Within the Fine Art Study in Italy program, FDV Residency Program hosts twenty second-year artists from the Bachelor in Fine Arts and Bachelor in Visual Arts at Monash University in Melbourne, who from October 15 to 18 will develop a research path on the concept of the artist’s studio in relation to the Milanese context.

The stay in Milan is part of a broader deepening journey on contemporary art themes, led by artist Kathy Temin, who has guided students to visit some of the main institutions in Northern Italy.

Starting from a visit to the Biennale di Venezia, students were invited to reflect on the idea of the studio as a space of collaboration. Having chosen an aspect of a work, they conceived a project to focus on during the following three moments of confrontation. The second of these took shape in the spaces of Monash University in Prato, where the work developed in Venice was formalized, recontextualized in a new territory and with a local audience.

Now the third stage of the project arrives in Milan, in collaboration with Careof, focusing on the idea of the studio as a place of experimentation with video. Students will be asked to deepen their research within the Milanese artistic panorama. After a visit to the Fabbrica del Vapore workshops, the artists will move between the main artistic institutions in Milan and some of its galleries.

The third day will be dedicated to a workshop with artist Anna de Manincor who, in relation to her experience with the Zimmerfrei collective, conceives the studio as a moment of “assemblea permanente,” a place where ideas, inspiration, and the desire to act detach from inner imagination and become dialogue, maieutics, mediation, confrontation, operation, organization, logistics.

The project will conclude with studio visits on the last day, during which some curators, critics, and teachers from Milan will discuss with the students the themes raised in the previous days.

The project is part of Careof’s international art scene deepening program developed since 2013 through project presentations, video screenings, and residencies for artists and curators, born from a research trip Marta Bianchi conducted in Australia in early 2013.