Exhibitions in Milan

Palazzo Reale di Milano

Fifty colour and black-and-white photographs, many unseen, by portrait photographer Fabrizio Ferri, stripping faces and bodies of artifice.

Palazzo Citterio

Davide Maria Coltro's Quadro Mediale project turns Palazzo Citterio's LED wall into a surface of continuous painterly events, with the Museo nazionale dell'Arte digitale.

Pirelli HangarBicoccaFree

Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga transforms the Shed with immersive installations merging painting, sculpture and performance to question architecture as an expression of power.

Palazzo 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".

Gallerie 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.

PAC 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.

Pinacoteca di Brera

Centenary of the Amici di Brera: paintings, sculptures, drawings and documents that entered the Pinacoteca through the Association's gifts, many not normally on view.

Triennale Milano

Over 200 works tracing Nivola's transatlantic career, from Olivetti graphics and sand-cast concrete reliefs to large anthropomorphic sculptures.

PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

Italy's first retrospective of Sheila Hicks: 200+ fibre works on identity, feminism and colour, curated by Diego Sileo.

MUDEC 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.

Pirelli HangarBicoccaFree

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.

Palazzo Citterio

Digital performances by Marina Abramović, carried out by her avatar, on Palazzo Citterio's LED wall, presented by the Museo nazionale dell'Arte digitale.

Palazzo Reale di Milano

Twenty years after her death, iconic and unseen photos, manuscripts and personal objects portray journalist Oriana Fallaci, her method, battles and legacy. Nov 2026-Feb 2027.

Fondazione 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.

Triennale Milano

With Fondation Cartier: immersive audiovisual installations and graphic works from Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective's field-recording collaboration.

Museo 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.

Museo 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.

Museo 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.

Museo 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.

Palazzo Citterio

About 100 works by Mario Schifano on the second floor, from the 1960s monochromes to late cycles, plus an image-flow room in the Sala Stirling.

Museo Bagatti Valsecchi

Textile-based contemporary works from the Canclini Collection, by Pistoletto, Buren, Boetti, Kounellis, Warhol and Kusama, shown in the house's neo-Renaissance rooms.

Pinacoteca di Brera

The "travelling gallery" of Count Sommariva: 99 miniature enamels (1810-1825) copying Neoclassical masterpieces from his collection, carried with him across Europe.

Pinacoteca 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.

Fondazione Prada

A project by Cyprien Gaillard at Osservatorio, in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, on the gradual disappearance of public space under privatization and security policies.