Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina

CCCS: Contemporary Culture in Florence

The Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (hereafter CCCS), part of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, was created as platform for the different approaches and practices that characterise the production of contemporary art and culture

Under the directorship of Franziska Nori, the multiyear programme of the CCCS, which harnesses both local and international networks, develops thematic exhibitions that look forward different aspects of the contemporary culture. Independent curators and international institutions are invited to propose exhibitions, series of videos and films, workshops, performances and lectures with the goal of going in depth of the selected topics. The CCCS realizes cultural projects about socially relevant issues that stand at the basis of our contemporary reality. The audience become a protagonist through a straight and ongoing relationship with the centre.

The exhibition space is located in the recently restored spaces under the magnificent courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi – known as ‘La Strozzina’ – which previously housed the cellars of this Renaissance monument, and which hosted Florence’s most important international exhibitions in the years after the Second World War until the flood of 1966. Since November 2007, this place has reborn as Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, which comprises eleven rooms of different sizes, approx. 850 square metres.

The challenge posed by the Renaissance architecture of Palazzo Strozzi for contemporary art is taken as a stimulus to stage each new event and project constantly pursuing new possibilities of artistic communication and presentation.