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The Fundació Vila Casas was founded in 1986 by the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Antoni Vila Casas. It is a private non-profit organisation whose main aim is to promote contemporary Catalan art.

It has five exhibition centres, all of which form part of Catalonia's architectural heritage. The foundation has become a platform for displaying a permanent collection and for staging temporary exhibitions of the artists who form part of the collection.

In the artistic sphere, its aims are to promote the work and career of Catalan artists, understood as those who live or work in Catalonia, through exhibitions, lectures, donations and the awarding of prizes. It also promotes collecting and makes museums and galleries available for the exhibition of works by contemporary Catalan artists.

Since 1998, the headquarters of the Fundació Vila Casas has occupied the first floor of Casa Felip, a modernist building at Carrer d'Ausiàs Marc, number 20, in Barcelona. Originally the residence of the Felip family, who commissioned the architect Telm Fernández to build it in 1901, it was later declared a property of local cultural interest by Barcelona City Council.