Untitled Association presents a guide to the must-see exhibitions, events, and initiatives during Milano Art Week 2026. This guide offers curated itineraries for art professionals, enthusiasts, and curious visitors, exploring museums, institutional spaces, private galleries, and independent venues. For a complete overview of all itineraries, please click here. The physical map is available in our new print issue, number 132, presented at miart.
Today’s journey begins in the Città Studi district with galleries Massimodecarlo and Ncontemporary, and the Fondazione Emilio Scanavino. We then move to the Centrale area towards Porta Garibaldi, visiting galleries Vistamare Milano, A Arte Invernizzi, and Zazà, as well as the Volvo Studio. Our route continues to the Farini district with Galleria Frittelli Rizzo, concluding beyond the monumental cemetery in the Cenisio area at Galleria Lia Rumma.
Paris Internationale Milano: What to Know About the New Fair
The first edition of the contemporary art fair Paris Internationale Milano, held outside of France, opens today at Palazzo Galbani. During Milano Art Week and the early days of Milano Design Week, Paris Internationale Milano showcases an international selection of 34 galleries. Their programs reflect the fair’s curatorial identity: an independent platform fostering dialogue between emerging artistic practices and established research, creating a meeting space for diverse generations, geographies, and sensibilities within the contemporary scene.
Alongside gallery presentations, “Special Projects” are integrated across the building’s floors as site-responsive interventions that engage with the space, expanding the traditional fair format. Notable Special Projects include works by Anthea Hamilton presented by kaufmann repetto, Ambra Castagnetti from Francesca Minini, Anna Franceschini at Vistamare, and Lee Scratch Perry from suns.works, as well as Robert Mapplethorpe at Franco Noero. Keteleer and Lia Rumma also present a joint project by Luca Monterastelli, while Ordet dedicates a space to Cosima von Bonin.
The fair’s setup is developed in collaboration with the Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein, which has been shaping Paris Internationale’s spatial identity since 2022. In partnership with Milanese designers NM3, they have created a modular system of self-supporting walls.
Milano Art Week 2026: Today’s Event Map
We start in the Città Studi district, near the Loreto metro stop, with our first stops: the Massimodecarlo and Ncontemporary galleries, and the Fondazione Emilio Scanavino.
At Massimodecarlo gallery, the first solo exhibition of Pietro Roccasalva, titled Io ti saluto, luce, ma con nervi offesi, is on display. This project reviews the artist’s practice through new works and existing pieces from his iconographic repertoire, featuring imaginary landscapes, paradoxical still lifes, and recurring figures—a child with unkempt hair and nails, a girl with her doll, a bride with a mysterious racket, and a mother holding a strange cornucopia.
The nearby Ncontemporary gallery, in its project room, presents the group exhibition When The Sun Sets, curated by Erica Massaccesi. Six international artists—Marion Baruch, Aldo Mondino, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Neil Raitt, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Santiago Reyes Villaveces—along with an intervention by the designer/architect collective EX, each explore the horizon as a multifaceted threshold. This includes a geographical border, a symbolic and liminal space, and the distance between oneself and the other, between the known and the elsewhere.
A short distance away, the Fondazione Emilio Scanavino and the Alik Cavaliere Artistic Center, in collaboration with Prometeogallery, are restaging Omaggio all’America Latina (1971). This monumental work, conceived by Cavaliere and Scanavino for the XI São Paulo Biennial, returns to the spotlight over 50 years after its diplomatic exclusion. It is presented not as a historical document but as a living presence, with the performative reactivation Homage to Latin America – VEILING by Regina José Galindo for Milano Art Week 2026.
We move to the Centrale area towards Porta Garibaldi for our next stops: Vistamare Milano, A Arte Invernizzi, Zaza’ galleries, and the Volvo Studio.
Near the Lima metro stop, Vistamare Milano gallery opens the solo exhibition Tangible Kinships by Rosa Barba. The exhibition delves into Barba’s ongoing interest in cinema, viewed as both a medium for image creation and a physical system that activates light, projection, performance, and space.
A short distance away, A Arte Invernizzi gallery hosts the group exhibition Fragilità. Visioni Di Una Forza Formativa, curated by Davide Mogetta. The exhibition explores the formative tension of fragility in works by Dadamaino, François Morellet, Arcangelo Sassolino, Günter Umberg, and Grazia Varisco. This project, stemming from a dialogue between Günter Umberg and Davide Mogetta, investigates a profoundly personal yet universal theme: encountering vulnerability.
Not to be missed is the event at zazà, featuring the solo exhibition Play, Part, Cut (A City) by François Durel. Within the framework of Paris Internationale, zazà also presents a special project by SAGG NAPOLI. At the fair entrance, two large-scale textual works on construction netting reflect on visibility, positioning, and the role of networking.
Close to Piazza Alvar Aalto, Volvo Studio hosts the inauguration of the exhibition and site-specific installation Breath. Architettura della leggerezza. The Mandalaki studio, in collaboration with Viasaterna, transforms Volvo Studio Milano into an environment dedicated to the most intangible element: air. BREATH, conceived as a dynamic sculpture where light becomes moving matter, translates purity, dynamism, and breath into an immersive and calibrated experience. The exhibition unfolds from the display areas to the offices through images and projections that deepen the collective’s investigation into the relationship between air, light, and space over time.
Crossing the Biblioteca degli Alberi di Milano, we arrive in the Farini district for our next stop at Galleria Frittelli Rizzo, featuring the solo exhibition Dadamaino. Il lavoro, il tempo di Nouvelle Tendance, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni. In collaboration with the Dadamaino Archive, the exhibition delves into one of the artist’s most complex periods. Between 1962 and 1970, while absent from the exhibition scene, Dadamaino intensely engaged in cultural organization, collaborating with figures like François Morellet, Antonio Calderara, and Jan Schoonhoven, and drawing closer to the experiments of Nouvelle Tendance.
Finally, beyond the monumental cemetery, in the Cenisio area, we reach Galleria Lia Rumma for the inauguration of the solo exhibition I wish to die in autumn moonlight even in darkness not to be lost by Anselm Kiefer. This exhibition runs parallel to Le Alchimiste, a project conceived by Kiefer for the Sala delle Cariatidi at Palazzo Reale, curated by Gabriella Belli.
Within a female pantheon, large canvases almost six meters high evoke and depict women who have made fundamental contributions to modern science through alchemy over the centuries.
The inauguration will be preceded at 5:30 PM by a talk at the Teatro Dal Verme with Anselm Kiefer and Natacha Fabbri, a historian of science and philosophy, in a conversation moderated by Gabriella Belli, curator of the Palazzo Reale exhibition. The artist will personally share the philosophical inspirations and methods that unite the alchemical transformation of matter with his contemporary vision, in a continuous dialogue between ancient knowledge and artistic creation.
We also remind you about the thirtieth edition of miart, the international modern and contemporary art fair directed by Nicola Ricciardi, located at the new South Wing of Allianz MiCo, an architectural space overlooking the contemporary landscape of CityLife. Within miart, don’t miss the 3 PM talk, Lucio Fontana oltre il mito – Riflessioni da un progetto editoriale, with contributions from Marco Vianello, Pierluca Nardoni, Maria Villa, and Fulvio Ravagnani.
For an evening event at 7 PM, we highlight After After Party, a screening and performance curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Barbara Casavecchia. The Istituto Svizzero and Mousse invite you to share an evening born from the intertwining of their practices. After After Party presents a program of videos and live performances, co-curated around a common thread that dialogues with Romane de Watteville’s exhibition at the Istituto Svizzero and Mousse Magazine’s editorial line. The project focuses on the moment following collective celebration, exploring the party as a ritual. The event, which also marks Mousse’s twentieth anniversary, concludes with It’s ok to cry, a “sad karaoke” commissioned from artist Sara Leghissa.
ITINERARY #5
Paris Internationale Milano
Palazzo Galbani
Via Fabio Filzi, 25/R
parisinternationale.com
@aaaahhhparisinternationale
Paris Internationale Milano – I Edition
April 18 – April 21, 2026
VIP preview and vernissage by invitation April 17, 2026
Massimodecarlo
Viale Lombardia, 17
massimodecarlo.com
@massimodecarlogallery
Io ti saluto, luce, ma con nervi offesi
Pietro Roccasalva
Until April 19, 2026
Ncontemporary
Via Giovanni Lulli, 5
ncontemporary.com
+393493173687
+393470016755
@ncontemporary_gallery
At Project Room
When The Sun Sets
curated by Erica Massaccesi
April 13 – May 30, 2026
Fondazione Emilio Scanavino
Piazza Aspromonte, 17
fondazionescanavino.org
@fondazionescanavino
Omaggio all’America Latina
Alik Cavaliere, Emilio Scanavino
April 14 – June 14, 2026
Vistamare Milano
Via Gaspare Spontini, 8
vistamare.com
+39 0263471549
@galleriavistamare
Tangible Kinships
Rosa Barba
April 17 – June 20, 2026
A Arte Invernizzi
Via Domenico Scarlatti, 12
aarteinvernizzi.it
+39 0229402855
@aarteinvernizzi
Fragilità. Visioni Di Una Forza Formativa
Group show curated by Davide Mogetta
Until May 6, 2026
Zazà
Via Privata Leopoldo Gasparotto, 44
z-a-z-a.space
@zaza__milano__napoli
Play, Part, Cut (A City)
François Durel
April 8 – [End Date not specified]
Volvo Studio
Viale della liberazione with via
Melchiorre Gioia
volvocars.com
@volvostudiomilano
Breath. Architettura della leggerezza
Studio Mandalaki in collaboration with Viasaterna
April 17 – April 26, 2026
Galleria Frittelli Rizzo
Viale Stelvio, 66
frittelliarte.it
+39 02 36504095
@galleriafrittellirizzo
Dadamaino. Il lavoro, il tempo di Nouvelle Tendance
curated by Flaminio Gualdoni
Until April 19, 2026
Galleria Lia Rumma
Via Stilicone, 19
liarumma.it
+39.0229000101
+39.0236511702
@liarummagallery
I wish to die in autumn moonlight even in darkness not to be lost
Anselm Kiefer
April 17 – July 24, 2026
Miart – international fair of modern and contemporary art
Allianz MiCo – South Wing, gate 1-2
Viale Lodovico Scarampo
miart.it
@miartmilano
New Directions
miart 2026 – XXX edition
April 17 – April 19, 2026
VIP preview and vernissage by invitation April 16, 2026
Istituto Svizzero
Via Vecchio Politecnico, 3
istitutosvizzero.it
+39 0276016118
@istitutosvizzero
Romane de Watteville
April 14 – July 4, 2026
After After Party (screening) curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Barbara Casavecchia
April 17, 2026, 7 PM
