BASE PROGETTI PER L'ARTE IS A NON-PROFIT CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHED IN THE SPRING OF 1998 BY A GROUP OF ARTISTS IN FLORENCE. THE ASSOCIATION'S EVENTS ARE HELD AT BASE, IN VIA SAN NICCOLÒ 18/R – 50125 FLORENCE, ITALY AND OCCASIONALLY IN OTHER LOCATIONS. THE EXHIBITION PROGRAM WAS INAUGURATED IN SEPTEMBER 1998 WITH WORKS BY SOL LEWITT, FOLLOWED BY SHOWS OF MARCO BAGNOLI, ALFREDO PIRRI, CESARE PIETROIUSTI , NIELE TORONI,  JAN VERCRUYSSE, HEIMO ZOBERNIG, THE UNPUBLISHED CONCERT BY MICHAEL GALASSO, LUCA PANCRAZZI, MARCO FUSINATO E JOHN NIXON, INGO SPRINGENSCHMID, PAOLO MASI & PIER LUIGI TAZZI, MUNTADAS, ROBERT BARRY, LUCA VITONE, LILIANA MORO, CLAUDE CLOSKY, REMO SALVADORI, PIETRO SANGUINETI, LIAM GILLICK, MASSIMO BARTOLINI, MARIO AIRÒ, EVA MARISALDI, RAINER GANAHL, FRANÇOISE MORELLET, BERNHARD RUDIGER, NEDKO SOLAKOV & SLAVA NAKOWSKA, OLAF NICOLAI, KINKALERI, RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA, MATT MULLICAN, MICHEL VERJUX, ELISABETTA BENASSI, PEDRO CABRITA REIS, PIETRO RIPARBELLI, SIMONE BERTI, JEPPE HEIN, GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB, JONATHAN MONK, PETER KOGLER, CARSTEN NICOLAI, SURASI KUSOLWONG, FRANZ WEST. THE PRIMARY IDEA OF BASE IS TO PROVIDE A SPACE WHICH IS OPEN TO THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ART PRACTICES, AND TO PRESENT THE WORKS OF ARTISTS IN A DIALECTIC OF SIGN AND LANGUAGE THAT ENCOURAGES AN ONGOING AND OPEN DIALOGUE OF IDEAS CONCERNING CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. BASE WAS ESTABLISHED AND SUPPORTED BY FOUNDING MEMBER ARTISTS, BUT AIMS TO INVOLVE A WIDER CIRCLE OF ART-RELATED INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING SCHOLARS, CRITICS, COLLECTORS AND FRIENDS, BY WAY OF PARTICIPATION AND SUSTAINING SUPPORT FOR THE ASSOCIATION'S ACTIVITIES. BASE IS THUS CONCEIVED AS AN ESSENTIAL POINT OF EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE, AND IS PART OF A COLLECTIVE CULTURAL INHERITANCE AVAILABLE TO ALL. BASE WILL PRESENT EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS, DEBATES AND DIALOGUES, PROVIDING A VARIETY OF INTERPRETATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE ISSUES FACING CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE. BASE 2006 FOUNDING MEMBERS ARE: MARIO AIRÒ, MARCO BAGNOLI, MASSIMO BARTOLINI, PAOLO MASI, MASSIMO NANNUCCI, MAURIZIO NANNUCCI, PAOLO PARISI, REMO SALVADORI.

BASE WILL INVOLVE THE WORK OF THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS IN ITS EXHIBITION PROGRAM: MARIO AIRÒ, GIOVANNI ANSELMO, STEFANO ARIENTI, JOHN ARMLEDER, MATTHEW BARNEY, ROBERT BARRY, DOMENICO BIANCHI, ANGELA BULLOCH, DANIEL BUREN, VINCENZO CABIATI, MAURIZIO CATTELAN, PHILIP CAZAL, GIUSEPPE CHIARI, FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, JAMES COLEMAN, THIERRY DE CORDIER, GINO DE DOMINICIS, RICHARD DEACON, MARIO DELLAVEDOVA, ANTONIO DIAS, MARC DION, STAN DOUGLAS, MANERED EGENDER, LUCIANO FABRO, MARCO GASTINI, LIAM GILLICK, DOUGLAS GORDON, DAN GRAHAM, PIERRE HUIGE, GENERAL IDEA, ANISH KAPOOR, MASSIMO KAUFFMANN, HARALD KLINGELHÖLLER, JOSEPH KOSUTH, JANNIS KOUNELLIS, BRIGITTE KOWANZ, WOLFGANG LAIB, SOL LEWITT, KEN LUM, EVA MARISALDI, MARCO MAZZUCCONI, MAURIZIO MOCHETTI, MARIKO MORI, LILIANA MORO, MATT MULLICAN, MAX NEUHAUS, GABRIEL ORÕZCO, LUCA PANCRAZZI, GIULIO PAOLINI, CESARE PIETROIUSTI, ALFREDO PIRRI, EMILIO PRINI, MARKUS RAETZ, GERWALD ROCKENSHAUB, BERNHARD RÜDIGER, ED RÜSCHA, GEORGINA STARR, RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA, GRAZIA TODERI, NIELE TORONI, GUNTER ÜMBERG, JAN VERCRUYSSE, BILL VIOLA, LUCA VITONE, LAWRENCE WEINER, FRANZ WEST, RACHEL WHITEREAD, ANDREA ZITTEL, HEIMO ZOBERNIG...