In 2024, the exhibition projects of the artists Meriem Bennani, Michaël Borremans, Christoph Büchel, Miranda July and Pino Pascali and the new "Human Brains" initiative dedicated to neuroscience will begin for the Prada Foundation, in addition to the proposal of the Godard Cinema and the activities in educational field.
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The Observatory, inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, will welcome from 7 March to 14 October 2024 “Miranda July: New Society”, the first museum exhibition dedicated to Miranda july (United States, 1974). Curated by Mia Locks, the exhibition presents a new video project, FAMILY (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You), and traces three decades of production by the American artist, director and writer, including a selection of performances, web-based works and installations . “New Society” investigates Miranda July's ongoing exploration of risk and intimacy through performative projects, participatory work and technology. The exhibition will be accompanied by the first complete retrospective of her filmography in Italy which will be held at the Godard Cinema. The festival will include three feature films, Me and
You and Everyone We Know (2005), The Future (2011) and Kajillionaire (2020), and will be completed by a selection of short films and previously unreleased works on the big screen. Miranda July's work will also be at the center of an exhibition presented from April to July 2024 in the Prada Aoyama spaces in Tokyo.
Prada Rong Zhai will host from March 22 to May 14, 2024 “The Promise”, a solo show dedicated to Michael Borremans (Belgium, 1963). A selection of his pictorial works will be exhibited in the spaces of the historic residence from 1918, characterized by an architectural and decorative dialogue between Chinese and Western traditions.
A large retrospective dedicated to Pino Pascali (Italy, 1935 – 1968) will be presented in
main office in Milan from 28 March to 23 September 2024. The exhibition, curated by Mark Godfrey, will include more than fifty works by the artist from Italian and international museums and important private collections. The exhibition project is composed of four sections. The first section analyzes the approach with which Pascali created his exhibitions from 1965 to 1968, creating original environments rather than simple selections of works from his studio.
The second section explores his most significant interventions in important group exhibitions of those years and includes the works of the artists who exhibited with him. The third section examines Pascali's interaction with his sculptures in photographs taken by Claudio Abate, Andrea Taverna and Ugo Mulas and how these images suggest imaginative ways of approaching his work. The fourth section investigates Pascali's use of natural and industrial materials, studying their provenance, their use in the commercial sector, which other artists have used them and their development over time.
On the occasion of the Biennale Arte, the Venice headquarters, the historic palace of Ca' Corner della Regina, will present from the April 20 to the 24 November 2024 the “Monte di Pietà” project conceived by the artist Christoph Büchel (Switzerland, 1966). Originally home to the Venetian merchants Corner di San Cassiano, Ca' Corner della Regina was built between 1724 and 1728 on the ruins of the Gothic building in which Caterina Cornaro, future Queen of Cyprus, was born in 1454. In 1800 the palace became the property of Pope Pius VII who assigned it in 1817 to the congregation of the Cavanis Fathers. Until 1969 it was the headquarters of the Monte di Pietà of Venice, while from 1975 to 2010 it hosted the Historical Archive of the Venice Biennale and since 2011 it has become a cultural institution. This layered history is the starting point for Büchel for the construction of an articulated network of spatial, economic and cultural relations. Among the works of other artists and the objects on display, The Diamond Maker (2020-) by Christoph Büchel will also be presented, a suitcase containing artificial diamonds created in the laboratory, the result of the process of transforming the entire corpus of works in his possession, including the works of his childhood and youth, and those of future creation.
In the framework of the scientific project “Human Brains”, the 17 and 18 October 2024 Fondazione Prada will organize the second edition of an international conference accompanied by an exhibition and focused on the importance of prevention and early intervention in neurodegenerative diseases.
The results of the first four phases of “Human Brains” – the online conference “Culture and Consciousness” (2020), the streaming discussion series “Conversations” (2021-2022), the exhibition project in Venice “It Begins with an Idea ” (2022) and the forum and exhibition “Preserving the Brain” (2022) in Milan – are collected in the extensive publication published by Fondazione Prada and available from February 2024. From October 31, 2024 to February 24, 2025 a new commission by the artist will be presented Meriem Bennani (Morocco, 1988) at the Fondazione Prada headquarters in Milan. The project will consist of a large-scale installation and a previously unreleased animated film, which explores the range of sociopolitical and cultural changes that impact our emotional lives, uniting the collective and personal dimensions. Furthermore, during 2024 the activity of the Godard Cinema which explores creative visions and unexpected readings of the cinematographic panorama of the present and past, stimulating mixes with the languages of visual arts and music. The programming, curated by Paolo Moretti, will further broaden its scope across different genres and territories through a rich calendar of screenings and meetings open to the public with Italian and international directors, actors and critics.
The winner of the competition will be announced in June seventh edition of the Graduation Award. Established by the Foundation in 2018, this annual initiative is a recognition of the passion and commitment of students who have discussed a degree thesis relating to cultural issues in Milanese universities: University of Milan, Polytechnic of Milan, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Bocconi University, IULM Free University of Languages and Communication of Milan and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
