The Nicola Trussardi Foundation is a non-profit institution for the promotion of contemporary art and culture. Created in 1996, the

Nicola Trussardi Nicola Trussardi (June 17, 1942 – April 14, 1999) was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. He took over the Trussardi fashion line in 1970 and built the small glove-maker into an international brand. He also led the restoration of the M ...

Foundation ran its own exhibiting space in Piazza della Scala in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

. From autumn 2003, under the direction of President, Beatrice Trussardi and with Artistic Director,

Massimiliano Gioni Massimiliano Gioni (born 1973) is an Italian curator and contemporary art critic based in New York City, and Artistic Director at the New Museum. He is the Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan as well as the Artistic Dire ...

, the Foundation changed strategy, becoming an agency for the production and the diffusion of contemporary art in a wide variety of contexts and channels. In order to explore new modes of presenting contemporary art, it started organizing contemporary art events and exhibitions in public spaces in the city of Milan. The Foundation normally organises two major exhibitions a year as well as a series of publications, insertions in magazines and mail projects. Its declared mission is to invest all its resources and knowledge to produce culture's events and to make the most innovative research of contemporary artists available to everyone.

Chronology of exhibitions 2003–2016

* ''Short Cut'' by

Elmgreen and Dragset Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. Elmgreen & Dragset liv ...

from May 7 to June 4, 2003 – Ottagono, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan * ''If I Had You'' by

Darren Almond Darren James Almond (born August 1971, Appley Bridge, Lancashire) is an English artist, based in London. He was nominated for the 2005 Turner Prize. Life and career Almond graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1993, with a BA (hons) deg ...

from November 4 to November 23, 2003 – Palazzo della Ragione, Milan * ''Untitled'' by

Maurizio Cattelan Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him bei ...

from May 5 to June 6, 2004 – Piazza XXIV Maggio, Milan * ''Meechfieber'' by John Bock from November 9 to December 2004 – Sala Reale, Central Station, Milan * ''Jet Set Lady'' by

Urs Fischer Urs Fischer (born 2 May 1973) is a Swiss-born contemporary visual artist living in New York City. Fischer’s practice includes sculpture, installation and photography. Education and early career Born to two doctors as the second of two children ...

from May 3 to June 1, 2005 – Istituto dei Ciechi, Via Vivaio 7, Milan * ''Long Sorrow'' by

Anri Sala Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video. Life and career Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Pari ...

from November 15 to December 18, 2005 – Circolo Filologico Milanese, Via Clerici 10, Milan * ''I Like Things'' by

Martin Creed Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, ''Work No. 22 ...

from May 16 to June 18, 2006 – Palazzo dell'Arengario, Piazza del Duomo, Milan * ''My Religion Is Kindness. Thank You, See You in the Future'' by

Paola Pivi Paola Pivi (born 1971) is an Italian multimedia artist. She has worked in artistic media including photography, sculpture and installation. Some of her works contain performance elements, at times involving live animals and people. In 1999, she ...

from November 14 to December 10, 2006 – Old Warehouse, Porta Genova Station, Via Valenza 2, Milan * ''One of Many'' by

Pawel Althamer Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). P ...

from May 7 to June 5, 2007 – Palazzina Appiani, Sports Arena, Viale Byron 2, Milan * ''Altri fiori e altre domande'' by Peter Fischli & David Weiss from January 30 to March 16, 2008, Palazzo Litta, Corso Magenta 24, Milan *

Tino Sehgal Tino is an Italian name or nickname, often a diminutive of the names Agostino, Costantino, Martino, Antonino, Valentino, Giustino, Sabatino, Faustino, and other names ending in -tino. Tino may refer to: People Given name * Tino Ausenda (191 ...

from November 11 to December 14, 2008, Villa Reale, Modern Art Gallery, Via Palestro 16, Milan * ''Still Life – Nature morte'' by

Tacita Dean Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British / German visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. ...

from May 12 to June 21, 2009 – Palazzo Dugnani, Via Manin 2, Milan * ''Pig Island'' by

Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1945. He studied art at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and later continued ...

from May 20 to July 4, 2010 – Palazzo Citterio, Via Brera 14, Milan * ''Parasimpatico'' by

Pipilotti Rist Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist (born 21 June 1962) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female b ...

from November 9 to December 18, 2011 – Cinema Manzoni, Via Alessandro Manzoni 42, Milan * ''Rubble and Revelation'' by Cyprien Gaillard from November 13 to December 16, 2012 – Caserma XXIV Maggio, Via Vincenzo Monti 59, Milan * ''Fault Line'' by Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla from October 22 to November 24, 2013 – Palazzo Cusani, Via Brera 13–15, Milan * ''Wheatfield'' by Agnes Denes from March to July, 2015 – Porta Nuova district, Milan * ''The Great Mother'' from August 26 to November 15, 2016 – Palazzo Reale, Milan * ''The Restless Earth'', from April 28 to August 20, 2017 – Palazzo della Triennale, Milan * ''Jeremy Deller: Sacrilege'', from April 12 to April 15, 2018, CityLife Park, Milan * ''Ibrahim Mahama: A Friend'', from April 2 to April 14, 2019, Caselli Daziari di Porta Venezia, Milan

Bibliography

* ''Panorama Milano'', edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, 2003 * ''I Nuovi Mostri'', edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, 2004 * ''What Good is the Moon?'' edited by Massimiliano Gioni, essays by Daniel Birnbaum,

Stefano Boeri Stefano Boeri (born 25 November 1956) is an Italian architect and urban planner, and a founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. Among his most known projects are the Vertical Forest in Milan, the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille, and the ...

, Flavio Del Monte,

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...

, Michele Robecchi, Barbara Roncari, Tiziano Scarpa, Roberta Tenconi, Beatrice Trussardi and Catherine Wood, Hatje Cantz, Olstfildern, 2010 * ''The Great Mother'', edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Roberta Tenconi, forewords by Giuliano Pisapia, Filippo Del Corno, Domenico Piraina and Beatrice Trussardi, Skira, Milan, 2015

External links

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