Exhibitions in Milan
November 2026
November at a glance: 6 exhibitions opening, 5 closing, and 20 more on view across the city.
Opening in November
Global Antiquity5 NovFondazione 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.
Costantino Nivola11 NovTriennale 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 love17 NovPAC 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 Colours17 NovPAC 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.
Federico Garolla. Gente d'Italia. Fotografie 1948-196819 NovMuseo 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.
Correspondences. Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith26 NovTriennale Milano
With Fondation Cartier: immersive audiovisual installations and graphic works from Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective's field-recording collaboration.
Closing in November
Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year: Charmaine Poh1 NovMUDEC Museo delle Culture · Free
First Italian solo show by Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh: video, photography and performance on memory, identity, power and digital visibility.
Youth and Future1 NovPalazzo Reale di Milano · Free
Free group show from Giovanni Caccamo's youth project: works by Cattelan, Pistoletto, Kapoor, Gormley, Penone and more, inspired by young people's visions of change.
Passione Disegno8 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 between9 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.
Photo Grant Deloitte 202629 NovTriennale Milano · Free
Free show of the winning photographers of the 2026 Deloitte Photo Grant, an international award for contemporary documentary photography, in the Impluvium.
Also on through November
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.
Furla Series – Shilpa Gupta. One Palm Closer to the Skyto 6 JanGAM 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.
Carla Cerati. Plurale femminile. Fotografia e scrittura, 1926-2026to 10 JanPalazzo 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.
Il "segno" di San Francesco: immagini di una vitato 13 JanPinacoteca Ambrosiana
For the 800th anniversary of St Francis's death: four paintings, engravings and drawings of his life, many shown for the first time, including sheets from the Codice Resta.
Aki Sasamoto: XYZto 17 JanPirelli 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.
Picabia. Aprire le porte della notteto 24 JanPalazzo Reale di Milano
Italy's largest ever Francis Picabia show: 170+ paintings, drawings, photos and archive pieces exploring night as a metaphor for desire and reinvention.
Dalí e la modato 31 JanPalazzo Reale di Milano
Over 200 paintings, drawings, photos, garments and jewels trace Salvador Dalí's surrealist collaborations with fashion designers, photographers and maisons.
I Brueghel. Le origini dei generi pittorici in Europato 31 JanPalazzo 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.
Peter Halleyto 31 JanTriennale Milano · Free
American Neo-Conceptualist Peter Halley brings three decades of prints, installation and new digital works to the spaces of Cucina Triennale.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Annunciazioneto 31 JanMuseo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini
A single-masterpiece loan from Capodimonte: Artemisia's 1630 Annunciation, her first known work painted in Naples, showing her at full maturity.
LIBERE! 1946-2026. Le conquiste delle donneto 7 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.
Matisse: The World in a Roomto 21 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 Spaceto 21 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.
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.
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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