Exhibitions in Milan

January 2026

January 2026 at a glance: 1 exhibition opened, 0 closed, and 5 more were on view across the city.

Mona Hatoum's Over, under and in between installation in the Cisterna, Fondazione Prada

Paolo Scirpa, Il Teatro, 1988-2019, blue neon on wood

Robert Barry installation at Cucina Triennale

Giorgio Armani Privé 2005-2025 exhibition banner

Canova plaster busts in the exhibition Beauty and the Ideal, Pinacoteca di Brera

Opened in January

Mona Hatoum: Over, under and in between29 Jan
Fondazione 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.

Was on view in January

FOCUS900 | Paolo Scirpa | Alberto Garuttito 27 Sept
Museo 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.
Robert Barryto 30 Sept
Triennale Milano · Free
Conceptual art pioneer Robert Barry's word-based works in the Piano Parco spaces of Cucina Triennale, curated by Massimo Minini.
Giorgio Armani Privé 2005-2025: Twenty Years of Haute Coutureto 20 Dec
Armani/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.
Beauty and the Idealto 17 May
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.
Pinacoteca viaggianteto 17 May
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.

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