Milan, Italy

Fondazione Prada

The Fondazione Prada, established by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli with roots in the 1990s, opened its permanent Milan home in 2015 in a former gin distillery in the south of the city. A second venue operates at Ca' Corner della Regina in Venice. The Milan complex, designed by OMA under Rem Koolhaas, mixes restored industrial buildings with new structures, including a tower and a gold-leaf-clad "Haunted House." Its program is unusually wide, spanning contemporary art exhibitions, a dedicated cinema, philosophy and research projects, and a celebrated café conceived by filmmaker Wes Anderson. The Fondazione's relevance lies in setting a benchmark for the privately funded foundation as a cultural force — blending fashion-world resources with intellectually serious, genre-crossing programming.

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. Source: Wikipedia