What's on in Milan
September 2026
September at a glance: 11 exhibitions opening, 7 closing, and 16 more on view across the city.
Permanent guide to September 2026 →
Opening in September
Carlo Forcolini senza titolo: LIFE3 SeptADI Design Museum
Objects, projects, documents and writings trace designer Carlo Forcolini's career across art, design, entrepreneurship, teaching and civic life.
Have you ever noticed?14 SeptADI Design Museum
Michele Tranquillini's drawings of overlooked city details in Milan and Tokyo, from manhole covers to abandoned bikes, with a participatory sticker section.
Furla Series – Shilpa Gupta. One Palm Closer to the Sky15 SeptGAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna
Mumbai artist Shilpa Gupta's new works on language, censorship, borders and hope, set in dialogue with GAM's 19th-century collection across the courtyard and five ground-floor rooms.
Aki Sasamoto: XYZ17 SeptPirelli HangarBicocca · Free
Two decades of Aki Sasamoto's installations, sculptures, videos and performances in the Shed, using graphs, diagrams and rotating mechanisms to probe human connection.
Bertozzi & Casoni. Eternal and fragile presences18 SeptMuseo Bagatti Valsecchi
Hyper-real contemporary ceramics by Bertozzi & Casoni (still lifes, animals, remains) set among the Renaissance rooms, on memory, time and fragility. Curated by Alberto Mattia Martini.
Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year: Charmaine Poh18 SeptMUDEC Museo delle Culture · Free
First Italian solo show by Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh: video, photography and performance on memory, identity, power and digital visibility.
Grazie a Luchino Visconti22 SeptMuseo Teatrale alla Scala
Fifty years after his death, costumes, sketches, photos and archive papers retrace Visconti's Scala productions, from the 1955 Callas Traviata to his unrealised Ring.
Dalí e la moda24 SeptPalazzo Reale di Milano
Over 200 paintings, drawings, photos, garments and jewels trace Salvador Dalí's surrealist collaborations with fashion designers, photographers and maisons.
Carla Cerati. Plurale femminile. Fotografia e scrittura, 1926-202626 SeptPalazzo Reale di Milano
Centenary retrospective of photographer and writer Carla Cerati: Milan street life, the asylum exposé Morire di classe, portraits, theatre and the body.
LIBERE! 1946-2026. Le conquiste delle donne26 SeptGallerie d'Italia Milano
Photographs from major archives chart 80 years of Italian women's gains, from the 1946 vote through work, feminism, divorce and abortion rights, to contemporary artists.
I Brueghel. Le origini dei generi pittorici in Europa29 SeptPalazzo Reale di Milano
Italy's first major show on the Brueghel dynasty: 80+ paintings, drawings and prints tracing how they shaped landscape, still life, peasant and battle genres.
Last chance
Anselm Kiefer. Le Alchimiste27 SeptPalazzo Reale di Milano
Over forty monumental canvases by Anselm Kiefer in the bomb-scarred Sala delle Cariatidi, honouring forgotten women alchemists from Caterina Sforza to Mary Anne Atwood.
FOCUS900 | Vedere l'Aria | Bruno Munari27 SeptMuseo del Novecento
Bruno Munari makes air visible: kinetic and programmed works centred on his 1969 action Far vedere l'aria in Como, documented in photographs by Ugo Mulas.
Il primo Picasso di Milano. Un moschettiere tra rivoluzione, antifranchismo e solidarietà internazionale27 SeptMuseo del Novecento
The story of Picasso's Homme assis, the first Picasso bought for Milan's civic collections in 1972, as a symbol of anti-Franco solidarity, told through photos and archive documents.
FOCUS900 | Paolo Scirpa | Alberto Garutti27 SeptMuseo del Novecento
Twin monographic focuses in the Gesti e Processi gallery: Paolo Scirpa's neon Ludoscopi illusions and fifty years of Alberto Garutti's work on doubt, thresholds and public space.
Cao Fei: Dash28 SeptFondazione Prada
Multimedia project in the Podium mixing photography, video, VR and archive to portray a global agricultural technology revolution, drawn from three years in Chinese farmlands.
Ambrosiana nascosta: da Occidente a Oriente29 SeptPinacoteca Ambrosiana
Rarely shown treasures from the Ambrosiana's stores, from pre-Columbian Peruvian bowls to Capodimonte porcelain and Japanese scrolls, in rooms 2-3.
Robert Barry30 SeptTriennale Milano · Free
Conceptual art pioneer Robert Barry's word-based works in the Piano Parco spaces of Cucina Triennale, curated by Massimo Minini.
Also on through September
Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Presentto 4 OctTriennale Milano
With Fondation Cartier, a monographic show on designer and theorist Andrea Branzi seen through Pritzker laureate Toyo Ito, including an installation on No-Stop City.
Davide Stucchi. Temporary Roomsto 4 OctTriennale Milano · Free
A solo show turning the space into a domestic setting of hybrid art-design works, reconfigured four times over the run.
Sony World Photography Awards 2026to 4 OctMuseo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini
Winners and finalists of the 2026 World Photography Organisation awards, chosen from 430,000+ entries, including Photographer of the Year Citlali Fabián.
Arnaldo Pomodoro. Una vitato 18 OctGallerie d'Italia Milano
Some 45 works trace six decades of Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculpture, from his 1950s beginnings to 2000s experiments, with archive material and displays inspired by his own.
Bellezza e Bruttezza. Ideale, reale, caricaturale nel Rinascimentoto 18 OctGallerie d'Italia Milano
Beauty versus ugliness in the Renaissance: Botticelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Dürer and Cranach, from classical ideals to realist portraits, monsters and caricature.
Piero Portaluppi: l'arte del disegnoto 18 OctVilla Necchi Campiglio
44 of Piero Portaluppi's key drawings, from youthful caricatures to villas and public buildings, curated by Roberto Dulio in the villa's newly restored attic.
Werner Bischof. Point of Viewto 18 OctMuseo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini
Retrospective of the Swiss Magnum photojournalist: 200 vintage prints plus contact sheets, from 1930s Switzerland through postwar Europe and Asia to the Americas.
Sasha Stiles. Lorem Ipsum Variorumto 25 OctPalazzo Citterio
Site-specific AI-driven digital installation by poet-artist Sasha Stiles on Palazzo Citterio's LED wall, turning the Lorem Ipsum placeholder text into "impossible translations".
Passione Disegnoto 8 NovCastello Sforzesco
Masterpieces from the Gabinetto dei Disegni's 30,000+ works on paper, from Leonardo and Tiepolo to Boccioni and Keith Haring, in the Salette della Grafica.
Mona Hatoum: Over, under and in betweento 9 NovFondazione Prada
Site-specific project in the Cisterna: three installations built on Hatoum's web, map and grid motifs, reflecting on the turmoil of our times and the precariousness of existence.
Giorgio Armani Privé 2005-2025: Twenty Years of Haute Coutureto 20 DecArmani/Silos
About 150 haute couture creations from two decades of Giorgio Armani Privé, including red-carpet gowns, filling all four floors of the museum. Extended to 20 December 2026.
1946, La Scala rinasceto 30 DecMuseo Teatrale alla Scala
Period photographs trace La Scala's rebuilding after the 1943 bombing, up to Toscanini's historic reopening concert of 11 May 1946, 80 years on.
Ettore Sottsass. Design Metaphorsto 31 DecTriennale Milano
The latest in a series of Sottsass shows around Casa Lana, drawing on works from the Museo del Design Italiano collection.
Under Milano: Imaginary mapsto 14 MarMuseo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
Sergio Raffaele and Tiziano Demuro's photographs of Milan's metro as a hidden, metaphysical city, shown among the trains of the Railway Pavilion.
Beauty and the Idealto 17 MayPinacoteca di Brera
Twelve restored plaster busts by Antonio Canova, lent by Banca Ifis, join a marble Vestal back at Brera after a century, celebrating the museum's Neoclassical roots.
Pinacoteca viaggianteto 17 MayPinacoteca di Brera
The "travelling gallery" of Count Sommariva: 99 miniature enamels (1810-1825) copying Neoclassical masterpieces from his collection, carried with him across Europe.
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