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Brera Design Week 2026
The design event that confirms Brera as a reference point in Milan, from 20 to 26 April
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Essential events in the district, selected by our staff.
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Mitologica
Via Milazzo, 6
New exhibition by Clara Brasca, featuring 10 previously unseen works inspired by classical mythology. Figures such as Orpheus, Pan, and the Maenads become contemporary symbols for interpreting the present.
Two icons of art history, Édouard Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe and Concerto campestre, traditionally attributed to Giorgione or Titian, engage in dialogue, confirming the continuous bridge between the classical and the contemporary.
Mitologica
Luciano Francescon. Animalia
Via Maroncelli, 3
Luciano Francescon’s first solo exhibition, an act of observation, an experience that invites us to contemplate the birth of new forms of life: autonomous, mysterious, self-sufficient.
Luciano Francescon. Animalia
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Gino Lucente. La Follia e le montagne di
Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga, angolo, Corso Garibaldi, 89/A
At Casa degli Artisti, Gino Lucente’s residency comes to an end with the presentation of his new album La Follia e le montagne di, released on limited edition vinyl as an artistic multiple, accompanied by a talk with the artist and his collaborators and a live concert.
UNIQUE | Annie Shead and William Van Hoorn
Corso Garibaldi, 125
Conceived by Bruno Gnocchi, the project brings the works of two young British artists exploring abstraction to the historic Milanese gallery.
The exhibition explores alternative ways of enjoying art with a streamlined, short-term format that aims to highlight the intensity of the encounter between Annie Shead and William Van Hoorn.
UNIQUE | Annie Shead and William Van Hoorn
Unique
Corso Garibaldi, 125
A project conceived and curated by Bruno Gnocchi to give visibility to the work of emerging artists through short-term experimental exhibitions.
The second chapter of this project will be dedicated to two young British artists: Annie Shead and William Van Hoorn.
Unique
Gli Amici di JDee
Piazza Compasso d’Oro, 1
Creative workshop for children aged 3 to 12, in which recycled materials become tools for play and design. Through reuse, participants discover the 3Rs and create a three-dimensional character, learning the value of sustainability and imagination in a practical way.
PoesieDiTransito
Via Brera, 28
Presentation of Vincenzo Pezzella Dedalus‘ catalog, PoesieDiTransito.
The meeting aims to offer a critical reflection on this original literary-artistic endeavor.
Gli Amici di JDee
Piazza Compasso d’Oro, 1
Creative workshop for children aged 3 to 12, in which recycled materials become tools for play and design. Through reuse, participants discover the 3Rs and create a three-dimensional character, learning the value of sustainability and imagination in a practical way.
Essere e Divenire. Un Viaggio all’Origine dell’Immagine, della Vita
Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga, angolo, Corso Garibaldi, 89/A
An immersive video work by Silvio Wolf that translates his site-specific installation in the former Oratory of Santa Maria della Pace in Parma into cinematic form.
Shot entirely from a subjective point of view, the video places the viewer at the center of the experience, transforming them into the protagonist of a journey through images, sound, light, and architecture.
Sara Salvemini. Secondo Piano
Corso Garibaldi, 125
The exhibition brings together three cycles of the artist’s work – Alberi, Ritratti e Interni – in an exploration of the relationship between subject and context, body and structure, nature and architecture, through a spatiality constructed in layers
Sara Salvemini. Secondo Piano
Omaggio alle Olimpiadi
Via Ciovasso, 17
The gallery celebrates the Milan–Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics with a collective exhibition that interprets the theme of sport through different artistic languages. Painting, sculpture, photography, and digital art interact to convey energy, emotion, and vision.
Omaggio alle Olimpiadi
Four books for two artists and an art critic
Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga, angolo, Corso Garibaldi, 89/A
A quartet of books introducing the research and work of two artists, Elena El Asmar and Concetta Modica. They are linked not only by their artistic practice, but also by a long friendship and many occasions on which they have worked together.
IN-PLAY. Design for Sport
Piazza Compasso d’Oro, 1
IN-PLAY uses one hundred objects to recount the evolution of sport as a project space, where the challenge is not only athletic but also cultural and industrial.
Stories, competitions, and ceremonies from the world’s biggest sporting event show how sport, between ritual and spectacle, becomes a metaphor for changes in the contemporary world.
IN-PLAY. Design for Sport
Spencer Power. Tra Due Orizzonti
Via Maroncelli, 3
Spencer Power’s painting combines British culture and the Abruzzo landscape in works that do not describe nature but evoke it. Through color, places become emotion and memory, in a continuous dialogue between London and Maiella, between abstraction and reality.
Spencer Power. Tra Due Orizzonti
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Ongoing events and exhibitions
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Solca Mari Mossi
Corso Garibaldi, 125
After thirty-three years, Massimo Scolari returns to exhibit works in the gallery that trace his artistic career from the 1970s to 2020.
The exhibition also features photographs of many of his installations, taken by leading Italian photographers such as Luigi Ghirri, Luca Campigotto, and Gabriele Basilico.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Sergio Armaroli. TEATRINI
Via Ciovasso, 17
“Museo interiore: reliquiari dei giorni | Protecting Small Boxes: Rimbaud Series”, a solo exhibition by artist, poet, musician, and composer Sergio Armaroli, curated by Vittorio Schieroni and Elena Amodeo.
An exhibition of micro-theaters in boxes where objects, colors, and words become visual poetry, constructing an inner museum of imagination.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Alchimia
Piazza Compasso d’Oro, 1
The exhibition celebrates the movement that began in Milan in the 1970s and revolutionized design, transforming it into a language of creative freedom and cultural criticism.
Through objects, installations, and period documents, it traces the visionary experience of Studio Alchimia, where art, architecture, fashion, and music merged to challenge aesthetic standardization and redefine design as a poetic and radical act.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Antonio Di Paola. Demons of ice and swords of fire
Via Maroncelli, 12
Monsters, mythical creatures, geometric shapes, cosmic battles.
The exhibition, featuring 16 large-scale works, showcases the young artist from Palermo, who uses bright and cheerful colors to fight against the dark recesses of his mind.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Riccardo Nannini. Walk the Line
Via Solferino, 44
Riccardo Nannini‘s exhibition transforms everyday scenes—houses, gas stations, courtyards—into silent, enigmatic images. Using soft colors, the artist creates small suspended worlds, where normality offers a glimpse of a fragile balance charged with anticipation.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Paolo Pibi. Minimi mondi
Via Solferino, 44
The exhibition takes visitors on a journey between imagination and perception: around 15 recent acrylic works that show how an image takes shape in the mind, before materializing on canvas with almost cartographic precision.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Lucrezia Roda. Finché c’è tempo
Via Goito, 7
Lucrezia Roda‘s exhibition presents for the first time an intimate and personal project that sees photography interacting with other media and materials.
The solo exhibition invites the public to reflect on the finite nature of our existence and the quality of the experiences we live.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Leonardo Parlante
Piazza Castello
Comune di Milano and Casa degli Artisti present an exhibition by Sabrina D’Alessandro.
Through her works, the artist shines a spotlight on a lesser-known aspect of the Renaissance genius: his passion for collecting words.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Dark Times, Bright Signs
Via Fatebenefratelli 9, Milano
The exhibition Dark Times, Bright Signs examines how contemporary design reflects today’s tensions, balancing apocalyptic visions with new forms of hope. Fascinating and unsettling objects – from missile-like vases to eclipse lamps and armor-like furniture – connect humans with the raw matter of the planet, turning inner experience into bright signs.
Featuring works by Panorammma, Room-File, Diaphan Studio, Duccio Maria Gambi, Joy Herro, Natalia Triantafylli, Unicoggetto / Zihan Zhao, and Wei Xiaoyan. The opening will include a performance by Room-File.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Bernhard Schobinger. Democracy of materials
Corso Como, 10
The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Martina Simeti gallery, brings together sculptures and jewelry pieces from the second half of the 1970s to the present day.
Through the contrast between humble and precious materials, Schobinger challenges the hierarchies between “beautiful” and “rough,” inviting us to reflect on the value, identity, and function of objects in everyday life.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Habitus
Via San Fermo, 19
A collective exhibition exploring the relationship between body, space, and matter through a selection of designer jewelry.
The exhibition project, curated by Serena Piazza, was created in collaboration with Galleria Rossini in Milan, a leading name in the world of contemporary designer jewelry.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Pain of Pleasure
Foro Buonaparte, 68
The exhibition, curated by Domenico de Chirico, explores the limits of desire and its transformation into a physical and sensory experience, in which pleasure intertwines with pain to become a form of knowledge.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Pini Art Prize
Corso Garibaldi, 2
The exhibition of the finalists in the Visual Arts Section of the Pini Art Prize 2025/2026, dedicated to artists under 35, is now open.
The Foundation’s new rooms host an exhibition that brings together nine artistic projects, selected through an extensive process of mapping the Italian scene.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Francesco Librizzi. Scarlatta
Via Fatebenefratelli 34
The centerpiece of the exhibition is Scarlatta, the bookcase designed by Francesco Librizzi, the result of the long-standing collaboration between the architect and the Milanese design gallery.
The work is accompanied by a selection of maquettes of architectural projects by the same author, highlighting his creative continuity and the dialogue between design research and design.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Virginia Zanetti. La danza del sale
Via Monte di Pietà, 23
The exhibition, curated by Giulia Bortoluzzi, brings together a selection of photographic, video, and sculptural works that document and develop the theme of impermanence and transformation of state that the artist began with her site-specific intervention and collective performances in the salt flats of Margherita di Savoia.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Alberto Garutti. Incipit
Foro Buonaparte, 48
The exhibition, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, pays tribute to Alberto Garutti by presenting a selection of works accompanied by previously unseen archival material.
At the center is Opera per camera da letto: dedicato a chi dorme (1995), one of his earliest works, which has been re-proposed to restore its context and importance in the artist’s career.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Green over gray
Piazza Compasso d’Oro, 1
A tribute to Emilio Ambasz and his pioneering vision of architecture that reintegrates nature, returning occupied land to the community through gardens and parks.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Carole Dupeyron. LEAVING
Via Brera, 2
At Galleria Consadori, the first solo exhibition by Carole Dupeyron is on view. The artist presents an intimate and sensitive journey that explores transitions, distances, and transformations, in dialogue with the gallery’s curatorial and experimental research.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Valie Export & Ketty La Rocca. BODY SIGN
Piazza Belgioioso, 2, 20121 Milano
An unpublished dialogue between Valie Export and Ketty La Rocca, two great feminist artists, protagonists of Conceptual Art, among the most visionary voices to emerge on the European scene in the 1960s.
Both use the body as a tool to challenge patriarchal society, experimenting with photography, video, sculpture, and performance.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Un mondo tutto all’aperto
Via Monte di Pietà, 23
Exhibition by artists Alice Cattaneo and Marco Andrea Magni, curated by Giovanni Giacomo Paolin.
The exhibition unfolds as a journey connecting the ground floor and first floor of the gallery, offering a dialogue between sculptures and installations, intertwining existing works and new productions.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Alice Zanin | Candy Eaters
Via Brera, 12
The intervention transforms the small temple designed by Mario Cucinella for Palazzo Citterio into a pavilion resembling a large open aviary, evoking the atmosphere of an 18th-century Capriccio set in a Milanese garden.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Layered Nature
Via Solferino, 7
The new exhibition by nendo for ALPI explores wood as a material in constant transformation through surfaces and textures with a strong visual impact. The project brings design and innovation into dialogue, recounting the company’s research into the material and its infinite expressive possibilities.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Emakimono Colors
Via Solferino, 48
A site-specific installation by El Gato Chimney, created in collaboration with Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea.
The artist transforms the main walls of Zazà Ramen into a large wall painting inspired by the Japanese tradition of Emakimono, the narrative scrolls from the Heian period. Through a parade of fantastic animals and spirits, immersed in a vortex of colors and metamorphosis, the work celebrates collectivity and joy, turning the wall into a moving story where art, culture, and conviviality merge into a single, visionary energy.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
DEBORA HIRSCH. Vanishing Trees
Via Brera, 12
Site-specific digital installation that uses generative technologies to transform images of three endangered trees into visual symbols of resistance, memory, and biodiversity loss.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Giorgio Armani. Milano, per amore
Via Brera, 28
To mark the beginning of Milan Fashion Week, the Pinacoteca di Brera will host a fashion exhibition for the very first time.
In a unique dialogue between art and style, the show celebrates Giorgio Armani’s creative universe through a selection of 150 archival looks, retracing the evolution of the brand over the decades. A fascinating encounter between the museum’s masterpieces and the timeless elegance of the designer.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
La Bellezza e l’Ideale. Canova
Via Brera, 28
Room 1 of the Pinacoteca di Brera will be transformed to host “Beauty and the Ideal,” an unmissable exhibition dedicated to Antonio Canova. Twelve plaster busts restored by Banca Ifis, including the marble Vestal and enameled miniatures from the Sommariva collection, offer a unique journey into Neoclassicism, the founding heart of the Milanese museum.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Gioco e progetto, progetto è gioco
Piazza Castello, 27
At the Achille Castiglioni Foundation, a new exhibition is held every year to tell a different story and surprise visitors. This year’s edition explores Achille’s most playful and personal side, through objects from home, preserved toys, and family memories. On display: spinning tops collected by his son Carlo, childhood games of Giovanna, and “anonymous” objects that inspired Achille.
The dynamic and interactive setup by Marco Marzini is designed to spark curiosity and wonder. A journey to rediscover design with both lightness and depth, following Achille’s motto: “Let’s not take ourselves too seriously.”
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Kounellis | Warhol
Via Bonaventura Cavalieri, 6
The exhibition project compares two very different masters who are united by their focus on spirituality and human tragedy. Kounellis uses poor materials and substances as secular liturgy, while Warhol transforms consumption and celebrity into modern icons with a tragic meaning.
The exhibition, enriched by a dialogue at the Museo San Fedele and a critical publication, highlights how both artists were able to elevate the everyday and the popular to universal symbols, revealing a beauty marked by pain but open to profound meanings.
H. 10:00 - 18:00
Per filo e per segno. Percorsi di arte tessile in Italia
Via Monte di Pietà, 23
An exhibition project curated by Alberto Fiz involving twelve Italian artists from different generations, invited to reflect on the theme of contemporary textiles.
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