WELCOME TO BASE
Via Bergognone, 34 — 20144, Milano
BASE Terrace
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 […]
BASE Terrace
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 […]
BASE Milano is a hybrid cultural center for the city.
Not a museum. Not a theater. Not only a gathering place or a restaurant. Not a traditional coworking hub. Not simply a dance floor.
We are all of these things at once –– and much more.
HIGHLIGHTS
9 OCTOBER –– 22 NOVEMBER 2025
FAROUT Live Arts Festival
Making Kin
From 9 October to 22 November, a month and a half of performances, exhibitions, and encounters: FAROUT transforms the stage into an affective ecosystem made of sounds, bodies, and thoughts that inhabit both BASE and the city.
FEATURING
Alos –– Annamaria Ajmone & Laura Agnusdei –– Diana Anselmo –– Basel Zaraa –– Brigitta Muntendorf –– Cardellini ◇ Gonzalez –– Collettivo Amigdala –– DOM– ( Leonardo Delogu e Valerio Sirna ) –– Industria Indipendente (Erika Z. Galli e Martina Ruggeri) –– Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin –– gruppo nanou –– Katatonic Silentio –– Laila Tafur –– Sterud / Kongsness –– Mette Ingvarsten –– Olimpia Fortuni –– OvO (Stefania Pedretti e Bruno Dorella) –– Rafael Candela –– Romare & Enea Pascal (Ivreatronic) / Le Cannibale –– Sara Leghissa & TaquitoJocoque –– Silvia Calderoni e Ilenia Caleo
FAROUT Opening Weekend
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Cosmic Prelude – FAROUT Opening Night
A new celestial body enters orbit: celebrate the arrival of FAROUT Festival and ReSilence with an opening night filled with music, installations, and unmissable encounters.
FORCE IS PRESENT – Brigitta Muntendorf
FORCE IS PRESENT is the Italian premiere opening both FAROUT Festival and the ReSilence exhibition. The work of acclaimed composer Brigitta Muntendorf, it is a radical audiovisual experiment that challenges perception.
What Will We Do Without Exile? – Basel Zaraa
A hymn to the invisible, unyielding strength of Palestinian imagination—resisting and reinventing freedom. This immersive installation transforms a refugee tent into a suspended landscape.
Manual Focus – Mette Ingvartsen
Bodies morph into hybrid, uncanny, and unsettling creatures. Mette Ingvartsen returns to BASE with an iconic work of metamorphosis, masks, and monstrous imaginaries.
Whatever I am / let it be seen – Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
An elegy in the form of dance: liturgical chant, prayer, and cathartic ritual restoring to the body its transformative power, between tragedy and sensorial experience.
Barrio's Forrest – Rafael Candela
A sudden passage transforms the everyday into a stage, opening up possibilities for relationships with the environment and audiences—both intentional and accidental.
Darkness Picnic – DOM–
A picnic on the edge of dream and wakefulness, where night becomes a stage and bodies act as antennas of a sensitive landscape. A temporary bivouac for nocturnal stories: stopping together, to listen.
Le Cannibale X FAROUT Festival W/ Romare + Enea Pascal
For the fifth year in a row, Le Cannibale and FAROUT Festival weave their languages into a night that is both party and performance, clubbing and artistic exploration.
Je Vous Aime – Diana Anselmo
A historic gesture becomes counter-history: voice, images, and sign language restore presence and dignity to a silenced community.
Butch Tribute – Sterud / Kongsness
Three choreographic acts celebrating queer female masculinity—through play, desire, and intimacy.
When silence is not absence but living matter, a possibility of relation between bodies, spaces, and communities. ReSilence: Future Soundscapes & Affect Mining in Urban Ecosystems is an exhibition of performative installations that turns listening into a collective experience.
Fifteen international artistic residencies for fifteen projects combining art, technology, and science to imagine the cities of the future as sound ecosystems, exploring the role of sound in shaping public spaces and more aware communities.
ReSilence is a project co-produced with
Programme curated by:
FEATURING
Ari Benjamin Meyers with Halsey Solutions –– Caroline Claus –– Marcin Dudek –– Alevtina Kakhidze –– Paul Louis with Impulse Audio Lab –– Abel and Carlo Korinsky –– Brigitta Muntendorf –– Lugh O’Neill with Temporary Pleasure –– Guillem Serrahima –– Gustavo Maggio, Wendy Chua, and Joyce Beetuan Koh with Playersjourney –– Lea Luka Sikau –– Loukia Tsafoulia & Severino Alfonso with up2metric –– Andrea Cera –– Wen Liu and Alexander Hackl –– Tim Otto Roth
News
Performing Architecture heads to Spain: Lemonot + O-SH bring Ser Miento to Logroño for Festival Concéntrico 2025
Cecilia Sammarco is the selected artist for the ONE’S OWN OWN 2025 residency
Open Casello’s New Piazza Tattica: From Urban Crossroads to a Space of Possibility
(Super)Models: Saúl Baeza in residency at BASE
Open Call: Temporary X Permanence
How many times you didn’t have time? Porto Design Biennale launches the open call for designers “Time is Present. Designing the Common”.
