La Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art) was founded in 1991 to promote a cultural policy of development and promotion of modern and contemporary art, in the scope of a wider overall plan, that of realizing an ‘art quarter’ in Bergamo, made up of three institutions under the oversight of the historic Accademia Carrara: the Pinacoteca di Arte Antica, l’Accademia di Belli Arti and la Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.

Besides making maximum use of a permanent collection made up of 20th Century works, GAMeC organizes temporary collective and one-artist exhibitions of international relevance in cooperation with leading foreign museums, and is particularly sensitive to contemporary artistic research, promoted by carrying out specific young artists site projects, and an international prize – the first of its kind – for young curators.

The Museum was managed directly by the Local Authorities of Bergamo until 2000, when the administration of the activity was taken over by a non-profit association, named Associazione per la Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo – onlus, set up by the Local Authorities of Bergamo and TenarisDalmine, who up to today are the principal supporters of the project.
During the course of 2003, they have been joined by, as meritorious partners, the Banca Popolare di Bergamo and Bonaldi S.p.A.

By means of promoting contemporary art, TenarisDalmine has consolidated its own industrial tradition that invests in culture as a form of innovation, creativity, modernity and research, themes in line with the philosophy of TenarisDalmine, a company devoted to excellence and constant technological improvement. Furthermore, TenarisDalmine finds in the Associazione per la Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo the coexistence of the two dimensions that characterize it: the local dimension of a company that has its own roots deep in the Bergamasco territory and the global dimension of an international industrial group that operates in a worldwide market.