“`html
As Milano Art Week 2026 unfolds, Untitled Association is your guide to the exhibitions, events, and initiatives you shouldn’t miss. We’ve curated itineraries for industry professionals, art lovers, and the simply curious, taking you through museums, institutional spaces, private galleries, and independent venues. For a comprehensive view of all itineraries, click here. You can also find the complete map in our new print issue, number 132, which will be presented during miart.
Today marks the preview day for the 30th edition of miart, the international fair of modern and contemporary art, which opens to the public tomorrow. We also invite you on a journey through exhibitions and new openings in the Porta Venezia and city center areas. We begin near Porta Venezia station at the Fondazione Marconi, then proceed to the Castiglioni and Clima galleries. Continuing along Corso Venezia, we visit the Museo di Storia Naturale, the collections at Villa Necchi Campiglio, and the Mazzoleni gallery. We conclude our route by heading towards Piazza Borromeo with a site-specific intervention at Antonini Gioielli by LCA Studio Legale, as well as exhibitions at Cortesi, Nuova Galleria Morone, and MAAB.
miart: A Preview Day of What to Expect
Today, the new edition of miart, directed by Nicola Ricciardi, kicks off at the new South Wing of Allianz MiCo, an architectural space overlooking the contemporary landscape of CityLife. Titled New Directions and inspired by John Coltrane, the fair adopts jazz as a creative model, transforming its structure into a space for improvisation and dialogue between languages, generations, and artistic practices. Divided into three sections – Emergent, Established, and Established Anthology – 160 galleries from 24 countries showcase over a century of art history, from early 20th-century masterpieces to the latest contemporary research.
The Emergent section, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, welcomes visitors on the entrance level. It features 26 exhibition projects spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics, textile works, video, and photography, with a significant presence of female artists leading solo shows and site-specific installations created for the fair.
The historical section, Established, located on Level 0 of the South Wing, hosts 111 galleries whose projects organically traverse 20th-century art up to the present day, creating a dialogue between modern art masters, contemporary research, and design-related projects. On the upper floor, the new Established Anthology section brings together 20 international galleries with a shared objective: to narrate the complexity, trajectories, and transformations of time.
Also debuting for this 30th edition is the special project Movements, dedicated to moving images and born from a collaboration with the St. Moritz Art Film Festival. Curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, the program presents 20 films by artists represented by 15 galleries, exploring, for the first time at miart, the poetic and experimental language of video and artist film.
Renewed sections, special projects, awards, and collaborations with institutions and partners contribute to a program unified by a common rhythm, extending the miart experience to the city and reinforcing Milan’s role in the global art scene.
Milano Art Week 2026: Today’s Event Map
Our route begins in the Porta Venezia area with the first three stops: Fondazione Marconi and the spaces of Castiglioni and Clima on Via Lazzaro Palazzi.
Fondazione Marconi and Giò Marconi present Man Ray: M for Dictionary, an extensive retrospective dedicated to Man Ray, guided by the artist’s interest in the sphere of language and exploring its various expressive means. This is the first retrospective of Man Ray’s work to use language as its primary interpretive key, evoking the artist’s 1969 exhibition at Studio Marconi (Je n’ai jamais peint un tableau récent) and the creation of his renowned Alphabet for Adults drawing series. A second installation features works by gallery artists whose engagement with language directly connects to the American artist.
A short walk away, the Castiglioni gallery, in collaboration with UNA gallery, presents a double solo exhibition dedicated to Spanish artist Josep Maynou and Milanese artist Bianca Millan. Titled Cooming Soon, the exhibition investigates the relationship between reality and fiction. Josep Maynou’s practice, characterized by performative collaboration and the use of everyday objects, offers an imaginary vision of daily life told through the irony of his objects.
Maynou’s posters are juxtaposed with Bianca Millan’s installation work A Good Year / Musical Chairs. Millan’s work constantly oscillates between presence and absence, between the visible and what remains hidden in the margins of production. In her practice, the archive is never just memory; it is living matter, a continuous flow of experiences that stratify over time and space.
Without moving, we continue to the Clima spaces, where Kenji Ide / Nicola Martini is on display, a double solo exhibition featuring a dialogue between Japanese artist Kenji Ide and Italian artist Nicola Martini. Martini’s work, Sippe, is a site-specific installation of photosensitive bitumen applied to the walls, transforming the gallery space into a negative film where traces of plaster and marks from previous installations resurface on the dark wall surface. Simultaneously, Ide’s small wooden sculptures scattered throughout the gallery suggest a path of obstacles, pauses, and contemplation.
Let’s move along Corso Venezia and Via Senato for the next three stops: the Museo di Storia Naturale, Villa Necchi Campiglio, and the Mazzoleni gallery.
The Museo di Storia Naturale hosts an immersive installation by Maria Cristina Finucci titled Dentro la metamorfosi, a reflection on the impact of plastic waste on marine and oceanic ecosystems. Through a sequence of small, luminous, inflatable environments, where the artist uses artificial intelligence to create images simulating the fragmentation of plastic in the sea and its recomposition, the exhibition critiques extreme forms of consumption and urges collective responsibility. Art, science, and innovation dialogue to promote cultural transformation geared towards the prevention and protection of the sea and the environment. This exhibition is part of the TRACCE program, a series of four thematic clusters promoted by the Scientific Institutes of the Municipality of Milan, which also involves the Acquario Civico and the Planetario.
Nearby, Villa Necchi Campiglio presents a tribute to the Milanese sculptor Adolfo Wildt. The project stems from an exchange between the Villa’s Claudia Gian Ferrari Collection and the Museo Civico in Forlì, where the exhibition Barocco. Il Gran Teatro delle Idee is currently on display. This initiative aims to highlight not only the sculptor’s work – active between the 19th and 20th centuries – within the collection but also the network of cultural and collecting relationships that supported his critical reception, fostering a dialogue between artworks, spaces, and stories of patronage.
On Via Senato, Mazzoleni inaugurates FESTA!, Marinella Senatore‘s first solo exhibition in their new Milanese space. The artist presents a new phase of her work through new pieces: a series of embroidered tapestries from the Chanakya School in Mumbai, along with sketches and drawings, which provide a context for reflection on participatory practice and landscape. These works speak of tradition as a device, of the here and now, of social activation, and of the development of artisanal knowledge as the core of artistic practice. The title itself suggests a collective and participatory dimension aimed at a plural idea of community.
For the final stops of our itinerary today, we cross the Duomo area to reach the venue for the annual art intervention by LCA Studio Legale at Palazzo Borromeo.
LCA Studio Legale renews its commitment to contemporary art with the presentation of Polisemie del visibile, a site-specific intervention by Giulia Mangoni, realized in collaboration with ArtNoble Gallery, Antonini Milano, Apice, and ARTE Generali, as part of the Law is Art! program, an LCA project initiated in 2013. In dialogue with the cycle of frescoes from the Palazzo Borromeo Games, created in the mid-15th century, Mangoni develops a series of drawings that engage with the courtly iconography, featuring animal figures, active bodies, and botanical motifs, treating them as an open field of variation. The images are not cited but reactivated through processes of superimposition and slippage.
A short distance from Piazza Borromeo, we recommend visiting three galleries: Cortesi, Nuova Galleria Morone, and MAAB.
At the Cortesi venue on Via Morigi, the exhibition Ugo Mulas – Pietro Consagra – Arnaldo Pomodoro, curated by Alberto Salvadori, is currently on display. This is the third chapter of the gallery’s collaboration with the curator, a research project dedicated to the relationships and dialogues that characterized the Italian art scene in the post-war period. The artistic careers and close personal relationships of these three central figures of the 20th century form the core of the project. Ugo Mulas shared with Pietro Consagra and Arnaldo Pomodoro a profound consonance of intentions and visions on life and art. Their relationship, founded on continuous intellectual and human proximity, developed within a context where the boundary between artistic experience and daily life was constantly crossed.
Moving to Via Nerino, at number 3, we discover the offerings of both Nuova Galleria Morone and MAAB.
Nuova Galleria Morone presents a solo exhibition by Mathew McWilliams (Vancouver, 1973), curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, titled Things As They Are. It engages in a unique dialogue with the artwork Concerto a quattro figure (1608-1610) by the Baroque painter Antiveduto Gramatica (Rome, 1571-1626). The Canadian artist’s research is characterized by a profound process-based and analytical reflection on painting. For his first exhibition at the gallery, as a keen connoisseur of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, with a particular leaning towards the Sienese matrix of Tuscan primitivism, he works on Antiveduto Gramatica’s oeuvre using a procedure that combines spatial and formal analysis with chromatic and tonal considerations.
At MAAB, Enough of me, a solo exhibition by Susanne Kutter, aims to question the anthropocentric and typically Western view of dominion over nature and the complexity of existence. The fractures that permeate the present make evident the limitations and unsustainability of this perspective. From this, according to Kutter, arises a widespread state of fatigue, accompanied by an inability to accept the simultaneity of opposites – order and chaos, nature and culture, acceptance and dissent – as an inevitable condition. Through various languages and techniques, Susanne Kutter explores and depicts precisely the moment of fracture, the instant when balance breaks and a new order emerges with no possibility of return.
Itinerary #4
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
17.04 → 19.04.2026
VIP preview and vernissage by
invitation 16.04.2026
Fondazione Marconi
Via Alessandro Tadino, 15
fondazionemarconi.org
@fondazionemarconi
+39 02 29419232
Man Ray: M for Dictionary
Solo show
10.04 → 24.07.2026
Castiglioni
Via Lazzaro Palazzi, 3
castiglionifinearts.com
@castiglioni___
+39 348 54 22 908
Cooming Soon
Bianca Millan, Josep Maynou double solo show in collaboration w/ UNA
→ 09.05.2026
Clima
Via Lazzaro Palazzi, 3
climagallery.com
@clima_gallery
+39 329 8849781
Kenji Ide / Nicola Martini
Double solo show
31.03 → 16.05.2026
Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano
Corso Venezia, 55
museodistorianaturalemilano.it
@museostorianaturale_milano
+39 02 884 63337
Dentro la metamorfosi
Maria Cristina Finucci solo show
14.04 → 08.11.2026
Villa Necchi Campiglio
Via Mozart, 14
fondoambiente.it
@fondoambiente
02 76340121
Alighiero and Emilietta de’ Micheli Collection
Permanent Collection
Claudia Gian Ferrari Collection
Permanent Collection
Collezione Guido Sforni (1935-1975)
Permanent Collection
Adolfo Wildt
Solo show
15.04 → 05.05.2026
Mazzoleni
Via Senato, 20
mazzoleniart.com
@mazzoleniart
+39 02 99914325
Festa!
Marinella Senatore solo show
16.04 → 27.06.2026
LCA Studio Legale
Via della Moscova, 18
Palazzo Borromeo | Piazza Borromeo, 12
lcalex.it/law-is-art
@lcastudiolegale
+39 027788751
At Palazzo Borromeo venue
Polisemie del visibile
Giulia Mangoni site-specific intervention
16.04 → 30.06.2026
Cortesi Gallery
Via Morigi, 8
cortesigallery.com
@cortesigallery
Ugo Mulas – Pietro Consagra – Arnaldo Pomodoro
Group show curated by Alberto Salvadori
10.04 > 26.06.2026
Nuova Galleria Morone
Via Nerino, 3
nuovagalleriamorone.com
@nuovagalleriamorone
Things As They Are
Mathew McWilliams solo show
26.03 > 29.05.2026
MAAB Gallery
Via Nerino, 3
maabgallery.com
@maab_gallery
Enough of me
Susanne Kutter solo show
> 08.05.2026
“`
