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Milano ArtWeek is the week devoted to modern and contemporary art. The agenda is the results of the collaboration with miart fair and the main public and private institutions in the city.

Hundreds of exhibitions, performances, installations, talks, projections, billboards dedicated to the contemporary, spread throughout the city.

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Milano Art Week Opening - Projection of L'arte anarchica di Enrico Baj

Speakers: Tommaso Sacchi, Councilor for Culture of Milan, Didi Gnocchi, CEO 3D Produzioni, Chiara Gatti, art historian and critic, Roberta Cerini Baj, wife and curator of the Enrico Baj Archive. Moderated by Dario Romano, 3D Produzioni.

Pompous and self-satisfied generals and clumsy and surreal ladies, excessively decorated. Puppets. They are the iconic figures that Enrico Baj left us to express his antimilitarism and hatred of authority. The character of his entire work is marked by the desire, through art and irony, to deform, destroy and reinvent traditions and clichés.

Over twenty years after the death of Enrico Baj (16 June 2003) and one hundred years after his birth (31 October 1924), a documentary takes us to the house in Vergiate, a fascinating 1920s residence in the province of Varese, where Baj lived with his family and where his wife Roberta, who keeps her husband's memory intact, guides us on an unprecedented visit to discover the man and the artist.

MUDEC – Museum of Cultures Via Tortona 56 MILAN

Sunday 7 April at 6pm

Free entry upon reservation

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The XXVIII edition of miart opens from 12 to 14 April

Miart is the annual event with modern and contemporary art, a point of reference for collectors and enthusiasts. There are 178 participating galleries from 28 countries and over 1000 works on display. This year's theme - no time no space - pushes us to broaden our geographical and temporal boundaries.

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Artbox pills. Interviews with protagonists of art at the cinema

For a week, in the rooms of Anteo Spazio Cinema, before the films, spectators will be able to be introduced to the world of art and contemporary languages through interviews with five great protagonists: Massimiliano Gioni, *Shirin Neshat *, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Lia Rumma. 3-minute pills to bring the general public closer to the meaning of what Milan Art Week is bringing to the city. An Arts For_ project in collaboration with Artbox and 3D Produzioni.
  • Exhibitions

All events of 8 April

8 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "Francesco Somaini. At the origin of the sacred"
On the occasion of Milan Art Week the Foundation organizes guided visits by the curators to the exhibition Francesco Somaini. At the origins of the sacred.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Francesco Somaini Scultore ETS location
8 apr H. 15:00

Let's talk about Pittura Italiana. Oggi
Approximately two months after the closing of the collective exhibition Pittura italiana Oggi (25 October 2023 – 11 February 2024) curated by Damiano Gullì, Triennale offers a moment of comparison, dialogue and in-depth analysis on Italian painting and on some of the themes linked to the exhibition which will involve artists, journalists, critics and curators.
#TALK
Triennale Milano location
8 apr H. 17:00

Guided tour "NETES MAI"
NETES MAI, curated by Jessica Tanghetti and supported by Cortesi Gallery, is Maurizio Donzelli's solo exhibition hosted at LDR22, the new boutique showroom that the well-known celebrity matchmaker and art collector Lucio Di Rosa has opened in Milan. With references to the history of the city, and the patterns that emerge from it and from the artist's practice, the exhibition celebrates and reinterprets, in contemporary terms, the art of tapestry. The exhibition also takes a look at the future by drawing inspiration from the past: NETES MAI is the invitation to 'fear not' depicted on the Trivulzio tapestries based on drawings by Bramantino and kept at the Castello Sforzesco, part of the artist's references.
#GUIDEDTOUR
LDR22 location
8 apr H. 17:30

L’Arte in Ca’ Granda – Guided tour of the modern and contemporary art heritage
The ancient courtyards and the modern wing of the headquarters of the University of Milan - Ca' Granda - are spaces for meeting and comparing cultures, which on many occasions have become privileged exhibition spaces, welcoming artists from all over the world . They are places that host works of modern and contemporary art, not always known: works by Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Adolfo Wildt, Mikayel Ohanjanyan, which will be revealed with this tour.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Ca’ Granda - Sede dell’Università degli Studi di Milano location
8 apr H. 17:30

Guided tour "MILANO OVER covid 19 urban landscapes"
The guided tour of the exhibition MILANO OVER covid 19 urban landscapes will present Alberto Lagomaggiore’s photographs shot during a photographic campaign, proposed by a Milanese publisher, on the iconic places of Milan during the lock-down. The artist uneasily walks through spaces that have become similar to theater wings, but without actors and audience. The photos of Milan OVER are born like this: the slow progress of the monorail view camera, the patiently constructed framing, the fine-tuning of the exposure and focus necessary for the success of the shot and the subtle unachievable desire to leave those deserted places.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Casa della Memoria location
8 apr H. 18:00

Koinotés conviviality
In celebration of the conclusion of the Koinótes residency hosted by Casa degli Artisti, we propose a convivial dinner as a focal point where the participating collectives and individuals interested in joining converge. The project envisions the collective dinner as a community built on the values of relationships, viewing the process as a productive practice, and sharing as the primary informative value. The event, open by reservation, features an informal dinner—an atmosphere of conviviality where artists and participants coexist. Surrounding this experience will be a site-specific sound performance curated by Nadir Daily with the musician Roberto Crippa. This proposal aims to craft a collective experience, extending an open invitation to embrace diverse artistic sensibilities within the city.
#PERFORMANCE
Casa degli Artisti location
8 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Figure femminili"
The classic great theme of the 'female frgure'explared through a special and captivating selection of ltalian and European mannequins and sculptures from the 76th to the zfith entuty, made of the most different materials such as wood, wax, marble and bronze. A short itinerary animated by three-dimensional works that, moving between the universe of the sacred and the profane, aims to highlight some of the infinite formal and iconographic solutions, elaborated by artists over the last five centuries, in an attempt to represent in a personal way one of the most ancient and recurring aftistic subjects such as the woman, in an often subtle and sophisticated balance between respect for tradition and themsearch for an unprecedented modernity.
#OPENING
Alessandro Cesati location
8 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Erika Verzutti. Notizia"
Fondazione ICA Milano presents the exhibition Notizia, an unprecedented focus into the artistic practice of Erika Verzutti (São Paulo, 1971) curated by Chiara Nuzzi and Alberto Salvadori, including new works – mainly produced in Milan - developed according to the space’s specificity of ICA and characterized by a radical shift in their conception and installment. With Notizia Verzutti questions and poses to us the issue of how conceptually and visually the impact of newspapers and daily newspapers - as well as the circulation of the news they convey - exert on art and art making, also revealing the artist's fascination with printed paper both as a material and as the subject of her own artistic expression. Newspapers and news are at the center of the artist’s reflection, articulated in a selection of floor and wall sculptures made of bronze, cement, ceramic, resin and newsprint and other materials that represent the complexity and richness of the artist's formal and expressive vocabulary.
#OPENING
Fondazione ICA Milano location
8 apr H. 18:00

Inaugurazione "Formafantasma. La Casa Dentro"
Fondazione ICA Milano presents the solo exhibition La Casa Dentro by Formafantasma, curated by Alberto Salvadori. The exhibition project brings together a body of work specifically conceived for the occasion through which themes of personal identity and its relationship to collective memory are explored. The selection of furniture and light objects conceived for the Fondazione ICA Milano critically addresses both the design and conceptual legacy of modernism, highlighting its roots in a strongly conservative idea imbued with masculinity. In a dialogue between architectural ideology and the lived experience of the domestic environment, made up of humble and decorative objects, Formafantasma explores the dynamics that lead to the imposition of a canon by relating it to the sense of nostalgia that derives from what has been lost. The designers' reflection and proposal both suggest a vision leaning towards the future, going beyond established canons and in the absence of retromania.
#OPENING
Fondazione ICA Milano location
8 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Between you and me the nonexistent alphabet”. Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti"
The project, starting from the concept of pause and the absence/presence dichotomy, develops a reflection on the interval. The silence between two sounds, the space between the letters that make up a text, the void between the objects that populate a house, become thresholds of change. Mocellin and Pellegrini chose Agnetti's works with which to enter into dialogue and, in relation to these, conceived the exhibition. It includes a multi-voice performance, also using the sounds of Neg (the pausometer) patented by Agnetti in 1970, two videos on the absence-presence relationship, and finally paintings and drawings on these same themes. Some are unpublished works created specifically, others are historical, all are conceived as a series of alphabets capable of returning us to the profound sense of pause.
#OPENING
Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
8 apr H. 19:00

Presentation talk of "BANANA"
Presentation talk of the "BANANA" publication together with the artist Carlos Gasparotto, Simone Salvatore Melis, curator of the exhibition, and Alessio D'Ellena, art director and graphic designer of the publication.
#TALK
CONDOMINIO location
8 apr H. 19:00

Opening "BRUT Milano"
Opening and presentation of the exhibition "BRUT Milano" with vernissage open to the public.
#OPENING
Milano Luiss Hub location
8 apr H. 19:00

Opening "Tino Stefanoni"
M77 presents, from Tuesday 9 April to Saturday 8 June 2024, the new exhibition project dedicated to the artist Tino Stefanoni (Lecco, 1937-2017), which provides a precious insight into the artist's rich and varied production. The exhibition project, curated by Elizabeth Mangini, art historian and professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, winds through the two floors of the gallery to construct a story from the 1960s to Today. We start from the historical works, which reveal Tino Stefanoni's fascination for everyday objects since the first exercises created in the late Seventies. Coffee cups, funnels, glasses, ladles, envelopes, hot water bottles and pencils make up the artist's repertoire, expressed on wood, on iron, on canvas and then extended to sculpture and installation. The exhibition path continues until the 1980s, which sees the artist's research channeled towards the representation of landscapes with vaporous lines.
#OPENING
M77 location

All events of 9 April

9 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince"
During Milano Art Week 2024, three daily guided tours accompanied by the exhibition organisers. From Tuesday to Sunday, at 11:00 am, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Luciana Matalon location
9 apr H. 20:00

Ingiustizie climatiche
Climate Injustice is an independent graphic journalism project. A form of journalism that arises from the journalist-cartoonist duo and which combines, in a hybrid mode, illustrations and narration of real events. The project, unpublished and presented to the public for the first time, was born from a current article written by the journalist Federica Biffi and from which Ale Martoz, cartoonist, illustrator and street-artist was inspired to transpose it into a comics key. The comic will be the starting point for a conversation on the working - exploitation - situation of migrant people, particularly in the Gulf countries. For example at COP28 or World Cup 22, where the people who employed their workforce were put to the test due to high temperatures. During the talk, together with Laura Silvia Battaglia al-Jalal, professional journalist and documentary filmmaker, Andrea Coccia, journalist, co-founder of Slow News, managing director of La Revue Dessinée Italia and Federica Russo, sociologist and co-founder of Malegaleco, will current issues such as economic migration and climate change were addressed. And how art reads and interprets them. Followed by: informal discussion/Q&A and background music. Participants: Laura Silvia Battaglia al-Jalal, journalist and documentary maker, voice of Radio3 Federica Biffi, journalist and co-founder of Malegaleco Andrea Coccia, journalist, co-founder of Slow News, managing director of La Revue Dessinée Italia Ale Martoz, cartoonist, illustrator and street-artist Federica Russo, sociologist and co-founder of Malegaleco
#OPENING
Tempio del Futuro Perduto location
9 apr H. 09:30

Kaleidoscope
An interactive artwork created to experiment ith color perception and reaction to light effects, leading to reflection on the concepts of real and virtual. The installation consists of a large table in which several layers of primary color inks are intervowen: cyan, magenta and yellow. The surface of the installation can be manipulated, pressed and pushed to creato an endless and ever-changing palette of colors and shapes, drawing a landscape with surprising and immersive visual effects. Each touch of the surface generates new images capable of representing the energy of movement in immersive and chaotic patterns. Produced in collaboration with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci location
9 apr H. 09:30

MAF guided tours and experience
Guided visits to the art installations of the MAF – Acqua Franca Museum dedicated to schools.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Depuratore di Milano Nosedo location
9 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "Francesco Somaini. At the origin of the sacred"
On the occasion of Milan Art Week the Foundation organizes guided visits by the curators to the exhibition Francesco Somaini. At the origins of the sacred.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Francesco Somaini Scultore ETS location
9 apr H. 11:00

Special opening "Between you and me the nonexistent alphabet”. Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti"
The project, starting from the concept of pause and the absence/presence dichotomy, develops a reflection on the interval. The silence between two sounds, the space between the letters that make up a text, the void between the objects that populate a house, become thresholds of change. Mocellin and Pellegrini chose Agnetti's works with which to enter into dialogue and, in relation to these, conceived the exhibition. It includes a multi-voice performance, also using the sounds of Neg (the pausometer) patented by Agnetti in 1970), two videos on the absence-presence relationship, and finally paintings and drawings on these same themes. Some are unpublished works created specifically, others are historical, all are conceived as a series of alphabets capable of returning us to the profound sense of pause.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
9 apr H. 17:00

Opening "Beyond Boundaries"
The exhibition, curated by Nicholas Vamvouklis, shows paintings, videos, scultures and installations created by the 6 artists who partecipated in the Residenza d’Artista project at Fabbrica del Vapore with the collaboration of BJCEM last January. The program focused on the manifold exploration of boundaries, which extends beyond the geographical demarcations in the simbolic and imaginary realms. In this era of global challenges, the artists have been invited to dig in the indefinite layers of political, cultural and emotive borders that define and challenge today’s communities. The artists have been inspired also by the background of Milan, exploring its spaces and stories.
#OPENING
Fabbrica del Vapore location
9 apr H. 17:00

Guided tour "NETES MAI"
NETES MAI, curated by Jessica Tanghetti and supported by Cortesi Gallery, is Maurizio Donzelli's solo exhibition hosted at LDR22, the new boutique showroom that the well-known celebrity matchmaker and art collector Lucio Di Rosa has opened in Milan. With references to the history of the city, and the patterns that emerge from it and from the artist's practice, the exhibition celebrates and reinterprets, in contemporary terms, the art of tapestry. The exhibition also takes a look at the future by drawing inspiration from the past: NETES MAI is the invitation to 'fear not' depicted on the Trivulzio tapestries based on drawings by Bramantino and kept at the Castello Sforzesco, part of the artist's references.
#GUIDEDTOUR
LDR22 location
9 apr H. 17:30

Opening "To those who have quite had their fill of Gorgo"
'To Those Who Have Quite Had Their Fill of Gorgo',' the title chosen for Zoe Williams' solo show, is a reference to surviving works by the poetess Sappho and translated by Anne Carson. On display in the gallery spaces will be new framed scraperboard drawings and the film work titled "Tendresse, Tendril, (Worms' Meat)'' a CGI series of snapshots and animations intended to act as a kind of morbid prophecy or spell and bewitch the field. Sea anemones, the protagonists of the short film, alternating with pools of rock and falling gold coins, are accompanied by the artist's silhouette dancing in a glowing red window. The slow exchange between the object and its viewer sets in motion an intimate dialogue around power and sex.
#OPENING
Galleria Ciaccia Levi, Paris - Milan location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "In the Secrecy of a Home"
In the Secrecy of a Home (2024) concludes the Domestic Fragments trilogy (2004-2024) and brings Alessandro Vicario face to face with places unknown to him. It was a collector who suggested that he photograph a villa that belonged to some of her relatives. As the author himself tells us, "after the first hours of disorientation, I began to get in tune with the environment. The signs and traces of those distant lives became somehow familiar to me. I understood their universal dimension". The exhibition, curated by Elena Carotti and presented by Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea presents a selection of 7 photographs at a scale of 1:1, while the complete project of 18 photographs will be published by ELR Edizioni Le Ricerche in Locarno (Switzerland), with a critical text by Gigliola Foschi (May 2024).
#OPENING
Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea location
9 apr H. 18:00

The work by François Morellet as the root of generative art. Talk by Francesca Pola with guided tour of the exhibition
On the occasion of Milano Art Week 2024, the A arte Invernizzi gallery, in collaboration with ICONE – European Research Center in History and Theory of the Image (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan), organizes an evening talk dedicated to the work of François Morellet curated by Francesca Pola, which will be followed by a visit to the exhibition. Since his initial engagement with concrete and programmed art during the 1950s and 1960s, the French artist François Morellet has revolutionized geometric abstraction, becoming a pioneer of a generative and immersive vision of the image. Incorporating elements of movement and chance, his works activate the viewer's gaze, fostering engagement in a complex space of experience. His work is characterized by significant variability, achieved through the use of diverse materials and techniques, which result in the creation of endless images exploring the minimal coordinates of human experience. The talk will explore Morellet’s pioneering role for contemporary artistic practices, especially in their digital form, and his profound influence on the field of generative art. Francesca Pola is associate professor of contemporary art history at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, where she teaches in the Master's Degree Program in Theory and History of Arts and Image. She is also member of the executive committee of ICONE - European Research Center in the History and Theory of the Image and CRISI - Interdisciplinary Research Center in History of Ideas.
#TALK
A arte Invernizzi location
9 apr H. 18:00

Meet Mino Ceretti
On the occasion of the exhibition of Mino Ceretti inaugurated on January 25th at the Foundation's headquarters, a meeting will be organized with the artist himself, born in Milan in 1930. Ceretti's artistic focus primarily revolves around the study of fragmentation, disintegration, and reaggregation of images. Ceretti's painting delve deep into the exploration deconstruction of traditional order in favor of a reorganized of the "pieces" that challenges the contemporary superficiality. Mino Ceretti will provide insights into his artistic process, vision, and his way of living the art.
#TALK
Fondazione Corrente ONLUS location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "A bed of twigs"
ArtNoble Gallery is pleased to present Un letto di frasche (A bed of twigs), the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Giulia Mangoni (b. 1991), with a text by Valerio Panella. The exhibition Un letto di frasche brings together the latest pictorial production of Giulia Mangoni, an Italian-Brazilian artist who, after many years abroad, decided to return to live and work in Isola del Liri (Fr). Five large canvases that reflect on the relationship between man and nature, between the fairy tale and the real, will be accompanied by material interventions that invite the viewer to rest, and draw attention to a rural landscape and reality.
#OPENING
ArtNoble Gallery location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "40 years of plants and gardens by Gardenia magazine and its artists"
Gardenia is the leading Italian monthly for gardening and garden culture. In 2024 it celebrates its 40 years with a special exhibition of the original illustrations which have appeared in the magazine since its first issue in 1984 and which are one of its most distinctive features. Visitors will be able to discover how a botanical illustration is made and admire original works by the many renowned Italian and international artists who have contributed to Gardenia: cover artworks, botanical plates, drafts and sketches for garden and terrace design, and the exquisite watercolours which grace the Gardenia Diary published every year.
#OPENING
Museo di Storia Naturale location
9 apr H. 18:00

Video reportage "Beyond Boundaries"
Presentation of a video reportage about the intensive recidency realized in collaboration with BJCEM
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fabbrica del Vapore location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Fiori di maggio a febbraio"
"It happens that on the one hand I had begun to work in a precise, large and luminous space but at the same time the frame of the world outside revealed a scenario struggling with incessant oscillations and cracks in the structures of its meaning". Placing at the center of his interest two fundamental aspects of painting, often undisputed, such as the smooth and perfect white base of the canvas and the mixed colors left on the margin in the palette, Pablo Candiloro tells us of a winter garden where the lost spots of colors become flowers.
#OPENING
Playlist by Galleria Gianpaolo Abbondio location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "SURF"
Martina Simeti is pleased to announce Surf, Mimosa Echard's second solo exhibition at the gallery. On this occasion the French artist will present a series of new productions that straddle painting and sculpture. Mimosa Echard (1986, Alès, France) draws on biological research, the history of experimental cinema, and her personal biography to create works that blend sexuality, perception, and artifice. Her work is driven by continuous and contradictory processes of absorption, accumulation and circulation that can be observed in fields as diverse as popular culture, metabolic systems and electromagnetic phenomena.
#OPENING
Galleria Martina Simeti location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "World Leader Pretend"
World Leader Pretend is an exhibition of new painting, sculpture and installation by Venezuelan-American artist Alex Da Corte. It is Da Corte's first exhibition in Milan since Devil Town at Gió Marconi in 2015, and his first exhibition in Italy since the 2019 Biennale di Venezia. The artist has been the subject of recent survey exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Japan. Da Corte was the 2023 Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
#OPENING
Gió Marconi location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "youngfreaks"
Clima is pleased to present youngfreaks, the first solo gallery exhibition of the American painter Kelsey Isaacs (1994, Los Angeles, CA). Isaacs is a painter whose practice highlights the dynamic capabilities of her medium, her methodologies, and her subject matter. Working from photographs of scenes that she herself stages and reworks into a series of compositions, Isaacs constructs a visual language of dimensionality through contemporary material means that translates beyond the conventional lines of trompe l'oeil and abstraction.
#OPENING
Clima location
9 apr H. 18:00

Opening "MONUMENTO PRIVATO"
Private Monument is the design of a transition monument. It consists of three parts: '2019/20', '2020/21' and '2021/22', which correspond to the transition periods between three calendar years during which the total or partial deprivation of public space has been the measure of global concern. The monument has a function, but no use within the city. When we stand in front of a monument, we recognise its evocative function, i.e. the reason why it was created. But within the city it is nothing more than a space that has been taken away, i.e. deprived of use. The Private Monument project wants to investigate this is to highlight what a monument is in relation to the city. The work of subtraction of matter wants to investigate the space that is subtracted from the city to become monumental. Monuments by their very definition are eternal, but in reality, they lose value and are not eternal. A monument has value for the society that creates it in a commemorative sense, but in the passage of time its intrinsic meaning is lost, to make room for a new narrative. The work on the material aims to investigate the monument by anticipating, or rather shortening, this time. Its body will slowly dissipate, anticipating the process of reintroducing the space of the monument to the city itself.
#OPENING
HUB ART location
9 apr H. 18:30

Opening "The Way We Live"
COOPER COLE is the main contemporary art gallery in Toronto, Canada. As part of CFAlive residency, COOPER COLE will present "The Way We Live", a group show by 6 artists: Marvin Luvualu Antonio, Van Maltese, Jenine Marsh, Kate Newby, Paul P., Fin Simonetti. CFAlive is a curated program for art galleries to build or reinforce their presence in Italy. It stems from the editorial guidelines of CFArts, a transhistorical online-only magazine aimed at promoting the dialogue between emerging art and art of the past centuries.
#OPENING
CFAlive location
9 apr H. 18:30

Opening "Secrets"
ABC ARTE is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Italy of the young Hungarian artist Luca Sára Rózsa entitled "Secrets", curated by Domenico de Chirico. Continuing the path undertaken about twenty years ago, alongside international masters of the twentieth century linked to the Neo-avant-gardes, started ab origine in its traditional and historical Genoese gallery, ABC ARTE now opens the doors of its most recent venue in Milan, called ABC-ARTE ONE OF, toyoung artists from all over the world, from Brazil to the Congo, passing through France, Hungary, the United States and so on. Launching this new, colourful exhibition cycle is 'Secrets', a solo exhibition by Luca Sára Rózsa, born in 1990 in Budapest, the city where she still lives and works today. Through these new works, created with a skilful use of both oil on canvas and ink on paper, she analyses the complex meaning of existence in the attempt to realise one's identity. Appealing to the eternal cycle of life, Rózsa retraces the stages of Christian iconography in which enigmatic figures bathe, embrace, feed or rest, gradually taking on the appearance of mammals. A cyclical nature of life to be understood as a space of eternal infinity, where there is no before and after, but only a hic et nunc that does not hesitate to merge amiably with nature.
#OPENING
ABC-ARTE location
9 apr H. 19:30

EVENT POSTPONED TO MAY 22 - Ritratto di città (20 / 20.000 Hz)
At Triennale Milano, MASBEDO will present a declination of the project Ritratto di città (20 / 20,000 Hz), curated by Cloe Piccoli, promoted by Fondazione ICA Milano and among the winners of the 11th edition of Italian Council. Ritratto di città takes its name from the sound composition by Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna that in 1954 inaugurated the experimental practices of the Studio di Fonologia RAI. In the Salone d'Onore, thanks to the participation of special guests, with the intensity that is usual to characterise MASBEDO's works, the audience will be involved in an audio video performance that, starting from images and sounds, will expand into a broad and experimental vision involving architecture, art and design, radio and the city.
#PERFORMANCE
Triennale Milano location
9 apr H. Su ap

KOSMOS Andrea Francolino / Michele Guido
The KOSMOS project by Andrea Francolino (Bari, 1979) and Michele Gudio (Aradeo, 1976) at The Open Box presents as an evocative dialogue on universal themes. During their careers, the two artists have always reflected on ideas, concepts and metaphors relating to the natural world and to scientific research, to the analysis of contexts and territories, to genetics and the architecture of natural elements in relation to individual and collective human activity, to the fragility of nature and culture.
#ARTINSTALLATION
The Open Box location

All events of 10 April

10 apr H. 09:30

Kaleidoscope
An interactive artwork created to experiment ith color perception and reaction to light effects, leading to reflection on the concepts of real and virtual. The installation consists of a large table in which several layers of primary color inks are intervowen: cyan, magenta and yellow. The surface of the installation can be manipulated, pressed and pushed to creato an endless and ever-changing palette of colors and shapes, drawing a landscape with surprising and immersive visual effects. Each touch of the surface generates new images capable of representing the energy of movement in immersive and chaotic patterns. Produced in collaboration with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci location
10 apr H. 09:30

Visite guidate ed esperienze al MAF – Museo Acqua Franca
Guided visits to the art installations of the MAF – Acqua Franca Museum dedicated to schools.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Depuratore di Milano Nosedo location
10 apr H. 10:00

Workshop Open lab "BRUT Milano"
During one morning, the artists of the BRUT Project will move their art studio into the exhibition spaces, to allow the public active participation and knowledge of the entire project and the team.
#PERFORMANCE
Milano Luiss Hub location
10 apr H. 11:00

Viafarini Open Studio
Viafarini presents the works realized by the residents artists at VIR shared studios in via Carlo Farini 35 and at Archivio Viafarini at Fabbrica del Vapore. Artists: Giorgio Bernasconi, Marcelina Braga, Valeria Carrieri, Matteo Cordero, Jung Soo Cho, Laura Guastini, Diego Gelosi, Kalina Horon, Viktoria Kurnicki, Fabiana Lanza, Rami Lazkani, Maria Maaneskiold, Noemi Mirata, Maria Pilotto, Niccolò Quaresima, Mattia Ragni, Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi, Marta Luna Valpiana.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Viafarini e VIR Viafarini-In-Residence location
10 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "Francesco Somaini. At the origin of the sacred"
On the occasion of Milan Art Week the Foundation organizes guided visits by the curators to the exhibition Francesco Somaini. At the origins of the sacred.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Francesco Somaini Scultore ETS location
10 apr H. 11:00

Special opening "Between you and me the nonexistent alphabet”. Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti"
The project, starting from the concept of pause and the absence/presence dichotomy, develops a reflection on the interval. The silence between two sounds, the space between the letters that make up a text, the void between the objects that populate a house, become thresholds of change. Mocellin and Pellegrini chose Agnetti's works with which to enter into dialogue and, in relation to these, conceived the exhibition. It includes a multi-voice performance, also using the sounds of Neg (the pausometer) patented by Agnetti in 1970, two videos on the absence-presence relationship, and finally paintings and drawings on these same themes. Some are unpublished works created specifically, others are historical, all are conceived as a series of alphabets capable of returning us to the profound sense of pause.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
10 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince"
During Milano Art Week 2024, three daily guided tours accompanied by the exhibition organisers. From Tuesday to Sunday, at 11:00 am, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Luciana Matalon location
10 apr H. 13:00

LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE
Guided tour of the places of the City to come with works and installations by Paolo Ferrari, Theoria of Absent Sights and Animated Stones.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Luogo di Aimo e Nadia location
10 apr H. 15:00

Opening "Vessel (no) Vessel"
On the occasion of Milan Art Week, ESH Gallery, a space that operates on the indistinguishable boundary between sculpture, contemporary craft and design, presents the new exhibition Vessel (no) Vessel. The exhibition presents works by artists who, with their respective formal research on ceramics and glass, trace new expressive routes and redefine the archetypal theme of the vase, one of the oldest art forms present in every culture. Vases not vases which, once the concept of functionality has disappeared, become pure art objects, a perfect synthesis between technical tradition and contemporary language. Artists present: Licia Cicala, Guido De Zan, Fuku Fukumoto, Clara Holt, Akio Niisato, Oki Izumi, Ryo Sekino, Hanako Gejo, Shinya Tanoe.
#OPENING
ESH Gallery location
10 apr H. 17:00

Guided tour "NETES MAI"
NETES MAI, curated by Jessica Tanghetti and supported by Cortesi Gallery, is Maurizio Donzelli's solo exhibition hosted at LDR22, the new boutique showroom that the well-known celebrity matchmaker and art collector Lucio Di Rosa has opened in Milan. With references to the history of the city, and the patterns that emerge from it and from the artist's practice, the exhibition celebrates and reinterprets, in contemporary terms, the art of tapestry. The exhibition also takes a look at the future by drawing inspiration from the past: NETES MAI is the invitation to 'fear not' depicted on the Trivulzio tapestries based on drawings by Bramantino and kept at the Castello Sforzesco, part of the artist's references.
#GUIDEDTOUR
LDR22 location
10 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Our house is on fire"
The show is inspired by the book with the same name by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future, a global movement for climate and environmental justice. The decade 2009-2019 was the warmest on record and 2023 was the hottest year in human history. Fire seasons have become longer and more intense, earthquakes more frequent and violent, cyclones and floods have increased, phenomena such as El Niño have become more irregular and have caused dangerous droughts. A terrible climate crisis is underway and is our most important challenge in the future. In the face of all this, art can bring greater awareness and inspire change in an incisive way. #ContemporaryArtistsForFuture represents contemporary art's commitment to our future and our planet.
#OPENING
Galleria ARTRA location
10 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Cadavre Exquis"
L.U.P.O. - Lorenzelli Projects is pleased to announce 'CADAVRE EXQUIS', Giulia Messina's first solo exhibition in the gallery. The inspiration for this exhibition came from the idea of creating a performative and playful dinner party that comes to life within the exhibition space. Giulia Messina ventures into the world of the 'Exquisite Corpse' game, a non-competitive activity that challenges the conventions of collaborative creation, with each participant ignoring the contributions of the others. Through a series of cinematic references, including the cult "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover", Messina explores the theme of banqueting and anthropophagy in a grotesque and baroque, yet comical context. This profound reflection on eating practices and the perception of the human body invites the public to explore concepts of attraction and revulsion, as well as identity and mortality. The exhibition presents works ranging from installations to performances, from painting to sculpture, all united by a common thread that explores the concept of the body and food as living organisms subject to temporality. Through ceramics and organic, degradable and changeable materials, Messina invites the public to question the meaning of the body, the corpse and the very act of eating.
#OPENING
LUPO – Lorenzelli projects location
10 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Mutative Transitions into Organic Utopia"
Tempesta Gallery presents for the first time in Milan the installation and biofuturistic works of Ukrainian artist Aljoscha. The artworks feature translucent and colorful forms that invite reflection on the relationship between biology and aesthetics, proposing a vision of a world where suffering is abolished and diversity is celebrated. His creations, suspended in the gallery space, suggest a future where science, philosophy, and art converge to imagine an earthly paradise guided by ethical understanding and the pursuit of peace.
#OPENING
Tempesta Gallery location
10 apr H. 18:00

Giovanni Bellini, Lamentation over the Dead Christ from the Vatican Museums. Four contemporary artists in conversation with a masterpiece
The Diocesan Museum presents the exhibition of the Lamentation over the Dead Christ from the Vatican Museums, which serves as the starting point for a reflection that goes beyond art and history, becomes spiritual and provides us with the opportunity to dwell on the theme of the Passion in the time of Lent and Easter. The painting was the top panel of the Pesaro altarpiece, an extraordinary masterpiece, considered a turning point in the artist’s production and in Venetian painting as a whole. The tour continues with the section Standing in front of Bellini – Four contemporary artists in conversation with a masterpiece, which showcases the works of LETIA Letizia Cariello, Emma Ciceri, Francesco De Grandi and Andrea Mastrovito, who have worked on the themes evoked by Bellini’s masterpiece to prove how deeply it can touch the heart of the artists of our time.
#TALK
Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini location
10 apr H. 18:00

Inaugurazione "Hyenas"
Galleria Raffaella De Chirico Arte contemporanea presents a solo exhibition by artist Sergio Ragalzi entitled "Hyenas", with reference to the cycle of works of the same name exhibited in the gallery spaces. The cycle of works, which dates back to the 1980s and is almost entirely unpublished, features the skeletal heads of these wild mammals evoked in their frightening nature, repeated as modules in the various canvases. In the exhibition, the canvases will be juxtaposed with some very recently produced sculptures in painted corten steel, representing monkey heads - continuing an investigation that has been carried out by the artist since the 1990s - those same monkeys that in their pictorial version were defined by Sargentini as 'perversely human'.
#OPENING
Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea location
10 apr H. 18:00

Inaugurazione "Micol Assael - Dusty Landscapes. Hans Schabus - Porto di Mare"
Solo exhibition Micol Assael; solo exhibition Hans Schabus.
#OPENING
ZERO… location
10 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Else Space, Es#1"
Performance event with VR visor headset usable on various digital channels during exclusive opening hours.
#OPENING
Carrozzeria900 location
10 apr H. 19:00

Restituzione della Venere
On the night between 11 and 12 July 2023, Naples was illuminated by the burning of La Venere degli stracci by Michelangelo Pistoletto, installed only two weeks earlier in Piazza del Municipio, for the "Contemporary Naples" exhibition. The documentary follows some stages of the reconstruction of the Venus, of which only the steel structure was saved, and involves the protagonists of the operation starting from the artist himself, the mayor and the director of "Napoli Contemporanea", Vincenzo Trione. We will document the reconstruction process until the inauguration of the new sculpture which will then remain as a legacy to the city. This process of regeneration is in line with the ideas of a "collective" artist, such as Pistoletto, who strongly believes that a new Renaissance is possible thanks to his theory of the Third Paradise.
#SHOWS
MUDEC - Museo delle Culture location
10 apr H. 18:30

Opening Viafarini Open Studio
Viafarini presents the works realized by the residents artists at VIR shared studios in via Carlo Farini 35 and at Archivio Viafarini at Fabbrica del Vapore.
#OPENING
Archivio Viafarini e VIR Viafarini-In-Residence location
10 apr H. 18:30

Opening "Wild. A reflection on Nature"
"'Wild. A Reflection on Nature" is a suggestion that promotes, through an exploration of the profound connection between the human body and nature, a culture of awareness and respect, emphasising nature as an entity towards which to orient oneself and sustainability as a guiding principle and value. The exhibition opens with the series Siphonophorae by Anna Vassena. Siphonophorae are aggregates that recall a natural organic dimension in their shapes and colours. It continues with the installations by Elena Zecchin, an artist and climate activist who works with a vocabulary made up of organic symbols, living materials, free gestures that aim to unite body, nature and dreams. It closes with the photographic series by Colombian artist Tatiana Russi, who has embarked on an exploratory journey in which the naked body becomes an instrument, painting through animal imagery with organic, fluid and natural movements and playing with colour and environment.
#OPENING
Corals Art Gallery location
10 apr H. 18:30

Inaugurazione "Home Sweet Home"
Vistamare is pleased to present Home Sweet Home. A solo exhibition of works by Claudia Comte. Exhibiting sculpture and painting amongst an ambitious site specific installation, Home Sweet Home initiates a physical connection between Vistamare’s Milan gallery and the hills outside of Basel, where Comte lives andworks, clashing nature with the metropolitan; contrasting the place of creation with the site of exhibition. Central to the exhibition are a series of organic sculptural works made in 2023, the mother of which was a single ancient Sequoia tree that fell near the artist’s home. These polished forms are reminiscent of coral and cacti-linking local European biomes with desert / reef and continuing Comte’s exploration into the delicate equilibriums of the natural world and the man-made decline of these ecosystems. – Ben Broome
#OPENING
VISTAMARE location
10 apr H. 19:00

Campari Art & Cocktail Experience
A sensorial experience behind the scenes of the iconic red aperitif: a masterclass led by a Campari Academy bartender including a guided tour, preparation of the perfect Campari cocktail and final aperitif.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Galleria Campari location
10 apr H. 19:00

Visioni Diacroniche
Marinella Senatore meets Francesca Colombo and Ilaria Bonacossa to tell how with her works she transforms the individual into an agent part of a community capable of activating great transformations, through the possibility of meeting and collaborating for the collective creation of an action and a performative work. The meeting takes place within the project dedicated to contemporary art Visioni Diacroniche, developed from an idea of Volvo Car Italia. Visioni Diacroniche consists of a series of events open to the public in which leading international artists of contemporary art present their vision on this year's main theme: universes in which the micro becomes macro and vice versa.
#TALK
Volvo Studio Milano location
10 apr H. 19:00

Public Program | Nari Ward
Conversation within the exhibition between Nari Ward and Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA Barcelona. The public will be able to listen to the conversation with earphones and move freely through the space. Simultaneous translation from English to Italian will be available. The appointment is free, online booking is recommended. The exhibition space will be open from 6 to 9 p.m.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Pirelli HangarBicocca location
10 apr H. 19:00

ISTANTANEE. Textiles and drawings in the garden of Paradise
Dialogue between Anna Dumont and Ettore Tripodi.
#TALK
OPR Gallery location
10 apr H. 19:00

Opening "Tony Cragg - Landscape"
Solo exhibition by Tony Cragg with one of his early pieces which investigates the origins of the artist’s research on organic materials and forms.
#OPENING
Settantaventidue location
10 apr H. 19:00

Inaugurazione "Hanne Lippard"
The exhibition brings to Milan the visual and acoustic research of Norwegian artist Hanne Lippard, whose practice lies at the confluence of spoken and written word.
#OPENING
Settantaventidue location
10 apr H. 19:00

Inaugurazione "Architettura Radicale"
The exhibition traces – through the display of rare and original documents – the research and the utopian experimentation carried out between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s by groups and individual architects in Italy, UK, Austria and Germany. Artists: Paolo Soleri, Gianni Pettena, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Archizoom, Gruppo UFO, Gruppo 9999, Haus-Rucker-Co, COOP-Himmelblau, Archigram.
#OPENING
Settantaventidue location
10 apr H. 19:30

Talk "Our house is on fire"
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Our house is on fire Artra Gallery and Starhotels E.c.ho. organize an aperitivo/talk with the artists and the curator, thus exploring the theme and works present in the show with the protagonists of the same. The place is not a random location but deeply linked to the context of the exhibition, being in fact the Strahotel E.c.ho. – Ecological Contemporary Hotel – one of the first hotels in Milan created to meet the needs of an ecologically conscious clientele. The materials used, the furnishings and fabrics have obtained the most important environmental certifications and the restaurant offers a menu linked to the seasonality of the ingredients. The hotel has obtained the Green Globe and Beyond Green Certification. A different way to talk about art and ecology. #ContemporaryArtistsForFuture represents contemporary art's commitment to our future and our planet.
#TALK
Starhotels E.c.ho. location
10 apr H. Su ap

KOSMOS Andrea Francolino / Michele Guido
The KOSMOS project by Andrea Francolino (Bari, 1979) and Michele Gudio (Aradeo, 1976) at The Open Box presents as an evocative dialogue on universal themes. During their careers, the two artists have always reflected on ideas, concepts and metaphors relating to the natural world and to scientific research, to the analysis of contexts and territories, to genetics and the architecture of natural elements in relation to individual and collective human activity, to the fragility of nature and culture.
#ARTINSTALLATION
The Open Box location
10 apr H. By ap

Extraordinary opening ADVANT Nctm
During Milano Art Week the public will be able to visit the ADVANT Nctm law firm, from 10 to 12 April, by appointment - by writing an email to nctmelarte@advant-nctm.com: a group of works by Marilisa Cosello and part of the collection are visible in the rooms nctm and art. Among the artists represented: Camilla Alberti, Mirosław Bałka, Sammy Baloji, Yael Bartana, Francesco Bertelè, Rossella Biscotti, Emma Ciceri, Paola Di Bello, Linda Fregni Nagler, Riccardo Giacconi, Pieter Hugo, Elena Mazzi, Margherita Moscardini, Maria Mulas, Uriel Orlow, Raziel Perin, Zineb Sedira, Marinella Senatore, Kiki Smith.
ADVANT Nctm location

All events of 11 April

11 apr H. 09:30

Kaleidoscope
An interactive artwork created to experiment ith color perception and reaction to light effects, leading to reflection on the concepts of real and virtual. The installation consists of a large table in which several layers of primary color inks are intervowen: cyan, magenta and yellow. The surface of the installation can be manipulated, pressed and pushed to creato an endless and ever-changing palette of colors and shapes, drawing a landscape with surprising and immersive visual effects. Each touch of the surface generates new images capable of representing the energy of movement in immersive and chaotic patterns. Produced in collaboration with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci location
11 apr H. 11:00

Viafarini Open Studio
Viafarini presents the works realized by the residents artists at VIR shared studios in via Carlo Farini 35 and at Archivio Viafarini at Fabbrica del Vapore. Artists: Giorgio Bernasconi, Marcelina Braga, Valeria Carrieri, Matteo Cordero, Jung Soo Cho, Laura Guastini, Diego Gelosi, Kalina Horon, Viktoria Kurnicki, Fabiana Lanza, Rami Lazkani, Maria Maaneskiold, Noemi Mirata, Maria Pilotto, Niccolò Quaresima, Mattia Ragni, Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi, Marta Luna Valpiana.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Viafarini e VIR Viafarini-In-Residence location
11 apr H. 11:00

Special opening "Between you and me the nonexistent alphabet”. Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti"
The project, starting from the concept of pause and the absence/presence dichotomy, develops a reflection on the interval. The silence between two sounds, the space between the letters that make up a text, the void between the objects that populate a house, become thresholds of change. Mocellin and Pellegrini chose Agnetti's works with which to enter into dialogue and, in relation to these, conceived the exhibition. It includes a multi-voice performance, also using the sounds of Neg (the pausometer) patented by Agnetti in 1970, two videos on the absence-presence relationship, and finally paintings and drawings on these same themes. Some are unpublished works created specifically, others are historical, all are conceived as a series of alphabets capable of returning us to the profound sense of pause.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
11 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince"
During Milano Art Week 2024, three daily guided tours accompanied by the exhibition organisers. From Tuesday to Sunday, at 11:00 am, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Luciana Matalon location
11 apr H. 12:00

Opening "COPLEY"
On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Tommaso Calabro inaugurates Copley, an exhibition dedicated to the American artist William N. Copley (1919-1996), one of the most singular figures of Post-war painting and a fundamental link between European Surrealism and American Pop Art. Through a selection of paintings and works on paper from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition explores the universe of Copley, an artist who challenged conventions by offering a satirical and playful reading of the world.
#OPENING
Tommaso Calabro location
11 apr H. 13:00

LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE
Guided tour of the places of the City to come with works and installations by Paolo Ferrari, At the boundaries of the Earth the tree of welcome.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Ambulatorio medico Fondazione Fratelli di San Francesco location
11 apr H. 14:45

Human Image Recognition
Human Image Recognition di Alessandro Sambini è la prima mostra fotografica promossa da La Galleria BPER Banca, che avrà luogo a Milano, nella nuova sede di BPER Banca Private Cesare Ponti, realizzata in collaborazione con lo Studio Legale Pavesio e Associati with Negri-Clementi. Curata da Andrea Tinterri e Luca Zuccala, founder di Galleria Indice, e con il contributo della consulente d’arte Giorgia Ligasacchi, l’esposizione vuole far riflettere sul rapporto tra l’uomo e le nuove tecnologie, tra l’uomo e l’Intelligenza Artificiale. Sambini propone tre tipologie diverse di opere in cui si sostituisce all’algoritmo modificando le immagini e trasformandole in generatori di altre visioni, anche a partire dalle collezioni di BPER Banca. Da giovedì 11 aprile a giovedì 27 giugno 2024, tutti i martedì e i giovedì pomeriggio, dalle ore 14,45 alle ore 16,15, esclusi i giorni festivi, sono previste visite guidate.“Human Image Recognition” by Alessandro Sambini is the first photographic exhibition promoted by La Galleria BPER Banca, which will take place in Milan, in the headquarters of th new BPER Banca Private Cesare Ponti, created in collaboration with Pavesio e Associati with Negri-Clementi law firm. Curated by Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala, founder of Galleria Indice, and with the contribution of art consultant Giorgia Ligasacchi, the exhibition aims to make us reflect on the relationship between man and new technologies, between man and Intelligence Artificial. Sambini proposes three different types of works in which he replaces the algorithm by modifying the images and transforming them into generators of other visions, also from BPER Banca's collections.
#ARTINSTALLATION
BPER Banca Private Cesare Ponti location
11 apr H. 0,687

Alexander and Sasha Brodsky exhibition Piazza Senza Nome and guided tours of the archives of the historical Galleria Milano
Guided tours of the upstairs exhibition Alexander and Sasha Brodsky, Piazza Senza Nome and to the gallery archives on the lower floor.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Galleria Milano ETS location
11 apr H. 0,708

Guided visit "Our house is on fire"
The show is inspired by the book with the same name by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future, a global movement for climate and environmental justice. The decade 2009-2019 was the warmest on record and 2023 was the hottest year in human history. Fire seasons have become longer and more intense, earthquakes more frequent and violent, cyclones and floods have increased, phenomena such as El Niño have become more irregular and have caused dangerous droughts. A terrible climate crisis is underway and is our most important challenge in the future. In the face of all this, art can bring greater awareness and inspire change in an incisive way. #ContemporaryArtistsForFuture represents contemporary art's commitment to our future and our planet. Artists: Bertozzi e Casoni, Enrica Borghi, Pierpaolo Curti, Eva Frapiccini, Alessandro Moreschini, Luca Pancrazzi, Francesca Pasquali.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Galleria ARTRA location
11 apr H. 17:00

Guided tour "NETES MAI"
NETES MAI, curated by Jessica Tanghetti and supported by Cortesi Gallery, is Maurizio Donzelli's solo exhibition hosted at LDR22, the new boutique showroom that the well-known celebrity matchmaker and art collector Lucio Di Rosa has opened in Milan. With references to the history of the city, and the patterns that emerge from it and from the artist's practice, the exhibition celebrates and reinterprets, in contemporary terms, the art of tapestry. The exhibition also takes a look at the future by drawing inspiration from the past: NETES MAI is the invitation to 'fear not' depicted on the Trivulzio tapestries based on drawings by Bramantino and kept at the Castello Sforzesco, part of the artist's references.
#GUIDEDTOUR
LDR22 location
11 apr H. 0,729

Guided visit Gallerie d'Italia
There are numerous contemporary artists who have followed the path of material experimentation also through the production of wonderful jewels; the geometric spirit of Arnaldo Pomodoro has already been present since the early 1950s in jewels created with the technique of negative casting on cuttlefish bones, while Lucio Fontana transports the essentiality of his cuts into iconic bracelets. After this first excursus among the works of the 20th century construction site, the visit continues inside the Damiani 100x100 italiani exhibition which celebrates the first century of the historic Valenza company through one hundred masterpieces of creativity and Italian style, considered the culmination of a century-long journey. The activity is free; booking is recommended.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Gallerie d'Italia - Milano location
11 apr H. 0,75

Opening "PASOS, the Spanish collection walks with the Contemporary"
PASOS is a stimulating dialogue between the Spanish artistic expres- sion of the Sixties and the contemporary language of urban art embo- died by the Orticanoodles collective. The abstract works of Antoni Tà- pies, the visual poetry of Rafael Alberti, and the realism of Amalia Avia, all intense and vigorous, are juxtaposed with unpublished works by the Milanese collective, inspired to the Spanish Collection. It is an intercultural dialogue that unfolds within artistic exploration and finds its complete expression in the Pop Art of Equipo Crònica. This exhibition aims to celebrate cultural diversity and also emphasize the power of art in fostering mutual understanding and respect. PASOS wants to encourage deep reflections on history, collective memory, and the role of art in contemporary society. PASOS wants to be an opportunity to appreciate aesthetic and artistic innovation and also promote social cohesion through culture and the sharing of universal human experiences.
#OPENING
OrMe Ortica Memoria location
11 apr H. 18:00

Guided tour "Vetro inciso dalla Laguna a Milano"
The Castello Sforzesco joins Milano Art Week and offers a guided tour of the contemporary glass exhibition Engraved Glass from the Lagoon to Milain with the artist Matteo Seguso who will perform a glass engraving. The exhibition, with international artist, shows one of the lesser-known but very important aspects of the artistic glass working technique, exposing works that feature a second, cold working process through wheel engraving, grinding, beating, corrosion by acid etching and sandblasting, and cold cutting. Free entry, maximum 25. Reservation mandatory within 9 April at c.educastello@comune.milano.it Please, specify "Milano Art Week 2024" in the mail subject.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Castello Sforzesco - Sala Castellana location
11 apr H. 0,770

Opening "By dint of being wind"
The project “By dint of being wind” is the result of a collaboration between Istituto Italiano di Fotografia and Lagazuoi EXPO Dolomiti, and it was run on the occasion of Lagazuoi Photo Award New Talents 2023. While participating in the residency at the funicular railway station guest house, photographer Giorgia Dal Molin illustrated personal and articulate feelings that tie her to the mountains: respect, fear, attachment, curiosity that created an emotional legacy that the photographer turned into images. The white outlines of rocks, the blue glimpses of the sky, the trails, the valley; the mountains turn into an affectionate lover and we – by dint of being wind – are deeply in love with her.
#OPENING
Istituto Italiano di Fotografia location
11 apr H. 0,770

Opening "Where Tree is Forest"
Since his first artistic project (Inhabit the Heart - 2022), Pietro Panza establishes a research placed in a personal stream of consciousness, where he expresses a narrative of a philosophical nature. Self-taught from an intimate unconscious of echoes of the 20th century, he experiments with a dialogue between painting and sculpture in a complex material bond. A work where its roots resurface and the perception of the world breathes among the material of the works as an archetypal principle. A reflection on the environment also thought of as a formal, political, historical and social process. A relationship between art, nature and technique in a "planetary unknown land" with which we must also reconceptualize ourselves from an ethical _ anthropological perspective.
#OPENING
Associazione Tramateriarte location
11 apr H. 19:00

Readings aloud: painters who write and writers who paint
Readings from the books of John Berger.
#PERFORMANCE
Laboratorio di Cromografia location
11 apr H. 0,812

Guintche

The performance act becomes a spectacle of transformism and pantomime in this work by the Cape Verdean artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas, one of the most distinctive and significant figures of the international performing arts scene. Inspired by the word guintche, which in her mother tongue can refer to a type of bird, a prostitute or an incoherent approach to doing things, Freitas embodies multiple creatures, in a succession of snapshots which see a boxer, a puppet, an acrobat, a clown materialize and alternate on stage. Swaying clumsily and contracting her face in a crescendo of grotesque expressions, the artist electrifies the stage with an extraordinary performance of sweat and muscular effort, in which the body becomes the battlefield for different creatures at war with each other.
#PERFORMANCE
Triennale Milano location
11 apr H. Su ap

KOSMOS Andrea Francolino / Michele Guido
The KOSMOS project by Andrea Francolino (Bari, 1979) and Michele Gudio (Aradeo, 1976) at The Open Box presents as an evocative dialogue on universal themes. During their careers, the two artists have always reflected on ideas, concepts and metaphors relating to the natural world and to scientific research, to the analysis of contexts and territories, to genetics and the architecture of natural elements in relation to individual and collective human activity, to the fragility of nature and culture.
#ARTINSTALLATION
The Open Box location
11 apr H. The i

Il giardino di Artemisia
Women are the common thread to which Fabbrica del Vapore dedicates many of its activities this year. Gender equality is in fact the thermometer of every democracy. Feminicides, lack of wage equity, female unemployment are symptoms of a malaise that must otherwise be turned into widespread social well-being. Even within Vapore d'estate, Art and Design Week, there is no shortage of insights into a theme that must be pervasive. Mezzadri's work presents itself as a threshold and connective tissue between the different programs that characterize the month of April in Fabbrica del Vapore. His contribution is welcome, like Crespi's painting "Revolution is woman", it is a useful contribution, because males being spokespersons for a need for equality is an indispensable part of change." (Maria Fratelli) With "The garden of Artemisia", a site-specific installation, curated by Matteo Pacini in collaboration with Jessica De Simone, Matteo Mezzadri addresses the theme by reflecting on a historical episode that will end up having many repercussions on the disadvantaged condition of women in society, a theme still dramatically relevant today. This is the lawsuit filed in 1612 by the painter Artemisia Gentileschi against Agostino Tassi, which went down in history as the first rape trial of which written memory is preserved through trial records. Artemisia Gentileschi spent her life fighting to assert her freedom of expression in a world that left very little space for women, especially in the artistic field, and publicly denouncing her rapist was an act of great courage which, as still too often happens today, saw the defendants take the stage accused of having had provocative attitudes towards the accused. Artemisia never recanted, not even under torture; “It's true, it's true, it's true” is the cry of pain recorded in the State Archives of Rome that Artemisia addressed to the accused while her fingers were broken, irrefutable proof, according to the legislation of the time, of the veracity of the his accusations. Although Tassi's sentence to exile proved to be a farce since, thanks to his position, he never left Rome, unlike Artemisia who was forced to do so due to the uproar of the trial, this courageous denunciation remained in history as the first true act of rebellion against the suffocating patriarchal culture. In dealing with the complex topic, especially as faced by a man, Mezzadri makes use of materials, language and visual grammar typical of his poetics, therefore no didactic or narrative quotation, but an under-the-radar evocation that brings into dialogue, or rather , the materials and structural geometries that will give shape to the work are in conflict. The large cube of fired bricks, severe and absolute, hides and confines something inside with the excuse of protecting it; it is the paradigm of a system of power and rigid, unchangeable social conventions, a mechanism decoded by men for the benefit of men which for too long has left no room for women to affirm their freedom and dignity as human beings. The Artemisia garden symbolizes resilience, the continuous rebirth that starts from the bottom like all the greatest revolutions in the history of humanity. A break in the pattern that overturns the physical space and, as in the case of Artemisia, also the historical one.
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Fabbrica del Vapore location
11 apr H. By ap

Extraordinary opening ADVANT Nctm
During Milano Art Week the public will be able to visit the ADVANT Nctm law firm, from 10 to 12 April, by appointment - by writing an email to nctmelarte@advant-nctm.com: a group of works by Marilisa Cosello and part of the collection are visible in the rooms nctm and art. Among the artists represented: Camilla Alberti, Mirosław Bałka, Sammy Baloji, Yael Bartana, Francesco Bertelè, Rossella Biscotti, Emma Ciceri, Paola Di Bello, Linda Fregni Nagler, Riccardo Giacconi, Pieter Hugo, Elena Mazzi, Margherita Moscardini, Maria Mulas, Uriel Orlow, Raziel Perin, Zineb Sedira, Marinella Senatore, Kiki Smith.
ADVANT Nctm location

All events of 12 April

12 apr H. 19:00

Marilisa Cosello. Try
On the occasion of Milano Art Week nctm e l'arte presents two performances by Marilisa Cosello, both related to Try. Try is a large performance project by Marilisa Cosello, started in 2020, consisting of the re-presentation of sporting activities in an artistic context. By staging Olympic sports sessions that involve the redesign of the body for the purposes of extreme performativity, and a control of movements in time and space, the artist activates a reflection on the delicate balance between freedom and discipline. With a focus on the female body, Cosello also refers to the gender dynamics that exist in societies, to the tension between autonomy and expectations, to the social and power structures within which we all live. Try #7 will take place on Friday 12 April 2024, from 7pm to 8pm, in Piazza Affari, which will stage a Greco-Roman wrestling session. The performance will be repeated a few times throughout the evening.
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Piazza Affari location
12 apr H. 09:30

Kaleidoscope
An interactive artwork created to experiment ith color perception and reaction to light effects, leading to reflection on the concepts of real and virtual. The installation consists of a large table in which several layers of primary color inks are intervowen: cyan, magenta and yellow. The surface of the installation can be manipulated, pressed and pushed to creato an endless and ever-changing palette of colors and shapes, drawing a landscape with surprising and immersive visual effects. Each touch of the surface generates new images capable of representing the energy of movement in immersive and chaotic patterns. Produced in collaboration with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
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Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci location
12 apr H. 09:30

Comets. Vanguards of another solar system
“Comets. Vanguards of another solar system” is a project curated by Marta Bianchi and Marta Cereda that inaugurates a virtuous relationship between miart and Careof, in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, and presented at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema. “Comets” is a screening program of artist films, sourced from the Video Archive of Careof, the center for production and exploration of time-based media, from the collections of the Municipality of Milan, and from galleries participating in miart. The presentation of the works is accompanied by a program of encounters with some artists, to provide a curated and precise dimension for the video works, where cinema becomes a privileged space for an intimate viewing of the works.
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Anteo Palazzo del Cinema location
12 apr H. 10:00

Special opening "Diango Hernández. Desires for light. Refractions"
The exhibition is articulated as a single installation whose common thread is light. Indeed, the works follow a narrative logic that relates light and desire. At the heart of the exhibition project, some oil paintings hint at luminous spaces filtered as if through windows with translucent, corrugated glass. Even if we do not see precisely those places that appear blurred and distant, we sense the quiet peace of a beyond, as if we stand before the diaphragm of the wave motion of a threshold to be crossed, of a watery veil to be broken because we dive into that light.
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Galleria S. Fedele location
12 apr H. 11:00

Viafarini Open Studio
Viafarini presents the works realized by the residents artists at VIR shared studios in via Carlo Farini 35 and at Archivio Viafarini at Fabbrica del Vapore. Artists: Giorgio Bernasconi, Marcelina Braga, Valeria Carrieri, Matteo Cordero, Jung Soo Cho, Laura Guastini, Diego Gelosi, Kalina Horon, Viktoria Kurnicki, Fabiana Lanza, Rami Lazkani, Maria Maaneskiold, Noemi Mirata, Maria Pilotto, Niccolò Quaresima, Mattia Ragni, Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi, Marta Luna Valpiana.
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Archivio Viafarini e VIR Viafarini-In-Residence location
12 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "Francesco Somaini. At the origin of the sacred"
On the occasion of Milan Art Week the Foundation organizes guided visits by the curators to the exhibition Francesco Somaini. At the origins of the sacred.
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Fondazione Francesco Somaini Scultore ETS location
12 apr H. 11:00

Special opening "Between you and me the nonexistent alphabet”. Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti"
The project, starting from the concept of pause and the absence/presence dichotomy, develops a reflection on the interval. The silence between two sounds, the space between the letters that make up a text, the void between the objects that populate a house, become thresholds of change. Mocellin and Pellegrini chose Agnetti's works with which to enter into dialogue and, in relation to these, conceived the exhibition. It includes a multi-voice performance, also using the sounds of Neg (the pausometer) patented by Agnetti in 1970), two videos on the absence-presence relationship, and finally paintings and drawings on these same themes. Some are unpublished works created specifically, others are historical, all are conceived as a series of alphabets capable of returning us to the profound sense of pause.
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Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
12 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince"
During Milano Art Week 2024, three daily guided tours accompanied by the exhibition organisers. From Tuesday to Sunday, at 11:00 am, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
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Fondazione Luciana Matalon location
12 apr H. 11:00

From Florence to Milan: Anselm Kiefer among fallen angels and celestial palaces
Intesa Sanpaolo hosts a special event at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan organized by the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation dedicated to the great German artist Anselm Kiefer as part of the miart week and on the occasion of the Anselm Kiefer exhibition. Fallen Angels in Florence and the twentieth anniversary of the work I Sette Palazzi Celesti 2004-2015 by Pirelli HangarBicocca. The Bank, which is the Main Partner of both the fair and the Palazzo Strozzi exhibition, brings the institutions with which it collaborates into dialogue to promote a discussion on contemporary issues through art and culture. The event will allow us to delve into key themes of Kiefer's work such as the relationship between spirit and matter, individuality and collectivity, myth and history, in the dialogue between Michele Coppola (Gallerie d'Italia), Arturo Galansino (Palazzo Strozzi Foundation), Nicola Ricciardi (miart), Giovanna Amadasi (Pirelli HangarBicocca), and Lia Rumma (Galleria Lia Rumma), with a special remote contribution from the artist. The event will be held at the Gallerie d'Italia - Milan, with free admission with reservations required on the toll-free number 800.167619 or by email at milano@gallerieditalia.com.
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Gallerie d'Italia - Milano location
12 apr H. 15:00

LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE
Guided tour of the places of the City to come with works and installations by Paolo Ferrari, Giusto - a leap.
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DROP IN location
12 apr H. 16:00

Opening "Lehmann Maupin @ Circolo"
Lehmann Maupin announces its new seasonal space in Milan, opening April 12, timed to the opening of both Miart and Salone de Mobile, and ahead of the 60th Venice Biennale Foreigners Everywhere, which will include gallery artist Kim Yun Shin. This space marks the gallery’s first physical location in Italy and follows the success of recent pop-ups in Aspen, Palm Beach, Taipei, and Beijing. Lehmann Maupin Milan will be housed at Circolo, a non-profit organization spearheaded by Nicole Saikalis Bay, located on 48 Via della Spiga, near Giardini Indro Montanelli. The exhibition will be on view through June 21, with a group presentation featuring gallery artists Hernan Bas, Loriel Beltrán, Mandy El-Sayegh, Todd Gray, Alex Prager, and Nari Ward. Nearby, Ward’s retrospective exhibition is on view at Pirelli HangarBicocca through July 28, 2024.
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Circolo Art location
12 apr H. 16:30

Alexander and Sasha Brodsky exhibition Piazza Senza Nome and guided tours of the archives of the historical Galleria Milano
Guided tours of the upstairs exhibition Alexander and Sasha Brodsky, Piazza Senza Nome and to the gallery archives on the lower floor.
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Fondazione Galleria Milano ETS location
12 apr H. 17:00

Guided visit "Our house is on fire"
The show is inspired by the book with the same name by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future, a global movement for climate and environmental justice. The decade 2009-2019 was the warmest on record and 2023 was the hottest year in human history. Fire seasons have become longer and more intense, earthquakes more frequent and violent, cyclones and floods have increased, phenomena such as El Niño have become more irregular and have caused dangerous droughts. A terrible climate crisis is underway and is our most important challenge in the future. In the face of all this, art can bring greater awareness and inspire change in an incisive way. #ContemporaryArtistsForFuture represents contemporary art's commitment to our future and our planet. Artists: Bertozzi e Casoni, Enrica Borghi, Pierpaolo Curti, Eva Frapiccini, Alessandro Moreschini, Luca Pancrazzi, Francesca Pasquali.
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Galleria ARTRA location
12 apr H. 17:00

Guided tour "NETES MAI"
NETES MAI, curated by Jessica Tanghetti and supported by Cortesi Gallery, is Maurizio Donzelli's solo exhibition hosted at LDR22, the new boutique showroom that the well-known celebrity matchmaker and art collector Lucio Di Rosa has opened in Milan. With references to the history of the city, and the patterns that emerge from it and from the artist's practice, the exhibition celebrates and reinterprets, in contemporary terms, the art of tapestry. The exhibition also takes a look at the future by drawing inspiration from the past: NETES MAI is the invitation to 'fear not' depicted on the Trivulzio tapestries based on drawings by Bramantino and kept at the Castello Sforzesco, part of the artist's references.
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LDR22 location
12 apr H. 17:00

Walk & Talk with Jiajia Zhang and Gioia Dal Molin
The talk will be in English.
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Istituto Svizzero location
12 apr H. 17:30

"EXPOSURE. Art, culture, fashion in and out of the showcase": guided tour
Introduced by Theo Eshetu's special intervention Crocodile on a ceiling in the rooms of the Permanent Collection, the exhibition Exposure reflects on the traditional concept of the vitrine and its centrality in exhibition projects. The display case both exposes and separates the object and, particularly in ethnographic museums, its ‘neutralising’ effect affects the works, isolating them and depriving them of their original context and function. The section on the history of the vitrine in classical museum displays is followed by one on its role in the world of the retail store. A focus on the display case in contemporary art practice and a new installation by Monia Ben Hamouda (1991) close the programme. Artists: Monia Ben Hamouda, Mark Dion, Sam Durant, Theo Eshetu, Damien Hirst, Candida Höfer, Giancarlo Iliprandi, Gene Moore, Roberto Sambonet, Albe Steiner.
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MUDEC – Museo delle Culture location
12 apr H. 18:00

Opening "ON MA"
Ma 間 is a Japanese expression that can be translated as negative or empty space between two elements. Mirce Velarde is an interdisciplinary artist whose mixed media installations reveal Ma in the encounter and exchange between the other and the self. Her performances interpret ritual passages, exposing the potential of each moment. Adam Slowik, post-digital artist, presents a new variation of Architecture of the Alphabet: a computer-generated typology of 360 sculptural forms that materialize Ma between letters. In Biometric Vitruvian, the performative drawing executed by a human-robot collaboration emphasizes the notion of negative space. In On Ma, the complementary approaches of Velarde and Slowik, reopen the discourse of the undefined, illusive states of becoming.
#OPENING
Lusvardi Art location
12 apr H. 18:00

BacteriArt, From invisible to visible
BacteriArt, "From invisible to visible" is the NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti's project, now in its third edition, that offers students a transversal educational path aimed to the creation of an exhibition project on the Milan campus that explores the world of bacteria thanks to the consolidated collaboration with Yakult. The interpretation of this micro-world is entrusted to the creation of works and performances capable of expressing the fascination and centrality of this system. The students involved had the opportunity to meet internationally renowned artists such as Agnieszka Kurant, Gediminas Urbonas, Tomàs Saraceno and to participate in a meeting at Cittadellarte with Michelangelo Pistoletto. A unique experience to discover the universe that surrounds us.
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NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti location
12 apr H. 18:00

Opening "TRAME"
The work "TRAME" takes the form of a contemporary audiovisual installation, where the changing human soul is identified as a visual layering. Light energies are captured and immortalized in intricate layers of webs, thus creating a visual portal along a perspective framework. Visitors will be immersed in unique visual suggestions, experiencing the play of light and traversing them as they move forward. The sound atmosphere accompanies the luminous evanescences, guiding the visitor on an emotional journey that oscillates between moments of quiet contemplation and more tormented phases. "TRAME" presents itself as a complete sensory experience, a combination of light and sound that invites visitors to explore the complexity of luminous evanescences. An art performance by Sala Nera and Operitage is planned at the opening of the installation, combining dance, music and digital art.
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Tempio del Futuro Perduto location
12 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Catching The Ray"
Catching The Ray draws inspiration from Jules Verne & Eric Rohmer works, exploring the fleeting beauty of ephemeral moments. Yue Zhao & Sante Saponaro transform found objects into vessels of memory, beckoning viewers on a journey of self-discovery. Influenced by Michel Serres' insights into virtual and physical realities, the exhibition navigates the interconnectedness of existence. VR technology enriches the experience hosted in Renato Arrigo’s architecture studio, thus becoming an homage to artistic and architectural processes. Within the space, boundaries between reality and imagination dissolve as meticulously atmosphere, light, and sound beckon introspection. Prepare to be transported to a realm where nostalgia and possibility blend, where memories and perceptions intertwine. Live music with Martaneve’s Duo.
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Studio Renato Arrigo location
12 apr H. 18:00

Opening "The Convivial Laboratory"
On Friday 12 April with the inauguration of TALAMO – an installation by Lemonot, a duo of Italian architects resident in London (Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri) – BASE Milano kicks off a series of initiatives created for the program of the city's Art Week and miart 2024. The performative sculpture, created in collaboration with Xavier Madden and Katja Banović, introduces the theme of conviviality, the protagonist of WE WILL DESIGN – The Convivial Laboratory, a program that brings together the projects and initiatives that will take place during the Milan Design Week 2024. Drawing inspiration from the archaic or scientific meanings of "Talamo" - the wedding bed, the stage for representing liturgical dramas in the Middle Ages, the part of the brain for the transmission of sensory signals to the rest of the body - the Lemonot wanted to synthesize them in a mobile installation , creating a convivial architecture composed of an immense but light bed, which becomes a stage in dynamic suspension between floor and ceiling. To accompany the inauguration of the installation, an in-depth meeting will take place at 7pm: The Convivial Laboratory with Lemonot. At 9pm, the Greek performers arisandmartha (Aris Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou) will activate Lemonot's installation with Talamo in a restless state, four actions in which animate and inanimate elements will merge with its habitable forms - familiar but at the same time otherworldly. The performers' bodies will seem to emerge from TALAMO, shaped by the structure itself, intertwining, seeking and reinventing their own space within it. The configurations of the work and the fantastic configurations of the duo - whose work lies halfway between on-stage and site-specific dance performances - will involve the audience in a ritual of lights, sounds and exceptionally ordinary gestures, leading to the surreal and progressively erasing the boundary between matter and the human body.
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BASE Milano location
12 apr H. 18:00

Gordon Matta Clark. Viaggio in Italia 1973 – 1975
The conversation focuses on the American artist's stays in Milan, highlighting the profound repercussions that these stays had on Matta Clark's artistic project. The premise is constituted by the bond between Gordon Matta Clark and Dennis Oppenheim (on the occasion of the Earth Art exhibition, conceived by Willoughby Sharp, at Cornell University Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, 11 February - 16 March 1969) dates back to that I encounter the creation of the cut in the ice of Bee Lake Ice Cut (1969). - Infraform 1973 Milan (first cutting operation) Brown Boveri - Carol Gooden and Gordon Matta Clark, Trisha Brown Dance Company Toselli gallery - Galleria Salvatore Ala Milan With: Jessamyn Fiore, art curator and writer, co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta Clark Alberto Salvadori, director of ICA, Milan
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Fondazione Luigi Rovati location
12 apr H. 18:30

Opening "Art Design"
Solo exhibition by Giuseppe Veneziano. The theme of this new series of paintings and drawings is the dialogue between Art and Design, which the artist explores through the irony typical of his language, which draws from high and low sources and combines reality and fiction. A dialogue between two worlds that have always looked at each other in a friendly way and influenced each other. Over the years, this distance has narrowed to the point where the boundaries are perfectly interchangeable. Veneziano wants to celebrate the great protagonists of art history in the same way as the international designers, many of whom were born in Italy, such as Castiglioni, Mendini, Sottsass, Rossi, Corrado Levi and Fabio Novembre. To complete the exhibition, some of the design objects depicted in the works.
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Fabbrica Eos location
12 apr H. 18:30

Focus on Giuseppe Penone
A guided tour of the works of Giuseppe Penone exhibited in the great exhibition “Vulci. Producing for men. Producing for the gods” which brings together the Vulcan production of refined bronzes and ceramics together with the imposing stone and terracotta sculptures. In the continuity of the Foundation's vision which sees art as a historical continuum between ancient and contemporary, the Giuseppe Penone works are exhibited together with the archaeological finds, in which the artist shapes matter-time with his own hands, in an ancient gesture which itself becomes contemporary sculpture.
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Fondazione Luigi Rovati location
12 apr H. 18:30

Opening "Bruno Munari Antropocene"
Bruno Munari, already in the mid-1950s and thus long before the term Anthropocene took shape, had wondered what traces the presence of man would leave on our planet. Placing himself, as always, in the role of an outside observer, he imagined being thousands of years in the future and, like an archaeologist, having to reconstruct society from a series of artifacts found in methacrylate. On display in the Bruno Munari Anthropocene exhibition will be some Fossils of 2000, the books and files of Memoirs of the Italian Natural Science Society of the Museum of Natural History in Milan, an entomological box, as well as a series of works from the private collection of his grandchildren Bruno Munari and Valeria Munari Cattin, who collaborate with Corraini in the creation of Spazio Munari.
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Spazio Munari location
12 apr H. 19:00

Opening "GLINT"
REFIN DTS - Daring Art Explorations is the new project by Ceramiche REFIN dedicated to contemporary art, through which the company will annually present new artworks created by internationally renowned artists, expressing what it means to dare through art. Curated by Valentino Catricalà, the project will be renewed every year with different artists to produce significant works of art and installations. The first work presented is Glint, a site-specific installation designed by Quayola for the spaces of Refin Studio. Glint continues Quayola's artistic research on observing nature and its phenomena through complex technological devices. The title refers to the fleeting yet intense glow of light on water when the sun directly hits it.
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Refin Studio location
12 apr H. 19:00

Readings aloud: painters who write and writers who paint
Readings from the books of John Berger.
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Laboratorio di Cromografia location
12 apr H. 19:00

Fundraising evening "BRUT Milano"
An evening of fundraising in support of the BRUT project.
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Milano Luiss Hub location
12 apr H. 19:00

Being alone with the art of Adrian Piper
Talk about Adrian Piper's artistic research with Vid Simoniti - author of Artists Remake the World (Yale, 2023) and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool - and presentation of Escape to Berlin Adrian Piper's autobiography in English and Italian version.
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PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea location
12 apr H. 19:30

Guintche

The performance act becomes a spectacle of transformism and pantomime in this work by the Cape Verdean artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas, one of the most distinctive and significant figures of the international performing arts scene. Inspired by the word guintche, which in her mother tongue can refer to a type of bird, a prostitute or an incoherent approach to doing things, Freitas embodies multiple creatures, in a succession of snapshots which see a boxer, a puppet, an acrobat, a clown materialize and alternate on stage. Swaying clumsily and contracting her face in a crescendo of grotesque expressions, the artist electrifies the stage with an extraordinary performance of sweat and muscular effort, in which the body becomes the battlefield for different creatures at war with each other.
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Triennale Milano location
12 apr H. 20:30

LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE
Within the LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE project, the extraordinary opening with a guided tour of ISOLACASATEATRO will be proposed, where a debate will take place between the author, Paolo Ferrari, and scholars of different disciplines.
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ISOLACASATEATRO location
12 apr H. Su ap

KOSMOS Andrea Francolino / Michele Guido
The KOSMOS project by Andrea Francolino (Bari, 1979) and Michele Gudio (Aradeo, 1976) at The Open Box presents as an evocative dialogue on universal themes. During their careers, the two artists have always reflected on ideas, concepts and metaphors relating to the natural world and to scientific research, to the analysis of contexts and territories, to genetics and the architecture of natural elements in relation to individual and collective human activity, to the fragility of nature and culture.
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The Open Box location
12 apr H. The i

Il giardino di Artemisia
Women are the common thread to which Fabbrica del Vapore dedicates many of its activities this year. Gender equality is in fact the thermometer of every democracy. Feminicides, lack of wage equity, female unemployment are symptoms of a malaise that must otherwise be turned into widespread social well-being. Even within Vapore d'estate, Art and Design Week, there is no shortage of insights into a theme that must be pervasive. Mezzadri's work presents itself as a threshold and connective tissue between the different programs that characterize the month of April in Fabbrica del Vapore. His contribution is welcome, like Crespi's painting "Revolution is woman", it is a useful contribution, because males being spokespersons for a need for equality is an indispensable part of change." (Maria Fratelli) With "The garden of Artemisia", a site-specific installation, curated by Matteo Pacini in collaboration with Jessica De Simone, Matteo Mezzadri addresses the theme by reflecting on a historical episode that will end up having many repercussions on the disadvantaged condition of women in society, a theme still dramatically relevant today. This is the lawsuit filed in 1612 by the painter Artemisia Gentileschi against Agostino Tassi, which went down in history as the first rape trial of which written memory is preserved through trial records. Artemisia Gentileschi spent her life fighting to assert her freedom of expression in a world that left very little space for women, especially in the artistic field, and publicly denouncing her rapist was an act of great courage which, as still too often happens today, saw the defendants take the stage accused of having had provocative attitudes towards the accused. Artemisia never recanted, not even under torture; “It's true, it's true, it's true” is the cry of pain recorded in the State Archives of Rome that Artemisia addressed to the accused while her fingers were broken, irrefutable proof, according to the legislation of the time, of the veracity of the his accusations. Although Tassi's sentence to exile proved to be a farce since, thanks to his position, he never left Rome, unlike Artemisia who was forced to do so due to the uproar of the trial, this courageous denunciation remained in history as the first true act of rebellion against the suffocating patriarchal culture. In dealing with the complex topic, especially as faced by a man, Mezzadri makes use of materials, language and visual grammar typical of his poetics, therefore no didactic or narrative quotation, but an under-the-radar evocation that brings into dialogue, or rather , the materials and structural geometries that will give shape to the work are in conflict. The large cube of fired bricks, severe and absolute, hides and confines something inside with the excuse of protecting it; it is the paradigm of a system of power and rigid, unchangeable social conventions, a mechanism decoded by men for the benefit of men which for too long has left no room for women to affirm their freedom and dignity as human beings. The Artemisia garden symbolizes resilience, the continuous rebirth that starts from the bottom like all the greatest revolutions in the history of humanity. A break in the pattern that overturns the physical space and, as in the case of Artemisia, also the historical one.
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Fabbrica del Vapore location
12 apr H. By ap

Extraordinary opening ADVANT Nctm
During Milan Art Week the public will be able to visit the ADVANT Nctm law firm, from 10 to 12 April, by appointment - by writing an email to nctmelarte@advant-nctm.com: a group of works by Marilisa Cosello and part of the collection are visible in the rooms nctm and art. Among the artists represented: Camilla Alberti, Mirosław Bałka, Sammy Baloji, Yael Bartana, Francesco Bertelè, Rossella Biscotti, Emma Ciceri, Paola Di Bello, Linda Fregni Nagler, Riccardo Giacconi, Pieter Hugo, Elena Mazzi, Margherita Moscardini, Maria Mulas, Uriel Orlow, Raziel Perin, Zineb Sedira, Marinella Senatore, Kiki Smith.
ADVANT Nctm location

All events of 13 April

13 apr H. 15:00

Let's talk about Pittura Italiana. Oggi
Approximately two months after the closing of the collective exhibition Pittura italiana Oggi (25 October 2023 – 11 February 2024) curated by Damiano Gullì, Triennale offers a moment of comparison, dialogue and in-depth analysis on Italian painting and on some of the themes linked to the exhibition which will involve artists, journalists, critics and curators.
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Triennale Milano location
13 apr H. 10:00

American Dream. Arm Wrestling
American Dream will take place on Saturday 13 April 2024, from 10am to 1pm, at the headquarters of the ADVANT Nctm law firm. Arm Wrestling, an arm wrestling session. The performance will be repeated several times throughout the morning. In this case the artist wanted to add a reference to the American Dream to the title Try, to highlight precisely in the American dream the root of that muscular economic model which, starting from the USA, has spread throughout the West since the Fifty. With this performance the artist presents arm wrestling as a macho symbol of the twentieth century, but also as a metaphor for existential concepts such as competition, victory, failure.
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ADVANT Nctm location
13 apr H. 09:30

Kaleidoscope
An interactive artwork created to experiment ith color perception and reaction to light effects, leading to reflection on the concepts of real and virtual. The installation consists of a large table in which several layers of primary color inks are intervowen: cyan, magenta and yellow. The surface of the installation can be manipulated, pressed and pushed to creato an endless and ever-changing palette of colors and shapes, drawing a landscape with surprising and immersive visual effects. Each touch of the surface generates new images capable of representing the energy of movement in immersive and chaotic patterns. Produced in collaboration with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci location
13 apr H. 09:30

Comets. Vanguards of another solar system
“Comets. Vanguards of another solar system” is a project curated by Marta Bianchi and Marta Cereda that inaugurates a virtuous relationship between miart and Careof, in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, and presented at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema. “Comets” is a screening program of artist films, sourced from the Video Archive of Careof, the center for production and exploration of time-based media, from the collections of the Municipality of Milan, and from galleries participating in miart. The presentation of the works is accompanied by a program of encounters with some artists, to provide a curated and precise dimension for the video works, where cinema becomes a privileged space for an intimate viewing of the works.
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Anteo Palazzo del Cinema location
13 apr H. 10:00

Special opening "Letizia Battaglia. Storie di libertà ritrovata"
For the 10th anniversary of the Law is Art! project, LCA Studio Legale honours Letizia Battaglia (1935 1935-2022), a renowned photographer and the main female witness who documented Sicily between the ‘70s and ’90s. The exhibition «Letizia Battaglia: Stories of Freedom Regained» at the Milan headquarters, in Via della Moscova 18, is in collaboration with Archivio Letizia Battaglia, Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea Gallery, ARTE Generali, and Apice. During the Milano Art Week, LCA opens its doors to the public for a special visit on Saturday, April 13th , exactly two years after the artist's death.
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LCA Studio Legale location
13 apr H. 10:00

Special opening "Intimus"
Jacques Pion's photographic project INTIMUS debuts in Italy from April 5, 2024, with a valuable publication published by DATZ Books and a temporary exhibition, curated by Mariateresa Cerretelli and created in the cloister of The Mill, Via Cappuccio 7, Milan. INTIMUS kicks off from Jacques Pion's time spent exploring the scenery of the Melogno beech forest (Liguria). The soul and essence of the forest are the protagonists of the selection of 44 images the photographer makes that see the forest unveiled under his gaze. Portrayed at different times of day and during different phases of its life, the beech forest is revealed in all its magnificence through a careful use of the camera, in an introspective and meditative journey.
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The Mill location
13 apr H. 10:00

ON MA
Ma 間 is a Japanese expression that can be translated as negative or empty space between two elements. Mirce Velarde is an interdisciplinary artist whose mixed media installations reveal Ma in the encounter and exchange between the other and the self. Her performances interpret ritual passages, exposing the potential of each moment. Adam Slowik, post-digital artist, presents a new variation of Architecture of the Alphabet: a computer-generated typology of 360 sculptural forms that materialize Ma between letters. In Biometric Vitruvian, the performative drawing executed by a human-robot collaboration emphasizes the notion of negative space. In On Ma, the complementary approaches of Velarde and Slowik, reopen the discourse of the undefined, illusive states of becoming.
#PERFORMANCE
Lusvardi Art location
13 apr H. 10:00

Special opening "Diango Hernández. Desires for light. Refractions"
The exhibition is articulated as a single installation whose common thread is light. Indeed, the works follow a narrative logic that relates light and desire. At the heart of the exhibition project, some oil paintings hint at luminous spaces filtered as if through windows with translucent, corrugated glass. Even if we do not see precisely those places that appear blurred and distant, we sense the quiet peace of a beyond, as if we stand before the diaphragm of the wave motion of a threshold to be crossed, of a watery veil to be broken because we dive into that light.
#SPECIALOPENING
Galleria S. Fedele location
13 apr H. 10:00

GLINT
REFIN DTS - Daring Art Explorations is the new project by Ceramiche REFIN dedicated to contemporary art, through which the company will annually present new artworks created by internationally renowned artists, expressing what it means to dare through art. Curated by Valentino Catricalà, the project will be renewed every year with different artists to produce significant works of art and installations. The first work presented is Glint, a site-specific installation designed by Quayola for the spaces of Refin Studio. Glint continues Quayola's artistic research on observing nature and its phenomena through complex technological devices. The title refers to the fleeting yet intense glow of light on water when the sun directly hits it.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Refin Studio location
13 apr H. 10:00

The convivial laboratory
On Friday 12 April with the inauguration of TALAMO – an installation by Lemonot, a duo of Italian architects resident in London (Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri) – BASE Milano kicks off a series of initiatives created for the program of Milano Art Week and miart 2024. The performative sculpture, created in collaboration with Xavier Madden and Katja Banović, introduces the theme of conviviality, the protagonist of WE WILL DESIGN – The Convivial Laboratory, a program that brings together the projects and initiatives that will take place during the Milan Design Week 2024. Drawing inspiration from the archaic or scientific meanings of "Talamo" - the wedding bed, the stage for representing liturgical dramas in the Middle Ages, the part of the brain for the transmission of sensory signals to the rest of the body - the Lemonot wanted to synthesize them in a mobile installation , creating a convivial architecture composed of an immense but light bed, which becomes a stage in dynamic suspension between floor and ceiling.
#ARTINSTALLATION
BASE Milano location
13 apr H. 10:00

Talk "Collezionare l'arte contemporanea"
Introduce: Maria Ameli - Head of Corporate, Real Estate, Art Advisory Banca Generali Speakers: Luca Bombassei - private collector Vincenzo De Bellis - Director, Fairs and Exhibition Platforms Art Basel Renato Pennisi - International Senior Specialist, Director Modern and Contemporary Art Christie's. On the occasion of the round table, entry to the PAC - Pavilion of Contemporary Art for Saturday 13 April will be free.
GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna location
13 apr H. 10:30

TRAME
The work "TRAME" takes the form of a contemporary audiovisual installation, where the changing human soul is identified as a visual layering. Light energies are captured and immortalized in intricate layers of webs, thus creating a visual portal along a perspective framework. Visitors will be immersed in unique visual suggestions, experiencing the play of light and traversing them as they move forward. The sound atmosphere accompanies the luminous evanescences, guiding the visitor on an emotional journey that oscillates between moments of quiet contemplation and more tormented phases. "TRAME" presents itself as a complete sensory experience, a combination of light and sound that invites visitors to explore the complexity of luminous evanescences. An art performance by Sala Nera and Operitage is planned at 18.30, combining dance, music and digital art.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Tempio del Futuro Perduto location
13 apr H. 10:30

Guided visit Gallerie d'Italia
There are numerous contemporary artists who have followed the path of material experimentation also through the production of wonderful jewels; the geometric spirit of Arnaldo Pomodoro has already been present since the early 1950s in jewels created with the technique of negative casting on cuttlefish bones, while Lucio Fontana transports the essentiality of his cuts into iconic bracelets. After this first excursus among the works of the 20th century construction site, the visit continues inside the Damiani 100x100 italiani exhibition which celebrates the first century of the historic Valenza company through one hundred masterpieces of creativity and Italian style, considered the culmination of a century-long journey. The activity is free; booking is recommended.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Gallerie d'Italia - Milano location
13 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "Francesco Somaini. At the origin of the sacred"
On the occasion of Milan Art Week the Foundation organizes guided visits by the curators to the exhibition Francesco Somaini. At the origins of the sacred.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Francesco Somaini Scultore ETS location
13 apr H. 11:00

Special opening "Between you and me the nonexistent alphabet”. Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti"
The project, starting from the concept of pause and the absence/presence dichotomy, develops a reflection on the interval. The silence between two sounds, the space between the letters that make up a text, the void between the objects that populate a house, become thresholds of change. Mocellin and Pellegrini chose Agnetti's works with which to enter into dialogue and, in relation to these, conceived the exhibition. It includes a multi-voice performance, also using the sounds of Neg (the pausometer) patented by Agnetti in 1970), two videos on the absence-presence relationship, and finally paintings and drawings on these same themes. Some are unpublished works created specifically, others are historical, all are conceived as a series of alphabets capable of returning us to the profound sense of pause.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
13 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince"
During Milano Art Week 2024, three daily guided tours accompanied by the exhibition organisers. From Tuesday to Sunday, at 11:00 am, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Luciana Matalon location
13 apr H. 11:00

Talamo in a restless state
Greek performers arisandmartha (Aris Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou) will activate Lemonot's installation with Talamo in a restless state, four actions in which animate and inanimate elements will merge with its habitable forms - familiar but at the same time otherworldly. The performers' bodies will seem to emerge from TALAMO, shaped by the structure itself, intertwining, seeking and reinventing their own space within it. The configurations of the work and the fantastic configurations of the duo - whose work lies halfway between on-stage and site-specific dance performances - will involve the audience in a ritual of lights, sounds and exceptionally ordinary gestures, leading to the surreal and progressively erasing the boundary between matter and the human body.
#PERFORMANCE
BASE Milano location
13 apr H. 14:00

Special opening "Project Room #9 Marta Pierobon e Forniture Pallotta"
Starting from the Belgian-born artist and fashion designer's studies and prototypes on the theme of the set table, the two artists and food designers stage an affective and intimate ritual in which conviviality is understood as a free and fluid attitude of connecting with others. An ideal dinner in which the five guests seated around a table become actors and spectators of a scene in which inanimate objects, Pierobon's ceramics, and edible sculptures, Alessandra Pallotta's, become devices to generate unexpected choreographies. Between the container and the content of what is laid out on the table, the threshold is always blurred: plates-paintings, glasses-mouths, onions-chains, hands-ashtrays form a whole with the bodies that consume them.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck location
13 apr H. 15:00

Opening "DESIGN FOR COMMUNITIES part 2 – Giacomo Moor x LiveinSlums"
Design for Communities is the result of a collaboration between the NGO LiveinSlums and designer Giacomo Moor, engaged in urban regeneration in Mathare, Nairobi. In the second edition of the project, after having designed and built the furniture for the dormitory of the Why Not Academy school in 2023, Giacomo Moor went to the Mathare slum to build the kitchen for the school canteen: a solid wood primary frame, structural but light, extremely flexible and exportable in different contexts. On display at Assab One a reproduction of the micro-architecture and Alessandro Treves' photographic research.
#OPENING
Assab One location
13 apr H. 15:00

Guided visit Gallerie d'Italia
There are numerous contemporary artists who have followed the path of material experimentation also through the production of wonderful jewels; the geometric spirit of Arnaldo Pomodoro has already been present since the early 1950s in jewels created with the technique of negative casting on cuttlefish bones, while Lucio Fontana transports the essentiality of his cuts into iconic bracelets. After this first excursus among the works of the 20th century construction site, the visit continues inside the Damiani 100x100 italiani exhibition which celebrates the first century of the historic Valenza company through one hundred masterpieces of creativity and Italian style, considered the culmination of a century-long journey. The activity is free; booking is recommended.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Gallerie d'Italia - Milano location
13 apr H. 15:30

A sea of paper…in a box. Family lab
On the occasion of the "A sea of paper" exhibition hosted in the Aquarium, the artist Valeria Manzi accompanies participants in her material world made of sheets, boxes, rolls and strips of paper. After observing the natural finds that the sea returns, we try to manipulate, fold and curl papers and cards to recreate, between waves and water movements, a personal ocean to be enclosed in a precious treasure chest. Curated by Associazione AdMaiora. From 5 years.
#SPECIALOPENING
Acquario Civico location
13 apr H. 15:30

"Call and gather. Sisters. Moths and flame twisters. Lioness bones, snakes and stones" for kids
Creative path for children from 5 to 6 years old within the Chiara Camoni exhibition.
#TALK
Pirelli HangarBicocca location
13 apr H. 16:00

Special opening "In the Secrecy of a Home" with the author
The show is inspired by the book with the same name by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future, a global movement for climate and environmental justice. The decade 2009-2019 was the warmest on record and 2023 was the hottest year in human history. Fire seasons have become longer and more intense, earthquakes more frequent and violent, cyclones and floods have increased, phenomena such as El Niño have become more irregular and have caused dangerous droughts. A terrible climate crisis is underway and is our most important challenge in the future. In the face of all this, art can bring greater awareness and inspire change in an incisive way. #ContemporaryArtistsForFuture represents contemporary art's commitment to our future and our planet. Artists: Bertozzi e Casoni, Enrica Borghi, Pierpaolo Curti, Eva Frapiccini, Alessandro Moreschini, Luca Pancrazzi, Francesca Pasquali.
#SPECIALOPENING
Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea location
13 apr H. 16:00

Guided tour "Mutative Transitions into Organic Utopia"
Tempesta Gallery presents for the first time in Milan the installation and biofuturistic works of Ukrainian artist Aljoscha. The artworks feature translucent and colorful forms that invite reflection on the relationship between biology and aesthetics, proposing a vision of a world where suffering is abolished and diversity is celebrated. His creations, suspended in the gallery space, suggest a future where science, philosophy, and art converge to imagine an earthly paradise guided by ethical understanding and the pursuit of peace.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Tempesta Gallery location
13 apr H. 16:30

Alexander and Sasha Brodsky exhibition Piazza Senza Nome and guided tours of the archives of the historical Galleria Milano
Guided tours of the upstairs exhibition Alexander and Sasha Brodsky, Piazza Senza Nome and to the gallery archives on the lower floor.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Galleria Milano ETS location
13 apr H. 18:00

Opening "Kinetic Connections"
Robots, increasingly integral to our daily lives, are transitioning from industrial roles to significant positions in both public and private sectors. At SPBH Space, a new installation by Swiss Studios AATB and Unstated will examine the evolving dynamics of human-robot-AI relationships. The project's centerpiece, a robotic arm, will be accessible for real-time engagement through a QR code scan from the street-level shop window outside SPBH Space. This setup enables the arm to mimic the movements of passersby, creating a unique connection that is separated only by window glass. This arrangement encourages active participation, allowing visitors to directly experience the nuances and capabilities of contemporary robotics.
#OPENING
SPBH Space location
13 apr H. 17:00

Guided tour "NETES MAI"
NETES MAI, curated by Jessica Tanghetti and supported by Cortesi Gallery, is Maurizio Donzelli's solo exhibition hosted at LDR22, the new boutique showroom that the well-known celebrity matchmaker and art collector Lucio Di Rosa has opened in Milan. With references to the history of the city, and the patterns that emerge from it and from the artist's practice, the exhibition celebrates and reinterprets, in contemporary terms, the art of tapestry. The exhibition also takes a look at the future by drawing inspiration from the past: NETES MAI is the invitation to 'fear not' depicted on the Trivulzio tapestries based on drawings by Bramantino and kept at the Castello Sforzesco, part of the artist's references.
#GUIDEDTOUR
LDR22 location
13 apr H. 18:00

Finissage e performance "Moving the apocalyptic corner towards hope"
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting presents an exhibition curated by Stefano Cagol, which takes its title from a conversation between Björk and the philosopher Timothy Morton to look at the role of art in influencing society away from paralyzing immobility. A coherent sense of commitment distinguishes, in fact, the practice of the artists exhibited, who include the American Mary Mattingly, here with the photographic image already the cover of the volume "Art in the Anthropocene", and the Spanish collective PSJM with their abstract paintings as "social geometries" to underline changes caused or desired by us. Cagol's “Bouvet Island” is on display, sculptures that refer to atomic issues.
#PERFORMANCE
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting location
13 apr H. 18:30

Politics and Imagination. 20 years of Disobedience Archive
On the occasion of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea will host a talk dedicated to the 20 years of Disobedience Archive, a project by Marco Scotini invited by curator Adriano Pedrosa as part of the exhibition "Foreigners Everywhere". Disobedience Archive since 2005 has been developing a video archive focused on the relationships between artistic practices and activism. The dedicated section within the 60th International Art Exhibition will include works by 39 artists and collectives made between 1971 and 2023. With Marco Scotini, Angela Melitopoulos, Marcelo Expósito e Arnold Braho. Introduce Elisabetta Galasso. In collaboration with NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti.
#TALK
FM Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea location
13 apr H. 19:00

Readings aloud: painters who write and writers who paint
Readings from the books of John Berger.
#PERFORMANCE
Laboratorio di Cromografia location
13 apr H. 19:00

Opening "SCONFINA"
SCONFINA is a project that wants to go beyond the boundaries of a given territory and escape the limits determined by the topic. It is a space open to dialogue 24 hours a day, without imposed times. Night and day it searches for curious glances among hurried passers-by. Carichi Pendenti, a sculptural installation by Marta Dell'Angelo, redefines the place and time of space, aiming at the gaze of those who pass by. Parentheses of female silhouettes vibrate in the void intersecting with each other, like theatrical wings made up of portions of discarded bodies. Mobile sculptures silently dialogue with each other, inviting those who look at them to enter the scene and participate in the pièce. Bodies, female nudes trespass into the urban fabric in constant dialogue with the social context that surrounds them.
#OPENING
Fondazione Arthur Cravan location
13 apr H. 19:30

Opening "David Horvitz: abbandondare il locale"
Abbandonare il locale is the first monographic exhibition in Italy dedicated to David Horvitz. Born in Los Angeles, ironic and poetic, Horvitz uses a disparity of media - from photography to performance, from artists' books to sound-based art, from gastronomy to the Internet - to examine questions of distance between places, people, and time and to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing these distances. Within the spaces of BiM, an ambitious urban regeneration project in the Bicocca district, Horvitz exhibits over 20 works, retracing almost 20 years of career. Together with unpublished texts, found objects and architectural elements, these works offer a reflection on the ethics and aesthetics of the workplace as well as glimpses of possible escapes routes.
#OPENING
BiM Milano Bicocca location
13 apr H. Su ap

KOSMOS Andrea Francolino / Michele Guido
The KOSMOS project by Andrea Francolino (Bari, 1979) and Michele Gudio (Aradeo, 1976) at The Open Box presents as an evocative dialogue on universal themes. During their careers, the two artists have always reflected on ideas, concepts and metaphors relating to the natural world and to scientific research, to the analysis of contexts and territories, to genetics and the architecture of natural elements in relation to individual and collective human activity, to the fragility of nature and culture.
#ARTINSTALLATION
The Open Box location
13 apr H. The i

Il giardino di Artemisia
Women are the common thread to which Fabbrica del Vapore dedicates many of its activities this year. Gender equality is in fact the thermometer of every democracy. Feminicides, lack of wage equity, female unemployment are symptoms of a malaise that must otherwise be turned into widespread social well-being. Even within Vapore d'estate, Art and Design Week, there is no shortage of insights into a theme that must be pervasive. Mezzadri's work presents itself as a threshold and connective tissue between the different programs that characterize the month of April in Fabbrica del Vapore. His contribution is welcome, like Crespi's painting "Revolution is woman", it is a useful contribution, because males being spokespersons for a need for equality is an indispensable part of change." (Maria Fratelli) With "The garden of Artemisia", a site-specific installation, curated by Matteo Pacini in collaboration with Jessica De Simone, Matteo Mezzadri addresses the theme by reflecting on a historical episode that will end up having many repercussions on the disadvantaged condition of women in society, a theme still dramatically relevant today. This is the lawsuit filed in 1612 by the painter Artemisia Gentileschi against Agostino Tassi, which went down in history as the first rape trial of which written memory is preserved through trial records. Artemisia Gentileschi spent her life fighting to assert her freedom of expression in a world that left very little space for women, especially in the artistic field, and publicly denouncing her rapist was an act of great courage which, as still too often happens today, saw the defendants take the stage accused of having had provocative attitudes towards the accused. Artemisia never recanted, not even under torture; “It's true, it's true, it's true” is the cry of pain recorded in the State Archives of Rome that Artemisia addressed to the accused while her fingers were broken, irrefutable proof, according to the legislation of the time, of the veracity of the his accusations. Although Tassi's sentence to exile proved to be a farce since, thanks to his position, he never left Rome, unlike Artemisia who was forced to do so due to the uproar of the trial, this courageous denunciation remained in history as the first true act of rebellion against the suffocating patriarchal culture. In dealing with the complex topic, especially as faced by a man, Mezzadri makes use of materials, language and visual grammar typical of his poetics, therefore no didactic or narrative quotation, but an under-the-radar evocation that brings into dialogue, or rather , the materials and structural geometries that will give shape to the work are in conflict. The large cube of fired bricks, severe and absolute, hides and confines something inside with the excuse of protecting it; it is the paradigm of a system of power and rigid, unchangeable social conventions, a mechanism decoded by men for the benefit of men which for too long has left no room for women to affirm their freedom and dignity as human beings. The Artemisia garden symbolizes resilience, the continuous rebirth that starts from the bottom like all the greatest revolutions in the history of humanity. A break in the pattern that overturns the physical space and, as in the case of Artemisia, also the historical one.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Fabbrica del Vapore location

All events of 14 April

14 apr H. 09:30

Kaleidoscope
An interactive artwork created to experiment ith color perception and reaction to light effects, leading to reflection on the concepts of real and virtual. The installation consists of a large table in which several layers of primary color inks are intervowen: cyan, magenta and yellow. The surface of the installation can be manipulated, pressed and pushed to creato an endless and ever-changing palette of colors and shapes, drawing a landscape with surprising and immersive visual effects. Each touch of the surface generates new images capable of representing the energy of movement in immersive and chaotic patterns. Produced in collaboration with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci location
14 apr H. 09:30

Comets. Vanguards of another solar system
“Comets. Vanguards of another solar system” is a project curated by Marta Bianchi and Marta Cereda that inaugurates a virtuous relationship between miart and Careof, in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, and presented at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema. “Comets” is a screening program of artist films, sourced from the Video Archive of Careof, the center for production and exploration of time-based media, from the collections of the Municipality of Milan, and from galleries participating in miart. The presentation of the works is accompanied by a program of encounters with some artists, to provide a curated and precise dimension for the video works, where cinema becomes a privileged space for an intimate viewing of the works.
#SHOW
Anteo Palazzo del Cinema location
14 apr H. 10:00

Kinetic Connections
Robots, increasingly integral to our daily lives, are transitioning from industrial roles to significant positions in both public and private sectors. At SPBH Space, a new installation by Swiss Studios AATB and Unstated will examine the evolving dynamics of human-robot-AI relationships. The project's centerpiece, a robotic arm, will be accessible for real-time engagement through a QR code scan from the street-level shop window outside SPBH Space. This setup enables the arm to mimic the movements of passersby, creating a unique connection that is separated only by window glass. This arrangement encourages active participation, allowing visitors to directly experience the nuances and capabilities of contemporary robotics.
#ARTINSTALLATION
SPBH Space location
14 apr H. 10:00

Special opening "Intimus"
Jacques Pion's photographic project INTIMUS debuts in Italy from April 5, 2024, with a valuable publication published by DATZ Books and a temporary exhibition, curated by Mariateresa Cerretelli and created in the cloister of The Mill, Via Cappuccio 7, Milan. INTIMUS kicks off from Jacques Pion's time spent exploring the scenery of the Melogno beech forest (Liguria). The soul and essence of the forest are the protagonists of the selection of 44 images the photographer makes that see the forest unveiled under his gaze. Portrayed at different times of day and during different phases of its life, the beech forest is revealed in all its magnificence through a careful use of the camera, in an introspective and meditative journey.
#SPECIALOPENING
The Mill location
14 apr H. 10:00

ON MA
Ma 間 is a Japanese expression that can be translated as negative or empty space between two elements. Mirce Velarde is an interdisciplinary artist whose mixed media installations reveal Ma in the encounter and exchange between the other and the self. Her performances interpret ritual passages, exposing the potential of each moment. Adam Slowik, post-digital artist, presents a new variation of Architecture of the Alphabet: a computer-generated typology of 360 sculptural forms that materialize Ma between letters. In Biometric Vitruvian, the performative drawing executed by a human-robot collaboration emphasizes the notion of negative space. In On Ma, the complementary approaches of Velarde and Slowik, reopen the discourse of the undefined, illusive states of becoming.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Lusvardi Art location
14 apr H. 10:00

The convivial laboratory
On Friday 12 April with the inauguration of TALAMO – an installation by Lemonot, a duo of Italian architects resident in London (Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri) – BASE Milano kicks off a series of initiatives created for the program of the city's Art Week and miart 2024. The performative sculpture, created in collaboration with Xavier Madden and Katja Banović, introduces the theme of conviviality, the protagonist of WE WILL DESIGN – The Convivial Laboratory, a program that brings together the projects and initiatives that will take place during the Milan Design Week 2024. Drawing inspiration from the archaic or scientific meanings of "Talamo" - the wedding bed, the stage for representing liturgical dramas in the Middle Ages, the part of the brain for the transmission of sensory signals to the rest of the body - the Lemonot wanted to synthesize them in a mobile installation , creating a convivial architecture composed of an immense but light bed, which becomes a stage in dynamic suspension between floor and ceiling.
#ARTINSTALLATION
BASE Milano location
14 apr H. 10:30

TRAME
The work "TRAME" takes the form of a contemporary audiovisual installation, where the changing human soul is identified as a visual layering. Light energies are captured and immortalized in intricate layers of webs, thus creating a visual portal along a perspective framework. Visitors will be immersed in unique visual suggestions, experiencing the play of light and traversing them as they move forward. The sound atmosphere accompanies the luminous evanescences, guiding the visitor on an emotional journey that oscillates between moments of quiet contemplation and more tormented phases. "TRAME" presents itself as a complete sensory experience, a combination of light and sound that invites visitors to explore the complexity of luminous evanescences.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Tempio del Futuro Perduto location
14 apr H. 10:30

Guided visit Gallerie d'Italia
There are numerous contemporary artists who have followed the path of material experimentation also through the production of wonderful jewels; the geometric spirit of Arnaldo Pomodoro has already been present since the early 1950s in jewels created with the technique of negative casting on cuttlefish bones, while Lucio Fontana transports the essentiality of his cuts into iconic bracelets. After this first excursus among the works of the 20th century construction site, the visit continues inside the Damiani 100x100 italiani exhibition which celebrates the first century of the historic Valenza company through one hundred masterpieces of creativity and Italian style, considered the culmination of a century-long journey. The activity is free; booking is recommended.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Gallerie d'Italia - Milano location
14 apr H. 11:00

Special opening "Between you and me the nonexistent alphabet”. Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti"
The project, starting from the concept of pause and the absence/presence dichotomy, develops a reflection on the interval. The silence between two sounds, the space between the letters that make up a text, the void between the objects that populate a house, become thresholds of change. Mocellin and Pellegrini chose Agnetti's works with which to enter into dialogue and, in relation to these, conceived the exhibition. It includes a multi-voice performance, also using the sounds of Neg (the pausometer) patented by Agnetti in 1970), two videos on the absence-presence relationship, and finally paintings and drawings on these same themes. Some are unpublished works created specifically, others are historical, all are conceived as a series of alphabets capable of returning us to the profound sense of pause.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
14 apr H. 11:00

Guided tour "QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince"
During Milano Art Week 2024, three daily guided tours accompanied by the exhibition organisers. From Tuesday to Sunday, at 11:00 am, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Fondazione Luciana Matalon location
14 apr H. 11:00

DESIGN FOR COMMUNITIES part 2 – Giacomo Moor x LiveinSlums
Design for Communities is the result of a collaboration between the NGO LiveinSlums and designer Giacomo Moor, engaged in urban regeneration in Mathare, Nairobi. In the second edition of the project, after having designed and built the furniture for the dormitory of the Why Not Academy school in 2023, Giacomo Moor went to the Mathare slum to build the kitchen for the school canteen: a solid wood primary frame, structural but light, extremely flexible and exportable in different contexts. On display at Assab One a reproduction of the micro-architecture and Alessandro Treves' photographic research.
#ARTINSTALLATION
Assab One location
14 apr H. 11:00

Apertura straordinaria "On ne fait pas ça"
MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present On ne fait pas ça, a solo exhibition by the Swiss artist John Armleder. Manipulating the contrasts between decoration and kitsch, geometry and abstraction, Armleder's work positions itself on the border between humor and profound respect for the art world. Armleder challenges the conventions of art, its formulation and its presentation. Influenced by the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and associated with the Groupe Ecart of Geneva, Armleder was inspired by the ethics of the American composer and artist John Cage. On ne fait pas ça presents a retrospective of his work spanning from 1994 to 2023, from Armleder's iconic furniture sculptures to his more recent “pour painintgs”.
#SPECIALOPENING
MASSIMODECARLO location
14 apr H. 11:00

LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE
Within the LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE project, the extraordinary opening with guided tour of Centro Studi Assenza, the origin of the research, will be proposed.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Centro Studi Assenza location
14 apr H. 11:30

Guided tour "Call and gather. Sisters. Moths and flame twisters. Lioness bones, snakes and stones"
Guided tour for adults inside the Chiara Camoni exhibition.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Pirelli HangarBicocca location
14 apr H. 14:00

Special opening of Laboratorio di Cromografia
Live painting demonstration.
#SPECIALOPENING
Laboratorio di Cromografia location
14 apr H. 14:00

Special opening "Project Room #9 Marta Pierobon e Forniture Pallotta"
Starting from the Belgian-born artist and fashion designer's studies and prototypes on the theme of the set table, the two artists and food designers stage an affective and intimate ritual in which conviviality is understood as a free and fluid attitude of connecting with others. An ideal dinner in which the five guests seated around a table become actors and spectators of a scene in which inanimate objects, Pierobon's ceramics, and edible sculptures, Alessandra Pallotta's, become devices to generate unexpected choreographies. Between the container and the content of what is laid out on the table, the threshold is always blurred: plates-paintings, glasses-mouths, onions-chains, hands-ashtrays form a whole with the bodies that consume them.
#SPECIALOPENING
Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck location
14 apr H. 15:00

Guided visit Gallerie d'Italia
There are numerous contemporary artists who have followed the path of material experimentation also through the production of wonderful jewels; the geometric spirit of Arnaldo Pomodoro has already been present since the early 1950s in jewels created with the technique of negative casting on cuttlefish bones, while Lucio Fontana transports the essentiality of his cuts into iconic bracelets. After this first excursus among the works of the 20th century construction site, the visit continues inside the Damiani 100x100 italiani exhibition which celebrates the first century of the historic Valenza company through one hundred masterpieces of creativity and Italian style, considered the culmination of a century-long journey. The activity is free; booking is recommended.
#GUIDEDTOUR
Gallerie d'Italia - Milano location
14 apr H. 15:00

Opening "INVITAMI NOTTE A IMMAGINARE LE STELLE"
The Shoah Memorial in Milan and the artist Marcello Maloberti unveil the plaque of the monumental neon installation, entitled INVITE ME NIGHT TO IMAGINE THE STARS, which the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan donated to the Memorial and the city on Remembrance Day in 2023. The neon phrase traces the handwriting and history of Senator for Life Liliana Segre. The brightness of the inscription lights up the square that houses it, becoming both physically and metaphorically light in the dark. On the occasion of the unveiling of the plaque, the Memorial opens its doors for a free tour inside the Binario 21 spaces, subject to availability. Reservations at: events@memorialeshoah.it
#OPENING
Memoriale della Shoah di Milano location
14 apr H. 15:30

"Ground Break" for kids
Creative journey for children aged 6 to 10 in the Nari Ward exhibition
Pirelli HangarBicocca location
14 apr H. 16:00

Vernissage of CON-CRETA bellezza
Vernissage with demonstration of clay modeling and live portraits.
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Laboratorio di Cromografia location
14 apr H. 16:00

Special opening "In the Secrecy of a Home" with the author
In the Secrecy of a Home (2024) concludes the Domestic Fragments trilogy (2004-2024) and brings Alessandro Vicario face to face with places unknown to him. It was a collector who suggested that he photograph a villa that belonged to some of her relatives. As the author himself tells us, "after the first hours of disorientation, I began to get in tune with the environment. The signs and traces of those distant lives became somehow familiar to me. I understood their universal dimension". The exhibition, curated by Elena Carotti and presented by Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea presents a selection of 7 photographs at a scale of 1:1, while the complete project of 18 photographs will be published by ELR Edizioni Le Ricerche in Locarno (Switzerland), with a critical text by Gigliola Foschi (May 2024).
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Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea location
14 apr H. 16:00

Guided tour "Ground Break"
Guided tour for adults inside the Nari Ward exhibition.
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Pirelli HangarBicocca location
14 apr H. 16:00

Breadscapes - Wheat Vitality Museum
Public presentation of the project for the video-environment Wheat Vitality Museum, with the presence of the artists and curators. It is a prototype of a new learning context dedicated to the theme of Bread, in the symbolic place of the production of the first agricultural bread in the city of Milan, the ancient cradle of European agriculture by the Cistercian monks, in Chiaravalle. It is the project of a new nomadic hybrid space that reuses a first voyage naval container, which assembles a mobile bread-making laboratory, fully equipped with professional ovens, with a narration space set up with VR and AR projectors and viewers: a video environment on the " vitality of the grain". Bread is not investigated as an object here. What we propose is rather a relationship path with bread.
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Padiglione Chiaravalle location
14 apr H. 16:00

Pino Pascali
Fondazione Prada presents at the Godard cinema a conversation between Mark Godfrey, curator of the "Pino Pascali" exhibition, and the artist Peter Fischli, followed by the screening of the documentary "Pino" by Walter Fasano.
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Fondazione Prada location
14 apr H. 16:00

LA CITTÀ A-VENIRE
Guided tour of the places of the City to come with works and installations by Paolo Ferrari. Extraordinary opening of reception homes for unaccompanied foreign minors.
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CASE OLTRE LA-SOGLIA location
14 apr H. 17:00

Guided tour "NETES MAI"
NETES MAI, curated by Jessica Tanghetti and supported by Cortesi Gallery, is Maurizio Donzelli's solo exhibition hosted at LDR22, the new boutique showroom that the well-known celebrity matchmaker and art collector Lucio Di Rosa has opened in Milan. With references to the history of the city, and the patterns that emerge from it and from the artist's practice, the exhibition celebrates and reinterprets, in contemporary terms, the art of tapestry. The exhibition also takes a look at the future by drawing inspiration from the past: NETES MAI is the invitation to 'fear not' depicted on the Trivulzio tapestries based on drawings by Bramantino and kept at the Castello Sforzesco, part of the artist's references.
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LDR22 location
14 apr H. 18:00

SuperSidera. Visione di Hildegard von Bingen. Performance by Phoebe Zeitgeist
Performance device for live-electronics, body and voice. A score played between material and immaterial where the sound, managed in quadriphony, will give shape to a timeless viewing experience, from the reworking of Hildegard's musical experiments (Simphonia harmonie celestium revelationum and Ordo virtutum). The performance was born from the study of the most subtle aspects of nature and creatures that Hildegard von Bingen was able to elaborate in a prophetic vision of history and in relation to a constant divine and visionary inspiration. Hildegard von Bingen is linked to the figure of Bernardo da Chiaravalle, founder of the Abbey of Chiaravalle, an important center of attraction and irradiation, which becomes the setting for SuperSidera. Performance by Phoebe Zeitgeist Conceived and directed by Giuseppe Isgrò With Francesca Frigoli and Giulia Dalle Rive Sound architecture and live performance Shari DeLorian Danilo Vuolo scene and costume consultancy Dramaturg Francesca Marianna Consonni Project manager Marta Bertani
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Padiglione Chiaravalle location
14 apr H. 18:30

The Brave New World
On Sunday 14 April, to close the Milano Art Week at BASE, the performance The Brave New World by LIMINALSTATE will be held. The duo – made up of artists and architects Saverio Villirillo and Gregorio Comandini – draw inspiration from the novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley, bringing universal themes such as human nature, technological progress and the meaning of happiness to the stage, offering the public a profound and engaging reflection on the future of humanity. The performance (in collaboration with Survival International) will take place within an ad hoc scenography characterized by technological architecture: a dense network of cables that connects performance devices, diagrams and projectors with abstract images and video footage of indigenous tribes , sound environments composed of environmental recordings, artificial voices and fragmented melodies.
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BASE Milano location
14 apr H. Su ap

KOSMOS Andrea Francolino / Michele Guido
The KOSMOS project by Andrea Francolino (Bari, 1979) and Michele Gudio (Aradeo, 1976) at The Open Box presents as an evocative dialogue on universal themes. During their careers, the two artists have always reflected on ideas, concepts and metaphors relating to the natural world and to scientific research, to the analysis of contexts and territories, to genetics and the architecture of natural elements in relation to individual and collective human activity, to the fragility of nature and culture.
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The Open Box location
14 apr H. The i

Il giardino di Artemisia
Women are the common thread to which Fabbrica del Vapore dedicates many of its activities this year. Gender equality is in fact the thermometer of every democracy. Feminicides, lack of wage equity, female unemployment are symptoms of a malaise that must otherwise be turned into widespread social well-being. Even within Vapore d'estate, Art and Design Week, there is no shortage of insights into a theme that must be pervasive. Mezzadri's work presents itself as a threshold and connective tissue between the different programs that characterize the month of April in Fabbrica del Vapore. His contribution is welcome, like Crespi's painting "Revolution is woman", it is a useful contribution, because males being spokespersons for a need for equality is an indispensable part of change." (Maria Fratelli) With "The garden of Artemisia", a site-specific installation, curated by Matteo Pacini in collaboration with Jessica De Simone, Matteo Mezzadri addresses the theme by reflecting on a historical episode that will end up having many repercussions on the disadvantaged condition of women in society, a theme still dramatically relevant today. This is the lawsuit filed in 1612 by the painter Artemisia Gentileschi against Agostino Tassi, which went down in history as the first rape trial of which written memory is preserved through trial records. Artemisia Gentileschi spent her life fighting to assert her freedom of expression in a world that left very little space for women, especially in the artistic field, and publicly denouncing her rapist was an act of great courage which, as still too often happens today, saw the defendants take the stage accused of having had provocative attitudes towards the accused. Artemisia never recanted, not even under torture; “It's true, it's true, it's true” is the cry of pain recorded in the State Archives of Rome that Artemisia addressed to the accused while her fingers were broken, irrefutable proof, according to the legislation of the time, of the veracity of the his accusations. Although Tassi's sentence to exile proved to be a farce since, thanks to his position, he never left Rome, unlike Artemisia who was forced to do so due to the uproar of the trial, this courageous denunciation remained in history as the first true act of rebellion against the suffocating patriarchal culture. In dealing with the complex topic, especially as faced by a man, Mezzadri makes use of materials, language and visual grammar typical of his poetics, therefore no didactic or narrative quotation, but an under-the-radar evocation that brings into dialogue, or rather , the materials and structural geometries that will give shape to the work are in conflict. The large cube of fired bricks, severe and absolute, hides and confines something inside with the excuse of protecting it; it is the paradigm of a system of power and rigid, unchangeable social conventions, a mechanism decoded by men for the benefit of men which for too long has left no room for women to affirm their freedom and dignity as human beings. The Artemisia garden symbolizes resilience, the continuous rebirth that starts from the bottom like all the greatest revolutions in the history of humanity. A break in the pattern that overturns the physical space and, as in the case of Artemisia, also the historical one.
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Fabbrica del Vapore location
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