutions around the world. The first work realized through the partnership will be a new work created by Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy; lives and works in Milan) and presented at the New Museum in 2026 followed by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

“We have been honored to have Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo closely engaged with the New Museum for more than fifteen years and a founding member of the New Museum’s International Leadership Council, and we are thrilled that our two institutions have come together on this new partnership,” said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum. “We look forward to exhibiting the work supported by this collaboration as one of many new initiatives to be presented in the OMA-designed expansion of the New Museum.”

“I have known and admired Patrizia Sandretto since the late 1990s, when—together with her then artistic director Francesco Bonami—she gave me my very first curatorial break. This year her Foundation celebrates thirty glorious years of programs that have supported the work of some of the most exciting artists of the last decades. We couldn't think of a better way to commemorate this important milestone than with this new collaboration with Patrizia who, we are sure, will continue to identify the greatest artists of tomorrow,” said Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum.

“It is a true privilege to collaborate with both Lisa Phillips and Massimiliano Gioni, whose commitment to contemporary art has shaped the New Museum into one of the most dynamic institutions globally,” said Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. “This partnership will allow us to support the production of new and ambitious works, and I am especially proud that it begins in the year of the 30th anniversary of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. I am also delighted that Diego Marcon, whose work I have followed and admired for a long time, is the first artist involved.”

Diego Marcon’s work in moving image and installation coopts familiar forms like horror movies, slapstick comedy, and cartoons to underscore and subvert cinematic archetypes. His New Museum presentation—Marcon’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City—follows recent solo presentations at Kunstverein, Hamburg (2024), Kunsthalle Wien (2024), and Kunsthalle Basel (2023), as well as major international group exhibitions including The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale (2022).

Additional details on Marcon’s New Museum solo exhibition will be announced in the coming months.