Made in Cloister Foundation

Made in Cloister Foundation is a Foundation founded in 2012 with the aim of restoring the sixteenth-century cloister of Santa Caterina a Formiello , to use it as an exhibition and performance art center in dialogue with the neighbourhood.

The place, transformed into a wool mill in the Bourbon era and abandoned for over a century, is a unique example of the union of Renaissance and industrial archaeology, reconverted into a cultural foundation dedicated to contemporary art and artisanal design . Made in Cloister Foundation 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 rest for the Dominicans who lived in the complex, then used for years as a carpentry shop, is today the Cloister bar, furnished with artisanal design objects, which also hosts a social canteen.

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