The brand new Fondazione Prada has been in the works for years, but after only weeks since opening it has already become a hotspot for culture in Milan. The long-awaited institution located in a former distillery, re-thought by Rem Koolhaas, is – as the architect explains – “not a preservation project and not a new architecture”.

Fondazione Prada Milan aims to bring together literature, cinema, music, philosophy, art and science. With visual art being the main language, together with Prada’s distinctive and very Milanese elegance, a walk around the space becomes an unexpected trip to utopia. The inaugural exhibition explores how copies and multiples aren’t a matter of just contemporary art, showing how “the age of reproduction” in art starts with the ancient Greeks and Romans and not with Walter Benjamin.

Prada’s impressive art collection includes permanent artworks from Robert Gober and Louise Bourgeois, a site-specific installation by Thomas Demand as well as a cinema featuring a selection of Roman Polanski’s inspirations.

If that’s not enough, have a coffee at Bar Luce, a typical 1950s and 1960s bar designed by no less than Mr. Wes Anderson – don’t forget to use the jukebox!

What Milan needs, Miuccia Prada provides.

http://www.fondazioneprada.org/

Fondazione Prada Milan
Largo Isarco 2, Milano 20139
+39 02 56 66 26 11

Robert Gober installation at Fondazione Prada Milan ”“ Photo: Attilio Maranzano courtesy Fondazione Prada

”˜Serial Classic’ exhibition at Fondazione Prada Milan ”“ Photo: Attilio Maranzano courtesy Fondazione Prada

Wes Anderson’s Bar Luce at Fondazione Prada Milan ”“ Photo: Attilio Maranzano courtesy Fondazione Prada

Sara is Melting Butter’s Milan contributor. An art and culture journalist, now also a creative producer for Out There agency, she has written (and spoken) for Monocle24, BlouinArtinfo.com, Grazia Italy, and Vogue Living Australia among others. A native Milanese she loves all things culture and living the good life. She met Melting Butter’s founder Jenny Nguyen-Barron while living in New York and feels luckier ever since.Read about Sara’s favourite hotspots here

(Feature Photo: Fondazione Prada Milan by Bas Princen courtesy Fondazione Prada)

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