Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee

National Network
Italy
Address

Borgo degli Albizi 15
50122 Firenze
Italy

Telephone
+39 055 2638365
Telephone (other)
+39 055 241962
Fax
+39 055 2479757
E-Mail
fondazione@fabbricaeuropa.net
E-Mail (2)
direzione@fabbricaeuropa.net
Mobile Phone
+39 3488901366
Mobile Phone (other)
+39 3355209268
Website
http://www.ffeac.org
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2003
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. International/Cultural relations
  3. Media
  4. Youth and education
General Information
1) Created 1994. 2003 the responsibility was taken over by FFEAC, a non profit making participatory foundation established, in agreement with its public stakeholders, by the three organisations that had most contributed to its development: Associazione Fabbrica Europa, Fondazione Pontedera Teatro, Associazione Music Pool. 2) Year 2005: € 352.000,00. 3) Funding: EU, Italian Ministry for Culture, Tuscany Region, Province of Florence, Florence City Council, EnteCassaRisparmioFirenze 4) Key activities: Fabbrica Europa festival (Florence, Stazione Leopolda, every year in May since 1994); trans-cultural projects fostering the fusion and interaction of cultural diversity; cultural events; training and professional development activities including masterclasses, residencies, internships, workshops and seminars; production of audio-video material and publishing activity. 5) Fabbrica Europa has developed a powerful network of partners, aimed at creative exchange, artistic production and cultural circulation, from Europe and its edges, with particular regard to the Western Balkans and the South coast of the Mediterranean.
Mission and Objectives

Fabbrica Europa is a laboratory for the development of collaboration and experimentation in the contemporary arts in Europe. Its mission is to be a space of production, exchange and professional development for the artists and cultural operators of Europe. It fosters the mobility of artists and art-works and so responds to the exigencies of an ever-more flexible labour market. It aims to promote understanding of cultural diversity through a dialogue between different forms of thought and ways of expression. It draws the public closer to contemporary artists and art-forms as a means of investigating a common identity. In this way Fabbrica Europa aims to create an impact that is not solely artistic but also profoundly social.

Main Projects / Activities

Our main and most renowned activity is the multi-disciplinary festival taking place every May in the former railway station Stazione Leopolda. It brings together European activities in a dense programme of dance, theatre, music, visual arts, architecture, video, new media. For this reason, we have obtained in 2006 the support from the European Union as an organisation promoting European culture.
Fabbrica Europa’s other activities are interdisciplinary artistic projects;
The last project co-financed by the European Commission – Culture 2000 has been “The Gesture in the cultural heritage of Europe” (2004/05), aimed at developing the theme of gesture through different cultural and artistic approaches, for a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary vision involving new technologies and multimedia. The project has been coordinated by Fabbrica Europa (project leader) in collaboration with Artefactory 41.14 (Procida), Muzeum Institut for Arts and Publishing (Ljubljana), Oxymoron (Athens), Chapter Arts Centre (Cardiff), Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), Artimage (Graz).

Contact (1) Full Name
Marina Bistolfi
Head of the organisation
Luca Dini
Contact (2) Full Name
Maurizia Settembri