Residencies
We are a multidisciplinary research centre in the performing, visual and design arts.
With an annual residency programme, we offer listening, space and resources to emerging generations of artists, with a focus on queer, racialised and disabled communities, providing a protected space for research and production.
HIGHLIGHTS
THE IMAGE THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY – Palestinian Visual Resistance: presentation and assembly

We are committed to building long-term collaborations, involving artists-in-residence in the co-design of the Public Programme and BASE’s productions. We try to trigger an open and real dialogue with artists, creatives and designers, exploring ideas and approaches on how to address contemporary issues.
Rules of the Game
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EXPERIMENTATION LABORATORY
We give space to process: free space to make mistakes, to try and experiment, to think and produce, to create and share. We establish long-term relationships with artists and work alongside them to experiment with new ideas, at the intersection of performance art and design, photography and dance, public art and music.
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THE CURE IS POLITICAL
We provide technical support, mentoring and financial resources by guaranteeing a space for research and production, fostering the connection between the artistic community and the local context, and offering a dedicated, protected and comfortable work space and hospitality.
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BEING A CITY WORKSHOP
Imagining new forms of living is not only the task of architecture: we support emerging artists in the area and challenge the artistic community to immerse themselves in the reality of the city in order to break rules and boundaries, reconfigure spaces and human relations, and bring art and the public dimension into dialogue through artistic languages.
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ENGINE OF CHANGE
Rethinking the contemporary through artistic languages: our residency programme exposes bodies, identities, cultures and unforeseen natures, fitting into BASE’s broader framework of reflection, which sees us committed to mitigate forms of racialisation and cultural colonialism, abilism and gender discrimination.
FROM THE ARCHIVE — RESIDENCIES
Porous Cartographies.
Whatever I am / let it be seen
(Super)Models
Yosra Tourki — Takbir: ALLAHU AKBAR
THE IMAGE THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY Palestinian Visual Resistance
Jail Time Records: exploring freedom through incarceration
Microbial Futures Lab — Eva Bubla
CU*MMIA*1 –– Danila Gambettola ENdangered ENsemble
Whatever I am / let it be seen — Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
Stories of the Last Days — Livia Bartolucci
Hide — Edoardo Mozzanega
Mombao
F. De Isabella — MAI+
Kelly Ardens — Il Margine
Francesca Grilli — RECORD
Martina Rota — With All My Strength
Calderoni—Caleo
Alice Giuliani — A.ROOM.POURED.OVER.ME
Morini — Pala
Valerie Tameu — Dove hanno tremato le placche
Rooy Charlie Lana — Nei Porno Non Piove
Xavier Madden e Katja Banović
Arisandmartha
Le Nouveau Grand Tour 2023 — Eléa Jeanne Schmitter
Erica Petrillo
Barrani — Corps Citoyen
Missing Outs — Elisabetta Consonni
Donika Rudi — Lament of the Earth
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SA SMYTHE
ZimmerFrei — DE LOS MUERTOS
Playing Ground — Isabella Martin
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SAGAL FARAH
Mistura Allison
Al.Di.Qua.Artists
Soukaina Abrour — Mra7ba
Lucia Di Pietro — La Conferenza sullo scomparire
Barbara Stimoli & Titta Cosetta Raccagni — Pleasure Rocks
Simon Dogger — Design Beyond Vision
Davide Tagliabue
Christopher Amm — Circolare in una rete di linee che s’intersecano
Elisabeth Verrat e Alban Magd — 98800, resurgens-résurgences-rinascita
Rosalie Piras — Rendez-vous autour du brasero
Quattrox4 e Beniamino Barrese — OLTRE GRETEL
Lucia Palladino — Correspondances
Extragarbo — Fin che ci trema il cuore
Emke Idema — School of Unlived Worlds
Maddalena Fragnito — I DO NOT HAVE A DREAM JOB, I DON’T DREAM OF LABOUR
Francesca Tambussi — Hyperburgers
Parasite 2.0 — They Will Design
Francesca Marconi — Manifesto al Presente
Michele Rizzo
CALL
ASSOCIATED ARTISTS
Co-curating and mentoring programmes for emerging artists,
moments of openness to the public during residencies
and workshops dedicated to the community:
associated artists are collaborators, partners, allies
in the realisation of the artistic production
and territorial projects of BASE.
NUOVO GRAND TUOR
BASE hosts the 18th stop of Nuovo Grand Tour,
the multidisciplinary programme of artistic residencies
for young European talent promoted by the French Embassy in Italy
and the Institut Français Italia.
THE WAY WE WERE