Fondazione Converso is committed to fostering the dialogue of art and architecture through site-specific exhibitions, combining elements of performance, music, poetry and visual art to forge a path for new models of artistic practice. Housed in the 16th-century San Paolo Converso church in central Milan, Fondazione CONVERSO was founded on the concept of “a total art” first popularized in spaces just like it. This holistic approach to curation through the comingling of art, architecture, design and performance disrupts the distinction between practices and challenges the conventions of exhibition. As home to the arts for almost 500 years, the church’s Late Renaissance interiors have today been reimagined as two unique exhibition spaces that provide opportunity for display beyond the white cube. As a non-profit space, CONVERSO is always free and open to the public, and its nomadic CONVERSO_OFFSITE program extends into publishing and site-activations around the world.
