Base Firenze Launches Itinerant Project BaseTools with Video Screenings
Following their eviction from Via San Nicolò 18 in September 2024, which concluded 25 years and 60 exhibitions, Base / Progetti per l’arte has introduced BaseTools. This traveling initiative is set to take place on February 25, 26, and March 1, 2026, at Via Palazzuolo 87 A/R in Florence. BaseTools acts as a hub for artistic exploration, community engagement, and urban revitalization, showcasing three video projections alongside related posters. Featured artists include Driant Zeneli, Stefania Galegati, and Kamilia Kard. Zeneli's work, "No Wise Fish Would Escape Without Flying" (2019), was created with young people in Pristina. Galegati's piece, "L'isola deserta (al femminile)," gives voice to women inmates, while Kard's "A Rose by Any Other Name" (2021) examines artificial vision technologies.
Key facts
- Base / Progetti per l’arte was evicted from Via San Nicolò 18 in September 2024 after 25 years and 60 exhibitions.
- The new project is called BaseTools, taking place February 25, 26, and March 1, 2026.
- BaseTools is held at the Base Temporary Space on Via Palazzuolo 87 A/R in Florence.
- Three artists are featured: Driant Zeneli, Stefania Galegati, and Kamilia Kard.
- Each video projection is a unique, one-time event with a specially produced poster.
- Zeneli's film 'No Wise Fish Would Escape Without Flying' was previously shown at Manifesta 14 Prishtina.
- Galegati's project was developed with women inmates at Pagliarelli prison in Palermo.
- Kard's work critiques artificial vision systems and algorithmic classification.
Entities
Artists
- Driant Zeneli
- Stefania Galegati
- Kamilia Kard
- Sol LeWitt
- Alfredo Pirri
- Cesare Pietroiusti
- Jan Vercruysse
- Niele Toroni
- Michael Galasso
- Luca Pancrazzi
- John Nixon
- Marco Fusinato
- Heimo Zobernig
- Ingo Springenschmid
- Paolo Masi
- Pier Luigi Tazzi
- Antonio Muntadas
- Robert Barry
- Luca Vitone
- Gino De Dominicis
- Liliana Moro
- Claude Closky
- Pietro Sanguineti
- Liam Gillick
- Massimo Bartolini
- Eva Marisaldi
- Rainer Ganahl
- François Morellet
- Bernhard Rüdiger
- Nedko Solakov
- Slava Nakovska
- Olaf Nicolai
- Giuliano Scabia
- Kinkaleri
Institutions
- Base / Progetti per l’arte
- BaseTools
- Base Temporary Space
- Manifesta 14 Prishtina
- National Library of Kosovo
- Pagliarelli prison
- Bonevet
Locations
- Florence
- Italy
- Via San Nicolò 18
- Via Palazzuolo 87 A/R
- Pristina
- Kosovo
- Palermo