Fondazione Made in Cloister is a Foundation established in 2012 with the aim of restoring the sixteenth-century cloister of Santa Caterina a Formiello, to turn it into a center for exhibition and performance art in dialogue with the neighborhood.

The place, transformed during the Bourbon era into a wool mill and abandoned for over a century, is a unique example of the union of Renaissance and industrial archaeology, converted into a cultural foundation dedicated to contemporary art and artisanal design. Fondazione Made in Cloister carries out its activities mainly in three spaces: The small cloister, with its Bourbon drying room, is the heart of the foundation. Here site-specific exhibitions alternate with performances and live music. The Refectory, a place of refreshment for the Dominicans who inhabited the complex, later used for years as a carpentry workshop, is now the Cloister bar, furnished with artisanal design objects, which also houses a social canteen.

The LAB.oratorio, on the first floor of Fondazione Made in Cloister, was in the 16th century a passageway between the wings of the complex. Today it is a project space, dedicated to the young artistic scene, collections of artisanal design, and the Bottega Collection.