Located in Largo Isarco, in the south of Milan, the complex covers a total area of ​​19,000 m2.
The Prada Foundation, chaired by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, is an institution dedicated to contemporary art and culture.
It currently has two offices: the main one of 20,000 square meters in Milan (Largo Isarco in the Vigentino district) and in Venice (Ca 'Corner della Regina).
On 9 May 2015 the new spaces of the Prada Foundation in Milan, in Largo Isarco 2, in the south of the city, were inaugurated. The new headquarters, designed by the OMA architecture studio, led by Rem Koolhaas, expands the repertoire of spatial types in which art can be exhibited and shared with the public. Characterized by an articulated architectural configuration that combines pre-existing buildings and three new buildings, it is the result of the transformation of a distillery dating back to the 1990s. The complex covers a total area of ​​19,000 m2, of which 11,000 m2 will be used for exhibition activities. The building at the entrance will welcome the public with two spaces created by special collaborations: an educational area dedicated to children and developed with the students of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles; and a bar designed by director Wes Anderson that recreates the atmosphere of typical Milanese cafes.
On the occasion of the opening of the new Milan office, the Prada Foundation presents a plurality of activities. Robert Gober and Thomas Demand carry out site-specific installations in dialogue with industrial architectures and new spaces. Roman Polański explores the cinematic suggestions that inspired his films in a project that translates into an unpublished documentary and a film review, which ended on 25 July 2015.
Parallel to the new spaces in Milan, the Venice office remains active in the eighteenth-century palace of Ca 'Corner della Regina. From May and during the summer of 2015 the two spaces are ideally linked by two exhibitions of ancient art, "Serial Classic" - in Milan - and "Portable Classic" - in Venice - by Salvatore Settis.
Selections of works from the Prada Collection are presented in thematic exhibitions, such as "An Introduction", an exhibition that emerged from a dialogue between Miuccia Prada and Germano Celant, and "In Part", curated by Nicholas Cullinan.
The "Serial Classic" exhibitions (open until 24 August 2015) and "Portable Classic" (open until 13 September 2015), curated by Salvatore Settis, in collaboration with Anna Anguissola and Davide Gasparotto, complete the program. The two exhibition projects, whose preparation is conceived by OMA, respectively analyze the themes of seriality and copying in classical art and small-scale reproduction of Greek-Roman statuary from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism.
In September 2015, Fondazione Prada presented "Atlante del gesto", a cycle of choreographic actions conceived by Virgilio Sieni for the new Milan office. Then, in November 2015, an anthology of the artist Gianni Piacentino (Turin, 1945) was inaugurated, curated by Germano Celant, which ended in January 2016.
In December 2015, the Foundation hosted the "Recto Verso" exhibition in Milan, a selection of works in which the artists knowingly placed the usually hidden, forgotten or neglected element of the back of the picture in the foreground.
The exhibition was conceived by the Foundation's Thought Council, composed of Shumon Basar, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Cédric Libert and Dieter Roelstraete.
Prada Foundation
Address: Largo Isarco, 2, Milano
Phone: 02 5666 2611
Site:
http://fondazioneprada.orgLocation inserted by
Stefano Vigolo