As Milano Art Week 2026 unfolds, Untitled Association guides you through the exhibitions, events, and initiatives you shouldn’t miss. Tailored itineraries are available for industry professionals, art lovers, and the simply curious, covering museums, institutional spaces, private galleries, and independent venues.
Today’s journey begins in Corso Italia at Tommaso Calabro Gallery, then moves towards the city center to the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum and the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Raffaella De Chirico Gallery, and the spaces of Building. We continue along the Indro Montanelli Gardens, visiting the Swiss Institute, the GAM, the PAC, and the Luigi Rovati Foundation, concluding with Fumagalli Gallery and a final stop at the Civic Aquarium.
Milano Art Week 2026: Today’s Exhibitions and Events
Near the Santa Sofia metro stop, we start at Tommaso Calabro, which inaugurates the final two exhibitions of its current program. The collective exhibition See You, presented in both Milan and Venice, focuses on the theme of the portrait. The Milanese venue will exclusively showcase works on paper, while the Venetian location, opening on May 5th, will feature a selection of paintings on canvas. This exhibition offers a journey through the history of portraiture from the 18th century to the present, demonstrating its continuous evolution while remaining tied to its original purpose: to visualize the presence of the other and preserve their identity over time. Simultaneously, in Milan, the project room Innamorato/Furioso by Venetian artist Alessandro Miotti opens. Through his depictions of cowboys, Miotti explores the transformations of desire within contemporary patriarchal society, constructing his work around two tensions – erotic and warlike – that permeate both individual and collective dimensions.
We proceed towards the Duomo area for our next stops: Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Raffaella De Chirico Gallery, and Building’s spaces.
At its Palazzo Belgioioso location, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery presents Dialogues are mostly fried snowballs, a dual retrospective that stages an intellectual dialogue between the avant-garde practice of Marcel Duchamp and its reinterpretation by Sturtevant. A short distance away, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum offers Meraviglie del Grand Tour, which juxtaposes the museum’s collections with Giovanni Paolo Panini’s 18th-century masterpiece Ancient Rome, on loan from the MET in New York, and the video work Tutti gli DÈI by director Ferzan Ozpetek.
Crossing Via Monte Napoleone and continuing on Via Gesù, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum hosts Depero Space to Space. La creazione della memoria. Within the Renaissance collections of the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers, objects from Fortunato Depero‘s multidisciplinary research are superimposed, creating a connection with the Futurist House of Art in Rovereto.
The next two stops are near Via di Monte di Pietà. Raffaella De Chirico Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Angelo Gallo titled Libera circolazione entro fragili confini, an exploration of the artist’s multimedia work where pieces created at different times resonate around themes of the body, memory, sensitivity, and inner transformation.
Building’s exhibition spaces are hosting three distinct shows. Inside the Building Gallery, the exhibition GIOVANNI CAMPUS Tempo e passione. Un omaggio all’artista (1929-2025) showcases the work of the recently deceased artist through a selection of pieces with a plastic language, founded on the dialogue between time, space, and form. On the third floor, the exhibition Le Fantasmagoriche is a solo show dedicated to Elena El Asmar, featuring a series of sculptures and wall works on glass, wood, and paper. In the artist’s practice, matter and light become tools for observing and traversing time. Within the Building Box space, as part of the project Per filo e per segno. Percorsi di arte tessile in Italia, Antonio Marras presents his installation Anime. The display windows transform into a small temple where Marras places enameled ceramics from which hang women’s garments evoking caryatids.
Let’s move towards the nearby Piazza Cavour for the final five stops: the Swiss Institute, GAM and PAC, the Luigi Rovati Foundation, and Fumagalli Gallery.
On Via del Vecchio Politecnico, the exhibition Romane de Watteville at the Swiss Institute features an installation of disproportionately long modular screens that articulate a series of labyrinthine walls within the space. Painted on both sides, the screens echo the narrative logic of online scrolling while simultaneously recalling pre-digital progressive storytelling formats.
A short distance away, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM) presents Paul Troubetzkoy. Lo scultore della Belle Époque, an overview of the work of the portraitist who lived between the 19th and 20th centuries. Many prominent figures of the cultural and industrial scene of his time became subjects of his work. His sculpture, often stylistically aligned with Impressionism, is distinguished by its modeling energy, creating textured and vibrant surfaces sensitive to light. Additionally, in the Sala del Parnaso, GAM inaugurates Παρνασσός Parnassus, a site-specific installation by LETIA – Letizia Cariello. The installation is a large golden aluminum structure that engages with the neoclassical decorations of the exhibition space, highlighting the artist’s interest in the concepts of space and time, body, and music.
At the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC), you can explore the first European monographic exhibition of artist and musician Marco Fusinato, titled The Only True Anarchy Is That Of Power. The exhibition features a selection of installation, photographic, and performance projects exploring the theme of noise, inviting visitors into an intense visual and auditory universe. Within the same space, DESASTRES is performed – a composition of noise blocks, saturated feedback, and dissonant intensity using an electric guitar and mass amplifiers, coordinated with a projection system. The artist performs live at the end of each day.
Along Corso Venezia, the Luigi Rovati Foundation exhibits the Corazzi collection of Etruscan artifacts in Gli Etruschi e l’Olanda, an exhibition created in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. Alongside the bronzes, a selection of volumes traces their critical reception, highlighting both the value of bibliographical sources as essential tools for understanding the history of artworks and their collection, and their role in transmitting iconographic models and visual memories.
We conclude our itinerary by crossing the Indro Montanelli Gardens to Via Bonaventura Cavalieri, where Galleria Fumagalli hosts the exhibition Kounellis | Warhol. La messa in scena della tragedia umana: la classicità di Jannis Kounellis e il pop di Andy Warhol. This exhibition offers a critical reflection on Jannis Kounellis and Andy Warhol, exploring their ideological and aesthetic differences, as well as their cultural connections and shared tension towards the power and mystery of spirituality. While Kounellis is ideological, tied to a political vision of the world and history, Warhol is ambiguous and masked, yet no less profound. Both, in their own way, turned to the masses, to the people, to the marginalized. There is nothing triumphal in their works; they speak of “the poor” and “the people,” a humanistic revolution that art redeems by elevating it to a symbol.
Finally, we highlight an interesting conference at the Civic Aquarium of Milan, located on Viale Gadio, on the edge of Parco Sempione. Today, starting at 5 PM, registration is required via the MAW portal for the Art for Tomorrow Talks. This conference, organized by Art for Tomorrow in collaboration with Milano&Partners, the Municipality of Milan, and Milano Art Week, features two panels moderated by Farah Nayeri of The New York Times. The first panel is titled The Blurry Border Between Design & Art, followed by a conversation with Otobong Nkanga.
You can also take this opportunity to visit Antarctica Melting Beauty. Aurora, a solo exhibition by Paola Marzotto, curated by AdMaiora with scientific support from the Aquarium. With a rigorous and sensitive photographic approach, the exhibition unites photography and science in a dialogue where the image evokes emotion and scientific research offers tools for understanding.
Itinerary #2
Tommaso Calabro
Corso Italia, 47
tommasocalabro.com
@tommasocalabrogallery
See You
Group show
April 14 – June 27, 2026
Innamorato/Furioso
Alessandro Miotti solo show
April 14 – June 27, 2026
Thaddaeus Ropac
Piazza Belgioioso, 2
ropac.net
@thaddaeusropac
Dialogues are mostly fried snowballs
Marcel Duchamp, Sturtevant double solo show
Until July 23, 2026
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Via Alessandro Manzoni, 12
museopoldipezzoli.it
@poldipezzoli
Meraviglie del Grand Tour
Group show
Until May 4, 2026
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
Via Gesù, 5
museobagattivalsecchi.org
@museobagattivalsecchi
Depero Space to Space. La creazione della memoria
Solo show
February 13 – August 2, 2026
Galleria Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea
Via Monte di Pietà, 1
dechiricogalleriadarte.com
@raffaelladechirico_arte
Libera circolazione entro fragili confini
Angelo Gallo solo show
Until May 9, 2026
Building
Via Monte di Pietà, 23
building-gallery.com
@building.gallery
At Building Gallery
GIOVANNI CAMPUS Tempo e passione. Un omaggio all’artista (1929-2025)
Solo show curated by Marco Meneguzzo
March 26 – May 23, 2026
At Building Terzo Piano
Le Fantasmagoriche
Elena El Asmar solo show
March 26 – May 2, 2026
At Building Box
Anime | Per filo e per segno – 4/12
Antonio Marras installation curated by Alberto FiZ
April 10 – May 6, 2026
Istituto Svizzero
Via Vecchio Politecnico, 3
istitutosvizzero.it
@istitutosvizzero
Romane de Watteville
Solo show
April 14 – July 4, 2026
After After Party (screening)
April 17, 2026, 7:00 PM
GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano
Via Palestro, 16
gam-milano.com
@gam_milano
Παρνασσός (Parnassus)
LETIA – Letizia Cariello solo show
April 14 – July 5, 2026
Paul Troubetzkoy. Lo scultore della Belle Époque
Until May 28, 2026
PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea
Via Palestro, 14
pacmilano.it
@pacmilano
The Only True Anarchy Is That Of Power
Marco Fusinato solo show
March 31 – June 7, 2026
Fondazione Luigi Rovati
Corso Venezia, 52
fondazioneluigirovati.org
@fondazioneluigirovati
Gli Etruschi e l’Olanda. A/R dei bronzi Corazzi
April 1 – October 4, 2026
Galleria Fumagalli
Via Bonaventura Cavalieri, 6
galleriafumagalli.com
@galleriafumagalli
Kounellis/Warhol
Jannis Kounellis, Andy Warhol
double solo show
Until May 29, 2026
Acquario
Viale Gerolamo Gadio, 2
acquariodimilano.it
@acquariocivico.milano
Antarctica Melting Beauty. Aurora
Paola Marzotto solo show
April 10 – November 8, 2026
