Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is President of the Turin-based Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, an institution created in 1995 to collect and promote contemporary Italian and international artists. Patrizia Sandretto began collecting in the early 1990s, attracted in particular to photography, feminist artists, Italian, British and American art, which she saw first hand in museum and gallery exhibitions and in the studios. The Foundation was first located in the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene d'Alba, near Turin, as a place to show the collection to the public and to host exhibitions and was later moved to its present location in Turin in 2002. The Fondazione Sandretto has staged numerous exhibitions of international art, and the works from the collection have been included in exhibitions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, at the Serpentine Gallery in London, among others.