In 2006 the Circolo StellaRe was created especially to assign the Premio StellaRe: a group of women whom Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo brought together to work on an ambitious project devoted to women, their identity and their value in this new millennium. Each new winner of the brilliant ring of Premio StellaRe is automatically added to the Stellare Club (Circolo Stellare).
Since 2006, the StellaRe Prize was awarded to Franca Sozzani (Director of Vogue Italia), H.E. Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi (Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates), Lisa Phillips (Director of the New Museum, New York) and Kazuyo Sejima (Kazuyo Sejima and Associates/ Director of the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture), Dr Elizabeth Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine), Dr. Fabiola Gianotti (celebrated physicist at CERN, spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment), Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Al Thani (chairperson of the Qatar Museums), Allegra Agnelli (President Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro ONLUS), Lidia Bastianich (chef and ambassador of Italian cuisine in the world) and Cherie Blair (founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women).
Members of Circolo StellaRe include: Allegra Agnelli (winner 2016), Lidia Bastianich (winner in 2017), Elizabeth Blackburn (winner in 2011), Cherie Blair (winner in 2018), Franca Coin, Anne-Marie de Weck, Umberta Gnutti Beretta, Fabiola Gianotti (winner in 2013), Paola Manfrin, Alessandra Pasqualini Burke, Giulia Puri, Warly Tomei, Francesca Tronchetti Provera, H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi (winner in 2007), Lisa Philips e Kazuyo Sejima ( winner in 2009). StellaRe is the name of the prize that the contemporary art foundation Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo set up in 2006, to honour women all over the world who strive to make a difference to contemporary society through their innovative work, dedication and ideas, paying particular attention to the complex cultural, political and economic strategies that shape contemporary society. The StellaRe Prize is an exclusively designed ring, made by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan that unites the winners of the Prize to the StellaRe Circle.
