Exhibitions in Milan
February 2027
February at a glance: 2 exhibitions opening, 6 closing, and 8 more on view across the city.
Opening in February
Carlos Bunga18 FebPirelli HangarBicocca · Free
Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga transforms the Shed with immersive installations merging painting, sculpture and performance to question architecture as an expression of power.
Alberto Giacometti e l'Italia25 FebPalazzo Reale di Milano
Over 100 sculptures, paintings and drawings from the Fondation Giacometti reread the Swiss artist's work through his lifelong bond with Italy, his "new homeland".
Closing in February
LIBERE! 1946-2026. Le conquiste delle donne7 FebGallerie 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.
Costantino Nivola14 FebTriennale Milano
Over 200 works tracing Nivola's transatlantic career, from Olivetti graphics and sand-cast concrete reliefs to large anthropomorphic sculptures.
Sheila Hicks - In the thread of love14 FebPAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Italy's first retrospective of Sheila Hicks: 200+ fibre works on identity, feminism and colour, curated by Diego Sileo.
Project Room - Sheila Hicks / Piero Dorazio. Interlacing Colours14 FebPAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Archival show on Hicks's 1960 Milan meeting with Piero Dorazio: three Dorazio paintings from 1960, a site-specific tribute and Hicks works he inspired.
Matisse: The World in a Room21 FebMUDEC Museo delle Culture
About 100 works tracing how African, Islamic, Russian, Pacific and Chinese art reshaped Henri Matisse, with objects and fabrics from his own collection.
Luciano Fabro: Abitare lo spazio. Inhabiting Space21 FebPirelli HangarBicocca · Free
Retrospective of Luciano Fabro in the Navate: about fifty sculptures and installations, many rebuilt as environmental "habitats", tracing his five-decade inquiry into space and perception.
Also on through February
Global Antiquityto 1 MarFondazione Prada
150+ artworks tracing links between the Mediterranean and Asia from c. 700 BC to 1000 AD, curated by Salvatore Settis and team in a Podium set by Rem Koolhaas and AMO/OMA.
Correspondences. Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smithto 7 MarTriennale Milano
With Fondation Cartier: immersive audiovisual installations and graphic works from Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective's field-recording collaboration.
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.
Tommaso Trini. La terra vista dalla lunato 14 MarMuseo del Novecento
Notebooks, magazines, letters and recordings from critic Tommaso Trini's archive, from Domus to his magazine DATA, in the Archivi Ettore e Claudia Gian Ferrari.
Grazie a Luchino Viscontito 31 MarMuseo 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.
Federico Garolla. Gente d'Italia. Fotografie 1948-1968to 4 AprMuseo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini
About 100 black-and-white photographs of postwar Italy and the economic miracle, with portraits of Guttuso, Campigli, Elsa Morante and Ungaretti.
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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