Sandretto

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is married and has two sons.
After graduating in business studies and economics, she first started collecting contemporary art in the early nineties.
What started as a hobby, rapidly became a full time career when she founded the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 1995, of which she is President.

The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo set up its first gallery at the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene in 1997 and officially opened its current headquarters, a centre for contemporary art in Turin, in September 2002.
The Turin space is a flexible structure that can put together exhibitions quickly and efficiently to respond to today’s trends, working with artists, critics, curators collectors and institutions from around the world to promote and support the production and exhibition of contemporary art at an international level. Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is an extremely active patron of the arts. She is a Member of the International Council, MoMA, New York; Member of the Friends of Contemporary Drawing, MoMA, New York; Member of the International Council, Tate Gallery, London; Member of the Leadership Council, New Museum, New York; Member of the Advisory Committee for Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Member of the Conseil d’Administration de l’Ecole Nationale Supériure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; Member of Advisory Committee for Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.

Since 2014, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is President of the Comitato Fondazioni Arte Contemporanea. In 2016 she was appointed Advisor for cultural activities by Fondazione Zétena, Matera (Italy), and Member of Art Basel Cities Advisory Board.

She is also Member of the Comité Culturel du Magazine Cartier Art and she is Honorary Member of the Monaco Project for the Arts. Since 2008 she is Member of the Confindustria Nazionale Cultural Commission; she is Member o f the Board of Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro ONLUS, Member of the Jury of the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award in 2015, Member of the jury of Talent Prize and President of the Jury of Cairo Prize.

Among other Italian honors and awards for her work in the art world, she also received the Mont Blanc Arts Patronage Award for her dedication to contemporary art in 2003 and was awarded the title “Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana” (2005) and “Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture in 2009. Since 2014, she is lecturer at Libera Università IULM, Milan.