Exhibitions in Milan

Gallerie d'Italia MilanoPast

Beauty versus ugliness in the Renaissance: Botticelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Dürer and Cranach, from classical ideals to realist portraits, monsters and caricature.

Palazzo CitterioPast

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".

Museo del NovecentoPast

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.

Museo del NovecentoPast

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.

Palazzo Reale di MilanoPast

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.

Museo del NovecentoPast

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.

Fondazione PradaPast

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.

Pinacoteca AmbrosianaPast

Rarely shown treasures from the Ambrosiana's stores, from pre-Columbian Peruvian bowls to Capodimonte porcelain and Japanese scrolls, in rooms 2-3.

Triennale MilanoFreePast

Conceptual art pioneer Robert Barry's word-based works in the Piano Parco spaces of Cucina Triennale, curated by Massimo Minini.

Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria MartiniPast

Winners and finalists of the 2026 World Photography Organisation awards, chosen from 430,000+ entries, including Photographer of the Year Citlali Fabián.

Triennale MilanoPast

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.

Triennale MilanoFreePast

A solo show turning the space into a domestic setting of hybrid art-design works, reconfigured four times over the run.

Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria MartiniPast

Retrospective of the Swiss Magnum photojournalist: 200 vintage prints plus contact sheets, from 1930s Switzerland through postwar Europe and Asia to the Americas.

Gallerie d'Italia MilanoPast

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.

Fondazione PradaPast

Site-specific project at Osservatorio: a new Hito Steyerl film and video installation on flooding, science fiction and quantum leaps through time.

Castello SforzescoPast

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.

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.

Villa 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.

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.

Museo 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.

Triennale Milano

The latest in a series of Sottsass shows around Casa Lana, drawing on works from the Museo del Design Italiano collection.

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.

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.