Fondazione Prada , co-chaired by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli since 1995, is an institution dedicated to contemporary art and culture. From 1993 to 2010, the Fondazione has organised 24 solo shows at its exhibition spaces in Milan , conceived as dialogues with acclaimed contemporary artists. In 2015, the Fondazione Prada opened a new, permanent facility in Milan.
25-582: In the past 20 years, it has also promoted a rich cultural programme, such as film festivals (Tribeca Film Festival at Fondazione Prada”, 2004; “Italian Kings of the Bs. Secret History of Italian Cinema, 1949–1976”, 2004; “Secret History of Asian Cinema”, 2005; “Secret History of Russian Cinema”, 2007), multi-disciplinary and philosophy talks and architecture and design projects (“Herzog & de Meuron, OMA/AMO Rem Koolhaas. Projects for Prada. Works in Progress”, 2001; “Unveiling
50-599: A documentary film, sourced a handwoven Middle Eastern rug, and installed a conference table. As part of the installation, Macuga invited groups to hold meetings in the space free of charge. While in residence at the Walker Art Center in 2010-11, Macuga produced work for her first solo show in the United States that would investigate the cultural and political context of the Walker Art Center itself. Culminating in
75-402: A kids' area designed by a group of students from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles , and a bar where director Wes Anderson has recreated the typical mood of old Milan cafés. On the occasion of the opening of its new Milan venue, Fondazione Prada presented a wide range of activities. Robert Gober and Thomas Demand realized site-specific installations in dialogue with
100-677: A school. It subsequently became the city's Monte de Pieta . The palace now houses the History Archives of the Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia , as well as having display space for the Fondazione Prada . The piano nobile frescoes were commissioned by a Caterino Cornaro, a distant descendant of the famous queen, and completed by Constantino Cedini , Vincenzo Colomba and Domenico Fossati ; they depict
125-450: A series of choreographic actions conceived by Virgilio Sieni. In November 2015, Fondazione Prada presented an anthological exhibition devoted to Gianni Piacentino (Turin, 1945) and curated by Germano Celant. The thematic exhibition “Recto Verso” presented in December 2015, showcased artworks that consciously foreground the hidden, concealed or forgotten phenomenon of “the back.” In early 2016,
150-521: A series of episodes from Queen Caterina Cornaro's life. 45°26′26″N 12°19′56″E / 45.440687°N 12.332233°E / 45.440687; 12.332233 Goshka Macuga Goshka Macuga RA ( Polish: [ˈgɔɕka maˈtsuga] ; born 1967 in Warsaw , Poland as Małgorzata Macuga) is an artist based in London . She was one of the four nominees for the 2008 Turner Prize . Macuga
175-696: A unified textile allows her to 'illuminate the elusive relationship between historic documentation and truth'. In 2018, Macuga was commissioned by Norway’s parliament in Oslo to create a 3D tapestry containing political overtones and references to humans’ destruction of the environment. In October 2024, fashion brand Miu Miu featured Macuga’s installation Salt Looks Like Sugar in its spring/summer 2025 showcase at Palais d'Iéna during Paris Fashion Week , including actors Willem Dafoe and Hilary Swank as models. Also sponsored by Miu Miu, Macuga worked with curator Elvira Dyangani Ose on conceiving Tales & Tellers ,
200-625: A year-long installation about the 1930s-era controversy generated by the original painting. After 24 years on display just outside the Security Council at the Headquarters of the United Nations , the tapestry commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller was removed and loaned to Whitechapel for Macuga's installation. Along with the borrowed tapestry, Macuga made a bronze cubist sculpture of Colin Powell ,
225-448: Is commonly made for the specific institution in which it will be shown, her place-based installations involve many months worth of historical research and have been considered rich storytelling devices. In 2009 Macuga had an exhibition at the newly re-opened Whitechapel Gallery in London wherein she incorporated a 1955 tapestry version of Picasso ’s 1937 antiwar painting Guernica into
250-402: The 61st Venice International Film Festival called The Secret History of Italian Cinema . The Fondazione operates an exhibition in the 18th century Palazzo Corner della Regina , which now also houses the History Archives of the Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia . From May and throughout summer 2015, both locations were thematically linked by two antiquity art exhibitions,
275-626: The Serial Classic (ending on 24 August 2015) and the Portable Classic (ending on 13 September 2015), devised by Salvatore Settis. Palazzo Corner della Regina Palazzo Corner della Regina , commonly known as Ca' Corner della Regina , is a Baroque-style palace in the Sestiere Santa Croce of the city of Venice , Italy. In the English language, the title conforms with Palace of
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#1733084558375300-697: The Cinema at Fondazione Prada hosted “Flesh, Mind and Spirit” is a selection of 15 films chosen by Academy Award -winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico City, 1963) in collaboration with Elvis Mitchell, film critic and Curator at LACMA of Los Angeles. On 4 February 2016, "Goshka Macuga: To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll" opened to the public - developed by artist Goshka Macuga for Fondazione Prada's spaces, it brings together reflections on seminal issues such as time, beginnings and endings, collapse and renewal. One of
325-717: The Fondazione Prada unveiled its new permanent Milan venue, in Largo Isarco. The new Milan venue of the Fondazione, conceived by architecture firm OMA —led by Rem Koolhaas —expands the repertoire of spatial typologies in which art can be exhibited and shared with the public. The complex, which is the result of the transformation of a former distillery dating back to the 1910s, is articulated by an architectural configuration which combines preexisting buildings with three new structures, named “Podium”, “Cinema” and “Torre”. The hallmark of
350-990: The Fondazione include "Double Club" by Carsten Höller in London, "Prada Transformer" by OMA in Seul and "24h Museum" by Francesco Vezzoli at the Palais d’Iéna in Paris. Between 2005 and 2009, on the occasion of the Venice Biennale , solo exhibitions by Francesco Vezzoli (2005), Thomas Demand (2007), John Wesley (2009) were presented at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. Other artists exhibited included Anish Kapoor (1995), Louise Bourgeois (1997), Sam Taylor-Wood (1998), Walter De Maria (1999), Enrico Castellani (2001), Steve McQueen (2005), Tom Sachs (2006), Nathalie Djurberg (2008) and John Baldessari (2010) On 9 May 2015,
375-611: The Prada Foundation”, 2008; “Rotor: Ex Limbo”, 2011. In 2011, the Fondazione Prada opened a new exhibition space in Venice, the Ca’ Corner della Regina , a historic palazzo on the Grand Canal, which has hosted several collective exhibitions: “Fondazione Prada_Ca’ Corner”, 2011; “The Small Utopia. Ars multiplicata”, 2012, “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013”, 2013 and "Art or Sound", 2014. Special international projects by
400-510: The Queen from the "Corner (or Cornaro) Family" ; it is so named because Caterina Cornaro , who became Queen of Cyprus by marriage, was born to this family and at this site in 1454. The palace is located on the Grand Canal , near Ca' Pesaro , and between Ca' Favretto and Palazzo Correggio. The opposite structure is Palazzo Contarini Pisani . The present white palace facade, bedecked with columns on
425-517: The exhibition, It Broke From Within , Macuga investigated the history of the shaping of the Walker Art Center as an institution through its archives. The exhibition explored the political orientation, community theory, lumber, financial history, and serendipity of clerical errors concerning the Walker. Macuga designed enormous woven tapestries of photographs taken in Minnesota's oldest pine forests and used
450-472: The industrial architecture and the new spaces in the compound. Roman Polanski explores the cinematographic inspirations behind his artistic vision, through a new documentary and a series of film screenings. Selections of artworks from the Prada Collection are presented in a series of thematic exhibitions. In September 2015, the Fondazione hosted its very first performing arts project, “Atlante del gesto”,
475-503: The museum's first exhibits was a large collection of works by Edward Kienholz . The exhibition included Five Car Stud, an installation that had not been available for public view. In 2016, the Fondazione launched Osservatorio, a photography gallery on the fifth and sixth floors of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II . The Fondazione Prada was the private sector partner of a series of retrospective in Italian Cinema, first launched at
500-530: The new venue is the so-called “Haunted House”, a 4-story building, clad in 24 carat gold foil, where pieces from the permanent collection of art of the Fondazione Prada are permanently on display. Located in Largo Isarco, in the South of Milan, the compound has a gross surface area of 19,000 m2/205,000 ft2, of which 11,000 m2/118,000 ft2 is dedicated as exhibition space. The entrance building welcomes visitors to two new facilities, developed through special collaborations:
525-562: The same place. Part 1 depicts a diverse crowd of Afghans and Westerners in front of Darul Aman Palace outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. Part 2 , originally exhibited in Kabul, shows a photoshopped collage of an art-world crowd and protesters gathering outside of the Orangerie in Kassel. Macuga's composition technique of collaging together historical photographs and subsequently having the image woven into
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#1733084558375550-443: The textile as a backdrop for select pieces from the Walker's permanent collection, including works from Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys . In 2012 Macuga created two large photorealistic tapestries for dOCUMENTA (13) , one was displayed in Kassel, Germany and its counterpart in Kabul, Afghanistan. The two-part work called Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not is to be exhibited simultaneously but never together in
575-413: The two top floors, was designed by Giuseppe Sardi in the second half of the 17th century, while the palace was reconstructed in 1724 by Domenico Rossi . The lower story has a sturdy brick-like pattern of ashlar stone masonry. The lower doors and windows are surmounted by grotesque-like masks that serve as waterspouts, hence can be called gargoyles . The upper floors have balconies with balustrades . In
600-610: The upper floor, the balcony window-doors have triangular pediments . The main floor or piano nobile has tall window-doors with a rounded top and helmeted female busts at the keystone . The palace hosted the last of the Corner, a priest, until 1800, when the palace was willed to the Papal authorities, who ceded the palace to the Congregation of the Schools of Charity ( Cavanis Institute ) to establish
625-472: Was born in Poland . She is a graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths, University of London . Macuga works across mediums from Jacquard woven tapestries to sculptures and robotics. Macuga is known for taking on the role of a curator and archivist within her practice, as her installations often incorporate other artists’ work alongside a variety of disparate objects. Macuga's work
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