Mission

Società delle Api (The Bee Society) is an independent non-profit organization founded by Silvia Fiorucci that fosters solidarity, knowledge and collaborative practices across different disciplines. SDA’s mission is to generate research-based platforms where artists, architects, designers and thinkers can develop their own projects in close collaboration with each other and to create new modes of exchange between artists, curators, researchers, institutions, collectors and philanthropists. Società delle Api is a non-exclusive space that endorses the idea of a network as a constantly changing swarm of people and ideas.

Goals

SDA believes in art as a tool for change

SDA believes in common knowledge

SDA believes in human relationships

SDA is a network-based organization

SDA advocates for a more people-oriented approach to art production

SDA wants to grow together with the people it supports

SDA operates outside the market yet aims at inventing new forms of exchange and production

Community

Società delle Api offers a comprehensive program of activities, developing short and long-term projects in different locations throughout the year. The cultural and geographical vector of all the activities orbits around four main sites in Europe, namely Monaco (MC), Grasse (FR), Rome (IT) and Kastellorizo (GR). Società delle Api is developing different formats, including residencies and research programs, workshops, publications, debates and events, aspiring to engage with a network of people from all over the world, making each project a real moment of exchange.