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18 — 11 October 2025
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HIRUNDINIDAE – A Photography Project

In a present marked by fear and decline, Hirundinidae tells the story of those who resist with art, music, and courage. This photography project by a group of young female artists showcases an alternative Milan, both culturally and socially. A Milan that resists by dancing and singing. It highlights those who create cultural spaces, who express their pain by shouting […]

18 September 2025 — 6PM
bistroBASE

Aperitivo Designed by Campari Soda

Some gatherings are more than just moments — they’re experiences to be lived. Aperitivo Designed by Campari Soda is one of them: an invitation to come together, share stories, and connect around a table, with good food and the unmistakable taste of Milan’s most iconic label-free Aperitivo. A unique event that celebrates the joy of being together in a spontaneous, […]

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BASE Milano is a hybrid cultural center serving the city.
Not a museum, not a theater, not just a gathering space or a restaurant, not a traditional coworking space, not simply a place to dance. We are all these things at once—and much more.

Highlights

FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2025: Making kin

Dal 4 ottobre al 22 novembre, un mese e mezzo di spettacoli, mostre e incontri. Un festival che trasforma lo spazio della scena in un ecosistema affettivo fatto di suoni, corpi e pensieri che abitano BASE e la città.

DARNA – MAQAM مقام, il richiamo – DAY 1

19 — 20 Sep Ground Hall

Un festival come una casa. Un luogo di ritorno, di memoria, di visioni nuove. Dopo il successo della prima edizione, DARNA torna a BASE con due giorni di cinema, arte, suoni, parole e sapori che raccontano il mondo SWANA (Southwest Asia e North Africa) da dentro, senza mediazioni o filtri esterni. Film, talk, musica, cibo, incontri: per due giorni, BASE si trasforma in un […]

DARNA – MAQAM مقام, il richiamo – DAY 2

20 — 21 Sep Ground Hall

Un festival come una casa. Un luogo di ritorno, di memoria, di visioni nuove. Dopo il successo della prima edizione, DARNA torna a BASE con due giorni di cinema, arte, suoni, parole e sapori che raccontano il mondo SWANA (Southwest Asia e North Africa) da dentro, senza mediazioni o filtri esterni. Film, talk, musica, cibo, incontri: per due giorni, BASE si trasforma in un […]

temporale {a lesbian tragedy}  

performance

4 — 5 Oct ROOM 1400

An argument turns into hail, a memory condenses into fog, a caress opens like an unexpected ray of sun: temporale {a lesbian tragedy} explores the unrest of the present as both a meteorological and emotional phenomenon. Between flashes of wonder and melancholy, sudden laughter and deep anguish, the stage fills with bodies collapsing, fragmenting, and recomposing into flickering presences and […]

Cosmic Prelude – FAROUT Festival Opening Night

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9 — 10 Oct BASE Milano

A cosmic alignment opens the doors of FAROUT 2025: more than fifty performances, exhibitions, and installations will unfold across BASE and the city over six weeks. Cosmic Prelude offers a first glimpse of its most visionary trajectories—where music, live arts, and sound experimentation converge. Programma della serata The evening begins at 6:30 PM with the official festival opening. At 7:00 […]

HABITAT

live performance

9 Oct
H21:30 Ground Hall

What remains of us when it is no longer bodies that sing, but their synthetic doubles? HABITAT, created by German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf, arrives at BASE Milano for its Italian premiere at FAROUT Festival: an immersive work that weaves together technology, collectivity, and social fragility, opening ReSilence, the large-scale exhibition dedicated to the relationship between sound, cities, and the future. […]

What Will We Do Without Exile?

installazione immersiva

10 Oct
H18:00 Auditorium / ROOM1400

What Will We Do Without Exile? is an immersive, multisensory installation that transforms the interior of a refugee tent into a lush world, inviting the audience to imagine a life beyond occupation. While generations of Palestinian bodies have been confined to tents, their imagination has never ceased reaching toward liberation. Through sounds, images, objects, stories, and tactile materials, the work […]

Manual Focus

performance

10 Oct
H21:30 ROOM 1400

A face that turns into a nape, legs that multiply, identities fading behind a mask. Manual Focus is the first and iconic creation by Mette Ingvartsen: three female bodies merge into a twelve-legged organism, suspended between animal, human, and monstrous creature. What unsettles is not the “monster” itself, but the unstable tension between naked and masked, artificial and real, masculine […]

Le Cannibale — Romare, Enea Pascal (Ivreatronic)

11 — 12 Oct Ground Hall

On stage, two exceptional protagonists: Romare, one of the most refined producers on the international electronic scene, blending jazz, soul, and hypnotic grooves; and Enea Pascal, co-founder of the Ivreatronic collective and a key voice in Italy’s new wave of electronic music. A party that is also a collective ritual, where music becomes a tool for connection, imagination, and freedom. […]

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An installation to walk through like a party, inhabit like a story, and share like a summer. From Milan to…

Cecilia Sammarco is the selected artist for the ONE’S OWN OWN 2025 residency

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A world-work made of threads, knots, and interweavings.With the project DEEPandDANCE, artist Cecilia Sammarco is the winner of the call…

Open Casello’s New Piazza Tattica: From Urban Crossroads to a Space of Possibility

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On Thursday 12 June, Piazzale Cantore will be transformed: Open Casello’s new tactical square is born — a temporary urbanism…

(Super)Models: Saúl Baeza in residency at BASE

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BASE Milano and MAYRIT, Madrid’s Biennial of Design and Architecture, are pleased to announce a new curatorial residency with Saúl…

Open Call: Temporary X Permanence

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Venice Studio debuts in Milan, making a bold entrance in the heart of the Tortona district.An unmissable chance to take…

How many times you didn’t have time? Porto Design Biennale launches the open call for designers “Time is Present. Designing the Common”.

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On the occasion of the 4th edition of the Porto Design Biennale titled TIME IS PRESENT. Designing the Common curated…

A Residency in Berlin to Rethink Public Space.

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How can we imagine cities as more than just places to live?How can we rethink public space as a shared…

BASE and Leroy Merlin join forces to redesign spaces with and for the people who inhabit them.

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BASE launches its new partnership with Leroy Merlin through two projects dedicated to design, performance, and architecture: We Will Design…

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