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CITTADELLARTE - FONDAZIONE PISTOLETTO

Visible

Launched in 2010 by Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna, Visible is a pioneering platform that researches and supports socially engaged art in a translocal context. From 2011 to 2019, the Visible Award—Europe’s first prize for socially engaged art—was uniquely awarded through public juries hosted in city council chambers, in partnership with institutions such as Tate Liverpool and the Van Abbemuseum. These assemblies brought artists, curators, and citizens together to publicly debate the social impact of artistic practices, exploring the potential of art in shaping policies of care for the pressing issues of our time In 2022, Visible evolved into a series of Situated Fellowships, designed to offer deeper curatorial dialogue and long-term structural support to artist-led initiatives. This transition reflects a broader ambition: to rethink the role of philanthropy as an active force in shaping transformative cultural ecosystems. Since 2024, Visible has partnered with ZEGNA to launch a new cycle of research and support for socially engaged practices on a translocal scale. For more info please visit: www.visibleproject.org

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CITTADELLARTE - FONDAZIONE PISTOLETTO

Cittadellarte – fondazione pistoletto is a non-profit artistic institution whose mission is “to inspire and produce responsible changes in society through creative ideas and projects”. It seeks to introduce creativity to various social processes, from politics to the economy, from production to spirituality. it seeks to benefit the public via responsible social change, change which is urgently needed on both a local and a global scale.

Fondazione Zegna and cittadellarte have for many years shared a territory, Biella and its Province, and a desire to create an international network for social change, though without forgetting their roots. Together, the two organizations decided to explore the possibilities of collaboration between art and enterprise for the purpose of offering education and training resources to young artists and academics throughout the world and of creating innovative models for cultural investment.

This collaboration reached the public sphere in 2005 when Fondazione Zegna supported cittadellarte fondazione pistoletto in its presentation of a project entitled “The interior island: the art of survival” at the 51st International Art Exposition – la Biennale di Venezia (directed by Achille Bonito Oliva). The relationship was further developed in 2007 with the opening of an exhibition – “habitusZegna”- at casa Zegna in Trivero, curated by two Cittadellarte creatives.”

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