“Fondazione Prada will present Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum (1965-1977) and Alex Da Corte’s Mouse Museum (Van Gogh Ear) (2022) to the public from 18 September 2025 (Press Preview on 17 September), on the eighth floor of the Torre, within its Milan venue, as part of the exhibition project ‘Atlas.’ For the first time, the audience will have the opportunity to experience these two installations, strictly connected visually and conceptually, in the same space. Viewing the two ‘Mouse Museums’ together offers a chance to reflect on the importance of both collecting and museum displays, artmaking and the self, while marveling at mass production, thus confronting different approaches to consumer culture. 

Through solo presentations or unexpected comparisons between works created by international artists between 1967 and 2022, ‘Atlas’ embodies a possible mapping of the ideas and visions that have contributed to the development of Fondazione Prada’s activities from 1993 to the present day. The project was conceived to evolve, one floor at a time, as part of an ongoing process, yet ready to incorporate new contributions from other artists or institutions. Its dynamic and evolving nature reflects Fondazione Prada’s desire to actively investigate how an exhibition space can be programmed and the role of a permanent project in a campus dedicated to contemporary culture.” — Fondazione Prada

Title image:  Torre – Fondazione Prada, Milan. Photo: t-spacestudio 

Images courtesy Fondazione Prada.