ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
Imagining sustainable futures through alliances and shared practices.
BASE is a multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to the performing and visual arts, and to design.
The artist residency programme at BASE is a living laboratory: a space of care, listening, and possibility, where emerging practices find time, resources, and community.
A place and a moment where artists are not asked to produce, but to explore, fail, question, and build critical thought.
Residencies become a cultural and political act, capable of making often–invisible processes visible, and of imagining new forms of support.
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Care as method. Critique as practice. Community as form.
Every year we offer a residency programme dedicated to emerging generations, with a particular focus on queer, racialised, neurodivergent and disabled communities, ensuring a safe and accessible environment.
We build long-term relationships with the artists in residence and involve them in the co-design of the Public Programme, productions, and research processes that shape BASE.
We work in dialogue with designers, researchers, local communities and national and international partners to address the urgencies of the present together.


Protected time and space
Concrete support
Relationships and critical dialogue
A period dedicated to research, away from production pressures. The freedom to try, test, and rethink within an ecosystem of 12,000 m² dedicated to research and creation.
Curatorial mentoring, tutoring, technical and organisational guidance. Financial support and access to professionals and cultural organisations active in the area.
Each residency is shaped in relation to the territory and the communities that inhabit it, activating relationships, meanings, and shared responsibilities.
DESIRESIDE
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DESIRESIDE è anche un progetto editoriale sul presente e i futuri delle residenze artistiche.
The DESIRESIDE publication was created out of the desire to share practices, visions, and questions with the artistic community, cultural institutions, and those working in cultural policy. Analyses of support models, reflections on research time and pre-production, perspectives on transdisciplinarity, dialogues between artists, curators, academics and cultural workers: a space for in-depth exploration of the role of residencies within the political, social, and democratic dimensions of contemporary culture.
Currently in residence at BASE
There are no artists in residence at BASE at this time.
Archivio residenze
Porous Cartographies.
Dal 1 Aug
Al 30 Aug 2025
Whatever I am / let it be seen
Dal 16 Jun
Al 21 Jun 2025
(Super)Models
Dal 28 Apr
Al 12 May 2025
Everything comes to an end
2 Feb
H17:00
ROOM 1400
THE IMAGE THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY – Palestinian Visual Resistance: presentation and assembly
17 Jan
H18:00
Ground Hall
Yosra Tourki — Takbir: ALLAHU AKBAR
Dal 4 Nov
Al 17 Nov 2024
THE IMAGE THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY Palestinian Visual Resistance
Dal 11 Jan
Al 13 Jan 2025
Jail Time Records: exploring freedom through incarceration
Dal 13 Jan
Al 27 Jan 2025
Microbial Futures Lab — Eva Bubla
Dal 15 Jul
Al 20 Jul 2024
CU*MMIA*1 –– Danila Gambettola ENdangered ENsemble
Dal 22 Jul
Al 30 Jul 2024
Whatever I am / let it be seen — Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
Dal 15 Jul
Al 21 Jul 2024
Stories of the Last Days — Livia Bartolucci
Dal 8 Jul
Al 12 Jul 2024
Hide — Edoardo Mozzanega
Dal 5 Feb
Al 9 Feb 2024
Mombao
Dal 3 Oct
Al 13 Oct 2024
F. De Isabella — MAI+
Dal 3 Oct
Al 13 Oct 2024
Kelly Ardens — Il Margine
Dal 27 Aug
Al 27 Aug 2024
Francesca Grilli — RECORD
Dal 5 Jul
Al 7 Jul 2024
Martina Rota — With All My Strength
Dal 18 Jun
Al 30 Jun 2024
Calderoni—Caleo
Dal 10 Jun
Al 16 Jun 2024
Alice Giuliani — A.ROOM.POURED.OVER.ME
Dal 27 May
Al 2 Jun 2024
Morini — Pala
Dal 22 May
Al 26 May 2024
Valerie Tameu — Dove hanno tremato le placche
Dal 20 May
Al 21 May 2024
Rooy Charlie Lana — Nei Porno Non Piove
Dal 13 May
Al 14 May 2024
Xavier Madden e Katja Banović
Dal 12 Apr
Al 14 Apr 2024
Arisandmartha
Dal 12 Apr
Al 13 Apr 2024
DESIRESIDE: Transdisciplinary Residencies, practices and models in comparison
7 Mar
H10:00
BASE Milano
Le Nouveau Grand Tour 2023 — Eléa Jeanne Schmitter
Dal 27 Nov
Al 22 Dec 2023
Erica Petrillo
Dal 11 Jan
Al 12 Jan 2024
Barrani — Corps Citoyen
Dal 22 Jan
Al 25 Jan 2024
Missing Outs — Elisabetta Consonni
Dal 1 Nov
Al 16 Nov 2025
Donika Rudi — Lament of the Earth
Dal 16 Oct
Al 18 Oct 2023
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SA SMYTHE
Dal 1 Jul
Al 14 Jul 2023
ZimmerFrei — DE LOS MUERTOS
Dal 12 Jun
Al 13 Jun 2023
Playing Ground — Isabella Martin
Dal 1 Apr
Al 8 Apr 2023
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SAGAL FARAH
Dal 3 Apr
Al 12 Feb 2024
Mistura Allison
Dal 6 May
Al 16 May 2023
Al.Di.Qua.Artists
Dal 16 May
Al 20 May 2023
Soukaina Abrour — Mra7ba
Dal 27 Mar
Al 28 Dec 2023
Lucia Di Pietro — La Conferenza sullo scomparire
Dal 23 Mar
Al 31 Mar 2023
Barbara Stimoli & Titta Cosetta Raccagni — Pleasure Rocks
Dal 2 Mar
Al 1 Apr 2023
Simon Dogger — Design Beyond Vision
Dal 12 Feb
Al 19 Feb 2023
Davide Tagliabue
Dal 16 Jan
Al 2 Jan 2023
Christopher Amm — Circolare in una rete di linee che s’intersecano
Dal 5 Dec
Al 11 Dec 2022
Elisabeth Verrat e Alban Magd — 98800, resurgens-résurgences-rinascita
Dal 1 Dec
Al 3 Dec 2022
Rosalie Piras — Rendez-vous autour du brasero
Dal 1 Dec
Al 2 Dec 2022
Quattrox4 e Beniamino Barrese — OLTRE GRETEL
Dal 28 Nov
Al 29 Nov 2022
Lucia Palladino — Correspondances
Dal 1 Oct
Al 9 Oct 2022
Extragarbo — Fin che ci trema il cuore
Dal 8 Sep
Al 10 Sep 2022
Emke Idema — School of Unlived Worlds
Dal 8 Sep
Al 9 Sep 2022
Maddalena Fragnito — I DO NOT HAVE A DREAM JOB, I DON’T DREAM OF LABOUR
Dal 1 Jul
Al 2 Jul 2022
Francesca Tambussi — Hyperburgers
Dal 6 Jun
Al 12 Jun 2022
Parasite 2.0 — They Will Design
Dal 6 Jun
Al 12 Jun 2022
Francesca Marconi — Manifesto al Presente
Dal 17 Jan
Al 18 Jan 2022
Michele Rizzo
Dal 10 Dec
Al 11 Dec 2021