Fondazione Prada, Milan

Mar 31

Fondazione Prada is an institution dedicated to contemporary art and culture, and in 2015 opened a new permanent facility in Milan. Transforming a former distillery from the 1910s and building in additional structures, the Milan location has 11,000 square metres of exhibition space. Whoah! Exhibitions, cinema screenings, and performance art all takes place at Fondazione Prada Milan — as well as being home to the beautiful Bar Luce.

The star of the permanent collection is Carsten Holler’s ‘Upside Down Mushroom Room’, where giant, rotating mushrooms are suspended from the ceiling, in a room only accessible by walking through a pitch-black installation where you’ll feel your way along a railing. It’s a trippy experience to say the least, and the Alice in Wonderland feeling of being amidst the mushrooms is amazing experiential art.