One of Viafarini's core aims is to collect and divulge documentation material about Italian contemporary art scene of the last two decays. Viafarini enstablished its Artist's Archive since the opening of its very first exhibition, Immagini proiettate.

Later Viafarini entered into partnership with Careof, another non profit organization for contemporary art, taking the decision to combine their respective archives, eventually giving birth to DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Art, that nawadays includes a library, a video archive as well as an artists' portfolio archive. As an indipendent non profit institution, Viafarini has been able to build up a network of collaborations with a lot of Italian artists, helping them since the very beginning of their carrier.

Viafarini offers its expertise and its operative instruments in order to organize and realize art projects in collaboration with several partners, e.g. cultural institutions as well as private companies.

Collaborations with public authorities:
Viafarini takes part in inCONTEMPORANEA la rete dell'arte, a network of contemporary art organizations created by the cultural bureau of the Province of Milan in order to promote contemporary art into the urban area.

Collaborations with other institutions:
ACACIA Associazione Amici Arte Contemporanea Italiana: supports Italian Area since 2004; collaborates with VIR Viafarini-in-residence since 2008.
Associazione Artegiovane Milano: collaborates with Italian Area since 2004.
Associazione Artegiovane Torino: collaborates with Italian Area since 2006.
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como: Viafarini collaborates with Fondazione Antonio Ratti, in Como, since 1997, both promoting foundation's post graduate Master in Visual Arts for young artists as well as hosting the final exhibition in its venue.
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia: the first institution to collaborate with the portfolio archive and Italian Area.
Fondazione Banna Spinola per l’arte, Torino: collaborates with Italian Area and makes use of the archive in order to select the artists to be invited to its workshop program.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia: collaborates with Italian Area and the portfolio archive for Furla per l'Arte prize.

Collaborations with companies:
Gemmo spa is a leading electric & mechanical equipment company that started to support Viafarini as institutional partner in 2006. The company, aware of the importance of supporting contemporary culture, decided to take up the good cause of Viafarini and currently patronize the entire activity program throughout the year. Amongst the benefits guaranteed to the company: consultancy for the institution of an intern art collection, priviledged choice for the most relevant artworks of talented emerging artists, consultancy service for the promotion of deserving projects.

Vibrapac spa is an italian referential company that designs and produces high-tech concrete construction elements. In 2008, in occasion of its 50th anniversary, the company decided to offer its leading engeneering expertise and construction elements to the contemporary artistic visual research, combining to set up an installation by Liliana Moro, as part of her solo exhibition on the occasion of the opening of Careof and Viafarini new venue at Fabbrica del Vapore. Vibrapac worked at close quartes with the artist, as a further step after its first collaboration for the set up of Alan Becher's solo exhibition, in Viafarini's former headquarter, in 1994.

A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm, that started to collaborate with Viafarini in 2007. For the opening of its Milan venue A.T. Kerney chose to take part in Re-Enacted Painting curatorial project. To fall within the ambit of the project, A. T. Kerney invited a group of selected artists to conceive and and mount their respective artworks in its offices. Amongst the artists a jury panel subsequantly selected Paolo Gonzato, letting him to present an installation at Triennale for inContemporanea, under the patronage of the cultural bureau of the Province of Milan.

It's been many years since Viafarini started to collaborate with Furla spa, Unicredit, Fondazione Querini Stampalia e MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, for the promotion of Premio Furla per l’Arte. Since 2006 Viafarini also organize the artist residency award at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.

Both Turin and Milan Chambers of Commerce, support www.italianarea.it website, an online database devoted to the promotion of emerging Italian artists. In 2000 Italian Area gained the prestigious Cenacolo Editoria ed Innovazione prize, organized by Assolombarda and RCS, il Sole 24 Ore, Mondadori, Mediaset.

In 2008, by the result of the collaboration with Unicredit and Artegiovane, an artist will conceive an enviromental project in order to present Italian Area.

In some case the collaborations between Viafarini and relevant international companies has been made possible through the contribution of some communication agencies, which proposed specific artistic projects, conceived in collaboration with Viafarini. Amongst the projects that has already been realized: Biotherm Gruppo L’Oreal (in 2003, through Interzone agency), Vodafone (in 2005, through Mc Cann Erickson) and Masaï Italia corporate consultancy agency (in 2005, through Garage agency) for the organization of Masaï Art Factory contemporary art prize.
The exhibition In tutti i sensi, curated by Gabi Scardi, was organizedby Viafarini for Biotherm at Superstudio Più, in Via Tortona. The exhibition included artworks by: Davide Bertocchi, Enrica Borghi, Paolo Canevari, Nada Cingolani, Emilio Fantin, Marzia Migliora, Raffaella Nappo, Alessandra Tesi, Grazia Toderi.
In 2006, with the support of Esprit-World communication agency, Viafarini organized Video Invitational, a collection of artists' videos presented for the opening of Plinio Visonà's new milanese boutique.
Other projects has been organized as a result of a direct collaboration with companies' external relation offices. A great example of this specific approach is the collaboration with Seat for Pagine Bianche d'Autore, a project by Viafarini, based upon the presentation of the artworks of young italian artists reproduced on the cover of the national phone books.

Amongst other contributions for the production of Viafarini's exhibition: Katharina Grosse exhibition, held in december/january 2005, sponsored by Edra (one of Italy's landmark manufacturer of designer furniture) and Clerprem (leading italian chemical product company). Arrivederci e grazie exhibition, held in Viafarini in 2004, was the result of a series of workshops organized by Alberto Garutti, involving his students at Accademia di Brera and some young curators. This exhibition marked the last step of a long-term collaboration between Viafarini and Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia textile industry, that previously led to the production of the following exhibitions: Nic Hess (2003), Maja Bajevic (2002), Tobias Rehberger (2001), Rosemarie Trockel (1999/2000).