Villa Filanda Antonini ARTIST Residency
Villa Filanda Antonini -VFA- is an independent space dedicated to experimentation with the languages of contemporary art.
Established in 2021 on the initiative of Giulio Feltrin and his family, founders of the design brand Arper, VFA is the first project supported by Arper Feltrin Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is encouraging the dialogue between contemporary art, design, and architecture.
VFA is home to an Artist Residency Program whose aim is to build a network of people and processes capable of interpreting the material and immaterial specificities of the region in which it is embedded.
During the year, the Villa hosts resident exhibitions, workshops, and cultural events open to the community. All activities planned by VFA are addressed to art-minded and curious people, interested in creating and collaborating together both with VFA and the artists-in-residence.
Our charming Villa is located in Villorba, close to the city of Treviso and well connected to it by means of public transport, although we like to encourage cycling. The river Piave, the seaside, and the mountains are only about 30 minutes from the premises, providing for a variety of inspiring and meaningful scenarios.
Villa Filanda Antonini (1870), used to be home and HQ of the local silk factory. In Northern Italy we used to have vivid silk production, producing and trading fine silk garments and textiles, trading all the way to far east lands.
Starting from this historical and social connections, we begin to study and design the premises together with Korpijarvi Design. We used Design as a learning pattern, framing the subject, looking for the renovated use of Villa Antonini, finally developed as interior design for a new artist residency.
In order to create a warm and domestic dimension for the new interior, we studied carefully the architecture and materials. We wanted to appreciate the old given premises and to bring it to this date with love and care.
Villa Filanda Antonini ARTIST Residency
Villa Filanda Antonini -VFA- is an independent space dedicated to experimentation with the languages of contemporary art.
Established in 2021 on the initiative of Giulio Feltrin and his family, founders of the design brand Arper, VFA is the first project supported by Arper Feltrin Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is encouraging the dialogue between contemporary art, design, and architecture.
VFA is home to an Artist Residency Program whose aim is to build a network of people and processes capable of interpreting the material and immaterial specificities of the region in which it is embedded.
During the year, the Villa hosts resident exhibitions, workshops, and cultural events open to the community. All activities planned by VFA are addressed to art-minded and curious people, interested in creating and collaborating together both with VFA and the artists-in-residence.
Villa Filanda Antonini (1870), used to be home and HQ of the local silk factory. In Northern Italy we used to have vivid silk production, producing and trading fine silk garments and textiles, trading all the way to far east lands.
Starting from this historical and social connections, we begin to study and design the premises together with Korpijarvi Design. We used Design as a learning pattern, framing the subject, looking for the renovated use of Villa Antonini, finally developed as interior design for a new artist residency.
In order to create a warm and domestic dimension for the new interior, we studied carefully the architecture and materials. We wanted to appreciate the old given premises and to bring it to this date with love and care.
Villa Filanda Antonini is part of a local regeneration process that converts the spaces of industrial production, into spaces for the generation of cultural content and new knowledge.