WELCOME TO BASE

Via Bergognone, 34 — 20144, Milano
Today BASE is
Open
Terrace
6PM — 12AM
Ground Hall – Sala studio
9AM — 12AM
bistroBASE
9AM — 12AM
10 September 2026 — 8:30PM
ROOM 1400

FAROUT Opening / MANIFESTUS extended party

MANIFESTUS by Jacopo Jenna comes to life as a performance and ends up infecting everything around it. Bodies meet, move apart, shift rhythm, move through the codes of street dance and transform the space into something alive, in constant motion. Then something happens: the performance expands, the stage opens and the audience enters the flow. It continues with a DJ […]

11 September 2026 — 7:00PM
ROOM 1400

MANIFESTUS extended party

MANIFESTUS by Jacopo Jenna comes to life as a performance and ends up infecting everything around it. Bodies meet, move apart, shift rhythm, move through the codes of street dance and transform the space into something alive, in constant motion. Then something happens: the performance expands, the stage opens and the audience enters the flow. It continues with a DJ […]

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BASE Milano è un centro culturale ibrido al servizio della città.
Non un museo, non un teatro, non solo uno spazio aggregativo o un ristorante, non un coworking tradizionale, non un locale da ballo.
Siamo tutte queste cose insieme e anche molto altro.

SCOPRI BASE ↗

Highlights

APERTA PER FERIE — L’ESTATE 2026 A BASE MILANO

FAROUT Opening / MANIFESTUS extended party

djset
live performance

10 Sep
H20:30 ROOM 1400

MANIFESTUS by Jacopo Jenna comes to life as a performance and ends up infecting everything around it. Bodies meet, move apart, shift rhythm, move through the codes of street dance and transform the space into something alive, in constant motion. Then something happens: the performance expands, the stage opens and the audience enters the flow. It continues with a DJ […]

MANIFESTUS extended party

djset
live performance

11 Sep
H19:00 ROOM 1400

MANIFESTUS by Jacopo Jenna comes to life as a performance and ends up infecting everything around it. Bodies meet, move apart, shift rhythm, move through the codes of street dance and transform the space into something alive, in constant motion. Then something happens: the performance expands, the stage opens and the audience enters the flow. It continues with a DJ […]

Tiger’s Nap

live performance

12 Sep
H16:00 Casello San Cristoforo

In Tiger’s Nap, Edoardo Mozzanega invites the audience to take part in a collective nap outdoors. Lying on a large fur rug and wearing sleeping masks shaped like a tiger, participants are guided through a sensory meditation that weaves together sound, imagination and storytelling. Traditionally associated with strength and ferocity, the tiger takes on an unexpected meaning here: it becomes […]

Berika

live performance

12 Sep
H20:30 yesROOM

Queer Deities in Migration weaves together the stories of seven queer migrants with the ancient mythology of the Caucasus. Each journey of migration, loss and transformation corresponds to a gender-fluid deity, giving life to a universe where myth and the present meet and rewrite each other. At FAROUT, the seven deities make their appearance during the journey that leads them […]

BELL END

live performance

15 Sep
H20:30 Ground Hall

In BELL END, Mathilde Carmen Chan Invernon stages an ironic and unflinching dissection of the codes of dominant masculinity. Through body, voice and sound, the performers observe, imitate and distort gestures, words and attitudes that belong to the imaginary of the connard — a figure as recognisable as it is everyday. Awkward postures, deliberately shapeless costumes and a sound score […]

NZIRIA + MONICA WITTY / LE CANNIBALE — FAROUT Live Arts Festival

19 Sep
H19:00 Courtyard

Per la prima volta a Milano, Nziria presenta il suo nuovo album dal vivo. Elettronica, tradizione orale napoletana e immaginari rituali. Un live denso, immersivo, che attraversa memoria e sperimentazione. In apertura, sul palco esterno, il dj set di Monica Witty. Una selezione che muove tra bass music, elettronica e geografie sonore differenti.

Prospero

live performance

20 Sep
H15:00 BARRIO’S

Prospero is a participatory performance-installation that transforms collective construction into an experience of encounter. Inspired by the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest — a figure capable of imagining and transforming his own destiny — the work invites the audience to take part in the creation of a large temporary sculpture. Through simple modular elements and accompanied by live music, […]

THE FLOOD / LA PIENA

workshop

23 Sep
H10:00 Z.I.A.

The experience unfolds through walking, intuitive writing and bodily attention, in a process that invites participants to observe the river as a presence in transformation and to come into contact with its physical and perceptive qualities. The flood becomes an image that allows us to read the relationship between body and landscape and to encounter water as an element with […]

Unreal State

live performance

27 Sep
H16:00 BASE Milano

Lasting between 60 and 75 minutes and available in English, Spanish or Italian, the work is conceived as a journey that can be realised in almost any urban context. As participants move through streets, buildings and public spaces, a voice gradually leads them to the discovery of another territory: an unreal state that overlaps with the world we already inhabit. […]

NON + ULTRAS (extended)

live performance

1 Oct
H19:00 Ground Hall

Between stadium chants, match footage and protest imagery, eight performers move through a space where ultras culture, politics and social media interweave. Abstract gestures alternate with movements drawn from urban culture, while sudden silences give way to explosions of images and sounds. Swifties and ultras, flares, mascots, stadium anthems and icons of mass culture overlap in a continuous flow of […]

NON + ULTRAS (extended)

live performance

2 Oct
H19:00 Ground Hall

Between stadium chants, match footage and protest imagery, eight performers move through a space where ultras culture, politics and social media interweave. Abstract gestures alternate with movements drawn from urban culture, while sudden silences give way to explosions of images and sounds. Swifties and ultras, flares, mascots, stadium anthems and icons of mass culture overlap in a continuous flow of […]

Relay

live performance

9 Oct
H19:00 Ground Hall

A black flag moves through the space without ever stopping. Its continuous motion, the beating of the fabric in the air and the passing from hand to hand give shape to Relay, a performance that transforms an essential gesture into an act of collective resistance. Inspired by the mobilisations of recent years, and in particular by the Czarny Protest — […]

schau/stellen

live performance

17 Oct
H20:30 ROOM 1400

This theatre is a morgue. Through the repetition and variation of the bow, the diptych schau/stellen makes gesture the foundation of a choreographic writing that calls into question the scenic space as the fulcrum of an asymmetrical relation of power and interdependence between vision and representation, performer and audience.   This theatre is a morgue.

Canta Fino A?

live performance
music

18 Oct
H20:30 Ground Hall

Canta Fino A is the performative format of the transfeminist collective Canta Fino A Dieci, created to open spaces of representation, collaboration and participation in the contemporary music scene. In this version, the artists take the stage unannounced: the concert builds itself through listening, letting voices, songs and the relationship with the audience take centre stage. By suspending individual identity, […]

Cinema Impero

live performance

25 Oct
H18:00 NOISE il Cinemino

Cinema Impero takes its name from a cinema built in Asmara in 1937, during the Fascist regime. From this symbolic place emerges a reflection on the power of images and narratives: cinema, like artificial intelligence today, contributes to constructing memory, imagination and the perception of reality. The performance interweaves materials from the historical archive of the Istituto Luce and the […]

PUFF

live performance

9 Nov
H20:30 ROOM 1400

Movement oscillates between lightness and strength, balance and abandon, moving through rhythms and gestures that evoke Brazilian urban dance. Breath, pauses and the beating of feet become part of the choreography, giving life to a presence in continuous transformation. At the heart of the work emerges the theme of disguise as a practice of transmission: a way of preserving and […]

Sognare, forse dormire — a sleeping performance

live performance

21 — 22 Nov ROOM 1400

A guiding voice and a sound composition gradually lead from wakefulness into sleep, creating the conditions to explore lucid dreaming. During the night, music, sounds and brief appearances by the performer and musicians move through the space discreetly, interweaving with the sleep of those taking part. Small shifts in perception open a simple question: Am I dreaming? Suspended between sleep […]

Toi, moi, Tituba…

live performance

26 Nov
H20:30 ROOM 1400

Starting from the figure of Tituba — the Black woman accused of witchcraft in the Salem trials and protagonist of Maryse Condé’s novel — Dorothée Munyaneza constructs a solo that moves through memory, body and history. Dance, voice and music become instruments for restoring presence to those who have been erased, reduced to silence or excluded from official narratives, exploring […]

IN EVIDENZA

ESTATE 2026

SCOPRI L’ESTATE A BASE ↗
I POSTER DELL’ESTATE ↗
LA BOCCIOFILA ↗

APERTA PER FERIE
— L’ESTATE A BASE

Quando Milano si spegne e si frammenta, BASE resta un’infrastruttura aperta.

Un luogo attraversabile, abitabile, ogni giorno mattina e sera. Agosto compreso.

Festival, rassegne musicali, progetti performativi, cinema, danza, talk, cinema all’aperto, balere, momenti di incontro, gioco e relax e tanto tanto altro…

IN EVIDENZA

ATTERRA SU FAROUT ↗

FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2026:
Hello Darkness

Dal 10 settembre al 2 dicembre BASE torna su FAROUT ↗.

Performance. Concerti. Esperienze immersive. Artist internazionali. Tre mesi di appuntamenti dentro e fuori BASE ispirati a Hello Darkness ↗, il tema che accompagna tutta la programmazione annuale di BASE.

Un invito a sostare nel buio, non per cercare risposte, ma per cambiare prospettiva.

IN EVIDENZA

SCOPRI DI PIù ↗

The Art Chapter 2027

Sono aperte le candidature per partecipare alla prossima edizione di The Art Chapter, la fiera dedicata all’editoria indipendente, ai libri d’artista e alle pratiche editoriali contemporanee, a BASE dal 22 al 24 gennaio 2027.

Quest’anno puoi scegliere di entrare nel prossimo Chapter in anticipo. Iscriviti entro il 31 agosto per accedere alla quota Early Chapter.

IN EVIDENZA

PUBLIC PROGRAM 2026

SCOPRI HELLO DARKNESS ↗

Talk, performance, assemblee, installazioni, pratiche partecipative e momenti di ascolto. Un calendario che esplora l’oscurità del presente senza cercare soluzioni semplificate, ma aprendo spazi di possibilità.

CULTURA CHE ACCOGLIE

FREE PADS IN BURO AND MUSIC ROOMS

Homepage
28 May is the International Menstrual Hygiene Day. An awareness-raising event that every year seeks to break the silence and…

BASE becomes a “Punto Viola”

città
Homepage
Starting today, BASE officially joins the network of Punti Viola by DonnexStrada, safe spaces spread across Italy, created to offer…

BASE becomes a center for menstrual health and cyclicality

città
Homepage
Starting in March, BASE will become a center for menstrual health. It will host the Menstrual Health and Cyclicality Help…

JOURNAL

What do we show when we show design?

design
Homepage
What do we show when we show design? And what kind of institutions can sustain design beyond the event itself?We invited design theorist and curator Emanuele Quinz to…

IN EVIDENZA

SCOPRI UNDER 30 ↗

Sei troppo giovane, che ne vuoi sapere tu?
A BASE questa frase la ribaltiamo volentieri.

Non chiedere permesso, prenditi il tuo posto.

Sul palco, dietro le quinte, in sala prove e in cabina di regia. Sperimentare e sbagliare è il modo migliore per trasformare un’idea in qualcosa di vero.

IN EVIDENZA

SPAZI DI LAVORO A BASE

VISITA ↗
SCRIVICI ↗

Le grandi idee affiorano negli spazi giusti.
Unisciti al nostro.

La Project House è il co–working di BASE pensato per chi vuole lavorare in un ecosistema duraturo. Uffici grandi, energia condivisa, visione indipendente. A BASE c’è spazio per team che crescono e per l’headquarter della tua azienda.

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