page_title: Fondazione Prada
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Fondazione Prada / History
caption_attribution_description: English&#x3a;&#32; Ca' Corner della Regina Venice, facade on the Grand Canal.Français&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Ca' Corner della Regina à Venise façade sur le Grand Canal.Italiano&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Ca' Corner della Regina Venezia. Facciata sul Canal Grande.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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 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 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)
caption: Fondazione Prada Venice
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