LA SOCIETÀ DELLE API

La Società delle Api, founded in 2018 by Silvia Fiorucci, takes shape as a community of practice and thought, built over time around the ideas of hospitality, knowledge sharing, and intellectual proximity. More than a place, it is a shifting geography where artists, designers, curators, writers and researchers shape a shared environment through evolving relationships.

Within this framework, the program emerges as a collective process in which production, exhibition, and exchange coincide. Exhibitions, residencies, and public programs are not conceived as autonomous formats, but as articulations of a single experiential space, often entrusted to the artists themselves in their conception and activation.

In 2026, La Società delle Api relocates to Rome, at Via Gregoriana 40. The Roman space joins a constellation of places made available to artists: Palazzo Campo Santo Stefano in Venice, Le Moulin des Ribes in Grasse (France), the Mont Tamalpaïs Chalet in Megève (France), La Casa dell’Ulivo and La Porta Rossa in Kastellorizo (Greece), and the historic sailing boat Suhail, navigating the Mediterranean.

La Società delle Api stems from the desire to build a real community around artists, offering them not only a space but a context in which to develop and share their research. The program reflects this vision: each project becomes an occasion for encounter, a gesture of openness, and a way of inhabiting a place together while transforming it.

SILVIA FIORUCCI

Founder and President of Società delle Api, Silvia Fiorucci, born in Rome, is an entrepreneur and a collector of contemporary art and design. She began her professional career within her family company, first as an ambassador in the United States and later as Head of Financial Assets, a role she still holds today. For over twenty years she competed in equestrian sports at a professional level, earning the title of Italian Dressage Champion. Raised in an environment attuned to the arts, she developed a personal interest in contemporary art and design.

In 2018, she founded Società delle Api as a non-profit organization, with the aim of strengthening relationships with artists and fostering cultural exchange.

Both privately and through Società delle Api, she supports special projects in collaboration with artists and designers, contributing—through the production and loan of works—to the realization of major exhibitions in international institutions and public events.

Silvia Fiorucci is a Knight for Culture of the Principality of Monaco; for over ten years she has been a patron of the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and is actively engaged in supporting cultural institutions such as the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the Museo Madre in Naples, the Triennale Milano, and the Serpentine in London.