CRIPTA747

CRIPTA747 Residency Programme

Cripta747 (CRP) is a non-profit organisation founded in Turin in 2008 by Elisa Troiano, Renato Leotta and Alexandro Tripodi. Cripta747 aims to support contemporary art and research working at the intersection between national and international processes and debates. It offers an annual program of exhibitions, talks and lectures, video screenings, performances, publications, free events inside and outside its venue as well as providing studios to artists from all over the world. Cripta747 engages with all aspects of contemporary art with particular attentiveness to research and development, offering artists a space to work and a context that favors dialogue and exchange between visual arts and other expressive languages. The different projects that have been carried out over the years have brought to Turin a new way of relating to contemporary practices, through first-time exhibitions of emerging artists as well as important historical figures and group shows relevant to the debate taking place. This cultural policy has made Cripta747 an exchange platform, open to collaborations with leading Italian and international organisations, with public and private institutions, in order to support artistic production, mobility and the creation of an active network.

Cripta747 Residency Programme aims to support the creative development of artists, curators and researchers from any field of contemporary culture, without any geographical or age limit. The Residency takes place at Cripta747’s headquarters, an industrial building located in the North of Turin. Following the city’s vocation for an artistic and cultural model focused on investigation and production processes, Cripta747 provides fellows with the opportunity to live and work in Turin for 8 weeks during September – November 2018 while developing individual projects and immersing themselves in the city’s creative environment. This process-based residency aims at implementing and rethinking new strategies in research and artistic practices, refocusing the attention onto the production processes. Through the fellowship, it favours mobility, fosters exchange between local and foreign researchers, and supports both material and conceptual production.

An international scientific board that consists of three members (curators, artists, directors of selected European art institutions) that change every year, characterizes and orients every edition of the residency through the final selection of the residents appointed among the proposals shortlisted by Cripta747. For this edition the board is composed by: Alessio Antoniolli (Director of Gasworks, London), Giovanni Carmine, (Director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen) and Eva Fabbris (member of the Curatorial and Research Department of Fondazione Prada, Milan) Fellows are invited to present the results of their researches developed in residence through a public event and an open studio.

Fellows in residency are invited to present the work developed in Turin through an open studio and a public event. Cripta747 encourages a spirit of openness in the programme’s on-going activities, through participation programmes and public events.

• OPEN STUDIO: in the first week of November, during the Contemporary art Week and Artissima Fair, there is the open studio. The opening of places dedicated to artistic production offers to public, as well as the artists involved, the unique opportunity to see and discuss issues and processes related to the research carried out in the months of residence.
• PUBLIC EVENT: The organizers also ask the residents to think out and plan an event such as a talk, a workshop, a screening, a lecture or a conference, realized during their residency with the support of Cripta747’s staff, to directly engage the audience. 

Private room in an apartment shared with the other resident.

2 studios of 35 m2 and 56 m2 inside Cripta747’s venue. Each studio - 56m2, 35m2 - consists of a single room on the ground floor with different characteristics that make it suitable for various kinds of practices and production. All spaces are accessible 24/7. The structure has got a kitchen, a living area, a bathroom, storage for works and technical materials. Each room is provided with autonomous heating and wi-fi. Cripta747’s venue opens on to a big private courtyard shared with artisans’ workshops (carpenters, blacksmiths, movie set makers).

The Residency Programme takes place at CRIPTA747's headquarters, an industrial building located in Barriera di Milano, a working-class neighbourhood that holds together different souls, such as art insititutions, clubbing, social projects and craft.