Fondazione Prada

Co-chaired by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli since 1995, the Fondazione Prada is an institution dedicated to contemporary art and culture. In May 2015 it unveiled its new permanent Milan venue, designed by architecture firm OMA

Fashion / 17 Jan 2019

Prada's illuminated A/W 2019 show is a real light-bulb moment

There was something spooky going on at Prada’s A/W 2019 catwalk show, one inspired by ghoulish figures like Frankenstein’s monster, The Addams Family’s Lurch and characters from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The uncanny event, held inside the grand hall...

Art / 12 Mar 2018

Fondazione Prada recreates art shows held under the rise and fall of fascist Italy

As Italy’s recent general elections on Sunday 4 March solidified the growing presence of far right and anti-establishment parties in Italian politics, it seems an apt coincidence that a current exhibition at Fondazione Prada explores the role of artistic and...

Architecture / 9 Mar 2018

OMA completes Fondazione Prada’s Torre in Milan

When the Fondazione Prada opened its doors in Milan to critical acclaim in 2015, the fashion, art and architecture worlds found a natural home in the OMA-designed complex. The site, a former distillery dating from 1910, has been widely covered...

Art / 13 Dec 2017

Miami moves: artist Carsten Höller on his pop-up club for Prada

‘Have you seen the film Rumble Fish?,’ asks Carsten Höller. It’s the morning before the opening of the Stockholm-based artist’s new show in Miami: a three day pop-up club in collaboration with Prada that marks the opening of the...

Art / 11 May 2017

That seventies show: Francesco Vezzoli delves into the archives of Italian TV

Francesco Vezzoli — the Italian artist known for his fascination with pop culture — is bringing back the 70s. Opening at the Fondazione Prada this week, Vezzoli’s exhibition delves deep into the archives of Italian broadcasting company Rai, dealing with...

Fashion / 8 May 2017

For Prada’s debut Resort show, AMO transforms the Osservatorio into a pastel vision

For the location of its first fully fledged Resort show, Prada chose Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, one of the world’s first shopping arcades. Conceived by Giuseppe Mengoni as an intersection of two pedestrian streets – complete with elaborate inlaid mosaic...

Art / 19 Jan 2017

Dear diary: photographers get personal at Fondazione Prada’s new space

Critic and curator Francesco Zanot has organised an exhibition exploring photography as the new diary. ‘Give Me Yesterday’ includes 14 artists born between 1976 and 1993, whose practices document the peaks and troughs of the personal, alongside names names familiar...

Design / 13 Sep 2016

Game-Changers: we pick our top 20 creative world-rockers

In 20 remarkable years we have come across, written about, examined and exhumed a lot of remarkable people. On the following pages are 20 of them. This, though, is not a simple ranking of power and influence. These are stories...

Design / 13 Sep 2016

Miuccia Prada: from bag maker to foundation shaker

Rare now is the fashion brand that doesn’t do art in some way, does not sponsor, show, collaborate or co-mingle with artists and galleries. It can look like a crushing embrace. But one designer has been doing it for longer...

Art / 21 Jul 2016

Political perspectives: Nástio Mosquito and Theaster Gates at Fondazione Prada

The shining light flowing into the Fondazione Prada has been hindered for a slight moment. Over the summer months, the windows have been plastered in pop coloured cartoons, but with a subject matter that couldn’t be farther away from playful...

Architecture / 1 Jun 2016

Fondazione Prada on the future of film at Venice Architecture Biennale

These are trying times for cinema. The commonly tread narrative of accountants trumping artists, and franchises triumphing over independents is a well explored one, but one that continues to carry weight in an era of unparalleled attention deficiency. Fondazione Prada...

Art / 17 Mar 2016

Thomas Demand explores artistic ownership at Fondazione Prada

At what point does appropriation become theft? If an act of theft is artistic enough, is it acceptable? Can any art form exist without borrowing from elsewhere? These are the questions raised by 90 works at a new exhibition curated...