The Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte

The Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte was founded in Banna, near Turin, in 2004.
The goal of the Foundation is the promotion of contemporary art through a program of workshops, discussions and seminars whose aim is to both deepen the theoretical under-pinnings of current artistic practice and to introduce those same philosophical theories to young contemprary artists.

More specifically, the Foundation’s primary activity is to offer a uniquely innovative program of post-graduate education based on a series of workshops with full-residency  for Italian artists under the age of 35 and with an accompanying  interest in supporting artists from the Piemont region.. The foundation hosts two or more workshops per year, they run from spring to late autumn, and a series of meetings or conferences on issues particularly relevant to contemporary art.