The countless images that have come down to us from Ancient Egypt-sculptures, reliefs, paintings-are vivid records of the society that produced them. They are immediately recognizable images because they reflect a precise artistic canon, deeply linked to the Egyptian civilization's vision of the world, both human and divine.

The aim of the exhibition held at the Civic Archaeological Museum is to present Egyptian art and some of its specific features through a selection of artifacts from its collection.

Curated by Sabrina Ceruti

"Il vostro cielo fu mare, il vostro mare fu cielo" [Your sky was sea, your sea was sky] is Adrian Paci’s site-specific installation planned for MUDEC’s Agora in 2024 and a teaser for the exhibition "Travelogue. Stories of Travel, Migration and Diaspora" (March 2025).

The installation transforms the space of the Agora with a mosaic of blue-green hues that refer to the colours of the sea. Each fragment of this seemingly abstract composition is actually a detail taken from photographs published in newspaper articles about migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, showing out of scale the rough rendering of the printed paper.

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

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The history of Galtrucco, which crosses the entire twentieth century, has a strong connection with the city of Milan.

For this reason the brand production also becomes a storytelling about the war, the post war rebuilding, the economic boom and the revitalization of the city that came after the dark period of the Seventies.

Vintage photographs, original documents such as the drawings of Brunetta, advertising on magazines and furnishings of the shops get alternated with a selection of original fashion sketches from the Fifties and the Sixties and about twenty clothes made with the Galtrucco fabrics preserved in the Palazzo Morando collections, in private ones, but also in other Italian museums and in the archives of some maisons.

Curated by Alessandra Coppa, Enrica Morini and Margherita Rosina

Anna Kuliscioff was born on 9 January 1854 and the celebrations for the centenary of her death will begin on 9 January 2025 with the inauguration of a Documentary Exhibition dedicated to her, which will take place at Palazzo Moriggia | Museo del Risorgimento in Milan, the same place where the Anna Kuliscioff Foundation celebrated the 90th anniversary of her death in 2015.

The exhibition will be divided into the following sections:

- Monographs and pamphlets

- Archival documents

- Findings and images

Curated by Fondazione Kuliscioff

A premiere in Italy, more than 100 iconic platinum prints documenting George Hoyningen-Huene's impact in the history of photography.

Influenced by classical art and Surrealism, he was part of Man Ray's inner circle, frequented Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali, Lee Miller, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Cocteau and worked with Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His shots captured the vibrant cultural context of the time, from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, to those of dancers Serge Lifar and Olga Spessivtzeva with costumes designed by De Chirico.

Curated by Susanna Brown

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Dedicated to one of the most influential and recognized figures among 20th-century Italian artists, the Casorati exhibition is an anthology that comprehensively reconstructs the artist's entire career, tracing the various phases of his painting. Designed for the halls of Palazzo Reale, the exhibition presents a collection of one hundred significant works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and graphic works, sourced from prestigious private collections as well as museum institutions. Notably, it features pieces from the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, which houses the largest group of the artist's works.

A cornerstone of this project is the close collaboration with the Archivio Felice Casorati, which has graciously lent crucial paintings alongside engravings, drawings, sculptures, furnishings, and documentation. The exhibition underscores/highlights the historical bond between the artist and the city of Milan. Thirty-five years after the memorable anthology curated by Claudia Gian Ferrari in 1990 (accompanied by a catalogue edited by Maria Mimita Lamberti and featuring an essay by Paolo Fossati), Felice Casorati returns to Palazzo Reale - which will host a landmark event.

Throughout his long career, Casorati consistently attributed a strategic function to Milan, recognized as the first city in Italy to establish a modern art system and market. The exhibition further emphasizes the artist's multifaceted vocation and contributions that extend beyond painting, from sculpture to graphic art, in which, due to his continuous experimentation, he achieved equally high and original results. Not to mention his involvement in drawing, illustration, and a profound passion for music, which led him to a remarkable activity as a set and costume designer for operas.

Curated by Giorgia Bertolino, Ferdinando Mazzocca and Francesco Poli

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Luis Gomez Armenteros states:
I discovered that for the Comanche the word Comanche meant ‘people’, but for others ‘the enemy who always wants to fight against me’. This vision of the self and the other is still very current. Furthermore, they are a nomadic people, a condition that not only converges in my experimental work, but also in my life as an emigrant.

The exhibition will be preceded by a workshop curated by the artist himself.

Curated by Giacomo Zaza

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Leonor Fini fits into the Palazzo Reale's long history of presenting exhibitions on Surrealism and artists related to the movement, as well as its ongoing interest in promoting exhibitions that focus on the recognition of women artists, highlighting their role in society and culture.

The exhibition aims to investigate updated reflections on Fini's work so as to make it accessible to all generations. Her work addresses fundamental issues of contemporary society, such as the questioning of gender, identity, belonging, established models of family, masculinity and femininity.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by a quote from Leonor Fini: «I am a painter. When people ask me how I do it, I reply: 'I am'». This statement reflects her artistic identity, free from rigid frameworks and definitions, a key element throughout her work.

The exhibition includes painting, drawing, photography, decorative art, fashion design, costumes, artist's books and documents to emphasize the artist's multifaceted nature.

Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín

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In 2025, we celebrate the centenary of the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris, the event that marked the rise of the '1925 Style,' or Art Deco—a groundbreaking aesthetic that spread across Europe in the post-war period.

To commemorate this anniversary, the exhibition will present the public with extraordinary examples of Italian and European decorative arts, from glassworks to porcelain and majolica, from textiles to furniture and jewelry, as well as fine art pieces such as paintings, sculptures, drawings, and advertising posters.

It will also feature period images and film clips to recreate as closely as possible the unique and captivating atmosphere of this remarkable era.

Curated by Valerio Terraroli

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The exhibition serves as a specific focus within the "Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità" exhibition and aims to explore, through a broad selection of documents, the project of the Royal Hall at Milan Central Station.

The documentation presented in the exhibition is preserved in the Archives of the FS Italiane Foundation, the Archive of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (Milan), and the Civic Photographic Archive of the Municipality of Milan.

The collection of photographs, drawings, and furnishings of the Royal Hall illustrates how Art Déco—a movement that influenced all artistic languages in the years between the two World Wars—can also be found in Italian railway architecture. This is achieved through a fusion of the vitalistic drive of modernity and tradition: a sort of cross-contamination between the appreciation of Italian formal and technical culture and the development of new stylistic models

Curated by Ilaria Pascale, Simone Percacciolo, Chiara Micol Schiona.

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Presented as an international premiere at Palazzo Reale in Milan, the exhibition brings into dialogue more than 140 works and 80 major contemporary artists from around the world.

From Cindy Sherman to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, from Nan Goldin to Nicole Eisenman, from Kiki Smith to Marc Quinn, from Lisetta Carmi to Francesco Vezzoli; all artists featured in the unprecedented and prestigious contemporary section of the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection who, will be linked and connected by a dialogue on the most important social issues such as the relationship with the body, the ever-changing identity, multiculturalism and the complex interactions between East and West.

It is an experience that crosses temporal and spatial boundaries, proposing a dialogue between visions that are geographically distant but converging on sensitive and inescapable contemporary issues.

Produced by the Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia, in collaboration with the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation, the exhibition represents a unique opportunity to explore, through the eyes of artists who have always demonstrated an ability to see beyond, the social and cultural changes shaping our present.

Curated by Daniele Fenaroli,with the scientific support of Vincenzo De Bellis

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Dedicated to the transversal theme of travel, the exhibition highlights the genesis of the MUDEC collections, built up by exotic artefacts donated by enthusiasts, travellers and researchers.

Starting from the “materiality” of travel (means of transport, souvenirs, suitcases, etc.), the exhibition opens up a new perspective for a different understanding not only of tourism/travel, but also of the migrations and diasporas that have marked and continue to mark recent history, with contributions by contemporary artists.

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

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The exhibition, the first mural art project commissioned in a public museum in Italy, transforms the spaces of MUDEC through the site-specific works by ten international artists: Luca Barcellona, Zoer, Capo.Bianco, Hitnes, Mazatl, Neethi, Cinta Vidal, Agus Rucula, Aya Tarek, and Mohammed l’Ghacham.

Each artist has created an original, unseen work, visible only throughout the exhibition’s opening period, reinterpreting the theme of "Journey" through their own artistic vision: from calligraphic strokes to vibrant brushwork, from engraving to graphic design, each piece is unique and tells a different story.

An extraordinary opportunity to discover the evolution of contemporary urban muralism as a dynamic art form, capable of restoring meaning to the places it involves and that for three months only might be admired within the walls of a museum.

Curated by Alice Cosmai, and in scientific collaboration with Silvia Bignami

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The Museo del Novecento and the ACACIA Association present the work "Briganti" (2023) by Adelita Husni Bey (Milan, 1985), winner of the ACACIA 2025 Award, which becomes part of the Museum's collection, enriching the donation to the Institution promoted by ACACIA since 2015.

In the Focus Room of the Museum it will be possible to visit the exhibition that includes the 5 donated photographs that make up "Briganti" and a selection of works and materials that delve into the work conducted by Husni Bey.

Curated by Gemma De Angelis Testa

Pray for seamen unites places of different geographies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean: Trapani in Sicily, the Kerkennah Islands in Tunisia and Jamestown in Accra, Ghana.

Through Francesco Bellina's photographs, we meet men and women who do the same job: they are fishermen who observe the decline of the seas and share concerns for their future.

Coming from a family of fishermen, Bellina offers an intimate portrait of their lives beyond mere economic and political concerns. Bellina invites us to reconnect with the human dimension of the immense socio-economic transformation we are witnessing.

Although fundamentally rooted in the local reality of coastal communities, Pray for seamen is a global appeal that concerns us closely.

Curated by Aldo Premoli

PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea presents the major solo exhibition of Iranian artist Shirin Neshat (1957, Qazvin), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Art Biennale in 1999, the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 and the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo in 2017.

The exhibition spans the artist’s more than 30-year career, with almost 200 photographs and ten video installations, collected by the world’s most important museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Guggenheim, New York and Tate Modern.

A multidisciplinary artist, Neshat works with photography, video, film and theatre, creating highly lyrical narratives and politically loaded visions that question the themes of power, religion, race and the relationship between past and present, east and west, individual and collective.

Neshat interprets the history and present of her birth country, Iran, and indeed the whole world from the female perspective: from her debut in the 1990s with the Women of Allah series, comprising photographs of women whose bodies are inscribed with poetic calligraphy, to The Fury, a video installation that anticipates the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

Neshat’s work, however, goes beyond the theme of gender and uses male/female dualism as a starting point for exploring the tension between belonging and exile, sanity and insanity, dream and reality.

Curated by Diego Sileo and Beatrice Benedetti

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PAC Project Room presents the first solo exhibition of the artist Celine Croze (1982, Casablanca, Morocco).
SQEVNV, acronym for “Siempre que estemos vivos nos veremos” (“As long as we are alive, we will see each other again”), is truly a journey to the end of the night.

A deeply intimate story where love and violence, Eros and Thanatos, dominate every scene, revealing Celine’s inner turmoil – one that embraces the rules of a life lived beyond limits.

Her artistic path is informed by her need to tell stories (including her own) through the darkest, most violent side of Latin America, where the shadows are deeper and the light more blinding.

These are worlds of the mind. Dreamlike. Perhaps nightmarish. She employs powerful symbols and archetypes that speak of life and death, uncompromisingly and with no masks.

Curated by Claudio Composti

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Palazzo Morando | Costume Moda Immagine dedicates a tribute to Pippa Bacca (Milano, 1974 – Gebze, 2008).

The exhibition offers an itinerary through the museum's rooms that creates an ironic and often surprising conversation with the artworks showcased inside the historical apartments and the Milan-dedicated path, Pippa Bacca's hometown and city from where her last performance Bride on tour started on March 8th, 2008.

Curated by Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo and Mirco Marino

With an installation by Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò

In a great new solo show titled Pastorale, artist Nico Vascellari will be presenting recent and new works in various spaces of Palazzo Reale in Milan, including the majestic Sala delle Cariatidi, in the spring of 2025.

Through an anthropological gaze, Vascellari (b. 1976, Vittorio Veneto) explores the connection between man and nature, intertwining personal and collective dimensions through works spanning performance, installation, sculpture, video, and sound.

The project draws inspiration from the history of the Sala, particularly the events of the 20th century that led to its near-total destruction during the 1943 bombing of Milan, and the subsequent monumental 1953 exhibition of Guernica by Pablo Picasso. Pastorale is also set to expand to other locations throughout the city and will feature performance, sculpture, installation, and sound works.

Curated by Sergio Risaliti

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The Fondazione Henraux, in collaboration with Galleria d'Arte Moderna, presents an exhibition dedicated to the artist Anna Boghiguian (1946, Cairo).

The exhibition project enacts within the room of the museum a dialogue between the works of the permanent collection and the artist’s recent output, including a series of new sculptures made of marble.

Through her artworks, Boghiguian addresses themes related to history, politics, colonialism and human conditions, with a style that interweaves narrative and social critique. Her works are expressive pathways that are forever open to new readings and reworkings, on the basis of a vision of existence and time as continual metamorphosis.

Curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti

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Twelve masterful portraits to raise public awareness on environmental conservation.

An installation conceived and created by internationally renowned photographer Fabrizio Ferri to expose the devastating impact of plastic and microplastics on our oceans and human health. The exhibition highlights the undeniable link between marine pollution and its lethal consequences for life on Earth.

Inspired by harrowing images of marine animals suffocated by plastic waste, BREATHTAKING will immerse visitors in the deafening silence of the ocean depths through a powerful and evocative installation. At its heart, a large glass coffin filled with seawater—a stark symbol of the fragility of aquatic ecosystems and life itself—will be surrounded by twelve striking portraits displayed against a black wall, pierced by raw iron nails.

The portraits, capturing their subjects in a harrowing act of suffocation—ensnared in plastic—feature exceptional figures such as Helena Christensen, Misty Copeland, Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gala Gonzalez, Julianne Moore, Bridget Moynahan, Carolyn Murphy,Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon, and Naomi Watts. The exhibition also explores four key themes: the environmental dimension, the economic dimension, the anthropological and moral dimension.

All exhibition content will be further expanded on a dedicated website, accessible during the visit via QR codes placed throughout the space

Curated by Fabrizio Ferri Photography and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Concomitantly with the hundredth anniversary of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth (1925–2008), the Museo del Novecento of Milan presents a major exhibition project that aims to create a bridge between the works conceived by the American artist, who was a key figure of international art history, and some of the most meaningful masterpieces on display in the Museum, weaving a plot between the experimental vision of the New Dada master and the refreshed gallery spaces hosting the Museum’s permanent collection.

With the consultancy of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the curators have designed an exhibition path that includes eight selected works from Rauschenberg’s production from the 1970s and 1980s, unveiling thematic affinities, formal connections, and concept analogies.

Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello and Nicola Ricciardi with Viviana Bertanzetti

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The Museo del Novecento devotes an exhibition to Artshow, the historical guidebook to contemporary art exhibitions and events that was established in Milan in the late 1980s as a critical and orientation tool.

Artshow Edizioni has published a pocket guide, free of charge for thousands of users, for over twenty years. It was free of comments for easy and straightforward consultation. Initially focused on exhibitions in Milan, it expanded within a few years to cover the entire country.

The exhibition retraces the history of Artshow, highlighting its covers and related publications produced over the years.

Curated by Giulio Ciavoliello

The exhibition retraces the career of designer Nanda Vigo through unpublished archive documents, in a setting that offers a glimpse of her studio.

The furnishings and a selection of works will be shown in the exhibition that CASVA, as part of Design Week, proposes to celebrate the donation.

Curated by Giampiero Bosoni, Mariella Brenna, Maria Fratelli and Francesca Picchi.

The immersion in commercial catalogs allows us to navigate through different categories of objects to wear, use and give as gifts.

The exhibition will offer a selection of graphic materials from the collections of the Raccolta Bertarelli, illustrating the transition from catalogs with engravings and photographs to those created by illustrators and designers, emphasizing their fundamental role within the advertising and sales process.

Curated by Marta Sironi

My passion for marine animals was born in this place, as a child. A visit to the Aquarium was an immersion in a fantastic world, spying on other very different living beings through a glass, a diaphragm that allowed us to capture fragments of life, habits, unexpected behaviors, sudden flashes or very slow processions.

The fluid and changing aspect of the water element and the life that stirs in it, even in the finite space of a tank as a living diorama can be seen as the perfect metaphor of the human mind and thought.

The intention of the exhibition is precisely to attract the visitor's attention through the playful and unexpected aspect of the diorama, and then possibly intrigue him by reading the accompanying caption to understand a broader interpretative theme, taking advantage of the incredible variety of marine life forms.

Curated by Andrea Lancellotti

The Living Sea, a collection of Hussain Aga Khan’s underwater photography, offers a glimpse into the extraordinary biodiversity in oceans around Mexico, Egypt, Tonga and Moorea.

The exhibition is presented for the first time in Milan. The partnership between Focused on Nature (founded by Hussain Aga Khan) and Marevivo (founded by Rosalba Giugni), is based on a mutual commitment to protect marine ecosystems, the numerous species of animals that inhabit them and the necessity to seek impactful solutions to reduce ocean pollution.

Curated by TAU DISEÑO

THE CARABINIERI CORPS. From its foundation to nowadays

The Carabinieri Legion Command "Lombardy", in collaboration with Triennale, Palazzo Reale and the Civic Museums – Municipality of Milan, will organize an exhibition in the halls of Palazzo Reale in Milan to celebrate the 211th anniversary of the founding of the Carabinieri Corps.

The exhibition will feature historical uniforms of the Carabinieri alongside paintings and sculptures from civic collections, as well as works by contemporary artists—such as Paladino, Chia, and Clemente—on loan from the Historical Museum of the Corps and private collections. These contributions will help narrate the story of the Institution, from its founding to the present day.

Curated by Damiano Gullì

The comparison between some sculptures by the artist Vincenzo Balena and works from the Archaeological Museum will highlight how the memory of the ancient still permeates artistic creation today, in correspondence with a new perception of classical art.

The theme of the portrait will offer particular opportunities for comparison, allowing us to highlight its different functions, such as human or divine image, celebratory or private, psychological or transfigured with respect to reality.

Curated by Valter Rosa, Francesca Pensa and Anna Provenzali

IIn the first Centenary of Mario Giacomelli's birth, Palazzo Reale is hosting a major retrospective exhibition, featuring more than 300 original photographic works including vintage and vintage prints, documents and archival materials.

In an evocative narrative itinerary, built on large chronological chapters, winding through the photographic series inspired by the readings of great poets, the exhibition celebrates the pivotal theme of photography as a narrative, structured with the language of the unconscious.

The exhibition project is completed with an exhibition dedicated to the metamorphoses of matter and its performative conception of photography, to be held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. This unprecedented collaboration is intended to document and critically reread the entire human and artistic journey of one of the greatest photographers of our time.

Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Katiuscia Biondi Giacomelli

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On the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation, the Civiche Raccolte Storiche propose a documentary exhibition to tell the story and the motivations behind the awarding of the Gold Medal for Military Valour to the city of Milan in 1948.

The motivations of the medal are linked to four moments in the city's history that had national significance: the Five Days of 1848, the revolt of 6 February 1853, 9 September 1943 and 25 April 1945, extremes of the period in which Milan ‘stood up to the ruthless enemy of all time, the pride and momentum of an implacable partisan struggle'.

Each section of the exhibition will be dedicated to an in-depth examination of these dates with a historical reconstruction accompanied by original documents.

Curated by Gregorio Taccola (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) in collaboration with Ilaria Torelli and Patrizia Foglia. In collaboration with Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

It is an exhibition that tells the story of the pioneering special effects of the famous cult film The Neverending Story.

The initiative has a cultural, educational and social mission: to safeguard the art and inventiveness of artisanal techniques through dissemination and entertainment, with the aim of raising awareness among the younger generations and motivating them to explore tangible rather than virtual solutions, to give a more concrete form to their creativity.

Curated by Marcello Baretta, Pierfilippo Siena

The exhibition intends to display the winning project of the twentieth edition of the Amilcare Ponchielli award, the first Italian photo editor.

Special mention will be given to the best photographic project on the theme of women's rights and gender equality.

Curated by Premio Ponchielli

In collaboration with New York-located Participant INC, this is the first anthological exhibition of artist Alessandro Codagnone and John Lovett.

Born in Milan in 1995, the Italian-American duo has ranged with their oeuvre from photography to sculpture, from video to installation up to performance, a medium which often sees the two artists as protagonists in an ironic role-play aimed at unmasking the power relations that are defined within interpersonal relationships.

Their art explores the dynamics of power and reflects on those processes of normalization in progress that castrate and suffocate sub-cultures, practices of dissent, the affirmation of the subjective. Six years after Codagnone’s death, the exhibition will be a unique opportunity to understand his relevance in the artistic panorama and his influence on the next generations.

Curated by Diego Sileo

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Berruti is one of the most recognizable Italian artists in the world and has exhibited in dozens of international museums: this exhibition will consiste of large, interactive and scenographic installations.

There will therefore be sculptures, projections, scenic "mechanisms". The theme that will accompany the viewer through the exhibition is childhood, a subjet treated by Berruti throughout his entire career.

Childhood is our common denominator, a moment that we all shared, Berruti's works speaks to us precisely about that specific moment in life when everything is still to be decided, by transporting it into a metaphor that goes much further.

Curated by Nicolas Ballario

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"Appunti G - inventario femminile del terzo millennio" - which is part of the WondHer project in collaboration with Terre des Hommes - is a format born from the meeting between Rita Pelusio, actress, author and director and Laila Pozzo, one of the rising stars of auteur photography, to question themselves with an ironic, non-divisive and pop language on themes related to the female universe: women empowerment, the gender gap, self-acceptance (body positivity), identity and rights still denied.

It is a ‘collective game’ that involved 200 women from the most diverse professional fields.

Each portrait is accompanied by a reflection on the theme of rights and the relationship between women and the world that surrounds them. Their words compose a sort of story and reflection, each with its own personal register,on the female universe.

Curated by Rita Pelusio and Laila Pozzo

With his first Milanese exhibition on the theme, Resi Girardello wants to evoke submerged cities through the language of sculpture/installation.

Starting from the installation SUBMERGED VENICE, inspired by a 2020 article in Le Scienze, according to which by 2100 the rising sea levels will have a major impact on the environment and cultural heritage of coastal cities around the world, Girardello intends to focus on the skyline of some coastal cities around the world, such as Venice, New York, Singapore and Tokyo to raise awareness of the need to adopt sustainable solutions.

Curated by Emanuele Beluffi

The design framework of "Milano città che sale" is based on the possibility of creating cultural exhibition interventions, adapting the production logic of TV series to the world of art exhibitions, or using the serial mode that contemporaneity enjoys today on various on-demand channels applied to the world of art exhibitions.

The project will consist of seven episodes/exhibitions, each lasting 21 days: Elio Vittorini and Milan, Albe Steiner Research Notebook, Giovanni Testori and the Secrets of Milan; the case of Arialda, Tullio Brunone; Laboratory of Militant Communication, Milanottanta, Paolo Rosa; The Swimmer (He Goes Too Often to Heidelberg) and Around, Luisa Spinatelli.

Curated by Progetto Scalpendi

Among the most significant artists of the contemporary Italian scene, Remo Salvadori (Cerreto Guidi, 1947) has been investigating the interaction between elements such as water, colour and metals since the 1970’s. He proposes a renewed formulation of the artwork defined by alchemical mutations and streams of knowledge that invite the observer to a new awareness of the self and the world.

The exhibition, which will include about 50 works at Palazzo Reale and a site-specific work at the Museo del Novecento, rather than follow a chronological itinerary, intends to develop and focus upon those themes that are at the basis of his theoretical, pictorial and sculptural universe.

Curated by Elena Tettamanti and Antonella Soldaini

The Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano presents a monographic exhibition on Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, through a selection of paintings and drawings that trace his artistic and biographical career.

This event, the first in Milan dedicated to him, offers an opportunity to explore the role of the artist in the divisionist movement, deepening themes related to social realism and the symbolist influences that have marked his artistic production.

Curated by Aurora Scotti and Paola Zatti

Le chat (The Cat) is not only a popular comic strip: since the 90s it has been the main subject of several exhibitions, depicted in paintings (large format acrylics) as well as in sculptures inspired by classical and contemporary art.

Caustic and irreverent, without sparing its own author and creator, the Cat imitates and challenges, illustrates and contrasts all the myths and mysteries of the subjective universal, from Myron's discus thrower to the Venus de Milo, from Leonardo's Mona Lisa to Vermeer's Milkmaid, from Rodin's Thinker to Van Gogh's chair.

Curated by Philippe Geluck, Fabio Di Gioia, Barbara Altomonte

The exhibition is the culmination of a careful study of the more than six hundred drawings that can be traced back to Antonio Guasconi's collection, which came into the Civic Collections by bequest in 1863 and is now housed in the Gabinetto dei Disegni.

Guasconi assembled an eclectic collection of drawings, with a predilection for eighteenth-century Venetian artists, including several capriccios by Gian Domenico Tiepolo.

Curated by Alessia Alberti and Marco Riccòmini

Andrea Appiani (Milan, 1754-1817), an eminent Neoclassical painter, gained significant renown both in his own time and in subsequent eras, although only recently has his work been reconsidered with the full appreciation it deserves. Celebrated as the “first painter of Napoleon,” he portrayed the emperor at various stages of his career and created renowned frescoes, such as the Apotheosis of Napoleon in the Royal Palace of Milan. He also worked for Archduke Ferdinand and drew inspiration from Giuseppe Parini, embodying the ideals of the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism.

Appiani undertook prestigious commissions for prominent figures such as Giovanni Battista Sommariva and Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Duke of Lodi. Among his masterpieces, The Parnassus (1811) in the Royal Villa of Milan secured his reputation as "a new Raphael." Falling ill in 1813, he was unable to complete the decoration of the Sala della Lanterna, which was later finished by Romantic artists like Francesco Hayez.

The exhibition, in collaboration with the Châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Brera Art Gallery, and Villa Carlotta, aims to reconstruct Appiani’s artistic journey through works from Italian and international collections, highlighting his preparatory drawings and designs for art objects, such as medals and furniture crafted by Giuseppe Maggiolini.

Scientific Committee: Domenico Piraina, Mariangela Privitera, Francesca Tasso, Alessia Alberti, Emanuela Carpani, Paola Strada, Simone Percacciolo, Paola Zatti, Elisabeth Caude and Remi Cariel

Curated by Fernando Mazzocca, Francesco Leone and Domenico Piraina

Man Ray is, without a doubt, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century art history. He was among the first to embrace photography as an actual creative medium, by realising iconic works that became symbolic milestones in the evolution of modern art.

The retrospective scheduled from September 2025 at Palazzo Reale will allow the public to follow the biographical stages and career of the Man Ray, through an important nucleus of original materials (vintage prints, negatives, collages, documents) and thus illustrate Man Ray's history from his birth (1890, Philadelphia), to the New York milieus where he discovered the European avant-garde and struck up a friendship with Marcel Duchamp, to his Parisian landing in 1921.

In Paris he was welcomed by the poets André Breton, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard and then met the singer and model Kiki de Montparnasse – his beloved and muse creating immortal photographs, such as Noire et blanche or Le Violon d’Ingres.

He would later dedicate himself to the fashion world and to the development of his renowned “rayographs” and “solarizations”. He returned to the United States in 1940 and then back to Paris in 1951, where he remained until his death in 1976.

Through a thematic journey (self-portraits, muses, nudes, rayographs and solarizations, fashion), this exhibition offers the rediscovery of a truly one-of-a-kind artist and brilliant pioneer.

Curated by Pierre-Yves Butzbach and Robert Rocca

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This exhibition, the first in Italy to be dedicated to the work of Leonora Carrington, aims to explore the artist in all her complexity, highlighting her creative universe and powerful intellectual dimension through her visionary and multifaceted works.

The exhibition will emphasize Carrington's lifelong relationship with Italy, starting with her discovery of Italian art in Florence as a teenager and exploring her post-Victorian and Celtic origins as well as her affiliation with Surrealism. Alongside these key aspects of her life, the project is divided into various themes that narrate Carrington's journey as a woman artist, migrant, exile, mother, avant-garde feminist, ecologist, and an artist who spent her entire life as a perpetual traveler through other worlds and dimensions, in a permanent quest for self-knowledge.

The exhibition includes not only paintings but also photographs, books from her personal library, and archival material.

Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 - 1972) was a Dutch artist and printmaker whose works, mainly etchings declined in different techniques, made him one of the most famous graphic artists of the 20th century.

The exhibition, in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum in The Hague, will offer visitors a broad view of Escher's artistic career, with a special focus providing a comparison between the artist's work and some masterpieces of Islamic art.
Although, indeed, the only connection between these two worlds have been Escher's visits to Moorish Spain and southern Italy, there are remarkable similarities in form, mathematical-geometric approach, and even sometimes in theme.

Escher's works are immediately recognizable for their predisposition to depict so-called “impossible constructions,” exploring the concept of infinity, the tessellation of planes and space, and the study of geometries and metamorphoses that gradually take on different and paradoxical forms, all themes that link his artistic production to that of Islamic culture.

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Artificial Beauty is an exhibition dedicated to the artistic research of Andrea Crespi. It explores contemporary aesthetics through the dualism between human and artificial, intertwining past and future, tradition and innovation.

Offering a sensorial and multimedia journey, it examines how technology is reshaping concepts of beauty and identity.

Through a collection of new, site-specific works, it invites reflection on the tensions and harmonies between nature and digital, fostering deeper insight into progress and humanity in the post-Internet era.

Curated by Alisia Viola

To commemorate the anniversary of the end of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Dayton Agreement signed on November 21, 1995, Casa della Memoria presents the exhibition 'Shooting in Sarajevo,' a project by Luigi Ottani and Roberta Biagiarelli.

The idea was to photograph (shooting) Sarajevo from the same locations where snipers besieged the city and its inhabitants between 1992 and 1995.

Curated by Roberta Bigiarelli

Alps, theatre of battles is the sequel to Si combatteva qui, a photographic exhibition dedicated to the sites of the First World War and held at Palazzo Moriggia, following the same geographical and emotional thread.

After his explorations of the battlefields of the Great War, Alessio Franconi's photojournalism continues and retraces the Alps to remember the forgotten battles of the Second World War. Spectacular abandoned places are traversed where known and lesser-known facts of a conflict that left deep scars on the ground and society happened.

Seventh exhibition appointment of the program dedicated to the most significant protagonists of today's scene by the Furla Foundation.

The project, curated by Bruna Roccasalva and carried out in collaboration with GAM, will be built, as in previous editions, on the close dialogue between what on display at the exhibition, indoor and outdoor spaces, and the works of the museum's permanent collection.

Curated by Bruna Roccasalva

Neither New Age atmosphere nor exotic divinities or seductive Bollywood stars for the new PAC collective project dedicated to world cultures through the gaze of contemporary artists.

The exhibition will present that wave of experimentation and research that has hit contemporary Indian art in all its expressive forms. The result of a long and articulated research work carried out by Raqs media collective, who are also the curators of the project, the exhibition aims at immortalizing, as if in a snapshot, different generations of artists who deal with painting, photography, sculpture, installation, web art and cinema.

An insight into art and life in current India, starting from the bottom, from the streets – both allegorical and otherwise –, along paths crossed by migratory flows and information highways; connection (and fracture) between rural reality and technological innovation.

Curated by Raqs Media Collective e Ferran Barenblit

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Milan has always been a "sound city", a city of sounds, a sound locomotive in full motion. From industrial capital to music capital.

Around its venues, its artists, since the advent of recorded music during the twentieth century, the activity of record companies, labels, born or hosted in Milan, has been added, a new industry that has made the history of Italian sounds, welcoming artists from all over the country and also from abroad.

It is an infinite mosaic, to which Slow Music wants to pay homage with an exhibition, to bring together in one place the history of the great record companies and labels of Milan, from the dawn of recorded music to the present day.

Curated by Leonardo Rescic, Stefano Bonagura and Claudio Trotta

With “Ombra di tutti”, artist Patrizio Raso gives substance to the shadow of the Monument to Roberto Franceschi, weaving together the student’s clothes with those donated by 150 people encountered across Italy with the Roberto Franceschi Foundation.

Collectively wearable, the work serves as a space for dialogue, testimony, and memory to be re-inhabited. The research is documented through photographs, texts, and a documentary film by Anna Frigo.

The exhibition addresses one of the issues with the greatest impact on bird conservation and the natural environment: the use of lead in hunting ammunition.

Saturnism, poisoning given by involuntary ingestion of lead, kills 2,300,000 birds in Europe each year. Since 2023, the European Parliament has banned its use in wetlands.

The exhibition contains texts, images and objects, including bird specimens from the Milan Museum of Natural History..

Curated by Enrico Bassi, Gloria Ramello and Giorgio Chiozzi