Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo became a Major Patron of CIMAM in 2023, and a Benefactor in 2025.
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is founder and president of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. After graduating in Economics, she approached contemporary art as a collector in the early 1990s. Her passion for art became an organised activity in 1995 when she established the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. In 1997, the Fondazione's first site was inaugurated in Guarene, in Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, an 18th century residence in the hills of Piedmont. In 2002, the Fondazione continued its development and promotion of contemporary art, inaugurating the headquarter of Turin, an art centre of international standing. In 2017 she founded the Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid of which she is president.
Since 2008, she has been a member of the Gruppo Tecnico Cultura of Confindustria Nazionale. Since 2014, she has been President of the Comitato Fondazioni Arte Contemporanea and, since 2017, she is also President of the Fondazione IEO-Monzino, of the European Institute of Oncology and of the Monzino Cardiology Centre in Milan. Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is a member of boards and councils of many museums and institutions worldwide: MoMA, Tate Modern, New Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, ENSBA de Lyon, Bard College, Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, ICI- Independent Curators International, Fundación MACBA.
She has received several awards and honorary titles, including the recognition of "Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana" (2005) and the title of "Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres" awarded by the French Republic (2009). She has also been awarded the "Montblanc Arts Patronage Prize" (2003), the "AIDDA" prize (2003), the "Marisa Bellisario" Prize (2005). In 2019 she received the Leo Award from ICI of New York, in 2020 the designation of "Ambasciatrice nel mondo delle eccellenze torinesi", in 2021 the award "Torinese dell'anno". In 2022 the Rinascimento + Prize and in 2023 the Premio Internacional de Mecenazgo for her patronage commitment. In 2023, she received the honour of “Commendatore della Repubblica”.
Since 2015, she has been a lecturer at the IULM University of Milan.
To learn more about Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s visionary work and her longstanding commitment to contemporary art, we invite you to read this interview conducted by CIMAM on the occasion of her support as Major Patron in 2023 and as benefactor in 2025.
“Art Is a Way to Know the World”
An interview with Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and CIMAM Major Patron in 2023.
"Alliances are fundamental to generating change"
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and in recognition of her recent commitment to CIMAM as a Benefactor in 2025, CIMAM spoke with Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo about her long-standing support for contemporary art, her evolving relationship with the organization, and her experience as co-host of the upcoming CIMAM Annual Conference 2025, in Torino.