Exhibitions

Friday - Sunday 10:30 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 19:00

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.
Spazio Munari location
Wednesday - Friday 08:30 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00

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.
HUB ART location
Monday - Friday 10:00 - 13:00 and 15:00 - 19:00

Exhibition of François Morellet
On the occasion of the gallery's thirty years of activity, A arte Invernizzi inaugurates with the Annely Juda Fine Art gallery in London an important anthological exhibition of François Morellet (1926-2016), one of the most significant international artists of the 20th century, created in collaboration with Estate Morellet. The anthological exhibition, made up of more than forty works, is divided into a double parallel path that winds through the two galleries: exhibition spaces in which the artist has created numerous personal exhibitions and interventions, in long and fruitful decades of collaboration; on six occasions at Annely Juda Fine Art in London, where the artist has exhibited since 1977, and on eight occasions at A arte Invernizzi in Milan, the first of which in 1994 on the occasion of the gallery's inaugural exhibition (Dadamaino Morellet Uecker) , which marks its thirtieth anniversary this year.
A arte Invernizzi location
Tuesday - Saturday 15:00 - 19:00

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.
ABC-ARTE location
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 17:30

Un mare di carta
Un mare di carta is the first solo exhibition in Milan by the artist Valeria Manzi and offers a particular linguistic combination of poetry, graphics and design. The exhibition presents the production of particular sculpture-objects of variable dimensions, made with different paper supports and placed within a path in which the performance and the installation produce a particular contamination between sound-word, gesture-material and video document.
Acquario Civico location
Monday - Thursday 10:30 - 20:00. Saturday - Sunday 10:30 - 20:00

Feeling good. Caimi design for the future
ADI Design Museum – Compasso d'Oro presents a cultural project dedicated to the brand Caimi, which, 75 years after its foundation, reflects on its working method, updates it, and proposes it as a development model for the near future. "Feeling Good. Caimi design for the future" is a non-celebratory exhibition, a narrative focus on a working method that is the true DNA of the company. It aspires to draw a taut line, not looking to the past but sketching a new path to continue contributing to the Made in Italy design system. Curated by Aldo Colonetti, philosopher, historian, and theorist of art and design, along with the architect and researcher Valentina Fisichella, the exhibition offers visitors an articulated journey in synesthetic environments that house objects, historical videos, artworks, products, documents, and drawings. Architect Matteo Vercelloni’s exhibition design, which gives multiple dimensions and forms to the exhibition experience, along with the multimedia and live performances of the Ex Anima collective, enrich the visit with meanings and levels of interpretation; restoring the contamination between industrial design and art, the synergistic relationship between science and design, and Caimi's signature design reformism. Since its inception, the company has consistently operated within a reformist project, reflecting non-ideological or revolutionary perspectives on the major themes of our contemporary world. Beyond products and documents, the project is, in fact, a story of ideas illustrated not only in the exhibition but also in a book and a podcast dedicated to the themes and actors of the brand's history: entrepreneurs, designers, researchers, artists, and communicators. Through the interventions of the curators and protagonists, in a format reminiscent of an essay, the book inserts the evolution of the brand and its family history, successfully conducted for three generations, within the framework of seventy-five years of design culture and social life in Italy.
ADI Design Museum location
Monday - Thursday 10:30 - 20:00. Saturday - Sunday 10:30 - 20:00

ORIGIN OF SIMPLICITY. 20 visions of japanese design
The essentiality of forms, the extreme attention to details, the originality of each piece, all within the continuity of tradition, combined today with technological and engineering research that develops new materials and recycles waste materials, are characteristics that make Japanese design an international icon. The exhibition "ORIGIN of SIMPLICITY. 20 Visions of Japanese Design" offers a cross-cutting perspective between design and craftsmanship to understand the origins of the concept of simplicity, which can be interpreted as emptiness (ku), space or silence (ma), sometimes read as poverty (wabi), and consumption related to use over time (sabi), as well as asymmetry, indefiniteness, and imperfection. These concepts have roots in various philosophical thoughts belonging to this culture, from Zen Buddhism to Shinto animist thinking, which are almost opposed to Western rationality. An unprecedented research conceived by the curator Rossella Menegazzo, an expert in art history and Japanese culture at the University of Milan, with the graphic and exhibition design by the Japanese designer and curator Kenya Hara, who envisioned the exhibition path as a forest to walk through. Each tree groups together works that express the same quality, presenting unique combinations of works by different designers and artisans, through which the theme of simplicity is explored by assigning keywords that aid understanding. The exhibition features over 150 works, many never presented in Italy before, designed by the most representative names in modern and contemporary design, shaping the history of Japanese design from the Sixties of the twentieth century, as well as representatives of the latest generations, less known to the international public. All selected objects emphasize craftsmanship, which traditionally combines techniques, materials, and forms passed down from generation to generation through workshops, historical laboratories, and masters considered "living national treasures" in intangible heritage. A centuries-old wisdom reveals a preference for natural materials such as wood, paper, metal, ceramic, and textile, and a sensitivity to the characteristics of each, blurring the distinction between a design or art product.
ADI Design Museum location
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 and 15:00 - 19:00

Female Figures
The classic great theme of the "female figure" explored through a special and captivating selection of Italian and European mannequins and sculptures from the 16th to the 20th century, made in the most diverse materials such as wood, wax, marble and bronze. A short journey animated by three-dimensional works which, moving between the universe of the sacred and the profane, aims to highlight some of the infinite formal and iconographic solutions developed by artists over the last five centuries, in an attempt to represent one of the subjects in a personal way. older and more recurring artistic ones such as that of women, in an often subtle and sophisticated balance between respect for tradition and the search for an unprecedented modernity.
Alessandro Cesati location
Monday - Sunday 10:30 - 21:00

Sailing Beyond Time
The project is a modern reinterpretation of Homer's Odyssey. A journey that ideally retraces the epic adventures of Odysseus, through the eyes of two international artists. Anna Pennati, known for the success of her exhibitions in Frankfurt and Tokyo. Daniela Gullotta, already an artist at Marlborough Fine Art in London. Paintings and sculptures in an exhibition curated by Luca Temolo Dall’Igna, in a unique project that will start at Almach Art Gallery in Milan and end at the prestigious venue of Tiers Gallery in Tokyo. During Milano Art Week, extraordinary evening opening and live interviews with the artists.
Almach Art Gallery location
Wednesay - Sunday 14:00 - 19:00

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.
Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck location
Monday - Sunday 10:00 - 18:00

A Milano. Emilio Scanavino. Opere e documenti degli anni ’50.
A Milano. Emilio Scanavino. Opere e documenti degli anni ‘50 presents original documentary material that tells about the artist's activities in Milan from the early 1950s, and a selection of drawings, ceramics and art works from that period.
Archivio Scanavino location
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:30

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.
Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti location
Wednesday - Saturday 14:30 - 18:30

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.
ArtNoble Gallery location
Wednesday - Sunday 16:00 - 22:00

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.
Associazione Tramateriarte location
Monday - Friday 09:00 - 11:00 and 15:00 - 16:00 and 17:00 - 18:00. Saturday - Sunday 10:00 - 13:00 and 15:00 - 18:00

Esposizione opere BG Art Gallery

At the BG Training&Innovation Hub (Via Achille Mauri, 8, 20123 Milano MI, you will have the opportunity to explore a selection of works from Banca Generali’s contemporary art collection and Francesco Vezzoli’s new art work.
BG Training&Innovation Hub location
Sunday 11:00 - 20:00

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.
BiM Milano Bicocca location
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00

Italian Hidetoshi Nagasawa 1969-2018
BUILDING is thrilled to present, from April 4th to July 20th 2024, a solo exhibition by Hidetoshi Nagasawa, curated by Giorgio Verzotti. The exhibition, with an anhological perspective, documents the artsist's entire activity, from the videos that record his early performances to the large-scale sculptures that often involve daring balances - which have been his most typical feature at least since the 1980s -, up to the works of his very last period, exhibited here for the first time after his death. The exhibited selection is intended to emphasize two characteristics of Nagasawa's work: his attention to the relationship between the artwork and architecture, and his almost utopian vision of an apparently weightless sculpture, to the point that it is suspended in space and it seemes light event when it reaches monumental dimensions.
BUILDING location
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00

Opus liber
BUILDING TERZO PIANO is pleased to present, from April 4th to May 18th 2024, Opus liber [book-artwork], a group show curated by Angela Madesani, which features a relevant selection of book-artworks, mainly published in a single copy, chronologically produced over the last sixty years. The show represents a journey within the history of art through the medium of the book, which, for the artist, becomes a pivotal moment of his speculative and operative practice. Opus liber is a very special exhibition that offers different perspectives on the reading of the book-artwork, created only under the artist's responsibility, and made with different materials, from paper to fabric, through different languages: from Indian ink drawing to painting, from cutter engraving to typewriter, and from printing to embroidery.
BUILDING TERZO PIANO location
Wednesday - Friday 09:30 - 18:00. Saturday 11:00 - 18:00

Prototipi e sculture
Opening of the exhibition with the exhibition of works by Gianpietro Carlesso, an artist born in Bolzano in 1961, who lives and works in Cormons. Carlesso hand-sculpts intricate abstract compositions with an organic shape, carving them from a single piece of marble. Tactile and large, yet delicate and impactful, these impressive sculptures demonstrate the importance of material and process, showcasing the true mastery and skill of the artist. In 2008 he represented the city of Milan at the Venice Architecture Biennale with the monumental work Equilibrio Dinamico Della Città in Divenire.
Cardi Gallery location
Thursday - Sunday 10:30 - 18:30

Else Space, Es#1
Francesco Bertelé proposes Carrozzeria900 for the spaces, a work that develops between the reality of the physical space and the digital virtual environment. This is the third appointment of Else Space after the presentation to the public in October 2022 at the Madre Museum in Naples and the exhibition for Waiting Room at the Jonas Center in Trento. The exhibition opens with a performance event in which the public can participate in an exclusive and immersive way through a VR viewer supplied in the exhibition space, or remotely via personal devices by connecting to the link https://linktr.ee/elsespace.In The sculpture ES#1 is also presented in the exhibition, created by photogrammetric scanning of a biological specimen. A work between natural and artificial, composed of three distinct identities but related to each other through links of translation and manipulation of form. The first form is biological, the exoskeleton of an insect part of the artist's private cabinet de curiosités. The second form is its virtual simulacrum, the result of digital scanning and modeling. The third is the synthetic form, which the artist Natartribe modeled by hand starting from the silver casting of the 3D model derived from the original biological exoskeleton of the insect, and which can be grafted under the skin, thanks to the prototype steel implant surgical created by body mod artist Bruno Valsecchi.
Carrozzeria900 location
Tuesday - Friday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:30 - 18:00. Saturday 14:30 - 19:30

Symbiosis
Symbiosis, in biology indicates a type of coexistence between organisms of different species, animals or plants, called symbionts. In the case of Fossati's and Steiner's artistic practice, "symbiosis" happens with the natural materials (spores and mycelia) they made use of in the creation of the works. Materials that have risen to co-creators of the works themselves. Nature acts as a co-creator. In the natural environment they collect, they source, spores and mycelium. Of the collected matter they effect a transformation that they return to the environment, no longer only natural, in a form whose benefits cannot be immediately verified. The two artists dialogue from drawings of mushrooms made by Testori in 1987
Casa Testori location
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 19:00

To romanticize with indecision

Cassina Projects is pleased to present To romanticize with indecision, the group show curated by artists Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele. Ben Hamouda and Gabriele, whose works are also on display, invite Andrew Birk, Anne De Vries, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, and Bradford Kessler to reflect on uncertainty and contradictions as generative forces of the creative process.
Cassina Projects location
Wednesday - Sunday 10:00 - 19:00

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.
CFAlive location
Wednesday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:30

Lehmann Maupin @ Circolo
Lehmann Maupin announces its new seasonal space in Milan, opening April 12, timed to the opening of both Miart and Salone del 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.
Circolo Art location
Monday - Friday 09:00 - 19:00

Wandering out into this great unknown
Particularly attentive to the complex, dichotomous and long-standing question of human nature, without ever neglecting its origin, the group exhibition 'Wandering out into this great unknown' focuses on that Nietzschean axiom that ' it is very important that as few men as possible reflect on morality'. Here, words, opinions and conjectures no longer matter, for what matters most is to be able to give free rein to one's nature, whether already externalised or still concealed, in all its rushing purity, so that one never has to hide again. Appealing to that Dantean oration according to which: "consider your seed: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge ", thanks to which Ulysses persuaded his trusty companions to continue their voyage into the unknown, the four invited artists, each in his or her own way, strip the aesthetic value of beauty and ugliness of all those moral meanings acquired throughout the history of Western civilisation, relying exclusively on the most beneficial qualities of man, in a bodily insurrection made up of both summits and abysses.
Cittadella degli Archivi location
Wednesday - Friday 11:30 - 13:30 and 14:30 - 19:30. Saturday 14:30 - 19:30

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.
Clima location
Monday - Thursday 14:00 - 18:00

BANANA
Carlos Gasparotto's 'Banana' exhibition for CONDOMINIO expands on the themes already explored in the book of the same name, released in October 2023: the motivations and consequences behind political measures, such as the so-called ley chorizo law that in 2010 threatened the right to strike and demonstrate throughout Panama. The project is not just a critique, but rather an in-depth reflection on the history of Western consumption and the intricate consequences of our market choices. Outside the pages of the book, for the first time, 'Banana' takes shape in a storytelling narrated in the CONDOMINIO space through printed images and branded graphics, evoking the product itself and its fascinating industrial history.
CONDOMINIO location
Monday - Friday 14:00 - 19:00

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.
Corals Art Gallery location
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 18:00

Arnaldo Pomodoro: il movimento possibile
Cortesi Gallery is pleased to present, in its Milano space, the exhibition Arnaldo Pomodoro: il movimento possibile, a fascinating journey into the extraordinary career of one of the most significant artists of our time. The show, curated by Alberto Salvadori and realized in collaboration with the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, presents a path that wants to explore the less-known side of the artist, presenting not only the imposing, gilded sculptures that represent the elementary forms of geometric solids but also exploring the constant relationship of his research with the different formats and scales of representation as well as the consequent ongoing relationship with goldsmith and architecture.
Cortesi Gallery location
Thursday - Sunday 11:00 - 19:00

Vessel (no) Vessel
On the occasion of Milano 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.
ESH Gallery location
Tuesday - Saturday 16:00 - 20:00

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. Artists: Monia Ben Hamouda, Milica Jankovic, João Gomes Gago, Ingrid Bjørnaali, Ronnie Danaher, Domenika Georgiou.
Fabbrica del Vapore location
Wednesday - Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

Ugo La Pietra. Abitare è essere ognuno a casa propria
The exhibition collects research works relating to the urban territory of Milan, carried out between the sixties and today. Works that testify to La Pietra's ability to decode and therefore read the contradictions and constraints of our urbanized society, in order to achieve the habitability of the collective space. On display: two-dimensional works to be placed inside the equipped space, an external "urban living room" installation, a banner with the words "to live is to be at home everywhere".
Fabbrica del Vapore location
Monday - Saturday 11:00 - 13:00 and 16:00 - 18:30

Art Design
Solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Giuseppe Veneziano. The theme of this new series 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, sacred and profane. Veneziano's visual imagery has always been populated by saints, art characters and strip book heroes, but his intent is not to demystify them for mockery, on the contrary it is to humanize them to make their symbolic value more effective. New myths appear in these artworks, the iconic objects of Design: we discover, for example, that Vermeer's "The Reader at the Window" owns Ettore Sottsass's Carlton bookcase. To complete the exhibition, some of the design objects depicted in the works.
Fabbrica EOS location
Wednesday - Sunday 15:00 - 19:00

the hearing eye and the speaking ear
Fanta-MLN is pleased to present “the hearing eye and the speaking ear”, Margherita Raso’s second exhibition at the gallery. By stressing the limits of specific techniques, the artist challenges the notion of the artwork as a fixed entity questioning what happens when things change skins, how information travels, and what is left or born anew when it does. The artist’s works exist in a tension between visibility and concealment, appearances and omissions, exploring the temporal and spatial relationship with history, its traditions, raptures and contemporary perceptions.
Fanta-MLN location
Staurday - Sunday, h. 24

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.
Fondazione Arthur Cravan location
Tuesday - Thursday 09:00 - 12:30 and 15:00 - 18:30

Mino Ceretti: research on identity between signs and figures
From 25 January to 28 March 2024 at the Corrente Foundation in Milan, the exhibition Mino Ceretti: a research on identity between signs and figures, curated by Giorgio Seveso, is open to the public. The exhibition presents thirty-eight sheets from different years, painted or pastel drawings by a Milanese master who never stopped researching. With two topics, the identity expressed in the portrait and that sought in the signs of real or invented alphabetic writing, protagonists of the general theme that has always driven his investigations. A theme made up above all of open questions, curiosity and intellectual fervor about the relationship between symbolic representation and reality.
Fondazione Corrente ONLUS location
Wednesday - Sunday 12:00 - 19:00

Un Palazzo in esilio
Un Palazzo in esilio (A Palace In Exile) is the third chapter of the Transmundane Economies project by Theodoulos Polyviou. In the 1950s, amidst the ethnically and nationally charged atmosphere of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III spearheaded the construction of a new Archbishopric Palace. This competition, along with the public debate surrounding it, highlighted the role of architecture in national identity during British rule and set a precedent for the island's architectural future. The exhibition serves as a dialogue between real and speculative histories surrounding the competition. Employing video, sculpture, drawings and installation, it examines how mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion within the construction and symbolism of the palace fostered a sense of community and belonging, while simultaneously marginalizing Cypriot minority groups through sidelined narratives.
Fondazione Elpis location
Monday - Friday 10:00 - 17:00. Saturday 11:00 - 12:00

Francesco Somaini. At the origin of the sacred
The theme of the "sacred" in Somaini's work, not only sculptural, arises from a reflection on processes of regeneration, transformation, death and rebirth. With respect to the different phases of his creative activity in which subjects linked to it emerge, some nucleri of works inherent to this idea are presented here. The visitor is led to discover the series of Martyrdoms (1958-61), which express the motif of the cross with a secular-existential approach linked to the post-war cultural climate (the theme taken up again in the cycle of the Carnifications of an architecture of the '70), and the Great Altarpiece of Life and Death, an unfinished installation from 1967-68, reconstructed here for the first time on the basis of recently found documents and drawings.
Fondazione Francesco Somaini Scultore ETS location
Thursday - Saturday 12:00 - 19:00

Alexander and Sasha Brodsky exhibition Piazza Senza Nome and guided tours of the archives of the historical Galleria Milano
The new Galleria Milano Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to preserve and promote the history of Galleria Milano, one of the oldest art galleries in Italy, and to develop research projects on contemporary art. The two-storey building hosts an exhibition space on the first floor, where the current exhibition by Alexander and Sasha Brodsky, based on the encounter between utopian architecture and the visual arts, is on show. On the ground floor is the library and archive of the historic gallery, which documents its surprising and pioneering history in the art world, from Sixties to 2022.
Fondazione Galleria Milano ETS location
Wednesday 14:00 - 18:00. Thursday - Sunday 12:00 - 19:00

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.
Fondazione ICA Milano location
Wednesday 14:00 - 18:00. Thursday - Sunday 12:00 - 19:00

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.
Fondazione ICA Milano location
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 19:00

QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince
From 8 February to 21 April 2024, Fondazione Luciana Matalon is hosting the exhibition “QUEEN UNSEEN | Peter Hince”. The exhibition traces the extraordinary human and professional journey of Queen and its charismatic front-man, through a rich selection of memorabilia and photographs taken by the road manager Peter Hince between 1977 and 1986. The exhibition is completed by the presentation of rare footage of the band's most famous performances.
Fondazione Luciana Matalon location
Wednesday - Sunday 10:00 - 20:00

Vulci. Goods for manking. Goods for gods
Vulci. Goods for manking. Goods for gods is dedicated to one of the most dynamic cities of southern coastal Etruria, a strategic center in the trade routes between Etruria and the Mediterranean. The pivotal theme is artisnala production, with particular attention to the influence of imports from the eastern Mediterranean on the activities of local workshops. The exhibition guides visitors through the history of this ancient city, retracing significant historical events, from Vulci's origins to its ultimate subjugation to Rome. Foru works by Giuseppe Penone enrich the exhibition, maintaining a strong dialogue between ancient and contemporary art, a distinghuish feature of the Fondazione.
Fondazione Luigi Rovati location
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 14:00 - 20:00. Saturday, Sunday 11:00 - 20:00

Miranda July: New Society
Curated by Mia Locks, “Miranda July: New Society” is the first solo museum exhibition dedicated to Miranda July’s work. Spanning three decades, from the early 1990’s until today, the exhibition includes early short films, performance, and multimedia installations. The exhibition debuts F.A.M.I.L.Y (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You), a multi-channel video installation July made in collaboration with seven strangers via Instagram. The exhibition uses F.A.M.I.L.Y as a jumping off point to consider related ideas in earlier performative and collaborative works.
Osservatorio Fondazione Prada location
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 19:00

Et les yeux pour me dire
Armin Boehm paints fictitious and spatially impossible scenes, based on urban layouts and architectural constructions that are intended to evoke the inner human condition. In an interview by Gaston La-Gaffe in FAD Magazine, the artist stated: “The painted surface is vulnerable like our skin and looking at it reaches our emotional system in a very direct way". Due to his tiring personal journey he is attracted by the painted surface, capable of dealing with the unconscious and the emotions of the human being. The images, which sometimes they appear to be aerial views or ever-receding landscapes, exploring the idea of natural and artificial boundaries in geographical surfaces.His most famous works are large in size, composed using complex combinations of materials including fabric, oil paint, pure pigment, metal and sand. Most of Boehm's paintings have dark palettes and depict night views with small light sources.
Francesca Minini location
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 19:00

She, the cat’s mother
Galerie Gregor Staiger is pleased to present “She, the cat’s mother”, Lucy Stein’s second solo exhibition at the Milan gallery space. It will feature a new body of paintings and tile works, conceived specifically with the gallery in mind. Drawing from Celtic studies, European mythologies and feminist theory, each piece offers a glimpse into a world where ancient wisdom and contemporary discourse intersect. “She, the cat's mother”, an old English expression invoking a dialectic between the universal and the particular, serves as a guiding thread, reminding us to question any suggestion of a universal female experience. As the viewer approach the works, the interplay between the seen and the unseen, the known and the mysterious, the conscious and the unconscious become progressively clearer. Carl Jung’s inquiry on primitive myths and the modern man - displayed in the essay “Man and His Symbols” from 1964 - provides the backdrop for Stein’s work, which seeks to bring to the surface a subterranean psychic world. Talismanic elements such as eyes, moons, birds, and ancient iconography are recurrent in the exhibition. Within this realm of symbols, the artist also pays homage to the ancient Goddess culture of Cornwall, invoking the wild spirit and natural landscapes of the region, with local minerals used as glazes. Themes of transformation and primal instinct resonate with archetypal figures and folkloric narratives. Shame, for instance, features a pubescent medieval princess grappling with intrusive thoughts represented by a monstrous duckling emerging from her hair (body) / head (mind). This evocative imagery prompts reflection on the complexities of femininity, echoing the artist's investigations into female rage. Water emerges as a powerful metaphor for the unconscious mind, as seen in Brigid, where melted sea glass suggests the dilations of the all-seeing female eye.
Galerie Gregor Staiger location
Wednesday - Friday 14:30 - 19:00. Sunday 14:30 - 19:00

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.
Galleria ARTRA location
Saturday - Sunday 10:30 - 18:00

Bar Stories on Camera. Galleria Campari / Magnum Photos
The exhibition Bar Stories on Camera. Galleria Campari / Magnum Photos, until Tuesday 30 April 2024 at the Galleria Campari and curated by Galleria Campari, presents 90 photographs from the 1930s to the early 2000s that tell the story of the world of the bar through 48 images from the Galleria Campari Historical Archive and 42 shots by 24 international photographers from the Magnum Photos agency. Connected to the exhibition, Campari presents Campari Art & Cocktail experience, an event dedicated to the history of Campari communication and of mixology: a masterclass led by a Campari Academy bartender including a guided tour of Galleria Campari, preparation of the perfect cocktail and final aperitif.
Galleria Campari location
Wednesday - Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

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.
Galleria Ciaccia Levi, Paris - Milan location
Monday - Saturday 10:30 - 14:00 and 15:00 - 19:00

Richard Orlinski: The Wild Odyssey
Deodato Arte presents "The Wild Odyssey" the first Italian solo exhibition of Richard Orlinski, renowned French artist. "The Wild Odyssey" is the opportunity to enter the "Orlinski Galaxy" and admire some of the most famous and iconic sculptures of the French artist, who builds bridges between different worlds, going beyond borders. Orlinski's works pay homage to the power of nature and animals: gorillas, elephants, panthers and crocodiles invade the viewer with their strength. The exhibition, which can be visited free of charge from 22 March to 20 April, will be inaugurated to the public on 21 April with a special evening in the presence of the artist.
Galleria Deodato Arte location
Monday - Friday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 17:00

Claude Rutault
Galleria Federico Vavassori has the pleasure of presenting the personal exhibition of the French artist Claude Rutault (1941-2022), exhibiting historical and even more recent works. His works come to life following the "dé finitions / méthodes", a regulation written by the artist which explains how to update his works; When hung on a wall, his canvases take on the same color as the wall.
Galleria Federico Vavassori location
Wednesday - Friday 14:30 - 18:30. Saturday 11:00 - 18:00

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.
Galleria Martina Simeti location
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 19:00

CHUNG EUN-MO
Galleria Monica De Cardenas presents an anthology dedicated to Chung Eun-Mo, a Korean painter who has lived in Italy since 1987 and in Milan since 2019. In his works Chung Eun-Mo (*Seoul 1946) has transferred his profound knowledge and inclination to Modernism from the beginning, in a continuous search for new pictorial geometries in which original spatial structures coexist and are nourished in the comparison with new relationships between different colors also actively involving the space around the canvas. Like Malevič and Albers, Chung Eun-Mo has always been fascinated by mathematical and chromatic harmonies and the changing effects of light reflected in them. The exhibition features 20 works created from the early 1990s to today.
Galleria Monica de Cardenas location
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 19:00

elegy
Last September, we welcomed Gabrielle Goliath into our group of artists. Her tumultuous, profound, and open practice explores themes that have always been close to our hearts, and her rigorous research consistently offers new perspectives on contemporaneity. The collaboration with Gabrielle marks a new and significant chapter for our gallery. Her solo exhibition, titled "Elegy", will open on April 5th. A long-term commemorative performance, part of a journey initiated by Gabrielle Goliath in 2015, emblematic of her work, during a period of great importance for the artist - for now, in complete confidentiality: she will be part of Venice Biennale 2024.
Galleria Raffaella Cortese location
Tuesday - Saturday 14:00 - 18:00

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.
Galleria S. Fedele location
Tuesday - Friday 10:00 - 13:00 and 15:00 - 19:00

Concetto Pozzati ‘60
This marks the first project in collaboration with the Concetto Pozzati Archive, and the gallery is honored to renew its joint commitment with the Archive to enhance the presence of the artist in the Italian and international art scene. The gallery's participation in fairs and institutional events, both public and private, aims to continue the work initiated by the master. The gallery exhibition will focus on a body of work from the 1960s, a crucial period for Concetto Pozzati, who participated in the 1964 Venice Biennale and documenta in Kassel, establishing himself as one of the protagonists of Italian Pop Art. The exhibition will also feature some mirror works, appearing in the artist's works from 1967 onwards: silhouettes of pears, tomatoes and human footprints, reflecting ironically on the surrounding space, emphasizing the duality of painting made of fiction and nature, manual skill, and intellectual research, public and private language.
Galleria Secci location
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 18:00

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.
Gió Marconi location
Tuesday - Saturday 15:00 - 19:00

Smuovere l’angolo apocalittico verso la speranza
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.
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting location
Thursday - Friday 09:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 18.00. Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 17:00.

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.
Istituto Italiano di Fotografia location
Monday - Wednesday 11:00 - 18:00. Thursday 11:00 -20:00. Friday 11:00 - 22:30

A film in two parts, the second of which never ends
For her solo show, Jiajia Zhang - who works with photography and video - creates an expansive installation that transforms the exhibition space into a site where private, even intimate, and public spheres overlap. The artist is interested in the standardizing structures that shape us within these spaces: whether it’s the bollard-like stone elements that guide our movements in public spaces—appearing in the show as a kind of ready-made—or the standardized processes encountered when learning a foreign language, as depicted in Jiajia’s new video work.
Istituto Svizzero location
Wednesday - Saturday 10:30 - 19:00

Seahorse
Nicolas Party's exhibition features new pastels depicting aquatic fauna, portraits and forests, all immersed in a cosmic space imbued with a sense of movement and evanescence. The monumental voluptuousness of the motifs previously treated by the artist, absorbed by geometric volumes and homogeneous surfaces with saturated colours, gives way to a dream world dominated by fluid atmospheres. Seahorses and octopuses, belonging to the sphere of mythological marine creatures, float in surreal aquatic environments; several species of moths flutter in clouds of golden steam. In the forest series, the artist focuses on the waving foliage of the trees, while the new portraits, in which iridescent flows of steel gray refer to Victorian photography, evoking the nostalgic memory of bygone eras and the fleeting nature of earthly life.
kaufmann repetto Milano location
Wednesday - Friday 10:00 - 17:00. Saturday - Sunday 16:00 - 19:00

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).
Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea location
Monday - Sunday 10:00 - 19:00

April fishes: from sea to paper
Painted ichthyology. Creatures of the deep sea come to the surface, painted on newsprint, just as the nature of human beings surfaces every day in the news offered by the media. The works on paper in the exhibition are by Claudio Jaccarino and Cesar Reglero (Italy-Spain). Twelve framed works of recent production will be exhibited while 100 works collected in a portfolio will be available for the public's free consultation, dating back to the last two years, testifying to the artists' research path from the depths to the surface.
Laboratorio di Cromografia location
Wednesday - Sunday 15:00 - 19:00

Europe, paths of peace
Lusia Brzyska encountered painting at a mature age, and from that moment on she was an assiduous, attentive, voracious attendee of art courses. Of Polish nationality and transplanted to Italy, in recent years she has painted with great intensity, putting together a large body of works in her chosen technique: oil. She explored different styles, with a desire to retrace the path of a lifetime (from Milan back to the Tuscan period, and even before that to her Polish origins - which date back to the period before the fall of the wall), reconstructing emotional bonds and offering a map of Europe seen from the East: an idea that was first distant, then grasped with hope or disappointment, relief or fear, but always with great strength.
Laboratorio di Cromografia location
Monday - Friday 15:00 - 19:00

Beauty of Terracotta
Inauguration of a new cultural space dedicated to terracotta, ceramic and raku ceramic sculpture. Exhibition of terracotta and sculptures by Teresa Ricco and the participants of the Officina delle Impronte. Manipulating clay is a spontaneous creative activity that naturally brings us back to our imagination. It gives rise to ever-changing discoveries, emotions and creations. It generates intense emotions and facilitates transformation, both external and internal.
Laboratorio di Cromografia location
Monday - Tuesday 15:00 - 18:00

How Class Kills (The Mental Hospital Condition Photographed by Carla Cerati and Gianni Berengo Gardin)
March 11th will mark the centenary of the birth of Franco Basaglia, the inspiration for law 180 of 1978, known as the Basaglia Law, which provided for the progressive abolition of mental asylums in Italy. The mental institution, before Franco Basaglia and the anti-institutional psychiatric movement, was a place of segregation and coercion, a forced asylum for the poor, the outcasts, the marginalized, a brutalizing prison in which the sick were dehumanized and reduced in contention, deprived of rights and excluded from society, without a perspective of recovery and social reintegration. In 1969 Dying of class was released in bookstores: a photographic book edited by Franco Basaglia and Franca Ongaro, with photographs by Gianni Berengo Gardin and Carla Cerati, which unequivocally showed the world, thanks to the vivid crudeness of the images, what the condition of the mentally ill people inside mental hospitals, becoming a symbolic book that marked a fundamental stage in the process of liberation and dismantling of the mental hospital institution. For many years, Dying Class was unavailable in bookstores. Precisely this year, the Assayer has chosen to bring it back to light, in its integrity, respecting the original intentions of the curators and the intrinsically political nature of this project, because - we believe - mental illness is today as yesterday an expression of social injustice and of the inequalities that it produces: Basaglia's ideas, within the distortions of our society, now more than ever, are becoming a new utopia.
Laboratorio Formentini location
Monday - Friday 09:30 - 17:30

Letizia Battaglia. Stories of Freedom Regained
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.
LCA Studio Legale location
09:00 - 18:00

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.
LDR22 location
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 13:00 and 14:30 - 19:00

Overall
The poetics of Paolo Icaro - one of the protagonists of the artistic research of the Sixties, close to the experience of Arte Povera - is characterized by the continuous overcoming of the idea of sculpture as an object, to transform it into a process, an experience. Sculpture thus becomes more a need for existence than for form, which gives life to images of gravity and lightness, of matter and abstraction, of measure and excess. Deconstructing the language of sculptural action, Icaro conducts a constant investigation into space and its perception, and into the infinite plastic and metaphorical possibilities that different materials offer. "Sculpture comes true when I give substance to the idea that resides in mental space" declared the artist.
Lia Rumma location
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 19:00

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.
LUPO – Lorenzelli projects location
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 19:00

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.
M77 location
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 18:30. Sunday 11:00 - 18:00

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”.
MASSIMODECARLO location
Tuesday - Sunday 15:00 - 19:00

Forever Young: The Dorian Gray Syndrome
The digital experience showcases how today's society implements innovative technological solutions to create real-time and ever-changing representations of self. A journey in the relentless pursuit of the ideal and ever-youthful self-representation. Through interactive experiential installations, the artists explore new imagery in representing the theme of longevity, specifically through three perspectives: The Dorian Gray Paradox: the dream of eternal youth represented by the possibility of beautification in the digital world; The Digital Beyond: the frontiers of the beyond and the possibility of eternal life offered by the digital; and The Digital Human: the new dimensions of identity and the physical body in digital space and time.
MEET Digital Culture Center location
Tuesday - Sunday 09:00 - 18:00

BRUT Milano
The exhibited works narrate a creative dimension that no longer wants to tell the world, but in the Heraclitean way "making the world." To deal with "irregular" art is to climb over the fences of what is the territory of conventional art, with its rules, with its creative dynamics, with its paths and stages consolidated in centuries of history of patronage and taste. One thus lands in that territory unplowed by official culture, full of unusual, absurd,free flowers. The creative act of the outsider belongs to another dimension. There is something of ritual in their operation, awe moves their gestures. The audience is offered the opportunity to move within these very personal worlds belonging to the participants, who for three years now, have been working in the Milan atelier of BRUT A cura di Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini.In this exhibition the inner worlds of the artists, characterized by a cognitive disability-neurodiversity, are narrated without filters. The 9 participants of the Milanese Atelier BRUT tell their story, revealing in their psychic spontaneity the original essence of their being. Stefano Gironi - 08.12.1989 “Kilometri di Arte” Fabio Moroni - 27.01.1960 “Forme e visioni dall’assoluto” Ivonne Jessica Cabrera - 27.06.2000 “Lady Watercolor” Gaetano Cervasio - 22.12.1998 “Esplosioni di colore” Sveva Landi - 30.11.2989 “ oltre il minamalismo” Eugenia Venturini - 03.08.1998 “Rainbow power” Martina Galipò - 04.03.1998 “Concept ART” Luca Verzino - 21.05.2002 “Grafite hb specialist” Francesca Zita Rosaria Burana - 07.10.1962 “Architetture in movimento”
Milano Luiss Hub location
Monday 14:30 - 19:30. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 09:30 - 19:30. Thursday and Saturday 09:30 - 22:30

EXPOSURE. Art, culture, fashion in and out of the showcase
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.
MUDEC – Museo delle Culture location
Monday 14:30 - 19:30. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 09:30 - 19:30. Thursday and Saturday 09:30 - 22:30

Martin Parr. Short&Sweet
“Martin Parr. Short&Sweet”, an exhibition curated personally by the artist, that traces over fifty years of career, starting with his early works in black and white, to the themes most dear to Parr - from 'beach lives' to tourism.
MUDEC – Museo delle Culture location
Monday 14:30 - 19:30. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 09:30 - 19:30. Thursday and Saturday 09:30 - 22:30

Tattoo. Tales from The Mediterranean
“Tattoo. Tales from The Mediterranean”, an exhibition project that tackles tattooing from the historical, anthropological and cultural point of view, analyzing the forms, meanings and functions that this ancient global phenomenon has assumed over the millennia.
MUDEC – Museo delle Culture location
Monday 14:30 - 19:30. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 09:30 - 19:30. Thursday and Saturday 09:30 - 22:30

Picasso. The metamorphosis of the figure
“Picasso. The metamorphosis of the figure” traces the very rich production of the great Pablo Picasso, from his early works to the later ones, in light of his love for the 'primordial' artistic sources, for primitive art.
MUDEC – Museo delle Culture location
Monday - Sunday 15:00 - 19:00

Socks and chickens
Two artists, two women who, each with their own path, come to use the self-portrait as a place of observation over the reality. The supports are often large, so as to allow the representation of the subjects in a real scale: on bare canvases, as often the figures that take shape on them are. Stripped, disjointed, the forms are a version of themselves, marked by a few brushstrokes and a lot of life. From the space of the painting, in a sort of realism, such as an alternative to the fetishistic imagery that the mainstream of social media and homologation offers us as a canon of beauty, the artists' self-portraits, instead of trying to attract us to be looked at, they look at us, without mercy but also without judgement, as the most authentic art does. April 9 at 7.30pm – Anna Nutini, talk interview with the artist. April 11 at 7.30pm - Rachele Cicerchia and Anna Nutini, the double interview. April 13 at 5.30pm – Closing party.
MUNIMOR location
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 19:30. Thursday 10:00 - 22:30

HARIS EPAMINONDA. VOL. XXXI: Futurism Drama
On the occasion of Milano Art Week, Museo del Novecento hosts “VOL. XXXI: Futurism Drama”, site-specific project by Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda. The exhibition, promoted by the Henraux Foundation and curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti, opens in the prestigious Gallery of Futurism an unprecedented dialogue between the masterpieces of the early twentieth century, a selection of works by Medardo Rosso - a reference figure for the Futurist avant-garde - and the research of 'artist. Through a series of installation interventions, straddling works of art and exhibition elements, Epaminonda offers us a symbolic journey full of possibilities, in which the subtle tensions between the exhibited works, the materials and the architectural space offer unusual perspectives to viewers. Futurist Drama focuses on visual codes that connect genres, languages and temporalities to offer a complex and poetic reflection on our existences and the relationships between past and present.
Museo del Novecento location
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 19:30. Thursday 10:00 - 22:30

MAGALI REUS - OFF SCRIPT Premio Arnaldo Pomodoro per la scultura
On the occasion of Milano Art Week 2024, the Museo del Novecento presents a focus-exhibition dedicated to Dutch artist Magali Reus, curated by Federico Giani, winner of the 7th edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize. In her practice, Reus accumulates images and objects of everyday life, distorting and reinventing them through the construction of meticulous sculptural puzzles, in which craftsmanship is mixed with the application of new technologies. Embracing in some ways the legacy of Pop Art’s gaze on the banality of the everyday, Reus isolates and alienates a reality that is recognisable at first sight, opening up, before the viewer’s eyes, new perspectives of approach and understanding of the world around us.
Museo del Novecento location
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 19:30. Thursday 10:00 - 22:30

MASBEDO. Ritratto di Città (20/20.000Hz)
The Museo del Novecento of Milan presents Ritratto di Città (Portrait of a City), a project by Masbedo (Iacopo Bedogni and Niccolò Massazza) by Cloe Piccoli, which is the result of the artists’ participation to the tender Italian Council XI of the Ministry of Culture. Ritratto di Città, a large, multi-channel audio-visual installation, speaks of Milan’s cultural rebirth: from the electronic music of the Studio di Fonologia RAI (RAI studio for musical phonology) to the inventions of Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna, the gaze widens to architecture (BBPR), art (Lucio Fontana), cinema (Michelangelo Antonioni), and graphics. The tale spans eras and disciplines and reaches as far as the contemporary, focusing on innovation, vision and the democratic spirit of Milan.
Museo del Novecento location
Sunday 10:00 - 19:30

ARCHIVIALE_001. Dal 1940 a oggi - Istantanee dalle Gallerie d'arte di Milano
Archiviale_001 is the first chapter of a research that intends to retrace over seventy years of history of private galleries in Milan with their artistic choices, international relations, avant-garde events, and encounters with artists. The exhibition features photographic images, invitation cards, small catalogues, papers and correspondence. This project, promoted by the Milano Art Community, the network that brings together the most important galleries and institutions in the city of Milan, and hosted in the spaces of the Archivi del Novecento, on the 4th floor of the Museo del Novecento, is also the first step in a collaboration between public institutions and the most interesting private collegiate initiatives.
Museo del Novecento location
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 17:30

Illustreted botany. 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.
Museo di Storia Naturale location
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 18:00. Wednesday special opening till 21:00

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.
Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini location
Monday - Sunday 09:30 - 17:30

Fantasmagoria Callas
Teatro alla Scala presents the exhibition Fantasmagoria Callas, dedicated to the soprano Maria Callas (New York, 2 December 1923 - Paris, 16 September 1977), curated by Francesco Stocchi with exhibition design by Margherita Palli, at the Museo Teatrale alla Scala until Tuesday 30 April 2024 as part of the CALLAS 100 programme. The exhibition develops over five stages with each chapter entrusted to a different form of artistic expression. Through the interpretations of designer Giorgio Armani, musician and composer Alvin Curran, contemporary artists Latifa Echakhch and Francesco Vezzoli, and director Mario Martone, the figure of Maria Callas emerges in a choral and multidisciplinary narrative, conceived especially for the occasion.
Museo Teatrale alla Scala location
Wednesday - Saturday 14:30 - 19:00

Death by GPS
Salvatore Vitale in Death by GPS examines how biases in automation impact relationships between individuals, labor, and social structures, resulting in new forms of exploitation. The first part of the work draws parallels with historical struggles of the working class against machines, focusing on the region of Gauteng, South Africa, and the connection between the gig economy, mining industry, and technological sabotage. The project is a story that spans from the depths of South African gold mines to the rooms of freelancers, where the technological age is unfolding. Death by GPS takes on a transmedia narrative format that incorporates documentary, fiction, and generative storytelling with the involvement of various freelancers hired through online gig platforms to create content. The project has been presented for the first time at MAST Bologna in 2023.
Ncontemporary location
Monday - Sunday 12:30 - 18:30

Istantanee
OPR Gallery is pleased to present Istantanee by Ettore Tripodi, a series of suspended drawings, subjects stolen from an unconscious dimension, a fantastic projection of what has been, what could have been, what has happened in an unexplored place. The exhibition consists of works on paper, paintings on wood and 2 large-format Jacquard fabrics. Accompanying the exhibition is the book Ettore Tripodi - Drawings 2022/2023 published by Magütt publishing, with an essay by Sofia Silva, which collects all the drawings in the exhibition, while in the room there is a text by Anna Dumont, fabric historian, who introduces the work on Jacquard fabrics, relating them to painting.
OPR Gallery location
Wednesday - Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

Die Vier von der Tankstelle
Ordet is pleased to present Die Vier von der Tankstelle, an installation by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys. The show is titled after a 1930 German film operetta. Any impression of breezy entertainment, however, is dispelled by the intermittent tune coming from a black sedan: parts of Beethoven’s Nineth and Seventh Symphonies recorded by Wilhelm Furtwängler echo eerily in the space, as the car’s lights switch on. The Mercedes Benz and its occupants, four uniformed mannequins of hybridized German Shepherds, are not of the fairytale variety. Haunting, motionless but ravenous, they look on the hunt but also on the run. Their motives may not be spelled out, but no disclaimer or warning is needed to recognize they’re not done.
Ordet location
Thursday - Sunday 11:00 - 20:00

PASOS, the Spanish collection walks with the Contemporary

PASOS is a stimulating dialogue between the Spanish artistic expression of the Sixties and the contemporary language of urban art embodied by the Orticanoodles collective. The abstract works of Antoni Tàpies, 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.
OrMe Ortica Memoria location
Wednesday - Monday 10:00 - 19:00

Pino Pascali
Fondazione Prada presents an extensive retrospective dedicated to Italian artist Pino Pascali. The project aims to examine the innovative scope of Pascali’s work, particularly his sculpture, which, over the last five decades, has had a substantial impact on several generations of artists and critics and continues to attract the growing attention of an international audience. The exhibition, curated by Mark Godfrey, is divided into four sections, each presenting a unique perspective on Pascali’s work, and unfolds through three buildings of the Milan venue. The set design, conceived by 2×4, includes forty-nine works by Pino Pascali from Italian and international museums and distinguished private collections; nine artworks by prominent post-war artists; selected photographs and a video portraying Pascali with his works.
Fondazione Prada location
Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday 10:00 - 19:30. Thursday and Friday 10:00 - 22:30

Adrian Piper. Race traitor
The first European retrospective in over twenty years dedicated to Adrian Piper (1948, New York), winner of the Golden Lion award as best artist at the 2015 Venice Biennale. The exhibition traces over sixty years of career, with important international loans from the most prestigious museums, including MoMA and Guggenheim, New York; MoMA, San Francisco; MCA, Chicago; MOCA, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London. Piper raises often uncomfortable questions about politics, racial and gender identity, and asks people to confront truths about themselves and the society in which they live. The concept of permanent struggle against racism, xenophobia, social injustice and hatred is the core of her philosophical, artistic and activist practice.
PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea location
Wednesday - Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

Loris Cecchini, The air between the leaves
On the occasion of the Milano Art Week, the usual appointment with LCA Studio Legale’s Law is Art! project returns to Palazzo Borromeo. This year, the artist Loris Cecchini will present «The air between the leaves», the result of his most recent production, offering a glimpse into the continuous transformation of nature and the complexity of the relationships between art, science and environment. Inspired by the seasonal cycles and the organic forms of nature, Cecchini explores the concept of growth and change through a combination of colours, shapes and multiform structures. An exhibition by LCA with the collaboration of Continua Gallery, Antonini Milano, Kruso Kapital, ARTE Generali and Apice.
Palazzo Borromeo location
Monday - Saturday 11:00 - 18:00

Brand New Love
Peres Projects is pleased to present Brand New Love, an exhibition of new paintings by Daniele Toneatti (Venice, 1989), which marks the artist's debut with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in Italy. Blurring boundaries is central to Daniele Toneatti's artistic practice. In Brand New Love figuration dissolves into abstraction and technical virtuosity coexists with intuitive and visceral languages. The oil paintings, reminiscent of crude charcoal sketches, stand in a state of permanent incompleteness, alongside other completed and subsequently reworked works. The very process of creating paintings is atomized, with each of its constituents receiving equal attention and importance. Like the pieces of a puzzle, drawing, color and subject are reworked in myriad combinations, while the artist's studio seems to infiltrate the exhibition space. Influenced by postmodern approaches and theories, for which interpretation transcends creation, Toneatti cultivates a singular practice of appropriation. The artist collects found images, ranging from archival photographs to art historical references, and paints them by remixing and sampling them into a complex body of work. In just before they split (2023), Toneatti paints a photograph of a framed painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In his interpretation of the French Rococo painter's composition, blurred and rough brushstrokes emphasize the transitory and sensual nature of the embrace, obscuring the identification of the source image. In Classic Impression (2023), however, Toneatti recreates a photograph of an overweight boy sitting on the beach through a romantic lens. Here, his delicate brushstrokes and pastel color imbue the image with a tenderness and charm reminiscent of the work of post-impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. In doing so, Toneatti engages with a line of artists who imagine a renewed way of making art by reformulating, restaging and reinterpreting existing images to produce new contexts and meanings. “Underneath a picture there is always another picture,” wrote Douglas Crimp in October in the spring of 1979, reflecting on the Pictures exhibition he curated two years earlier, introducing a new generation of artists later known as the Pictures Generation – a recurring source of interest to Toneatti. Just as the Pictures Generation recognized or reacted to the growing influence of mass media in shaping culture, Toneatti's practice resonates with current patterns of visual consumption in today's image economy. His body of work engages with the ubiquity of images in contemporary life, emphasizing their circulation across the current porous borders and hierarchies that once gave structure to cultural ecosystems. A permeability also evident in the formal diversity of the work itself. Brand New Love also illustrates the infinite stylistic variety of Toneatti's practice and the fluidity with which he moves from one pictorial language to another. As well as a reflection on our current image-driven society, Toneatti's work is a personal and passionate dialogue with the history of art. Each work captures an encounter with an image, translated onto the canvas through different pictorial approaches, free from pre-established formulas or solutions. The artist, who treats each painting like a page in a diary, excavates and records the images that remain in his memory, similar to retinal persistences, sometimes burying them under new layers of images. Works such as Don’t Look Now (2023) and Romantic Painting (2023) present a dense palimpsest-like surface, layered with a multitude of intertwining motifs that simultaneously erase and complete; in other works, such as flight of ideas (2023) and hard truths (2023), the canvas acts as a sketchbook, where the same motif is repeated and revised several times. In Toneatti's work, process and product have the same importance. His emphasis on the fragmented and unfinished harks back to Raphael Rubinstein's concept of "provisional painting", described in an article of the same name published in Art in America in 2009: works that seem "random, rushed, tentative, incomplete, self-nullifying". Embracing doubt and uncertainty rather than monumentality and permanence, Toneatti takes a humble approach. This is particularly evident in Venetian Red (2023), a painting derived from a photo of a photo of Cindy Sherman, taken during a retrospective of the American artist's work. The expanses of red hues that dominate much of the canvas are actually Toneatti's fingers partially but deliberately obscuring the camera lens. This image, captured furtively, holds a moment of devotion and shyness. In the exhibition space, the paintings are arranged in groups, encouraging free associations of images and ideas. Invisible links connect the works, forming mysterious constellations as the artist reveals his journey through visual culture and art history. While Toneatti's images exude a sense of déjà vu, many of the references he draws from remain elusive. This feeling of uncertainty releases the images from their limits, allowing the viewer to connect the works with his own mental image archive. Through processes of selection, assimilation, reformulation, Toneatti interrupts the flow of images that overwhelms us every day - Brand New Love embodies a renewed and even romantic way of absorbing images, inviting us to reflect on our personal iconographic pantheon. Brand New Love is Daniele Toneatti's first solo show with the Peres Projects gallery. Toneatti debuted with a solo exhibition at Open Forum in Berlin in 2023: entitled Das Ding, the exhibition explored the nihilism of images, questioning the flattening of culture and our aesthetic experiences.
Peres Projects location
Wednesday - Sunday 10:30 - 20:30

Ground Break
The retrospective presents, for the first time, a combination of works that interweaves Ward’s exploration of performativity and collaborative projects. With a particular focus on time-based media works, including video, sound, performative sculptures, and installations, the exhibition delves into over thirty years of practice, presenting early seminal and historical works as well as new productions. The narrative unfolds through the seminal large-scale installations, originally realized by Ward between 1996 and 2000 for Ralph Lemon’s choreography Geography Trilogy. The notion of performativity animates the exhibition itself, which will be marked by a program of live collaborative actions running throughout the show.
Pirelli HangarBicocca location
Wednesday - Sunday 10:30 - 20:30

Call and gather. Sisters. Moths and flame twisters. Lioness bones, snakes and stones.
The exhibition brings together the largest body of works ever presented by Chiara Camoni and, together with a series of new productions, gives life to an architecture of collectivity and memory, whose forms are inspired by the Italian gardens of the late Renaissance and the ancient amphitheaters. The symmetrical and radial design of the floor plan creates paths and environments that divide the space into areas where visitors can linger. Among the works, a great selection of terracotta sculptures, such as the anthropomorphic figures from the Sisters series. Alongside sculptural islands, such as the ceramic floor tiles and the curtains made of vegetal prints, visitors will find new figurative works in onyx, leccese stone, and aluminum that draw on the vocabulary of medieval bestiaries.
Pirelli HangarBicocca location
Wednesday - Sunday 14:00 - 19:00

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.
Playlist by Galleria Gianpaolo Abbondio location
Thursday - Saturday 15:00 - 19:00

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'.
Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea location
Tuesday - Saturday 15:30 - 19:30

All these waves
Renata Fabbri is pleased to announce, All These Waves, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Dominika Kowynia (1978, Sosnowiec, Poland). Interweaving literature and current events with fragments from her own personal history, her artistic research is driven by issues related to the contemporary Polish context: feminist struggles, migration issues, social inequities as well as the climate crisis. Drawing from personal experience the artist highlights the legacy of a patriarchal culture still deeply rooted in society. Evocative of a plural and perpetual motion, the title brings to mind the strength of feminist struggles throughout history as well as today’s battles for the acknowledgement of one’s rights.
Renata Fabbri location
Tuesday - Saturday 15:00 - 19:30

Stefano Perrone - Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere
RIBOT presents the first solo gallery exhibition of Stefano Perrone (Monza, 1985, lives and works between Milan and Paris). His painting investigates the relationship between the individual and society and concomitant interactions with the community. It privileges the representation of everyday subjects or objects taken from images found on the web or social networks belonging to unknown individuals and subsequently reworked. The works created for this exhibition have arisen out of a careful reflection on the image and its other meaning. They are not to be understood in terms of representation but as an opportunity to open a broader discussion around the uncontrolled spread of photographic files online, usually through search engines or social media channels, and their paradox.
RIBOT Gallery location
Wednesday - Friday 14:00 - 19:30. Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 19:30

STANLEY BROUWN - This way
Born in Paramaribo, Suriname, in 1935, and based in Amsterdam, Stanley Brouwn was a conceptual artist known for his minimalist and thought-provoking works that often challenged traditional notions of art and perception. Brouwn's artistic practice was deeply rooted in exploring the relationship between space, measurement, and human interaction. One of Brouwn's most famous series is his "This Way Brouwn" project, which began in the late 1960s. In this ongoing endeavor, Brouwn would approach people on the street and ask them to provide directions from one location to another. He would then document their responses, often in the form of handwritten notes or maps, without any additional commentary or interpretation. Through this process, Brouwn sought to investigate the subjective nature of spatial perception and the influence of individual experience on how we navigate and understand the world around us. Another significant aspect of Brouwn's practice was his interest in the concept of measurement. He frequently explored ideas related to distance, scale, and proportion, often using simple materials such as wood, paper, cardboard, and string to create his works. In doing so, he questioned the standardized systems of measurement that govern our understanding of space and encouraged viewers to reconsider their own perceptions of distance and size. Stanley Brouwn’s "Measurements" works delve into the intricacies of quantification and human interaction with space. Through this series, he invites participants to provide their own measurements of objects and distances, challenging traditional notions of accuracy and objectivity. By ceding control to others, Brouwn highlights the subjective nature of measurement and the influence of personal perspective. His minimalist approach prompts viewers to reconsider their relationship to quantification, emphasizing the role of individual experience in shaping our understanding of the world. Brouwn's work also engaged with broader philosophical and existential themes, such as the nature of existence and the relationship between the individual and the collective. By inviting participation from others and emphasizing the role of human interaction in the creation and interpretation of art, he challenged the conventional idea of the artist as a solitary genius and instead emphasized the collaborative nature of creative expression. Throughout his career, Brouwn remained committed to exploring the fundamental aspects of human experience through his art, often using simple gestures and materials to provoke profound questions about perception, space, and the nature of reality. His work continues to influence contemporary artists and thinkers, serving as a reminder of the power of art to challenge assumptions, provoke thought, and expand our understanding of the world.
Settantaventidue location
Wednesday - Friday 14:00 - 19:30. Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 19:30

Hanne Lippard

The exhibition brings to Milan the visual and acoustic research of Norwegian artist Hanne Lippard, whose practice is rooted in the confluence between the written word and the verbalized word.
Settantaventidue location
Wednesday - Friday 14:00 - 19:30. Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 19:30

Architettura Radicale
Exhibition that retraces - through original documents - the experience and utopian experimentation carried out between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s by groups and individual architects in Italy, England, Austria and Germany. Artists involved: Paolo Soleri, Gianni Pettena, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Archizoom, Gruppo UFO, Gruppo 9999, Haus-Rucker-Co, COOP-Himmelblau, Archigram.
Settantaventidue location
Saturday - Sunday 16:00 - 20:00

Catching The Ray
Catching The Ray draws inspiration from the works of Jules Verne and Eric Rohmer, exploring the fleeting beauty of ephemeral moments. Yue Zhao and Sante Saponaro transform found objects into vehicles of memory, inviting viewers on a journey of discovery. The exhibition, influenced by Michel Serres' insights into virtual and physical realities, addresses existential fluidity and interconnections. VR technology enriches the experience hosted in Renato Arrigo's architecture studio, paying homage to the artistic and architectural processes. Inside the space, the boundaries between reality and imagination dissolve, the atmosphere, light and sound encourage introspection. You are invited to immerse yourself in a realm where nostalgia and possibility, memories and perceptions merge.
Studio Renato Arrigo location
Tuesday - Friday 15:00 - 19:00. Saturday 11:00 - 19:00

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.
Tempesta Gallery location
Da martedì a sabato 11:00 - 19:30. Domenica 11:00 - 18:00

Shifting skins
Three artists who shed their skin, creating interfaces with new worlds, magnetic and glacial surfaces or bark-like cortexes that are then contorted to reveal an unexpected and alienating identity. They shed their Skin, the epidermis, the surface that contains us, offering only a glimpse of our exterior selves to the world. Matthew Allen (New Zealand, 1981) challenges matter: packed onto the surface, graphite powder becomes a solid, almost mirror-like skin. Inma Femenía (Spain, 1985) manipulates digital images and video surveillance footage, transferring them onto PVC or aluminum plates, which she then crumples up. Lyz Parayzo (Brazil, 1994) builds disturbing sharp objects such as razors, which are capable of tearing the skin, but also necessary in its defence.
The Flat – Massimo Carasi location
Monday - Friday 16:00 - 18:00. Special opening Saturday and Sunday 10:00 - 18:00

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.
The Mill location
Thursday - Sunday 11:00 - 19:00

Komorebi a Milano
Finesettimana.Milano opens to the public for events related to art and design only on weekends, from Thursday evening to Sunday, to highlight the dual nature of the space intended as a place of fusion between different art forms. Thomas Zangaro Studio is an interior and exhibition design studio located between the emerging and innovative district of Scalo Romana and the Bocconi area. The studio, of the young designer under 35, deals with interior design and installations and has collaborated to important events related to fashion and design. The new headquarters is a 200 m2 open space, whose reinforced concrete skeleton with brutalist features enters into dialogue with furnishings designed by the studio, design icons or pieces found on construction sites or villas renovated by the studio, all developed on a purple background, distinctive of the image of the studio. Here we find new contemporaneity in the aesthetics but also in the concept of the studio. The space in fact aims to make the work of art dialogue with the design object and vice versa within the Finesettimana.Milano project. On the occasion of the inauguration of its new spaces in Milan and for the launch of the new initiative, the studio hosts its first event on the occasion of the next edition of Milan Art Week . In collaboration with the Susanna Orlando gallery of Pietrasanta, the Komorebi exhibition in Milan by Susanna Canosa, an established Spanish contemporary artist, will be presented with the exhibition of recent works in which the artist presents, through her works, the evocative theme of komorebi, the effect created by the light that filters through the leaves of the trees and which symbolically represents man's natural attraction towards rays of light. To allegorically represent this connection between light and lightness, Canosa's paintings will be related to antique furnishings and accessories and collectible design that communicate the transparency, lightness and suggestion expressed by Canosa's paintings, creating a harmony between work of art and object. The works will be exhibited in all areas of the studio, including those specifically dedicated to interior design. The exhibition and the studio spaces will open to the public during Art Week 2024.
Thomas Zangaro Studio location
Thursday - Saturday 11:00 - 19:00

COPLEY
The exhibition Copley celebrates the American artist William N. Copley (1919-1996), known for being an important link between European Surrealism and American Pop art. A versatile artist, writer gallerist, patron, publisher and collector, Copley challenged the artistic conventions of his time and anticipated the developments of contemporary art, from the Pop Art of the 1960s to the return to figuration of the 1980s, with his “private mythology” of personal images and characters: men in suits and bowler hats, nude and semi-nude women, prostitutes, cars, embracing lovers and everyday objects extracted from their context. The exhibition will showcase a selection of about twenty paitings and drawings executed between the 1950 and the 1970s.
Tommaso Calabro location
Saturday - Sunday 11:00 - 20:00

Alessandro Mendini
As part of their cultural partnership, Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are presenting a dual homage to Alessandro Mendini, the architect, designer, artist and theorist who left his mark on the revolutions in thought and behavior of the 20th century and the new millennium. From April 13 to October 13, 2024, the Cubo space hosts the retrospective exhibition, Io sono un drago. La vera storia di Alessandro Mendini (I Am a Dragon. The True Story of Alessandro Mendini), staged in collaboration with Elisa and Fulvia Mendini - Archivio Alessandro Mendini, curated by Fulvio Irace, with exhibition design by Pierre Charpin, while the Impluvium space, from April 16 to October 13, 2024, displays an installation conceived, designed and directed by Philippe Starck.
Triennale Milano location
Friday - Sunday 14:00 - 19:00

TOILETALEXPAPERPRAGER
TOILETPAPER APARTMENT is born on number 8, Via Balzaretti, transformed in 2022 into a real urban installation thanks to TOILETPAPER's dreamlike graphics. The new space will inaugurate with an original project resulting from the encounter between the visionary world of TOILETPAPER and the cinematic imagination of Alex Prager, an American artist, director and screenwriter. TOILETALEXPAPERPRAGER stems from the volume of the same name, published and distributed by Damiani. The eleven images signed by the artist and eleven conceived by TOILETPAPER become the protagonists of an unexpected installation. The eye-catching aesthetics, strong colors and surreal setting, merging with the atmosphere of domestic spaces, create a visual short-circuit, characteristic of TOILETPAPER's visionary world.
TOILETPAPER APARTMENT location
Sunday 11:00 - 19:00

Tomorrow
For the new 2024 opening season, Fondazione Augusto Rancilio will host a monographic exhibition of the works of artist Jacques Martinez in the sumptuous rooms of the exhibition wing on the ground floor of Villa Arconati. It will be an itinerary distributed over five rooms in which the artist will accompany the visitor in the discovery of his art from his beginnings to his maturity. The selection of works encompasses his entire artistic career from figuration to abstraction, testified by different techniques: oil on canvas, bronzes, plaster, collage, engravings. The exhibition will be organised simultaneously in three other exhibition venues: Venice, Nice and Lugano, significant locations for the creative experience of our protagonist. The number four can also be found in Jacques Martinez's themes, which will be brought together at Villa Arconati: abstraction, the human figure, landscape and still life.
Villa Arconati location
Tuesday - Saturday 10:30 -19:00

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 and works, 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
VISTAMARE location
Monday - Sunday 12:00 - 15:00 and 19:00 - 23:00

BBZR23, disegno murale temporaneo di David Tremlett
In a perfect balance between traditional and alternative exhibition spaces to the art system, Tremlett's wall drawings, of which BBZR23 is also part, have inhabited, temporarily and otherwise, various locations around the world. Geometric shapes, lettering, straight lines, oblique, curved, broken, spots of color. This is what makes up this infinite eccentric and ironic series, inaugurated by the artist starting from the Seventies and which has become his main expressive technique since the Eighties. In the creation process, in addition to using paint, Tremlett spreads pastel dust on the wall, working the pigments with his bare hands. Color is therefore conceived as matter, in an echo that looks both to the tradition of fresco and wall painting and to sculptural practice, the artist's training language. For these reasons, wall drawings are placed in a hybrid territory, between abstract representation and presentation of reality. In the case of Zazà Ramen, the intervention is double, regular and asymmetric at the same time.
Zazà Ramen location

Micol Assael - Dusty Landscapes. Hans Schabus - Porto di Mare
Solo exhibition Micol Assael; solo exhibition Hans Schabus.
ZERO... location