Gres art 671 is a center for art and culture, born in Bergamo in 2023 with the intention of returning to citizenship aformer industrial area of more than 3,000 square meters that preserves and transmits the memory of the history of the place.
It is a space for cultural production where solo and group exhibitions, meetings with the general public, workshops, performance and laboratory activities become opportunities to welcome and inspire, inviting free and constant interaction.
Gres art combines beauty and social impact, developing sustainable models that promote the well-being of the community. A place to go, discover, experience, stay, born with an ambitious urban regeneration project promoted by Italmobiliare Group with Fondazione Pesenti.
Theformer San Bernardino stone ware complex was developed in the Colognola neighborhood between the early 1900s and the mid-1970s as the site of a factory of the Austrian Stoneware Company, a major manufacturer of ceramic stoneware materials with a presence in Italy since 1887.
The complex covers an area of about 60,000 m2, including offices, two warehouses, warehouses and a disengagement structure. In the 1950s, houses for the company’s employees, located at number 149 and architecturally similar to the INCIS district in Milan (1949), were also added, based on a design by Albini and Helg.
Closed in 2012 after several changes of ownership, since 2016 the former Gres has been experiencing an initial recovery with the construction of the IceLab ice arena. Since 2022, the redevelopment project leading to the foundation of gres art 671 begins.
