The countless images that have come down to us from Ancient Egypt-sculptures, reliefs, paintings-are vivid records of the society that produced them. They are immediately recognizable images because they reflect a precise artistic canon, deeply linked to the Egyptian civilization's vision of the world, both human and divine.

The aim of the exhibition held at the Civic Archaeological Museum is to present Egyptian art and some of its specific features through a selection of artifacts from its collection.

Curated by Sabrina Ceruti

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his death, Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia in collaboration with the MUNCH Museum in Oslo, present a prestigious cultural event, a large monographic exhibition dedicated to one of the most beloved and popular artists of the last century: Edvard Munch.

During his artistic career, Edvard Munch explored questions of perennial existential significance and challenged the expressions of art.

In this large exhibition, Munch’s art will be explored from 1880 until his death in 1944.

The exhibition brings together 100 works including paintings, drawings and prints all from the MUNCH Museum in Oslo.

Curated by Patricia Berman

Press Office: Arthemisia - Salvatore Macaluso | sam@arthemisia.it - press@arthemisia.it

Everything has already been said about Picasso, it seems. No other artist has aroused so many debates, controversies and passions. But how many people know what obstacles the young genius had to face when he first arrived in Paris, in 1900, without speaking a word of French?

The exhibition Picasso the foreigner presents more than 90 works of the artist, as well as documents, photographs, letters and videos, and offers a new and bold interpretation of the artist, which addresses urgent issues of our present. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach and the extraordinary research in the archives of the French police, and the Picasso Museum in Paris, Annie Cohen-Solal reveals this fascinating story from numerous unpublished documents. The original idea for the project was born by Annie Cohen-Solal, scientific curator of the exhibition with special curatorship of Cécile Debray, president of MNPP.

Curated by Annie Cohen-Solal, Cécile Debray.

Press Office: Giulia Zanichelli giulia@giuliazanichelli.it

Photo: 

Pablo Picasso, La Baie de Cannes - Cannes, 1958 Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP212  Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau

On the occasion of the celebrations of the artist Alberto Martini, organized in 2024 to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of his death, in collaboration with the Oderzo Cultura Foundation which will kick off the celebratory events in the artist's hometown, the Castello Sforzesco exhibits an important nucleus of Martini's works preserved in the civic collections.

The exhibition investigates the theme of the allegory of death and the danse macabre, addressed by Martini in some important works, such as L'Albo della morte (1894-1896), an exceptional cycle of drawings, of clear Nordic inspiration, to go as far as the famous postcards of the European Danse Macabre, published by the publisher Longo of Treviso on the occasion of the First World War.

Martini's works are accompanied by precious examples of European graphics, also kept in the Castle's collections, dedicated precisely to the theme of the Totentanz.

Curated by Paola Bonifacio e Alessandro Botta

Press Office: Villaggio Globale International

The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective anthology in an Italian museum celebrates the Franco-American artist known for her big, colourful Nanas, but also reveals her busy side through a different interpretation of her work.

Throughout eight sections, the exhibition project narrates Niki’s artistic life from the beginnings to her latest works. This diachronic yet strongly anthological rhythm retraces her personal life through the colorful, polymorphic, round, and maternal world of her Nanas (and more), revealing a much less colorful and maternal personal life. During her own life, this artist has often had to destroy in order to process grief, then she had to rebuild, breaking the mould through her unconventional artworks, sending messages through her intense provocations, and thus leaving a lasting mark on the art world.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Niki Charitable Art Foundation, this exhibition brings 110 works to Milan, among which a dozen large-scale works, and also one set up in the outdoor courtyard of the Museum, along with a selection dresses from Maison Dior, recalling her modeling past in the beautiful photos portraying her, while simultaneously telling the public, about a very “pop” personal vision of art, perceived as a path toward eclectic research, transformation and affirmation of beauty and femininity.

Curated by Lucia Pesapane 

In collaboration with Niki Charitable Art Foundation

Ufficio Stampa: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com 

One hundred years after his birth, an exhibition pays homage to Enrico Baj (Milan 1924 - Vergiate 2003), the master of Dames and Generals, of Meccanoes and Body Snatchers, an irreverent genius, a light-hearted anarchist, a pataphysical artist, told for the first time through the words of the great writers of the 20th century who intertwined their words with his lyrical and caustic images.

From André Breton to Raymond Queneau, from Marcel Proust to Italo Calvino, from Edoardo Sanguineti to Umberto Eco.

Curated by Chiara Gatti and Roberta Cerini Baj

Press Office: ilaria.maggi@electa.it - monica.brognoli@electa.it

From October 10th, 2024, to February 2nd, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan presents "Ugo Mulas. The Photographic Operation," one of the most extensive and detailed retrospectives dedicated to one of its most important authors. Curated by Denis Curti and Alberto Salvadori, it offers an innovative perspective with its main narrative focus on the city of Milan, captured in its many facets.

Over 250 images, many of which have never been exhibited before, including precious vintage shots, documents, books, and films, trace the entire production of Ugo Mulas: from theater to fashion, from portraits of international artists and key figures of American Pop Art to intellectuals, architects, and personalities from the world of culture and entertainment – such as Dino Buzzati, Giorgio De Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Arthur Miller, Eugenio Montale, Louise Nevelson, Gio Ponti, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giorgio Strehler, Andy Warhol, and many others – spanning cities to nudes and jewelry.

Curated by Denis Curti and Alberto Salvadori

Press Office: Marsilio Arte ufficio.stampa@marsilioarte.it; Giovanna Ambrosano – g.ambrosano@marsilioarte.it

The exhibition explains the extraordinary expressive power of Art Brut, of this artistic and revolutionary vision from which many contemporary artists have drawn inspiration and which continues to be vital today, in the belief that art is for anyone a voice to be resonated through the expression of unexpected beauty. Born in the heart of a post-war Paris, far from the halls of art museums and the refined salons, the Art Brut, defined and theorized by the French artist and theorist Jean Dubuffet, is a ‘raw,’ ‘pure,’ ‘unfiltered’ art.

Through a four-part itinerary, in a preliminary space, the exhibition presents a body of works and documents that place the invention of the concept of Art Brut in a historical perspective, relative to Jean Dubuffet’s work as an artist, writer and collector.Next is a selection of works from his explorations, demonstrating the breadth and quality of his research in this field before the 1971 donation. A third set of works from the five continents is related to the themes of body and beliefs (both recurring in Art Brut). Because of their subjects and origins, these works and authors particularly resonate with the collections of the Museum.

The exhibition project, specially conceived for MUDEC – Museo delle Culture, is made possible thanks to the cooperation with the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, owner of an extraordinary collection of over 70,000 works, originated from the core of the exceptional donation made by Dubuffet to the City of Lausanne in 1971. There are drawings, paintings, sculptures and textile works, the number of which is still growing today.

Curated by Sarah Lombardi and Anic Zanzi, with the assistance of Baptiste Brun for Jean Dubuffet section
In collaboration with the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne

Ufficio Stampa: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com 

The aim of the exhibition dedicated to the painter Piero Leddi (1930-2016), promoted and curated by the Cultural Association Archivio Piero Leddi, is to relate and create a dialogue between some anatomical plates, contained in volumes published since the sixteenth century and belonging to the artist, with a selection of drawings in which Leddi demonstrated his ability to explore the assonances between the figurative heritage of tradition and contemporary forms and languages.

A cultured artist, bibliophile and collector, Leddi produced a vast series of works in which, through multiple expressive possibilities, the human figure is represented with continuously varied formal solutions. On the theme, he maintained an uninterrupted dialogue with the iconographic sources present in his studio, in particular the ancient books - anatomical studies or volumes in any case dedicated to the theme of the body - collected by him over several decades.

The location of the exhibition at the Sforza Castle, in the historic Sala del Tesoro, adjacent to the headquarters of the Trivulziana Library, constitutes the appropriate context for an installation that presents to the public the relationship between artistic practice and book collecting.

Curated by Chiara Fugazza

The exhibition '¡Libertad! The Independence of Peru in the MUDEC Collections' celebrates three important anniversaries: the bicentenary of the birth of Peru, the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Peru, and the bicentenary of the birth of Antonio Raimondi, Milanese explorer, father of the MUDEC collections and pioneer of science in the Andes.    

The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Consulate General of Peru in Milan, presents a number of exhibits to the public for the first time: a velvet tunic celebrating the victories of Marshal José Sucre (hero of the War of Independence), a series of objects sent by Raimondi to the Museum of Natural History in Milan and now at the MUDEC, some terracotta works from the Peruvian pre-Hispanic cultures, ethnographic textiles and some precious volumes from the 'El Peru' series signed by Antonio Raimondi - on loan from the Museum of Natural History in Milan.    

Some paintings by Candy Carmona and Andrea Balossi complete the exhibition. 

Press Office: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com  

The exhibition pays homage to Carlo Orsi (1941-2021), reporter and fashion photograph, and to his eccentric and visionary work.

140 black and white works most of which “vintage” because coming from the personal archive of the author and printed under his supervision before his death. Pictures concerning the most affected themes for Orsi, from the beginning as a reporter for the Corriere della Sera, Panorama, Il Mondo and Oggi, just before becoming Ugo Mulas’ assistant till the definition of a dissident and ironic style relevant into many aspects of his photography.

Curated by Giangiacomo Schiavi e Giorgio Terruzzi

The largest official exhibition in the West celebrates 50 years of the visionary Master from Shizuoka. 

Featuring over 130 works from his Tokyo studios, it tells the story of global animation and entertainment. 

From Tatsunoko to Final Fantasy and Vogue, this journey of pure visual and narrative art brings together different generations. A four-part scenographic display, enriched with objects and films, reveals techniques, visions, and iconic works that have become part of the collective imagination.

Curated by Luca Viola

Press office Silvia Bellucci 

The exhibition promoted by Istituto Nazionale Parri and Fondazione Anna Kuliscioff, with the financial contribution of Fondazione Comunità Milano and realized with the collaboration of the Civiche Raccolte Storiche di Milano at Palazzo Moriggia | Museo del Risorgimento, intends to retrace the relationship that Giacomo Matteotti had with the city of Milan: a path that winds its way through some of the city's key places, narrated through the exhibition of vast documentation produced and related to Milan.

From Matteotti's involvement in political and Milanese life as early as 1915, to the reaction of the city of Milan to his murder and the first anti-fascism that arose in the city, to the Matteotti Brigades in the Milanese Resistance, and on to the main commemorations paid to him from 1946 to the present day.

The exhibition will be completed by Chiara Corio's art works realised for a travelling exhibition for schools, associations and town halls in the city of Milan and by the graphic projects dedicated to Matteotti and realized by the students of the Scuola d'Arte Muraria in Milan.

Two hundred years after their birth, the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano celebrates Emilio Cornalia (1824-1882) and Antonio Stoppani (1824-1891), masters of the natural sciences who played a fundamental role in its history, in the formation of its huge collections, and in its establishment as a prestigious center for scientific research and dissemination.

Cornalia and Stoppani's original words, publications, and illustrations — selected from the historical archival legacy of the Museum— as well as specimens from its collections, tell the story of these two extraordinary and renowned scientists, inextricably linked to Milano, the Museum, and Italian culture. It is a story about innovative and applied research, early scientific dissemination, and about the ad hoc construction of the building that currently hosts the Museum and welcomes visitors by highlitghing knowledge of the natural world in all its complexity.

Curated by Anna Alessandrello, Giorgio Bardelli, Giorgio Chiozzi, Cristiano Dal Sasso, Enrico Muzio, Michela Podestà, Stefano Scali, Giorgio Teruzzi, Michele Zilioli

PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea presents METAL PANIC, the most extensive and complete exhibition ever dedicated to the oeuvre of Marcello Maloberti: a declaration of love to Milan, which has been the artist’s faithful companion in the creation of his art practice since the beginning of his career. 

Over the years, Maloberti has explored the art/life binomial using a wide range of visual and sound languages – photography, video, performance, installation, objects and collage – enhanced by a high level of performativity and interaction with the public. His research goes beyond the immediacy of everyday life through a dreamlike Neorealist gaze, combined with an archaeological approach to art history. 

Curated by Diego Sileo, METAL PANIC is conceived as an artist's book that collects and intertwines all the founding themes of Maloberti's oeuvre, such as: the elevation of the written word into the form of poetry, the sacredness of everyday life and attention to the transformations of the urban landscape. All that through a core of artworks from the 1990s, more recent and unpublished works. 

The idea of “work in progress” permeates the entire exhibition that becomes a contemporary construction site in continuous transformation, where everything seems suspended and potentially possible.

Curated by Diego Sileo

Press Office: 

PCM Studio di Paola C. Manfredi press@paolamanfredi.com; federica@paolamanfredi.com  

Silvana Editoriale press@silvanaeditoriale.it; 

"Il vostro cielo fu mare, il vostro mare fu cielo" [Your sky was sea, your sea was sky] is Adrian Paci’s site-specific installation planned for MUDEC’s Agora in 2024 and a teaser for the exhibition "Travelogue. Stories of Travel, Migration and Diaspora" (March 2025).

The installation transforms the space of the Agora with a mosaic of blue-green hues that refer to the colours of the sea. Each fragment of this seemingly abstract composition is actually a detail taken from photographs published in newspaper articles about migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, showing out of scale the rough rendering of the printed paper.

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

Press Office: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com 

Insulae Aqua is a eulogy of the island, as a founding dimension of our state being in the world. A photographic survay listening to the territory and the community inhabiting the small and uncontaminated island of Linosa, a fascinating and magnetic place with unique naturalistic peculiarities, a triumph of environmental, biological and vital complexity. 

The exhibition, curated by Alessandra Klimciuk and realized with support of Aedificante foundation, presents a invaluable core of over twenty black and white images, never published and exhibited before, shot in 1991 on the vulcanic island by Gianni Berengo Gardin, an absolute master of photography, together with the colour reportage, taken between 2021 and 2024, with almost forty shots by Filippo Romano. A remote island is linked both to the physical experience of insulation and to the lyrical experience of a gaze always towards the infinite.

On the small island of Linosa, a fascinating and magnetic place with unique landscape, geographical and natural features, Berengo Gardin documents the extraordinary humanity of a participatory and active community that lives the dimension of isolation with great warmth. A testimony of living elsewhere, where suspended time creates a subtle link with the photographic investigation that Filippo Romano carried out over thirty years later. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to explore the existential dimension shared by those strips of land surrounded only by deep blue, where even the way of thinking takes on the unique characteristics of the blue mind, because there is a primordial and profound, almost magical and meditative connection between water and us.

Curated by Alessandra Klimciuk

The exhibition “Visions in Motion – Graffiti and Echoes of Futurism” explores the dialogue between Italian Futurism and American Graffiti, two movements that interpret art as a continuous flow and a testimony of their time. 

Both envision the future as perpetual energy, with graffiti artists expressing belonging and rebellion through spray cans. The industrial space of Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan provides the ideal backdrop to evoke the urban atmosphere from which these movements emerged.

Curated by Carlo Mc Cormik

Press office Fabrizio Kühne  comunicazione@fabriziokuhne.com

From December 3, 2024, to January 26, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the exhibition “SalvArti. From Confiscations to Public Collections”, showcasing a series of contemporary artworks, including paintings, graphic art, and sculptures by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Mario Sironi, Lucio Fontana, Massimo Campigli, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Mario Schifano, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo, and others. These works come from confiscations carried out by public authorities against organized crime.

The more than 80 artworks, displayed in a chronological and thematic layout, allow visitors to trace the evolution of art from the first half of the twentieth century to the early 2000s, highlighting the development of expressive languages and artistic movements of the period.

The exhibition marks the second stage of the project “Art for the Culture of Legality”, curated by the General Management Museums of the Ministry of Culture, the National Agency for Seized and Confiscated Assets from Organized Crime (ANBSC), the Municipality of Milan, and the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior. The project began with a preview at the Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum in Rome (October 16 – November 21, 2024) and will conclude at the Palazzo della Cultura in Reggio Calabria (February 8 – April 27, 2025).

Press Office: Marta Pedroli - marta.pedroli@clp1968.it Carlo Ghielmetti - carlo.ghielmetti@clp1968.it

A piece of history that belongs to everyone: the story of deaf girls and boys who grew up at the Pio Istituto dei Sordi in Milan is told through the black-and-white photographs preserved in its archive, which become the material Gianni Moretti uses and transforms in his installation.

The artistic intervention becomes a space to move through, an opportunity to rethink one's body and open up a reflection on the relationship with the "other" self.

Curated by Emanuele Marconi

The history of Galtrucco, which crosses the entire twentieth century, has a strong connection with the city of Milan.

For this reason the brand production also becomes a storytelling about the war, the post war rebuilding, the economic boom and the revitalization of the city that came after the dark period of the Seventies.

Vintage photographs, original documents such as the drawings of Brunetta, advertising on magazines and furnishings of the shops get alternated with a selection of original fashion sketches from the Fifties and the Sixties and about twenty clothes made with the Galtrucco fabrics preserved in the Palazzo Morando collections, in private ones, but also in other Italian museums and in the archives of some maisons.

Curated by Alessandra Coppa, Enrica Morini and Margherita Rosina

This immersive experience exhibition consists of an exciting labyrinth that showcases different themes from the filmmaker, via a variety of rooms containing original artworks and utilizing technology, lights, sound, and scenography from his movies.

Visitors will chart their own course through the mind of the genius to explore his favorite characters and environments from his wide and celebrated filmography. In this way, the exhibition provides a unique experience; an exciting journey through the creative universe of the director, producer, writer, and artist that has amazed both children and adults with such films as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 

Anna Kuliscioff was born on 9 January 1854 and the celebrations for the centenary of her death will begin on 9 January 2025 with the inauguration of a Documentary Exhibition dedicated to her, which will take place at Palazzo Moriggia | Museo del Risorgimento in Milan, the same place where the Anna Kuliscioff Foundation celebrated the 90th anniversary of her death in 2015.

The exhibition will be divided into the following sections:

- Monographs and pamphlets

- Archival documents

- Findings and images

Curated by Fondazione Kuliscioff

A premiere in Italy, more than 100 iconic platinum prints documenting George Hoyningen-Huene's impact in the history of photography.

Influenced by classical art and Surrealism, he was part of Man Ray's inner circle, frequented Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali, Lee Miller, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Cocteau and worked with Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His shots captured the vibrant cultural context of the time, from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, to those of dancers Serge Lifar and Olga Spessivtzeva with costumes designed by De Chirico.

Curated by Susanna Brown

Press Office: Anna Defrancesco  ad@annadefrancesco.com

Dedicated to one of the most influential and recognized figures among 20th-century Italian artists, the Casorati exhibition is an anthology that comprehensively reconstructs the artist's entire career, tracing the various phases of his painting. Designed for the halls of Palazzo Reale, the exhibition presents a collection of one hundred significant works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and graphic works, sourced from prestigious private collections as well as museum institutions. Notably, it features pieces from the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, which houses the largest group of the artist's works.

A cornerstone of this project is the close collaboration with the Archivio Felice Casorati, which has graciously lent crucial paintings alongside engravings, drawings, sculptures, furnishings, and documentation. The exhibition underscores/highlights the historical bond between the artist and the city of Milan. Thirty-five years after the memorable anthology curated by Claudia Gian Ferrari in 1990 (accompanied by a catalogue edited by Maria Mimita Lamberti and featuring an essay by Paolo Fossati), Felice Casorati returns to Palazzo Reale - which will host a landmark event.

Throughout his long career, Casorati consistently attributed a strategic function to Milan, recognized as the first city in Italy to establish a modern art system and market. The exhibition further emphasizes the artist's multifaceted vocation and contributions that extend beyond painting, from sculpture to graphic art, in which, due to his continuous experimentation, he achieved equally high and original results. Not to mention his involvement in drawing, illustration, and a profound passion for music, which led him to a remarkable activity as a set and costume designer for operas.

Curated by Giorgia Bertolino, Ferdinando Mazzocca and Francesco Poli

Press Office: Marsilio Arte ufficio.stampa@marsilioarte.it Giovanna Ambrosano – g.ambrosano@marsilioarte.it

In 2025, we celebrate the centenary of the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris, the event that marked the rise of the '1925 Style,' or Art Deco—a groundbreaking aesthetic that spread across Europe in the post-war period. 

To commemorate this anniversary, the exhibition will present the public with extraordinary examples of Italian and European decorative arts, from glassworks to porcelain and majolica, from textiles to furniture and jewelry, as well as fine art pieces such as paintings, sculptures, drawings, and advertising posters. 

It will also feature period images and film clips to recreate as closely as possible the unique and captivating atmosphere of this remarkable era.

Curated by Valerio Terraroli

Press Office: 24OreCultura Elettra Occhini elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com

Leonor Fini fits into the Palazzo Reale's long history of presenting exhibitions on Surrealism and artists related to the movement, as well as its ongoing interest in promoting exhibitions that focus on the recognition of women artists, highlighting their role in society and culture. 

The exhibition aims to investigate updated reflections on Fini's work so as to make it accessible to all generations. Her work addresses fundamental issues of contemporary society, such as the questioning of gender, identity, belonging, established models of family, masculinity and femininity

. 

The title of the exhibition is inspired by the reflections that her art provoked in important writers and artists of her time, including Jean Genet, Max Ernst or Jean Cocteau. 

The identification with the Sphinx, a legendary creature, is also the curators' statement of principles about the multifaceted aspects of her work and about its ever-evolving nature. The exhibition includes painting, drawing, photography, decorative art, fashion design, costumes, artist's books and documents to emphasize the artist's multifaceted nature.

Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín

Press Office: PCM studio – Francesca Ceriani francesca@paolamanfredi.com

Presented as an international premiere at Palazzo Reale in Milan, the exhibition brings into dialogue more than 140 works and 80 major contemporary artists from around the world.

From Cindy Sherman to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, from Nan Goldin to Nicole Eisenman, from Kiki Smith to Marc Quinn, from Lisetta Carmi to Francesco Vezzoli; all artists featured in the unprecedented and prestigious contemporary section of the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection who, from February to April, will be linked and connected by a dialogue on the most important social issues such as the relationship with the body, the ever-changing identity, multiculturalism and the complex interactions between East and West. It is an experience that crosses temporal and spatial boundaries, proposing a dialogue between visions that are geographically distant but converging on sensitive and inescapable contemporary issues.

Produced by the Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia, in collaboration with the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation, the exhibition represents a unique opportunity to explore, through the eyes of artists who have always demonstrated an ability to see beyond, the social and cultural changes shaping our present.

Press Office: Arthemisia - Salvatore Macaluso  sam@arthemisia.it | press@arthemisia.it

Luis Gomez Armenteros states:
I discovered that for the Comanche the word Comanche meant ‘people’, but for others ‘the enemy who always wants to fight against me’. This vision of the self and the other is still very current. Furthermore, they are a nomadic people, a condition that not only converges in my experimental work, but also in my life as an emigrant.

The exhibition will be preceded by a workshop curated by the artist himself.
 

Curated by Giacomo Zaza

Press Office: Marcella Russo - marcella.russo@rp-press.it

Dedicated to the transversal theme of travel, the exhibition highlights the genesis of the MUDEC collections, built up by exotic artefacts donated by enthusiasts, travellers and researchers.

Starting from the “materiality” of travel (means of transport, souvenirs, suitcases, etc.), the exhibition opens up a new perspective for a different understanding not only of tourism/travel, but also of the migrations and diasporas that have marked and continue to mark recent history, with contributions by contemporary artists.
 

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

Press Office 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com 

Pray for seamen unites places of different geographies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean: Trapani in Sicily, the Kerkennah Islands in Tunisia and Jamestown in Accra, Ghana.

Through Francesco Bellina's photographs, we meet men and women who do the same job: they are fishermen who observe the decline of the seas and share concerns for their future. 

Coming from a family of fishermen, Bellina offers an intimate portrait of their lives beyond mere economic and political concerns. Bellina invites us to reconnect with the human dimension of the immense socio-economic transformation we are witnessing. 

Although fundamentally rooted in the local reality of coastal communities, Pray for seamen is a global appeal that concerns us closely.

Curated by Aldo Premoli

The first large solo exhibition in Italy by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, who through her film and photographic works explores the identity representations of feminine and masculine in her culture. 

In the tormented photographs of women, with their faces marked by Farsi calligraphy or wearing the hijab and holding guns, the woman’s gaze becomes a powerful and dangerous communication tool.

Concepts such as martyrdom, the space of exile and matters of identity are examined through poetry and calligraphy. In her practice, the artist uses poetic imagery to deal with the themes of gender and society, the individual and the community and the dialectical relationship between past and present, through the lens of her experiences of belonging and exile.

Curated by Diego Sileo and Beatrice Benedetti  

Press office: PCM Studio di Paola C. Manfredi press@paolamanfredi.com

The exhibition, through a multidisciplinary approach, offers a fascinating narrative of the phenomenon of shamanism between contemporary art, anthropology, science and archaeology.

Shamanic objects and artifacts will be displayed, offering the opportunity to investigate the theme in all its complexity. 

Alongside these, will be explored the crucial dialogue with contemporary art and the involvement of a core group of artists, from Vassily Kandinsky to Jackson Pollock to Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovich, along with photographers and filmmakers whose work is akin to the themes of the exhibition and through whose works the shamanic theme broadens to the issues of our times, soliciting reflections on a global scale such as the relationship between man and the environment, the themes of care, diversity and migration.
 

Press Office: 24 Ore Cultura

In a great new solo show titled Pastorale, artist Nico Vascellari will be presenting recent and new works in various spaces of Palazzo Reale in Milan, including the majestic Sala delle Cariatidi, in the spring of 2025. 

Through an anthropological gaze, Vascellari (b. 1976, Vittorio Veneto) explores the connection between man and nature, intertwining personal and collective dimensions through works spanning performance, installation, sculpture, video, and sound.

The project draws inspiration from the history of the Sala, particularly the events of the 20th century that led to its near-total destruction during the 1943 bombing of Milan, and the subsequent monumental 1953 exhibition of Guernica by Pablo Picasso. Pastorale is also set to expand to other locations throughout the city and will feature performance, sculpture, installation, and sound works.

Curated by Sergio Risaliti 

Press Office: Studio Nico Vascellari Sam Talbot

The exhibition retraces the career of designer Nanda Vigo through unpublished archive documents, in a setting that offers a glimpse of her studio. 

The furnishings and a selection of works will be shown in the exhibition that CASVA, as part of Design Week, proposes to celebrate the donation.

Curated by Giampiero Bosoni, Mariella Brenna, Maria Fratelli and Francesca Picchi.

During Art Week 2025, the Museo del Novecento and ACACIA (Friends of Italian Contemporary Art Association) present the winning artist of the ACACIA Awards. This consolidates a fortunate private-public partnership with the goal of conserving and consolidating the study of recent artistic explorations.

The winning work, exhibited in a dedicated space, will become part of the Museum's collection thanks to the ACACIA donation, which has been enriched every year since 2015 by the works of contemporary artists.

The exhibition is a collaboration between Raiden and the Consagra archive Pietro Consagra's sculptures are the result of meticulous study and design work, unpublished until today. 

The exhibition aims to highlight the design part of this Master's work, presenting the entire creative process. In particular, the creative path that characterizes the creation of stone sculptures was highlighted.

Curated by Attilia Fattorini Franchini

On the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation, the Civiche Raccolte Storiche propose a documentary exhibition to tell the story and the motivations behind the awarding of the Gold Medal for Military Valour to the city of Milan in 1948.

The motivations of the medal are linked to four moments in the city's history that had national significance: the Five Days of 1848, the revolt of 6 February 1853, 9 September 1943 and 25 April 1945, extremes of the period in which Milan ‘stood up to the ruthless enemy of all time, the pride and momentum of an implacable partisan struggle'. 

Each section of the exhibition will be dedicated to an in-depth examination of these dates with a historical reconstruction accompanied by original documents.

Curated by Gregorio Taccola (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) in collaborazione con Ilaria Torelli e Patrizia Foglia. In collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

The immersion in commercial catalogs allows us to navigate through different categories of objects to wear, use and give as gifts. 

The exhibition will offer a selection of graphic materials from the collections of the Raccolta Bertarelli, illustrating the transition from catalogs with engravings and photographs to those created by illustrators and designers, emphasizing their fundamental role within the advertising and sales process.

Curated by Marta Sironi

Museo del Novecento launch a cycle of exhibitions in the Spazio Archivi dedicated to the reinterpretation of 20th-century art in Milan through the voices of some of the city's most influential critics. 

The figure of the critic will be analysed through research projects aimed at presenting archive materials, writings and visual references of the cultural scene in which they worked.

This first series will be followed by a second one, in 2026, which will analyse Milan’s art system by presenting the activities of some of the most important and experimental galleries.
 

The comparison between some sculptures by the artist Vincenzo Balena and works from the Archaeological Museum will highlight how the memory of the ancient still permeates artistic creation today, in correspondence with a new perception of classical art. 

The theme of the portrait will offer particular opportunities for comparison, allowing us to highlight its different functions, such as human or divine image, celebratory or private, psychological or transfigured with respect to reality.

Curated by Valter Rosa, Francesca Pensa and Anna Provenzali
 

THE CARABINIERI CORPS. From its foundation to nowadays

The Carabinieri Legion Command "Lombardy", in collaboration with Triennale, Palazzo Reale and the Civic Museums – Municipality of Milan, will organize an exhibition in the halls of Palazzo Reale in Milan to celebrate the 211th anniversary of the founding of the Carabinieri Corps. 

The exhibition will feature historical uniforms of the Carabinieri alongside paintings and sculptures from civic collections, as well as works by contemporary artists—such as Paladino, Chia, and Clemente—on loan from the Historical Museum of the Corps and private collections. These contributions will help narrate the story of the Institution, from its founding to the present day.

Curated by Damiano Gullì

In the first Centenary of Mario Giacomelli's birth, Palazzo Reale is hosting a major retrospective exhibition, featuring more than 300 original photographic works including vintage and vintage prints, documents and archival materials. 

In an evocative narrative itinerary, built on large chronological chapters, winding through the photographic series inspired by the readings of great poets, the exhibition celebrates the pivotal theme of photography as a narrative, structured with the language of the unconscious. 

The exhibition project is completed with an exhibition dedicated to the metamorphoses of matter and its performative conception of photography, to be held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. 

This unprecedented collaboration is intended to document and critically reread the entire human and artistic journey of one of the greatest photographers of our time.

Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Katiuscia Biondi Giacomelli

It is an exhibition that tells the story of the pioneering special effects of the famous cult film The Neverending Story. 

The initiative has a cultural, educational and social mission: to safeguard the art and inventiveness of artisanal techniques through dissemination and entertainment, with the aim of raising awareness among the younger generations and motivating them to explore tangible rather than virtual solutions, to give a more concrete form to their creativity.
 

Curated by Marcello Baretta, Pierfilippo Siena

The exhibition intends to display the winning project of the twentieth edition of the Amilcare Ponchielli award, the first Italian photo editor. 

Special mention will be given to the best photographic project on the theme of women's rights and gender equality.
 

Curated by Premio Ponchielli
 

The Living Sea, a collection of Hussain Aga Khan’s underwater photography, offers a glimpse into the extraordinary biodiversity in oceans around Mexico, Egypt, Tonga and Moorea.

The exhibition is presented for the first time in Milan. The partnership between Focused on Nature (founded by Hussain Aga Khan) and Marevivo (founded by Rosalba Giugni), is based on a mutual commitment to protect marine ecosystems, the numerous species of animals that inhabit them and the necessity to seek impactful solutions to reduce ocean pollution.
 

Curated by TAU DISEÑO
 

In collaboration with New York-located Participant INC, this is the first anthological exhibition of artist Alessandro Codagnone and John Lovett. 

Born in Milan in 1995, the Italian-American duo has ranged with their oeuvre from photography to sculpture, from video to installation up to performance, a medium which often sees the two artists as protagonists in an ironic role-play aimed at unmasking the power relations that are defined within interpersonal relationships. 

Their art explores the dynamics of power and reflects on those processes of normalization in progress that castrate and suffocate sub-cultures, practices of dissent, the affirmation of the subjective. Six years after Codagnone’s death, the exhibition will be a unique opportunity to understand his relevance in the artistic panorama and his influence on the next generations.

Curated by Diego Sileo

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Berruti is one of the most recognizable Italian artists in the world and has exhibited in dozens of international museums: this exhibition will consiste of large, interactive and scenographic installations. 

There will therefore be sculptures, projections, scenic "mechanisms".  The theme that will accompany the viewer through the exhibition is childhood, a subjet treated by Berruti throughout his entire career. 

Childhood is our common denominator, a moment that we all shared, Berruti's works speaks to us precisely about that specific moment in life when everything is still to be decided, by transporting it into a metaphor that goes much further.

Curated by Nicolas Ballario

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"Appunti G - inventario femminile del terzo millennio" - which is part of the WondHer project in collaboration with Terre des Hommes - is a format born from the meeting between Rita Pelusio, actress, author and director and Laila Pozzo, one of the rising stars of auteur photography, to question themselves with an ironic, non-divisive and pop language on themes related to the female universe: women empowerment, the gender gap, self-acceptance (body positivity), identity and rights still denied.

It is a ‘collective game’ that involved 200 women from the most diverse professional fields.

 Each portrait is accompanied by a reflection on the theme of rights and the relationship between women and the world that surrounds them. Their words compose a sort of story and reflection, each with its own personal register,on the female universe.

Curated by Rita Pelusio and Laila Pozzo

With his first Milanese exhibition on the theme, Resi Girardello wants to evoke submerged cities through the language of sculpture/installation.

Starting from the installation SUBMERGED VENICE, inspired by a 2020 article in Le Scienze, according to which by 2100 the rising sea levels will have a major impact on the environment and cultural heritage of coastal cities around the world, Girardello intends to focus on the skyline of some coastal cities around the world, such as Venice, New York, Singapore and Tokyo to raise awareness of the need to adopt sustainable solutions.

Curated by Emanuele Beluffi

The design framework of "Milano città che sale" is based on the possibility of creating cultural exhibition interventions, adapting the production logic of TV series to the world of art exhibitions, or using the serial mode that contemporaneity enjoys today on various on-demand channels applied to the world of art exhibitions. 

The project will consist of seven episodes/exhibitions, each lasting 21 days: Elio Vittorini and Milan, Albe Steiner Research Notebook, Giovanni Testori and the Secrets of Milan; the case of Arialda, Tullio Brunone; Laboratory of Militant Communication, Milanottanta, Paolo Rosa; The Swimmer (He Goes Too Often to Heidelberg) and Around, Luisa Spinatelli.
 

Curated by Progetto Scalpendi

Among the most significant artists of the contemporary Italian scene, Remo Salvadori (Cerreto Guidi, 1947) has been investigating the interaction between elements such as water, colour and metals since the 1970’s. He proposes a renewed formulation of the artwork defined by alchemical mutations and streams of knowledge that invite the observer to a new awareness of the self and the world. 

The exhibition, which will include about 50 works at Palazzo Reale and a site-specific work at the Museo del Novecento, rather than follow a chronological itinerary, intends to develop and focus upon those themes that are at the basis of his theoretical, pictorial and sculptural universe. 

 Curated by Elena Tettamanti and Antonella Soldaini

The Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano presents a monographic exhibition on Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, through a selection of paintings and drawings that trace his artistic and biographical career. 

This event, the first in Milan dedicated to him, offers an opportunity to explore the role of the artist in the divisionist movement, deepening themes related to social realism and the symbolist influences that have marked his artistic production.

Curated by Aurora Scotti and Paola Zatti

Le chat (The Cat) is not only a popular comic strip: since the 90s it has been the main subject of several exhibitions, depicted in paintings (large format acrylics) as well as in sculptures inspired by classical and contemporary art. 

Caustic and irreverent, without sparing its own author and creator, the Cat imitates and challenges, illustrates and contrasts all the myths and mysteries of the subjective universal, from Myron's discus thrower to the Venus de Milo, from Leonardo's Mona Lisa to Vermeer's Milkmaid, from Rodin's Thinker to Van Gogh's chair.

Curated by Philippe Geluck, Fabio Di Gioia, Barbara Altomonte 

The exhibition is the culmination of a careful study of the more than six hundred drawings that can be traced back to Antonio Guasconi's collection, which came into the Civic Collections by bequest in 1863 and is now housed in the Gabinetto dei Disegni. 

Guasconi assembled an eclectic collection of drawings, with a predilection for eighteenth-century Venetian artists, including several capriccios by Gian Domenico Tiepolo.

Curated by Alessia Alberti and Marco Riccòmini

Andrea Appiani (Milan, 1754-1817), an eminent Neoclassical painter, gained significant renown both in his own time and in subsequent eras, although only recently has his work been reconsidered with the full appreciation it deserves. Celebrated as the “first painter of Napoleon,” he portrayed the emperor at various stages of his career and created renowned frescoes, such as the Apotheosis of Napoleon in the Royal Palace of Milan. He also worked for Archduke Ferdinand and drew inspiration from Giuseppe Parini, embodying the ideals of the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism.

Appiani undertook prestigious commissions for prominent figures such as Giovanni Battista Sommariva and Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Duke of Lodi. Among his masterpieces, The Parnassus (1811) in the Royal Villa of Milan secured his reputation as "a new Raphael." Falling ill in 1813, he was unable to complete the decoration of the Sala della Lanterna, which was later finished by Romantic artists like Francesco Hayez.

The exhibition, in collaboration with the Châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Brera Art Gallery, and Villa Carlotta, aims to reconstruct Appiani’s artistic journey through works from Italian and international collections, highlighting his preparatory drawings and designs for art objects, such as medals and furniture crafted by Giuseppe Maggiolini.

Scientific Committee: Domenico Piraina, Mariangela Privitera, Francesca Tasso, Alessia Alberti, Emanuela Carpani, Paola Strada, Simone Percacciolo, Paola Zatti, Elisabeth Caude and Remi Cariel

Curated by Fernando Mazzocca, Francesco Leone and Domenico Piraina

Man Ray is, without a doubt, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century art history. He was among the first to embrace photography as an actual creative medium, by realising iconic works that became symbolic milestones in the evolution of modern art.

The retrospective scheduled from September 2025 at Palazzo Realewill allow the public to follow the biographical stages and career of the artist, thanks to works from the Lucien Treillard collection, Man Ray's assistant and last collaborator.

Through this important nucleus of original materials (vintage prints, negatives, collages, documents), it is possible to illustrate Man Ray’s history, from his birth (1890, Philadelphia), to the New York milieu where he discovered the European avant-garde movements and struck up a friendship with Marcel Duchamp, to his Parisian landing in 1921.In Paris he was welcomed by the poets André Breton, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard and then met the singer and model Kiki de Montparnasse – his beloved and muse creating immortal photographs, such as Noire et blanche or Le Violon d’Ingres.

He would later dedicate himself to the fashion world and to the development of his renowned “rayographs” and “solarizations”. He returned to the United States in 1940 and then back to Paris in 1951, where he remained until his death in 1976.

Through a thematic journey (self-portraits, muses, nudes, rayographs and solarizations, fashion), this exhibition offers the rediscovery of a truly one-of-a-kind artist and brilliant pioneer.

Curated by Pierre-Yves Butzbach and Robert Rocca

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This exhibition, the first in Italy to be dedicated to the work of Leonora Carrington, aims to explore the artist in all her complexity, highlighting her creative universe and powerful intellectual dimension through her visionary and multifaceted works.

The exhibition will emphasize Carrington's lifelong relationship with Italy, starting with her discovery of Italian art in Florence as a teenager and exploring her post-Victorian and Celtic origins as well as her affiliation with Surrealism. Alongside these key aspects of her life, the project is divided into various themes that narrate Carrington's journey as a woman artist, migrant, exile, mother, avant-garde feminist, ecologist, and an artist who spent her entire life as a perpetual traveler through other worlds and dimensions, in a permanent quest for self-knowledge.

The exhibition includes not only paintings but also photographs, books from her personal library, and archival material.

Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín 

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 - 1972) was a Dutch artist and printmaker whose works, mainly etchings declined in different techniques, made him one of the most famous graphic artists of the 20th century.

The exhibition, in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum in The Hague, will offer visitors a broad view of Escher's artistic career, with a special focus providing a comparison between the artist's work and some masterpieces of Islamic art.
Although, indeed, the only connection between these two worlds have been Escher's visits to Moorish Spain and southern Italy, there are remarkable similarities in form, mathematical-geometric approach, and even sometimes in theme.

Escher's works are immediately recognizable for their predisposition to depict so-called “impossible constructions,” exploring the concept of infinity, the tessellation of planes and space, and the study of geometries and metamorphoses that gradually take on different and paradoxical forms, all themes that link his artistic production to that of Islamic culture.

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Artificial Beauty is an exhibition dedicated to the artistic research of Andrea Crespi. It explores contemporary aesthetics through the dualism between human and artificial, intertwining past and future, tradition and innovation. 

Offering a sensorial and multimedia journey, it examines how technology is reshaping concepts of beauty and identity.

Through a collection of new, site-specific works, it invites reflection on the tensions and harmonies between nature and digital, fostering deeper insight into progress and humanity in the post-Internet era.

Curated by Alisia Viola

To commemorate the anniversary of the end of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Dayton Agreement signed on November 21, 1995, Casa della Memoria presents the exhibition 'Shooting in Sarajevo,' a project by Luigi Ottani and Roberta Biagiarelli. 

The idea was to photograph (shooting) Sarajevo from the same locations where snipers besieged the city and its inhabitants between 1992 and 1995.

Curated by Roberta Bigiarelli

Alps, theatre of battles is the sequel to Si combatteva qui, a photographic exhibition dedicated to the sites of the First World War and held at Palazzo Moriggia, following the same geographical and emotional thread. 

After his explorations of the battlefields of the Great War, Alessio Franconi's photojournalism continues and retraces the Alps to remember the forgotten battles of the Second World War. Spectacular abandoned places are traversed where known and lesser-known facts of a conflict that left deep scars on the ground and society happened.

Seventh exhibition appointment of the program dedicated to the most significant protagonists of today's scene by the Furla Foundation. 

The project, curated by Bruna Roccasalva and carried out in collaboration with GAM, will be built, as in previous editions, on the close dialogue between what on display at the exhibition, indoor and outdoor spaces, and the works of the museum's permanent collection.

Curated by Bruna Roccasalva

Neither New Age atmosphere nor exotic divinities or seductive Bollywood stars for the new PAC collective project dedicated to world cultures through the gaze of contemporary artists. 

The exhibition will present that wave of experimentation and research that has hit contemporary Indian art in all its expressive forms. The result of a long and articulated research work carried out by Raqs media collective, who are also the curators of the project, the exhibition aims at immortalizing, as if in a snapshot, different generations of artists who deal with painting, photography, sculpture, installation, web art and cinema. 

An insight into art and life in current India, starting from the bottom, from the streets – both allegorical and otherwise –, along paths crossed by migratory flows and information highways; connection (and fracture) between rural reality and technological innovation.

Curated by Raqs Media Collective e Ferran Barenblit

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Milan has always been a "sound city", a city of sounds, a sound locomotive in full motion. From industrial capital to music capital.

Around its venues, its artists, since the advent of recorded music during the twentieth century, the activity of record companies, labels, born or hosted in Milan, has been added, a new industry that has made the history of Italian sounds, welcoming artists from all over the country and also from abroad.

It is an infinite mosaic, to which Slow Music wants to pay homage with an exhibition, to bring together in one place the history of the great record companies and labels of Milan, from the dawn of recorded music to the present day.

Curated by Leonardo Rescic, Stefano Bonagura and Claudio Trotta 

With “Ombra di tutti”, artist Patrizio Raso gives substance to the shadow of the Monument to Roberto Franceschi, weaving together the student’s clothes with those donated by 150 people encountered across Italy with the Roberto Franceschi Foundation. 

Collectively wearable, the work serves as a space for dialogue, testimony, and memory to be re-inhabited. The research is documented through photographs, texts, and a documentary film by Anna Frigo.

The exhibition addresses one of the issues with the greatest impact on bird conservation and the natural environment: the use of lead in hunting ammunition. 

Saturnism, poisoning given by involuntary ingestion of lead, kills 2,300,000 birds in Europe each year. Since 2023, the European Parliament has banned its use in wetlands.

The exhibition contains texts, images and objects, including bird specimens from the Milan Museum of Natural History..

Curated by Enrico Bassi, Gloria Ramello and Giorgio Chiozzi