The intertwining of manufacturing and fine art in Győr is a long-standing phenomenon: in the early 1900s, Egon Schiele maintained his own studio in the present-day Győr Distillery and Refinery Ltd. for many years, thanks to his close friendship with the founders. Although this studio did not survive the bombing of the Second World War, the company created a new cultural space on the factory premises a century later.

The building originally served as the country's first industrial-scale torula yeast factory, where feed yeast production continued until the early 1990s. The industrial plant was dismantled and has been awaiting revitalisation since 1998. In 2016, the owners set up the Concilium Arts Foundation and donated part of the building to the foundation free of charge, thus creating Torula. The main sponsor of our institution since then has been Győri Szeszgyár és Finomító Zrt.