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16 Sep 2026 — 7:00PM
Ground Hall

BELL END

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 […]

18 Sep 2026 — 6:00PM
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(UN)REAL ESTATE AGENCY

(UN)REAL ESTATE AGENCY is a participatory project addressing the housing crisis through an artistic device in the form of an imaginary real estate agency. Playing on the double meaning of the term “real estate,” the work questions a system in which housing seems to have stopped being a right and become, increasingly, a commodity. Between listings, auctions, and surreal negotiations, […]

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BASE Milano is a hybrid cultural center serving the city.
Not a museum, not a theater, not just a meeting space or a restaurant, not a traditional coworking space, not a dance hall. We are all of these things combined, and much more.

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APERTA PER FERIE — L’ESTATE 2026 A BASE MILANO

(UN)REAL ESTATE AGENCY

18 Sep
H18:00 mosso

(UN)REAL ESTATE AGENCY is a participatory project addressing the housing crisis through an artistic device in the form of an imaginary real estate agency. Playing on the double meaning of the term “real estate,” the work questions a system in which housing seems to have stopped being a right and become, increasingly, a commodity. Between listings, auctions, and surreal negotiations, […]

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

FAROUT Live Arts Festival
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

FAROUT Live Arts Festival
live performance

27 Sep
H16:00 Open Casello

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

FAROUT Live Arts Festival
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, […]

PUNTO DE QUIEBRE

FAROUT Live Arts Festival

24 Oct
H21:00 yesROOM – Courtyard

In Spanish, quiebre means rupture, collapse, breakdown. In flamenco, it refers to a sudden fracturing of the body and rhythm: the moment when balance breaks and from that fracture a new intensity is born. With Quiebre, Industria Indipendente continues its research around Don Quixote alongside performer and choreographer Alma Söderberg. The quiebre becomes a space of possibility, where failure is […]

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 […]

La notte ha la forma del grido di un lupo

FAROUT Live Arts Festival

6 Nov
H20:00 ROOM 2100

A nocturnal encounter, a non-straight temporality that thickens, returns, deviates — lingers, expands, gets lost. Between waking and sleep, fear and desire, stillness and transformation, Calderoni and Caleo sink into the night, a material to inhabit, devour and displace elsewhere.  Accompanying this descent into darkness are the words of Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig from Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary, while the line that gives the research its title comes from Alejandra Pizarnik, an Argentine lesbian poet who died by suicide.  At the deepest point of the night, other cosmologies emerge: packs, hordes, swarms; mares, she-wolves, lionesses, marmots and snakes. Two bodies become many and, as in Wittig and Zeig’s text, entire populations gather. Boundaries become porous, and on bodies always on the verge of falling asleep appear antennae, hair, feathers, paws, claws, scales and mouths.  La notte ha la forma del grido di un lupo withdraws from the urgency to move forward, produce, or get somewhere. Because here, duration is a matter of resistance: to last one moment longer than those who want us dead, to endure one […]

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 […]

KaraOCHE

FAROUT Live Arts Festival
live performance

2 Dec
H21:00 yesROOM

The performance blends the atmosphere of a karaoke bar with surreal elements, creating a space suspended between reality and fiction, where animal stories, human tragedies, and existential questions intertwine. Through singing, dancing, and spoken word, karaoke becomes a place where unauthorized, eccentric, and marginalized voices find legitimacy and space to speak.

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SUMMER 2026

DISCOVER BASE SUMMER ↗
BASE SUMMER POSTERS ↗
LA BOCCIOFILA ↗

APERTA PER FERIE
— SUMMER AT BASE

When Milan shuts down, BASE remains an open infrastructure.

A place you can walk through, live in, every day, morning and night. August included.

Festivals, music, performance, cinema, dance lessons, talks, open-air cinema, clubbing, opportunities for socializing, playing, relaxing, and much, much more…

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LAND ON FAROUT ↗

FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2026:
Hello Darkness

From September 10th to December 2nd, BASE lands on FAROUT ↗.

Performances. Concerts. Immersive experiences. International artists. Three months inside and outside BASE inspired by Hello Darkness ↗, the theme that runs through BASE’s entire annual program.

An invitation to pause in the darkness, not to seek answers, but to change perspective.

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The Art Chapter 2027

Applications are now open for the next edition of The Art Chapter, the fair dedicated to independent publishing, artists’ books, and contemporary publishing practices, at BASE from January 22nd to 24th.

This year, you can choose to join the next chapter early. Register by August 31st to access the Early Chapter quota.

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PUBLIC PROGRAM 2026

HELLO DARKNESS ↗

Talks, performances, assemblies, installations, participatory practices, and listening sessions. A program that explores the darkness of the present, not seeking simplistic solutions, but opening up spaces of possibility.

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BASE becomes a “Punto Viola”

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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

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

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What do we show when we show design?

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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…

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Too young to know better.
We’re happy to reverse this sentence, here in BASE.

Don’t ask permission, take your place.

On stage or backstage, in the rehearsal or control room. Experimenting and making mistakes is the best way to turn an idea into something real.

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