Pramantha Arteteca

Pramantha Arteteca is a space for promotion, mediation and dissemination of contemporary art and culture, halfway between a museum and a gallery. It works like a library where you can borrow an art work as you do with a book, realizing the idea of the free movement of the artworks and the art rental service, with a membership system. Service beneficiaries are individuals, professionals, businesses

, associations, public and private schools and universities. Our Arteteca is born following the example of French model, but actually Pramantha Arte started art rental service as early as 2007, while the real space has been opened in February 18, 2012 with the exhibition entitled Violare. L'Arteteca - Il desiderio estetico si fa spazio, with which it was introduced the collection available for rental (500 works including painting, sculpture, photography and video), with artworks by 18 authors who are different each other in nationality, history, careers and languages.

«In its role as "artwork library", the Arteteca purpose - said the director Maria Rosaria Gallo - is to bring the public closer to contemporary art, overcoming the obstacle of the obligation of buying - with the possibility to rent art by a subscription with prices affordable to everyone. Further, this is a way to overcome the distrust of contemporary artistic languages still too often perceived as distant. However, without deny the possibility of purchase to those who feel the desire to buy the piece. A reality almost unknown in Italy, but widespread in northern Europe, institutionalized and widely developed in France (in public and private form) and that comes at the beginning of the '900, in the artistic circles of Berlin, on the initiative of Arthur Segal». To date Pramantha Arteteca has a collection of 1500 works and a wealth of cultural and study activities that involved students, teachers and the public.