Born in 2017 from the vision of Moshe Tabibnia, BUILDING, houses three exhibition projects in its architecture that present three autonomous programming. BUILDING GALLERY, opened in 2017, spans the first three floors of the architecture and hosts the main exhibitions of the gallery's annual programming. BUILDING BOX, opened in 2018, is the exhibition space located within two street-facing windows, which hosts works linked by a temporal thread on a monthly basis and can be enjoyed at any time from the outside. BUILDING THIRD FLOOR was established in 2023to explore creativity in all its facets and follows an independent programming. BUILDING is also a publishing house that publishes catalogs of the solo and group exhibitions it hosts.
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Viafarini Archives
Nonprofits and archives
Viafarini was founded in 1991 with the intention of fostering the professional growth of young artists and raising public awareness with respect to contemporary artistic research, combining production, exhibition, educational activities and documentation services on the visual arts.
Viafarini's mission consists of three main points.
To make young Italian artists known in the contemporary art system, as a first step for their growth path and consequent interest by curators, critics and museums. To promote the mobility of artists and support them in their search for funding, as a necessary condition for their professional growth, including at the international level. To broaden the public interested in artistic research through exhibitions, educational and training tools.
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
ArtNoble Gallery
Galleries
ArtNoble Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in the Lambrate district of Milan founded in 2021. The gallery carries out an experimental program focused exclusively on the latest generation of Italian artists based in Italy and abroad. Central to ArtNoble's vision are themes of territoriality, origins and roots, with reflections on contemporary society and genuine attention to what is happening around us. The gallery carries out its mission by presenting a regular exhibition program designed and produced directly with its artists and often in dialogue with the space through a site-specific approach, as well as participating in off-site projects.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 2:30-6:30 p.m. or by appointment
BUILDING
Galleries
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Careof
Nonprofits and archives
Careof is a nonprofit contemporary art organization based in Milan's Fabbrica del Vapore. Founded in 1987, it fosters artistic creativity and experimentation in all its expressions and forms. Careof is an independent space, fluid and on the move, encouraging research and supporting cultural production through exhibitions, screenings, workshops, conferences and hybrid projects, thanks to its exhibition space, library, Photographic Archive and Video Archive, one of the most important Italian collections from the 1970s to the present, with more than 9000 titles, constantly expanding and recognized by the Ministry of Culture as being of national historical interest.Careof is a center of production and in-depth study on time-based media: it produces, exhibits, catalogs, preserves, and promotes works related to the moving image, in a dimension of circular valorization.
Opening hours:
Careof spaces can be visited by appointment and during programming activities
House of Artists
Co-managing That's Contemporary
Art residencies
A center for residency, production and fruition open to the city, Casa degli Artisti (re)arises in 2020 as a place of encounter, creation and reflection to support artists' practice in the fields of visual, performing, sound, digital, applied, film, photography, literature and thought arts. Equipped with 11 ateliers intended for artists' work, a ground-floor exhibition space open to the public, a bistro, and an outdoor space overlooking the green space, Casa degli Artisti works as a place of connections to foster exchange between different actors in art, society, and business and to stimulate a dialogue on the public sphere and urban space.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 12:30-7:00 p.m.
CONDOMINIUM
Hybrid and independent spaces
A multipurpose space focused on contemporary photography and image culture, created to provide a place for meetings, exhibitions and events, a 'co-sharing' without a hierarchical structure but with a spirit of welcoming and sharing.
Opening hours:
CONDOMINIUM spaces are open during programming activities
Cortesi Gallery
Galleries
Cortesi Gallery, founded in 2013 by the Cortesi family, focuses on European art movements from the 1950s to the present. With offices in Lugano and Milan, the Gallery offers an eclectic and dynamic program, collaborating with experts in the field, external curators, researchers, Archives and Foundations. Cortesi Gallery has developed an exhibition program focused on Italian and international artists of the 20th century in close relation to the contemporary art scene. Its past initiatives include major exhibitions devoted to Gruppo ZERO, New Tendencies, Conceptual Art, Minimalism and Abstract Art. The gallery is also notable for its consistent participation in major art fairs on a global scale.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday by appointment
Dep Art Gallery
Galleries
Network Member
Founded in Milan in 2006 by Antonio Addamiano, Dep Art Gallery focuses on both Italian and foreign artists, with a particular attention to a series of authors active in the 1960s and 1970s, without neglecting, however, the following generations and always trying to alternate and investigate the most varied languages. Over the years it has become the reference gallery for: Natale Addamiano, Alberto Biasi, Mario Nigro, Pino Pinelli, Salvo, Emilio Scanavino, Turi Simeti and Ludwig Wilding. In recent years the gallery has broadened the range of its authors by initiating a series of ongoing collaborations first in the German sphere, with Regine Schumann and Wolfram Ullrich, and later by paying attention to a primarily international context, mounting solo exhibitions of Tony Oursler and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Radetzky Newsstand
Public spaces
Radetzky Newsstand Newsstand Radetzky is a small historical architecture from the early 1900s, located on the dock on Gorizia Street. Characterized by its iron and glass structure and a large pagoda roof, the newsstand owes its name to the fact that General Radetzky's edicts were communicated in the same spot. The space, covering an area of 2mx 2m, was converted into a newsstand and remained so until the 1960s, only to have alternating moments of use, ending up in a state of abandonment. In 2015, the Progetto Città Ideale association, composed of artists Fiorella Fontana and Stefano Serusi, won the call for tenders announced by the Municipality of Milan's Municipality 6 and took care of the restoration, transforming it into a center dedicated to contemporary artistic research. Since then, the newsstand has hosted a program of exhibitions with the aim of promoting the most current artistic research.
It is currently managed by Fiorella Fontana and can be seen 24 hours a day.
Battaglia Art Foundry
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Fonderia Artistica Battaglia was established in 1913 by the will of three partners, Ercole Battaglia, Giulio Pogliani, and Riccardo Frigerio. From the beginning Battaglia used the ancient technique of lost-wax casting of bronze. Over time Battaglia has cast works by Arturo Martini, Francesco Messina, Ludovico Pogliani, Marino Marini, Giacomo Manzù, and, in the immediate postwar period, Luciano Minguzzi, Giò and Arnaldo Pomodoro, and Lucio Fontana. Today he collaborates with, among others, artists Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Francesco Arena, Kengiro Azuma, Giuseppe Penone, Benedetto Pietrogrande, Michel Saint Olive, Abdullah Selim, Nico Vascellari, Serena Vestrucci, Vihls, Velasco Vitali, and Peter Wächtler. Since 2014, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia has launched an experimental project involving some of the most important figures in contemporary art design.
Opening hours:
08:00-12:00 / 13:00-17:00 by appointment only
Officine Saffi Foundation
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Network Member
Art residencies
Born in 2011 from an idea of Laura Borghi, the Officine Saffi Foundation is one of the most important nonprofit foundations dealing with contemporary ceramics internationally. With a 360-degree approach, the Foundation promotes new research and experimentation in the field, taking into account history and the past and fostering dialogue between art, craft and design. Through a dynamic and interdisciplinary program of exhibitions, educational activities and publications, it actively participates in the conversation about ceramics by addressing a diverse audience.
The Foundation supports artists, designers and craftspeople at different stages of production, through to the promotion and recognition of their work, providing a platform for emerging creatives as well as for projects and narratives that flourish outside established market systems.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm / 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Francesca Minini
Galleries
Founded in 2006, Francesca Minini Gallery carries on a vibrant Italian and international program, from painting to sculpture to daring installations. A focus is on the Italian panorama of emerging artists, in continuity with the artists who have marked the gallery's program since its early years, such as Flavio Favelli and Riccardo Previdi. It has hosted site-specific projects by Jan De Cock and Daniel Buren and special projects on the facade by Francesco Simeti. In recent years the gallery has opened up to photography and performance with the work of Jacopo Benassi and Ambra Castagnetti. International research offers a focus on important South American artists and a careful program of group exhibitions focusing on the latest trends. The gallery follows established artists such as Daniel Buren, Sheila Hicks, Robert Barry, and the Summer of Carla Accardi and Dan Graham, collaborates with museums and private institutions, participates in Italian and international Biennials, and is active in publishing catalogs and artists' books.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
The Foundation, founded in 1995 at the behest of renowned sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, aims to ensure the proper preservation and information of all his works, as well as to promote research around the most relevant themes and figures of the contemporary avant-garde. The Foundation is a place of knowledge dedicated to Arnaldo Pomodoro and the practice of sculpture and art. It owns a Collection of works by Arnaldo Pomodoro and other artists, available for loan and on loan; curates and manages the artist's Archive and the realization of the online Catalogue Raisonné; carries out the practices related to the control of works and the issuance of authentications; promotes and carries out the publication of books and catalogs; and organizes exhibitions, meetings, guided tours and workshops. The exhibition activity inaugurated in 1999, the Prize established in 2006 and the Educational Section established in 2007 are just some of the initiatives through which the Foundation pursues its goals.
Opening hours:
Foundation spaces are open according to program activities to the public
Elpis Foundation
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Founded in 2020 by Marina Nissim, entrepreneur and collector, Fondazione Elpis by mission supports young artists through an articulated program of exhibitions, residencies, meetings, workshops, performances and projects spread throughout the country. It is based in Milan, inside a former industrial laundry in the Porta Romana district, now a space dedicated to artistic experimentation and research. Its identity is deeply linked to Una Boccata d'Arte, a project active since 2020 in collaboration with Maurizio Rigillo of Galleria Continua and with the participation of Threes. A widespread initiative that each year involves 20 artists in the creation of site-specific projects in 20 Italian villages - one for each region - born from direct encounters with local places and communities, enhancing the cultural heritage of the territory.
Opening hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Luigi Rovati Foundation
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Named after Luigi Rovati, a physician, researcher and pharmaceutical entrepreneur, the Foundation juxtaposes modern and contemporary works of art with more than 200 Etruscan art artifacts in a historic building in the heart of Milan. On the underground floor, a striking architecture of stone domes, designed by Mario Cuccinella, houses the Etruscan collection, integrated with contemporary works. On the main floor, works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Luigi Ontani, Giulio Paolini and Francesco Simeti dialogue with the 19th-century interiors, creating a comparison with objects and works from different cultures and historical periods. Periodically, temporary exhibitions of ancient and contemporary art are interwoven with the permanent collection.
Opening hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Prada Foundation
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Fondazione Prada is a cultural institution created in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli with offices in Milan, Venice and exhibition projects in Shanghai, Tokyo and NY. The Milan branch, opened in 2015 and designed by OMA studio led by Rem Koolhaas, offers art and archaeological exhibitions, scientific projects and conferences, musical events, dance performances and educational activities. Permanent installations and site-specific interventions by contemporary artists complement its cultural offerings. Since 2016 Osservatorio, inside Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, has been dedicated to experimenting with visual languages and researching potential connections between technology and other cultural expressions. Over the past 20 years Fondazione Prada has promoted numerous activities in the field of cinema exploring the links between moving images and visual arts.
Opening hours:
Monday / Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays
Spazio BOXBOX by Galleria Alessandro Albanese
Galleries
Network Member
La galleria Alessandro Albanese è una galleria d’arte contemporanea con sede a Milano e Matera. Viene fondata nel 1986 a Matera, Capitale Europea della Cultura nel 2019, nel cuore dei Sassi, Patrimonio UNESCO. La galleria ha ospitato mostre di artisti di grande rilievo come Takis, Leoncillo, Carla Accardi, Riccardo Licata, Renato Guttuso e altri, confermandosi un punto di riferimento per l’arte moderna in Italia. Nel 2019 Alessandro prende il timone dell’attività di famiglia aprendo la seconda sede della galleria a Milano, focalizzando l’attenzione sui nuovi linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea di giovani artisti internazionali, promuovendo il loro lavoro per la prima volta in Italia. Da ottobre 2025 la sede milanese della galleria è BOXBOX, uno spazio industriale all’interno della Julius Clinic in zona Porta Venezia. Oltre a due esposizioni annuali, Spazio BOXBOX organizza laboratori artistici e a progetti di art therapy appositamente pensati per i pazienti del nuovo centro diurno della Julius Clinic.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday 15:00-19:00
GAM - Gallery of Modern Art
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Founded in 1865 and moved to its current prestigious home in Villa Reale in 1921, the Milan Gallery of Modern Art is one of Italy's leading collections of 19th- and early 20th-century painting and sculpture. It starts with Neoclassicism, concluding with works of Romanticism, Scapigliatura, Realism, and Divisionism, and includes extraordinary masterpieces by Appiani, Boldini, Canova, De Nittis, Hayez, Pelizza da Volpedo, Piccio, Previati, Rodin, Medardo Rosso, and Segantini. The collections of Carlo and Nedda Grassi and Giuseppe Vismara, arranged according to the 1950s design by architect Ignazio Gardella, further enrich the museum with works by artists of the historical avant-garde such as Balla, Boccioni, Modigliani, Sironi and the great Impressionists and Post-Impressionists such as Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, up to the genius of Picasso.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
Closed on: December 25, January 1, Easter Monday and May 1
Giampaolo Abbondio Gallery
Galleries
Network Member
Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio, founded in 2001 as PACK Gallery, offers the public programming focused on the production of emerging and established Italian and international artists. The exhibitions created over the years investigate the body in its various representations and manifestations, also offering large installations that involve the viewer in different sensory realities. The gallery prefers artists working with new media, new technologies and video installations. Through collaboration with Italian and foreign curators, the gallery's activities have resulted in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary exchanges, including producing a series of publications and taking part in numerous contemporary art fairs both nationally and internationally, such as Arte Fiera Bologna and Miart, Arco (Madrid), Art Chicago (Chicago), Art Miami (Miami Beach), Art Moscow (Moscow) and Beirut Art Fair (Beriut). In 2020 the gallery moved its headquarters to Milan, also moving its exhibition activity to the center of Todi in Umbria, inside a historic building, in June 2021.
Fumagalli Gallery
Galleries
Galleria Fumagalli was founded in Bergamo in 1971, and since 1990 the gallery has been directed by Stefano Fumagalli and Annamaria Maggi, who have offered a program focused on Informal Art, Abstract Art, Analytical Painting and Arte Povera, exhibiting artists Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Giorgio Griffa, Pino Pinelli, Giò Pomodoro, Giuseppe Uncini, Claudio Verna, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis and Gilberto Zorio. Over the past 30 years, Galleria Fumagalli has presented more than 90 solo and 30 group exhibitions, published more than 50 volumes and collaborated with Italian and foreign institutions and museums. It has also curated the archives of Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Giorgio Griffa, Gianfranco Pardi and Giuseppe Uncini and collaborated on the creation of the catalogs raisonné of Carla Accardi (with text edited by Germano Celant in 1999) and Giuseppe Uncini (with text edited by Bruno Corà in 2008). Since 2016 it has been based in Milan and in 2023 will inaugurate the project "LOFT - Light on Future Topics" aimed at promoting emerging and multidisciplinary artistic investigations.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Poggiali Gallery
Galleries
Network Member
Galleria Poggiali operates out of three locations: Florence, Milan and Pietrasanta. The Florentine location focuses mainly on exhibitions by historic artists, while Milan focuses on emerging artists, often making their debut in Italy after international successes. Pietrasanta, located in the former Art Foundry, is a cultural center that promotes sociality and celebrates the area. The gallery is actively engaged in supporting influential artists in the contemporary debate, collaborating with them, publishing houses and museum institutions to organize exhibitions, performances and installations that fuel cultural debate.
Hours of operation:
Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Raffaella Cortese Gallery
Galleries
The gallery represents a transgenerational group of 30 global artists working across diverse media, with a focus on the representation of women artists and long-standing collaborations with major public institutions. The artists' practices focus on critical themes such as individual, political and national identities, the body, language and literature, as well as issues of feminism, femininity and gender. The gallery was one of the first to introduce the work of pioneering American women artists to the Italian contemporary art market in the 1990s, and the promotion of women's work has become a distinctive aspect of the gallery's identity over the years. A parallel goal of the gallery is to develop the careers of Italian artists, both by acting as a site of experimentation for the younger generation and by rediscovering artists late in life.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Gio Marconi
Galleries
Gió Marconi Gallery was founded in 1990 on the initiative of Gió Marconi, former founder of Studio Marconi 17, an experimental space-laboratory for young artists and curators, active from 1987 to 1990. The new gallery was initially led by Gió and his father Giorgio, himself founder of Studio Marconi (1965-1992). In the first year of its opening, the gallery exhibited Martin Kippenberger, Mario Schifano, and Richard Hamilton. Over the decades, Gió Marconi continues to support the careers of its artists, promoting their work to the public and institutions in Italy and abroad. The gallery, which has always focused on the contemporary, has begun, gradually, to include historical artists from Studio Marconi as well.
Opening hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Kaufmann Repetto
Galleries
Founded in 2000, Kaufmann Repetto is a gallery based in Milan and since 2013 in New York. The gallery, run by Francesca Kaufmann and Chiara Repetto, pursues an international program aimed at investigating social and political issues within the context of artistic production, with a focus on research on the feminine. Embracing a multitude of media and artistic approaches, the gallery has consistently promoted ambitious installations and site-specific projects, fostering dialogue between artists and the space that hosts them. After ten years in its historic location, in 2010 the gallery expanded its spaces in Milan's Brera district, adding a courtyard for outdoor installations as well.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Lia Rumma
Galleries
Lia Rumma Gallery, founded in Naples in 1971, from the beginning has played a decisive role in the discovery of new artistic trends on the international scene including Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Land Art and Conceptual Art presenting established and emerging artists including Marina Abramovic, Giovanni Anselmo, Alberto Burri, Gino De Dominicis, Donald Judd, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Longo, Reinhard Mucha, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Haim Steinbach, Thomas Ruff and many others. In 1999 Lia Rumma opened its Milan office in the Brera district, and in 2010 it inaugurated its current new space, a 2,000-square-meter building on three levels. Since then, the Milan office has hosted exhibitions and monumental projects conceived by the gallery's artists. Over the years the gallery has also encouraged intense collaboration with galleries, curators, critics and collectors that have led to prestigious international projects in museums and institutions both in Italy and abroad.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 pm - 7:00 pm.
ICA Milan
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Fondazione ICA Milano is an institution for all the arts, an organism for contemporary culture, and an ecological project for art based on the principle of sustainability and the relationships between people, their context and the art world. ICA Milan is a nonprofit institution born from the will, desire and passion of five people who identified the city of Milan as the ideal place to give life to an open project dedicated to contemporary arts. The Foundation's activities are centered on an interdisciplinary exhibition program ranging from the 20th century to the present day, encompassing art publishing, ceramics, cinema, performance, music, outreach, education and therapeutic activities.
Opening hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Swiss Institute
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
The Istituto Svizzero is a transdisciplinary platform that brings together artistic and scientific research. Whether in Rome, Milan or Palermo, the institute aims to facilitate exchange between Switzerland and Italy by offering residency programs to emerging artists and researchers in the visual and performing arts, literature, architecture, humanities, social and natural sciences. The institute's public programming aims to bring together diverse people and knowledge for initiatives such as exhibitions, talks, concerts, performances, workshops and summer schools. Since 1997, the Milan branch of the Swiss Institute has been a reference point for Swiss art and culture in the Lombard capital. Located near Piazza Cavour, the institute is housed in a historic building dating back to the 1950s, which includes the Consulate General of Switzerland, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Italy and various associations. Milan programming includes exhibitions, lectures, concerts and meetings with the aim of promoting artistic and scientific exchanges between Italy and Switzerland.
Opening hours:
Institute spaces can be visited during programming activities
HYPERCUBE
Galleries
Network Member
HYPERCUBE was born out of the urge to imagine alternative dimensions. The hypercube is a geometric figure similar to the cube but immersed in a space of four or more dimensions: although it can be conceptualized and described mathematically, it cannot be imagined by the human mind since it can only think of a three-dimensional reality. Loosely related to the hypercube is the concept of hyperobject developed by contemporary philosopher Timothy Morton. Hyperobjects cannot be fully understood by the human mind because their time and space exceed human time and space, e.g., global warming, race, class, extinction, or a certain language. Hyperobject's mission is to identify and support artists who can bring about a more complex view of the contemporary, one that involves moving away from the consideration of the human being as a measure of reference in relation to the world, and advancing new lines of thought.
Manuel Zoia Gallery
Galleries
Network Member
Founded in 2018 and directed by Manuel Zoia, the Gallery promotes international and Italian contemporary art; since its inception it has collaborated with many artists from different cultures and experts in different techniques and artistic practices.
In September 2021, with the opening of the new exhibition space in Milan, the project expands its vision, opening up more toward the most current international research.
With its two venues, located in the historical center of Milan not far from Brera, and an experimental space located in Verona, the Gallery's activity aims at the discovery and enhancement of emerging artists, giving them the opportunity to experiment and develop their practice.
The curatorial project turns to artistic research that spans painting, photography, sculpture, video, performance and installation, focusing toward artworks with a new conceptual perspective and formal balance.
Opening hours:
Wednesday through Saturday: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Massimo De Carlo
Galleries
Massimo De Carlo Gallery was founded in 1987, distinguishing itself on the international art scene by making bold, countercultural choices: the gallery focused on lesser-known Italian artists such as John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. In subsequent years, the gallery's program has expanded to include such prominent artists as Alighiero Boetti, Cady Noland, Rudolf Stingel, Steven Parrino, Maurizio Cattelan, and Carsten Höller, among others. For more than 30 years, the gallery has fostered a vital dialogue between artists and national and international institutions, as well as relationships with other galleries, critics, curators and collectors, exhibiting the artists represented in galleries, museums and biennials around the world and accessing valuable public and private collections. It is based in Milan, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Seoul.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Museum of the Twentieth Century
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
The Museo del Novecento, inside the Palazzo dell'Arengario in Piazza del Duomo, displays more than three hundred works of 20th- and 21st-century Italian art from the Civiche Raccolte d'Arte. The historic building, designed by Griffini, Magistretti, Muzio, and Portaluppi, has been renovated by the Rota Group to house the 20th-century Italian art collections since 2010. The collection traces the main stages in the history of 20th-century Italian art, starting from the Gallery of Futurism with masterpieces by Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Severini, moving from the 1920s to the 1950s with works by artists such as Modigliani, De Chirico, De Pisis, Savinio, and Sironi to arrive in Sala Fontana where the artist's light installation symbolically embraces the city. The itinerary closes with rooms devoted to Italian and international art between the 1960s and the 1990s.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Ncontemporary
Galleries
Network Member
Ncontemporary gallery, founded in London by Emanuele Norsa in 2014, is now based in Milan and Venice. Ncontemporary focuses on emerging and mid-career international artists who share an interest in pushing the boundaries of their respective artistic practice. The gallery, curated by Federica Barletta and Emanuele Norsa, hosts five exhibitions a year and a series of site-specific installations created for the gallery's project room and outdoor space. Ncontemporary participates in international fairs such as Miart, Artissima, Paris Photo and Art Genève.
Opening hours:
Wednesday - Saturday, 2:30-7:00 p.m. and by appointment
OPR Gallery
Galleries
Network Member
OPR Gallery was established as an evolution of Office Project Room (2017-2020). From 2021, the Gallery will present the work of mid-career artists through experimental and research-based exhibition projects.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 2:30 - 6:00 p.m. and by appointment
Ordet
Nonprofits and archives
Ordet is an experimental art and cultural exhibition and production space based in Milan that aims to promote new models of research on contemporary creativity. Artists, curators and specialists in different disciplines are at the center of an activity that includes exhibitions, reviews, events, talks and meetings. The aim is to offer a multidisciplinary approach that can foster original perspectives and stimulate new visions on contemporary art.
Opening hours:
Wednesday - Saturday, 2-7 p.m.
Prada Foundation Observatory
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Housed on the fifth and sixth floors of one of the central buildings of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Osservatorio is Fondazione Prada's space dedicated to the experimentation of visual languages and research into the possible intersections and collisions between technology and various cultural expressions. Exhibitions investigate different artistic languages, media and their impact in an ever-changing political and social context.
Opening hours:
Monday and Wednesday-Friday, 2 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
PAC Milan
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Opened in 1954 as a venue for civic collections of the 20th century, PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea is today the public space for contemporary art in Milan. With this objective, PAC designs and produces exhibitions that investigate the national and international art scene, both monographic and collective. A Founding Member of AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums - the PAC interacts and collaborates with institutions and with the main realities on the territory that deal with contemporary
Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
Pananti Atelier
Galleries
Milan headquarters of Pananti Casa d'Aste, is located at 9 Via Aurelio Saffi, inside the historic "Casa Dugnani." The space hosts a Preview calendar of current auctions in Florence and offers art consulting and valuation services. With an artistic programming dedicated to contemporary art, Pananti Atelier aims to create a space in Milan that not only acts as a bridge to the Florentine venue, but also recreates a dimension of lively cultural exchange between present and past, paying homage to the history of the Auction House and bringing back a vision of the gallery as a place of contamination and debate.
Opening hours:
by appointment
Pirelli HangarBicocca
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the production and promotion of contemporary art, initiated and supported by Pirelli. Founded in 2004 in a former industrial building, Hangar Bicocca is a totally free, accessible and open museum. It houses Anselm Kiefer's monumental permanent installation, The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015, one of the most iconic works in the city of Milan, and features major solo exhibitions by Italian and international artists.
Opening hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 10:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
RIBOT
Galleries
Network Member
Opening hours:
Secci
Galleries
Network Member
Founded in Florence in 2013, Secci Gallery is now headquartered in Milan, where it continues to develop an exhibition program full of international collaborations, partnerships with critics, curators and prestigious institutions. In 2021, Secci opened its doors to postwar avant-garde art with a significant retrospective dedicated to Titina Maselli. This event also marked the beginning of important collaborations with several Artist Archives. Today the gallery develops a multidisciplinary program, capable of integrating and coexisting modern and contemporary art. In addition, the gallery carries on the "Novo" project that, under the curatorship of Marco Scotini, explores social and cultural dynamics through engaging artistic practices, with a curatorial approach that critically reflects the complexities of our time.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. / 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
SpazioSERRA
Public spaces
SpazioSERRA is a public art project led by a curatorial collective, born in Milan in 2017 to enhance the territory through the work of emergent artist*, starting from the Milan Lancetti station, a reality that is detached from the places canonically dedicated to art, where the eponymous space is located. Every year SpazioSERRA hosts site-specific projects by Italian* and international* artist*, and conducts several initiatives with institutions and collectives in Italy and abroad.
Storm Gallery
Galleries
Network Member
Tempesta Gallery was founded in 2020, out of the founders' desire to initiate an open and direct dialogue on the relationships between human beings, Nature and various socio-cultural ecosystems. The vision of the gallery, outlined by Elisa Bonzano and Enrico Angelino, transcends the traditional boundaries of the exhibition field to create a multifunctional and dynamic space. Tempesta Art Gallery aims to be a place to illustrate dialogue with contemporary artists, both Italian and international, and with the city of Milan itself. By presenting exhibition programming with a variety of artists who address issues of great social and environmental relevance, the gallery aims to stimulate critical reflection on the dynamics that affect our society and our planet. At the same time, the gallery is a place open to the community, where cultural events, lectures and workshops take place.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm / 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Saturday by appointment
The Flat - Massimo Carasi
Galleries
Network Member
Founded in 2002, The Flat - Massimo Carasi is a contemporary art gallery located since 2008 in a 250-square-meter former industrial space in Porta Venezia, Milan. The gallery promotes projects by both emerging and established international artists. Over the past ten years of activity, The Flat has favored artistic research that makes use of innovative technologies, non-traditional materials and new forms of language that comment on the world of the present in its broadest meanings, interpreting the prodromes of the imminent future.
Opening hours:
Winter hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 2:30 - 7:30 p.m. or by appointment
Summer hours: Tuesday - Friday, 2:30 - 7:30 p.m. or by appointment
The Open Box
Nonprofits and archives
Born in 2015 from an idea of Gaspare Luigi Marcone, The Open Box is a nonprofit space created within the walls of a former garage. An alternative exhibition space inside a box-car intended as a physical place in which to show and travel ideas, projects, known or unpublished works. The Open Box sets up exhibitions dedicated to individual works, but also offers comparisons between two artists to highlight their similarities and differences. The Open Box also organizes, in collaboration with other institutions, exhibitions dedicated to historical contemporary figures, such as Piero Manzoni and Luciano Fabro
Opening hours:
by appointment
Triennale Milan
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Since 1923 Triennale Milano, one of the most important cultural institutions internationally dedicated to the languages of design, architecture, visual and performing arts. Throughout the 20th century, Triennale di Milano contributed to the development of Italian architecture and design. It later extended its areas of interest to fashion, cinema, graphic design and audiovisual communication, becoming a center for innovation and creative research, an integrated system of communication and cultural production that today offers important retrospective and avant-garde exhibitions as well as meetings, festivals, prerofmance and theatrical performances.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Viafarini.Work
Nonprofits and archives
With its 1200sqm in the Corvetto area, Viafarini.Work is a multipurpose space and a center for artistic, film production, sociocultural and educational projects. Inside are artist studios, a film production set and workshops open to children and the local area.
Opening hours:
by appointment
VIR Viafarini-in-residence
Nonprofits and archives
VIR Viafarini-in-residence is the shared studio program for artists and curators, born in the Via Carlo Farini 35 venue and expanded to Fabbrica del Vapore and Viafarini.work at Via Marco d'Agrate 33 in Milan.
VIR gives space to artists' productions and fosters the exchange of skills and professional growth; at regular intervals the doors of the space, which can always be visited by appointment, are open to the public at Open Studio events, for visual restitution and presentation of the work done. Meetings and talks are organized.
Artists are selected through open calls launched on a regular basis, upon recommendation by curators and self-nominations.
Opening hours:
by appointment
Viasaterna
Galleries
Viasaterna was founded in 2015 on the initiative of Irene Crocco, founder in 2011 of the Da vicino project, for which she exhibits the works of numerous Italian artists in her Milan apartment.
The gallery's name pays homage to Via Saterna, an imaginary street described by Dino Buzzati among the plates of "Poema a Fumetti," (1969, Arnoldo Mondadori). A world in which dream and reality mingle in a web of people, destinies, lives and imagination. Irene Crocco was inspired by this magical and mysterious place, giving life to a gallery that, through art, could become a living meeting place for people and ideas. Starting with an interest in photography, today Viasaterna explores every other form of contemporary art.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Mornings and Saturdays by appointment
Visualcontainer + [.BOX]
Nonprofits and archives
VISUALCONTAINER[.BOX] is a research and dissemination hub on the moving image and its many hybridizations, based in the Niguarda neighborhood since 2024.
VISUALCONTAINER[.BOX] is a place for research, experimentation, meeting and discussion with exhibitions, workshops, screening from festivals and collaborations from Italy and around the world. A place open to the citizenship to welcome students, artists, professionals and scholars in a transdisciplinary and collaborative mode to develop new projects on the territory and new collaborations with our international partners.
VISUALCONTAINER[.BOX] space is part of the social enhancement program of the City of Milan.
Opening hours:
Wednesday-Friday, 6-8:30 p.m. during programming activities
WIZARD LAB.
Galleries
Network Member
WIZARD LAB is a contemporary art gallery founded in November 2024 by the collaboration between Gabriela Galati e WIZARD GALLERY (Federico Luger and Riccardo G Luger).. WIZARD's playful association with LAB evokes a space for artistic invention both scientific and imaginary. It refers to the artist's creative studio and the magician's tower or alchemical laboratory, spaces rich in imaginative experimentation. The gallery represents artists with research-based practices that explore the intersections of art, science, technology, environment and living systems. WIZARD LAB presents their work through a dynamic program of exhibitions, both in the gallery and off-site, as well as through participation in national and international art fairs.
Opening hours:
Monday through Thursday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m,
or by appointment.
Steam Factory
Via Ponte di Legno, 9
Via Monte di Pietà, 23
Steam Factory
House of Artists
Via Melchiorre Gioia, 41
Morigi Street, 8
Comelico Street, 40
Radetzky Newsstand
Battaglia Art Foundry
Via Giovanni Battista Niccolini, 35a
Via Privata Massimiano, 25
Via Vigevano, 9
Alfonso Lamarmora Street, 26
Corso Venezia, 52
Prada Foundation
Via Antonio Stoppani, 36
Palestro Street, 16
Bronzetti Brothers Street, 8
Via Bonaventura Cavalieri, 6
Foro Buonaparte, 52
Alessandro Stradella Street, 7
Gió Marconi
Via di Porta Tenaglia, 7
Stilicho Street, 19
ICA Foundation Milan
Via del Vecchio Politecnico, 3
Corso di Porta Ticinese, 87
Pietro Maroncelli Street, 7
Lombardy Avenue, 17
Museum of the Twentieth Century Milan
Giovanni Lulli Street, 5
99 Corsica Ave.
Adige Street, 17
Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery
PAC Pavilion of Contemporary Art
Via Aurelio Saffi, 9
Pirelli HangarBicocca
Henry Nöe Street, 23
Olmetto Street, 1
Lancetti FS
Foro Buonaparte, 68
The Flat - Massimo Carasi
Via Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, 6
Triennale Milan
Marco D'Agrate Street, 33
Viafarini - VIR Viafarini-in-residence
G. Leopardi Street, 32
Via Gian Battista Passerini, 18
Corso di Porta Ticinese, 87
Viafarini Archives
Viafarini was founded in 1991 with the intention of fostering the professional growth of young artists and raising public awareness with respect to contemporary artistic research, combining production, exhibition, educational activities and documentation services on the visual arts.
Viafarini's mission consists of three main points.
To make young Italian artists known in the contemporary art system, as a first step for their growth path and consequent interest by curators, critics and museums. To promote the mobility of artists and support them in their search for funding, as a necessary condition for their professional growth, including at the international level. To broaden the public interested in artistic research through exhibitions, educational and training tools.
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Nonprofits and archives
ArtNoble Gallery
ArtNoble Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in the Lambrate district of Milan founded in 2021. The gallery carries out an experimental program focused exclusively on the latest generation of Italian artists based in Italy and abroad. Central to ArtNoble's vision are themes of territoriality, origins and roots, with reflections on contemporary society and genuine attention to what is happening around us. The gallery carries out its mission by presenting a regular exhibition program designed and produced directly with its artists and often in dialogue with the space through a site-specific approach, as well as participating in off-site projects.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 2:30-6:30 p.m. or by appointment
Galleries
BUILDING
Born in 2017 from the vision of Moshe Tabibnia, BUILDING, houses three exhibition projects in its architecture that present three autonomous programming. BUILDING GALLERY, opened in 2017, spans the first three floors of the architecture and hosts the main exhibitions of the gallery's annual programming. BUILDING BOX, opened in 2018, is the exhibition space located within two street-facing windows, which hosts works linked by a temporal thread on a monthly basis and can be enjoyed at any time from the outside. BUILDING THIRD FLOOR was established in 2023to explore creativity in all its facets and follows an independent programming. BUILDING is also a publishing house that publishes catalogs of the solo and group exhibitions it hosts.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Galleries
Careof
Careof is a nonprofit contemporary art organization based in Milan's Fabbrica del Vapore. Founded in 1987, it fosters artistic creativity and experimentation in all its expressions and forms. Careof is an independent space, fluid and on the move, encouraging research and supporting cultural production through exhibitions, screenings, workshops, conferences and hybrid projects, thanks to its exhibition space, library, Photographic Archive and Video Archive, one of the most important Italian collections from the 1970s to the present, with more than 9000 titles, constantly expanding and recognized by the Ministry of Culture as being of national historical interest.Careof is a center of production and in-depth study on time-based media: it produces, exhibits, catalogs, preserves, and promotes works related to the moving image, in a dimension of circular valorization.
Opening hours:
Careof spaces can be visited by appointment and during programming activities
Nonprofits and archives
House of Artists
A center for residency, production and fruition open to the city, Casa degli Artisti (re)arises in 2020 as a place of encounter, creation and reflection to support artists' practice in the fields of visual, performing, sound, digital, applied, film, photography, literature and thought arts. Equipped with 11 ateliers intended for artists' work, a ground-floor exhibition space open to the public, a bistro, and an outdoor space overlooking the green space, Casa degli Artisti works as a place of connections to foster exchange between different actors in art, society, and business and to stimulate a dialogue on the public sphere and urban space.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 12:30-7:00 p.m.
Co-managing That's Contemporary
CONDOMINIUM
A multipurpose space focused on contemporary photography and image culture, created to provide a place for meetings, exhibitions and events, a 'co-sharing' without a hierarchical structure but with a spirit of welcoming and sharing.
Opening hours:
CONDOMINIUM spaces are open during programming activities
Hybrid and independent spaces
Cortesi Gallery
Cortesi Gallery, founded in 2013 by the Cortesi family, focuses on European art movements from the 1950s to the present. With offices in Lugano and Milan, the Gallery offers an eclectic and dynamic program, collaborating with experts in the field, external curators, researchers, Archives and Foundations. Cortesi Gallery has developed an exhibition program focused on Italian and international artists of the 20th century in close relation to the contemporary art scene. Its past initiatives include major exhibitions devoted to Gruppo ZERO, New Tendencies, Conceptual Art, Minimalism and Abstract Art. The gallery is also notable for its consistent participation in major art fairs on a global scale.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday by appointment
Galleries
Dep Art Gallery
Founded in Milan in 2006 by Antonio Addamiano, Dep Art Gallery focuses on both Italian and foreign artists, with a particular attention to a series of authors active in the 1960s and 1970s, without neglecting, however, the following generations and always trying to alternate and investigate the most varied languages. Over the years it has become the reference gallery for: Natale Addamiano, Alberto Biasi, Mario Nigro, Pino Pinelli, Salvo, Emilio Scanavino, Turi Simeti and Ludwig Wilding. In recent years the gallery has broadened the range of its authors by initiating a series of ongoing collaborations first in the German sphere, with Regine Schumann and Wolfram Ullrich, and later by paying attention to a primarily international context, mounting solo exhibitions of Tony Oursler and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Galleries
Radetzky Newsstand
Radetzky Newsstand Newsstand Radetzky is a small historical architecture from the early 1900s, located on the dock on Gorizia Street. Characterized by its iron and glass structure and a large pagoda roof, the newsstand owes its name to the fact that General Radetzky's edicts were communicated in the same spot. The space, covering an area of 2mx 2m, was converted into a newsstand and remained so until the 1960s, only to have alternating moments of use, ending up in a state of abandonment. In 2015, the Progetto Città Ideale association, composed of artists Fiorella Fontana and Stefano Serusi, won the call for tenders announced by the Municipality of Milan's Municipality 6 and took care of the restoration, transforming it into a center dedicated to contemporary artistic research. Since then, the newsstand has hosted a program of exhibitions with the aim of promoting the most current artistic research.
It is currently managed by Fiorella Fontana and can be seen 24 hours a day.
Public spaces
Battaglia Art Foundry
Fonderia Artistica Battaglia was established in 1913 by the will of three partners, Ercole Battaglia, Giulio Pogliani, and Riccardo Frigerio. From the beginning Battaglia used the ancient technique of lost-wax casting of bronze. Over time Battaglia has cast works by Arturo Martini, Francesco Messina, Ludovico Pogliani, Marino Marini, Giacomo Manzù, and, in the immediate postwar period, Luciano Minguzzi, Giò and Arnaldo Pomodoro, and Lucio Fontana. Today he collaborates with, among others, artists Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Francesco Arena, Kengiro Azuma, Giuseppe Penone, Benedetto Pietrogrande, Michel Saint Olive, Abdullah Selim, Nico Vascellari, Serena Vestrucci, Vihls, Velasco Vitali, and Peter Wächtler. Since 2014, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia has launched an experimental project involving some of the most important figures in contemporary art design.
Opening hours:
08:00-12:00 / 13:00-17:00 by appointment only
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Officine Saffi Foundation
Born in 2011 from an idea of Laura Borghi, the Officine Saffi Foundation is one of the most important nonprofit foundations dealing with contemporary ceramics internationally. With a 360-degree approach, the Foundation promotes new research and experimentation in the field, taking into account history and the past and fostering dialogue between art, craft and design. Through a dynamic and interdisciplinary program of exhibitions, educational activities and publications, it actively participates in the conversation about ceramics by addressing a diverse audience.
The Foundation supports artists, designers and craftspeople at different stages of production, through to the promotion and recognition of their work, providing a platform for emerging creatives as well as for projects and narratives that flourish outside established market systems.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm / 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Francesca Minini
Founded in 2006, Francesca Minini Gallery carries on a vibrant Italian and international program, from painting to sculpture to daring installations. A focus is on the Italian panorama of emerging artists, in continuity with the artists who have marked the gallery's program since its early years, such as Flavio Favelli and Riccardo Previdi. It has hosted site-specific projects by Jan De Cock and Daniel Buren and special projects on the facade by Francesco Simeti. In recent years the gallery has opened up to photography and performance with the work of Jacopo Benassi and Ambra Castagnetti. International research offers a focus on important South American artists and a careful program of group exhibitions focusing on the latest trends. The gallery follows established artists such as Daniel Buren, Sheila Hicks, Robert Barry, and the Summer of Carla Accardi and Dan Graham, collaborates with museums and private institutions, participates in Italian and international Biennials, and is active in publishing catalogs and artists' books.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Galleries
Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation
The Foundation, founded in 1995 at the behest of renowned sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, aims to ensure the proper preservation and information of all his works, as well as to promote research around the most relevant themes and figures of the contemporary avant-garde. The Foundation is a place of knowledge dedicated to Arnaldo Pomodoro and the practice of sculpture and art. It owns a Collection of works by Arnaldo Pomodoro and other artists, available for loan and on loan; curates and manages the artist's Archive and the realization of the online Catalogue Raisonné; carries out the practices related to the control of works and the issuance of authentications; promotes and carries out the publication of books and catalogs; and organizes exhibitions, meetings, guided tours and workshops. The exhibition activity inaugurated in 1999, the Prize established in 2006 and the Educational Section established in 2007 are just some of the initiatives through which the Foundation pursues its goals.
Opening hours:
Foundation spaces are open according to program activities to the public
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Elpis Foundation
Founded in 2020 by Marina Nissim, entrepreneur and collector, Fondazione Elpis by mission supports young artists through an articulated program of exhibitions, residencies, meetings, workshops, performances and projects spread throughout the country. It is based in Milan, inside a former industrial laundry in the Porta Romana district, now a space dedicated to artistic experimentation and research. Its identity is deeply linked to Una Boccata d'Arte, a project active since 2020 in collaboration with Maurizio Rigillo of Galleria Continua and with the participation of Threes. A widespread initiative that each year involves 20 artists in the creation of site-specific projects in 20 Italian villages - one for each region - born from direct encounters with local places and communities, enhancing the cultural heritage of the territory.
Opening hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Luigi Rovati Foundation
Named after Luigi Rovati, a physician, researcher and pharmaceutical entrepreneur, the Foundation juxtaposes modern and contemporary works of art with more than 200 Etruscan art artifacts in a historic building in the heart of Milan. On the underground floor, a striking architecture of stone domes, designed by Mario Cuccinella, houses the Etruscan collection, integrated with contemporary works. On the main floor, works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Luigi Ontani, Giulio Paolini and Francesco Simeti dialogue with the 19th-century interiors, creating a comparison with objects and works from different cultures and historical periods. Periodically, temporary exhibitions of ancient and contemporary art are interwoven with the permanent collection.
Opening hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Prada Foundation
Fondazione Prada is a cultural institution created in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli with offices in Milan, Venice and exhibition projects in Shanghai, Tokyo and NY. The Milan branch, opened in 2015 and designed by OMA studio led by Rem Koolhaas, offers art and archaeological exhibitions, scientific projects and conferences, musical events, dance performances and educational activities. Permanent installations and site-specific interventions by contemporary artists complement its cultural offerings. Since 2016 Osservatorio, inside Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, has been dedicated to experimenting with visual languages and researching potential connections between technology and other cultural expressions. Over the past 20 years Fondazione Prada has promoted numerous activities in the field of cinema exploring the links between moving images and visual arts.
Opening hours:
Monday / Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Spazio BOXBOX by Galleria Alessandro Albanese
La galleria Alessandro Albanese è una galleria d’arte contemporanea con sede a Milano e Matera. Viene fondata nel 1986 a Matera, Capitale Europea della Cultura nel 2019, nel cuore dei Sassi, Patrimonio UNESCO. La galleria ha ospitato mostre di artisti di grande rilievo come Takis, Leoncillo, Carla Accardi, Riccardo Licata, Renato Guttuso e altri, confermandosi un punto di riferimento per l’arte moderna in Italia. Nel 2019 Alessandro prende il timone dell’attività di famiglia aprendo la seconda sede della galleria a Milano, focalizzando l’attenzione sui nuovi linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea di giovani artisti internazionali, promuovendo il loro lavoro per la prima volta in Italia. Da ottobre 2025 la sede milanese della galleria è BOXBOX, uno spazio industriale all’interno della Julius Clinic in zona Porta Venezia. Oltre a due esposizioni annuali, Spazio BOXBOX organizza laboratori artistici e a progetti di art therapy appositamente pensati per i pazienti del nuovo centro diurno della Julius Clinic.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday 15:00-19:00
Galleries
GAM - Gallery of Modern Art
Founded in 1865 and moved to its current prestigious home in Villa Reale in 1921, the Milan Gallery of Modern Art is one of Italy's leading collections of 19th- and early 20th-century painting and sculpture. It starts with Neoclassicism, concluding with works of Romanticism, Scapigliatura, Realism, and Divisionism, and includes extraordinary masterpieces by Appiani, Boldini, Canova, De Nittis, Hayez, Pelizza da Volpedo, Piccio, Previati, Rodin, Medardo Rosso, and Segantini. The collections of Carlo and Nedda Grassi and Giuseppe Vismara, arranged according to the 1950s design by architect Ignazio Gardella, further enrich the museum with works by artists of the historical avant-garde such as Balla, Boccioni, Modigliani, Sironi and the great Impressionists and Post-Impressionists such as Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, up to the genius of Picasso.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
Closed on: December 25, January 1, Easter Monday and May 1
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Giampaolo Abbondio Gallery
Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio, founded in 2001 as PACK Gallery, offers the public programming focused on the production of emerging and established Italian and international artists. The exhibitions created over the years investigate the body in its various representations and manifestations, also offering large installations that involve the viewer in different sensory realities. The gallery prefers artists working with new media, new technologies and video installations. Through collaboration with Italian and foreign curators, the gallery's activities have resulted in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary exchanges, including producing a series of publications and taking part in numerous contemporary art fairs both nationally and internationally, such as Arte Fiera Bologna and Miart, Arco (Madrid), Art Chicago (Chicago), Art Miami (Miami Beach), Art Moscow (Moscow) and Beirut Art Fair (Beriut). In 2020 the gallery moved its headquarters to Milan, also moving its exhibition activity to the center of Todi in Umbria, inside a historic building, in June 2021.
Galleries
Fumagalli Gallery
Galleria Fumagalli was founded in Bergamo in 1971, and since 1990 the gallery has been directed by Stefano Fumagalli and Annamaria Maggi, who have offered a program focused on Informal Art, Abstract Art, Analytical Painting and Arte Povera, exhibiting artists Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Giorgio Griffa, Pino Pinelli, Giò Pomodoro, Giuseppe Uncini, Claudio Verna, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis and Gilberto Zorio. Over the past 30 years, Galleria Fumagalli has presented more than 90 solo and 30 group exhibitions, published more than 50 volumes and collaborated with Italian and foreign institutions and museums. It has also curated the archives of Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Giorgio Griffa, Gianfranco Pardi and Giuseppe Uncini and collaborated on the creation of the catalogs raisonné of Carla Accardi (with text edited by Germano Celant in 1999) and Giuseppe Uncini (with text edited by Bruno Corà in 2008). Since 2016 it has been based in Milan and in 2023 will inaugurate the project "LOFT - Light on Future Topics" aimed at promoting emerging and multidisciplinary artistic investigations.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Galleries
Poggiali Gallery
Galleria Poggiali operates out of three locations: Florence, Milan and Pietrasanta. The Florentine location focuses mainly on exhibitions by historic artists, while Milan focuses on emerging artists, often making their debut in Italy after international successes. Pietrasanta, located in the former Art Foundry, is a cultural center that promotes sociality and celebrates the area. The gallery is actively engaged in supporting influential artists in the contemporary debate, collaborating with them, publishing houses and museum institutions to organize exhibitions, performances and installations that fuel cultural debate.
Hours of operation:
Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Galleries
Raffaella Cortese Gallery
The gallery represents a transgenerational group of 30 global artists working across diverse media, with a focus on the representation of women artists and long-standing collaborations with major public institutions. The artists' practices focus on critical themes such as individual, political and national identities, the body, language and literature, as well as issues of feminism, femininity and gender. The gallery was one of the first to introduce the work of pioneering American women artists to the Italian contemporary art market in the 1990s, and the promotion of women's work has become a distinctive aspect of the gallery's identity over the years. A parallel goal of the gallery is to develop the careers of Italian artists, both by acting as a site of experimentation for the younger generation and by rediscovering artists late in life.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Galleries
Gio Marconi
Gió Marconi Gallery was founded in 1990 on the initiative of Gió Marconi, former founder of Studio Marconi 17, an experimental space-laboratory for young artists and curators, active from 1987 to 1990. The new gallery was initially led by Gió and his father Giorgio, himself founder of Studio Marconi (1965-1992). In the first year of its opening, the gallery exhibited Martin Kippenberger, Mario Schifano, and Richard Hamilton. Over the decades, Gió Marconi continues to support the careers of its artists, promoting their work to the public and institutions in Italy and abroad. The gallery, which has always focused on the contemporary, has begun, gradually, to include historical artists from Studio Marconi as well.
Opening hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Galleries
Kaufmann Repetto
Founded in 2000, Kaufmann Repetto is a gallery based in Milan and since 2013 in New York. The gallery, run by Francesca Kaufmann and Chiara Repetto, pursues an international program aimed at investigating social and political issues within the context of artistic production, with a focus on research on the feminine. Embracing a multitude of media and artistic approaches, the gallery has consistently promoted ambitious installations and site-specific projects, fostering dialogue between artists and the space that hosts them. After ten years in its historic location, in 2010 the gallery expanded its spaces in Milan's Brera district, adding a courtyard for outdoor installations as well.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Galleries
Lia Rumma
Lia Rumma Gallery, founded in Naples in 1971, from the beginning has played a decisive role in the discovery of new artistic trends on the international scene including Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Land Art and Conceptual Art presenting established and emerging artists including Marina Abramovic, Giovanni Anselmo, Alberto Burri, Gino De Dominicis, Donald Judd, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Longo, Reinhard Mucha, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Haim Steinbach, Thomas Ruff and many others. In 1999 Lia Rumma opened its Milan office in the Brera district, and in 2010 it inaugurated its current new space, a 2,000-square-meter building on three levels. Since then, the Milan office has hosted exhibitions and monumental projects conceived by the gallery's artists. Over the years the gallery has also encouraged intense collaboration with galleries, curators, critics and collectors that have led to prestigious international projects in museums and institutions both in Italy and abroad.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 pm - 7:00 pm.
Galleries
ICA Milan
Fondazione ICA Milano is an institution for all the arts, an organism for contemporary culture, and an ecological project for art based on the principle of sustainability and the relationships between people, their context and the art world. ICA Milan is a nonprofit institution born from the will, desire and passion of five people who identified the city of Milan as the ideal place to give life to an open project dedicated to contemporary arts. The Foundation's activities are centered on an interdisciplinary exhibition program ranging from the 20th century to the present day, encompassing art publishing, ceramics, cinema, performance, music, outreach, education and therapeutic activities.
Opening hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Swiss Institute
The Istituto Svizzero is a transdisciplinary platform that brings together artistic and scientific research. Whether in Rome, Milan or Palermo, the institute aims to facilitate exchange between Switzerland and Italy by offering residency programs to emerging artists and researchers in the visual and performing arts, literature, architecture, humanities, social and natural sciences. The institute's public programming aims to bring together diverse people and knowledge for initiatives such as exhibitions, talks, concerts, performances, workshops and summer schools. Since 1997, the Milan branch of the Swiss Institute has been a reference point for Swiss art and culture in the Lombard capital. Located near Piazza Cavour, the institute is housed in a historic building dating back to the 1950s, which includes the Consulate General of Switzerland, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Italy and various associations. Milan programming includes exhibitions, lectures, concerts and meetings with the aim of promoting artistic and scientific exchanges between Italy and Switzerland.
Opening hours:
Institute spaces can be visited during programming activities
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HYPERCUBE
HYPERCUBE was born out of the urge to imagine alternative dimensions. The hypercube is a geometric figure similar to the cube but immersed in a space of four or more dimensions: although it can be conceptualized and described mathematically, it cannot be imagined by the human mind since it can only think of a three-dimensional reality. Loosely related to the hypercube is the concept of hyperobject developed by contemporary philosopher Timothy Morton. Hyperobjects cannot be fully understood by the human mind because their time and space exceed human time and space, e.g., global warming, race, class, extinction, or a certain language. Hyperobject's mission is to identify and support artists who can bring about a more complex view of the contemporary, one that involves moving away from the consideration of the human being as a measure of reference in relation to the world, and advancing new lines of thought.
Galleries
Manuel Zoia Gallery
Founded in 2018 and directed by Manuel Zoia, the Gallery promotes international and Italian contemporary art; since its inception it has collaborated with many artists from different cultures and experts in different techniques and artistic practices.
In September 2021, with the opening of the new exhibition space in Milan, the project expands its vision, opening up more toward the most current international research.
With its two venues, located in the historical center of Milan not far from Brera, and an experimental space located in Verona, the Gallery's activity aims at the discovery and enhancement of emerging artists, giving them the opportunity to experiment and develop their practice.
The curatorial project turns to artistic research that spans painting, photography, sculpture, video, performance and installation, focusing toward artworks with a new conceptual perspective and formal balance.
Opening hours:
Wednesday through Saturday: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Galleries
Massimo De Carlo
Massimo De Carlo Gallery was founded in 1987, distinguishing itself on the international art scene by making bold, countercultural choices: the gallery focused on lesser-known Italian artists such as John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. In subsequent years, the gallery's program has expanded to include such prominent artists as Alighiero Boetti, Cady Noland, Rudolf Stingel, Steven Parrino, Maurizio Cattelan, and Carsten Höller, among others. For more than 30 years, the gallery has fostered a vital dialogue between artists and national and international institutions, as well as relationships with other galleries, critics, curators and collectors, exhibiting the artists represented in galleries, museums and biennials around the world and accessing valuable public and private collections. It is based in Milan, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Seoul.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Galleries
Museum of the Twentieth Century
The Museo del Novecento, inside the Palazzo dell'Arengario in Piazza del Duomo, displays more than three hundred works of 20th- and 21st-century Italian art from the Civiche Raccolte d'Arte. The historic building, designed by Griffini, Magistretti, Muzio, and Portaluppi, has been renovated by the Rota Group to house the 20th-century Italian art collections since 2010. The collection traces the main stages in the history of 20th-century Italian art, starting from the Gallery of Futurism with masterpieces by Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Severini, moving from the 1920s to the 1950s with works by artists such as Modigliani, De Chirico, De Pisis, Savinio, and Sironi to arrive in Sala Fontana where the artist's light installation symbolically embraces the city. The itinerary closes with rooms devoted to Italian and international art between the 1960s and the 1990s.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Ncontemporary
Ncontemporary gallery, founded in London by Emanuele Norsa in 2014, is now based in Milan and Venice. Ncontemporary focuses on emerging and mid-career international artists who share an interest in pushing the boundaries of their respective artistic practice. The gallery, curated by Federica Barletta and Emanuele Norsa, hosts five exhibitions a year and a series of site-specific installations created for the gallery's project room and outdoor space. Ncontemporary participates in international fairs such as Miart, Artissima, Paris Photo and Art Genève.
Opening hours:
Wednesday - Saturday, 2:30-7:00 p.m. and by appointment
Galleries
OPR Gallery
OPR Gallery was established as an evolution of Office Project Room (2017-2020). From 2021, the Gallery will present the work of mid-career artists through experimental and research-based exhibition projects.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 2:30 - 6:00 p.m. and by appointment
Galleries
Ordet
Ordet is an experimental art and cultural exhibition and production space based in Milan that aims to promote new models of research on contemporary creativity. Artists, curators and specialists in different disciplines are at the center of an activity that includes exhibitions, reviews, events, talks and meetings. The aim is to offer a multidisciplinary approach that can foster original perspectives and stimulate new visions on contemporary art.
Opening hours:
Wednesday - Saturday, 2-7 p.m.
Nonprofits and archives
Prada Foundation Observatory
Housed on the fifth and sixth floors of one of the central buildings of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Osservatorio is Fondazione Prada's space dedicated to the experimentation of visual languages and research into the possible intersections and collisions between technology and various cultural expressions. Exhibitions investigate different artistic languages, media and their impact in an ever-changing political and social context.
Opening hours:
Monday and Wednesday-Friday, 2 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
PAC Milan
Opened in 1954 as a venue for civic collections of the 20th century, PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea is today the public space for contemporary art in Milan. With this objective, PAC designs and produces exhibitions that investigate the national and international art scene, both monographic and collective. A Founding Member of AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums - the PAC interacts and collaborates with institutions and with the main realities on the territory that deal with contemporary
Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Pananti Atelier
Milan headquarters of Pananti Casa d'Aste, is located at 9 Via Aurelio Saffi, inside the historic "Casa Dugnani." The space hosts a Preview calendar of current auctions in Florence and offers art consulting and valuation services. With an artistic programming dedicated to contemporary art, Pananti Atelier aims to create a space in Milan that not only acts as a bridge to the Florentine venue, but also recreates a dimension of lively cultural exchange between present and past, paying homage to the history of the Auction House and bringing back a vision of the gallery as a place of contamination and debate.
Opening hours:
by appointment
Galleries
Pirelli HangarBicocca
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the production and promotion of contemporary art, initiated and supported by Pirelli. Founded in 2004 in a former industrial building, Hangar Bicocca is a totally free, accessible and open museum. It houses Anselm Kiefer's monumental permanent installation, The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015, one of the most iconic works in the city of Milan, and features major solo exhibitions by Italian and international artists.
Opening hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 10:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
RIBOT
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Galleries
Secci
Founded in Florence in 2013, Secci Gallery is now headquartered in Milan, where it continues to develop an exhibition program full of international collaborations, partnerships with critics, curators and prestigious institutions. In 2021, Secci opened its doors to postwar avant-garde art with a significant retrospective dedicated to Titina Maselli. This event also marked the beginning of important collaborations with several Artist Archives. Today the gallery develops a multidisciplinary program, capable of integrating and coexisting modern and contemporary art. In addition, the gallery carries on the "Novo" project that, under the curatorship of Marco Scotini, explores social and cultural dynamics through engaging artistic practices, with a curatorial approach that critically reflects the complexities of our time.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. / 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Galleries
SpazioSERRA
SpazioSERRA is a public art project led by a curatorial collective, born in Milan in 2017 to enhance the territory through the work of emergent artist*, starting from the Milan Lancetti station, a reality that is detached from the places canonically dedicated to art, where the eponymous space is located. Every year SpazioSERRA hosts site-specific projects by Italian* and international* artist*, and conducts several initiatives with institutions and collectives in Italy and abroad.
Public spaces
Storm Gallery
Tempesta Gallery was founded in 2020, out of the founders' desire to initiate an open and direct dialogue on the relationships between human beings, Nature and various socio-cultural ecosystems. The vision of the gallery, outlined by Elisa Bonzano and Enrico Angelino, transcends the traditional boundaries of the exhibition field to create a multifunctional and dynamic space. Tempesta Art Gallery aims to be a place to illustrate dialogue with contemporary artists, both Italian and international, and with the city of Milan itself. By presenting exhibition programming with a variety of artists who address issues of great social and environmental relevance, the gallery aims to stimulate critical reflection on the dynamics that affect our society and our planet. At the same time, the gallery is a place open to the community, where cultural events, lectures and workshops take place.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm / 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Saturday by appointment
Galleries
The Flat - Massimo Carasi
Founded in 2002, The Flat - Massimo Carasi is a contemporary art gallery located since 2008 in a 250-square-meter former industrial space in Porta Venezia, Milan. The gallery promotes projects by both emerging and established international artists. Over the past ten years of activity, The Flat has favored artistic research that makes use of innovative technologies, non-traditional materials and new forms of language that comment on the world of the present in its broadest meanings, interpreting the prodromes of the imminent future.
Opening hours:
Winter hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 2:30 - 7:30 p.m. or by appointment
Summer hours: Tuesday - Friday, 2:30 - 7:30 p.m. or by appointment
Galleries
The Open Box
Born in 2015 from an idea of Gaspare Luigi Marcone, The Open Box is a nonprofit space created within the walls of a former garage. An alternative exhibition space inside a box-car intended as a physical place in which to show and travel ideas, projects, known or unpublished works. The Open Box sets up exhibitions dedicated to individual works, but also offers comparisons between two artists to highlight their similarities and differences. The Open Box also organizes, in collaboration with other institutions, exhibitions dedicated to historical contemporary figures, such as Piero Manzoni and Luciano Fabro
Opening hours:
by appointment
Nonprofits and archives
Triennale Milan
Since 1923 Triennale Milano, one of the most important cultural institutions internationally dedicated to the languages of design, architecture, visual and performing arts. Throughout the 20th century, Triennale di Milano contributed to the development of Italian architecture and design. It later extended its areas of interest to fashion, cinema, graphic design and audiovisual communication, becoming a center for innovation and creative research, an integrated system of communication and cultural production that today offers important retrospective and avant-garde exhibitions as well as meetings, festivals, prerofmance and theatrical performances.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Museums-Institutions-Foundations
Viafarini.Work
With its 1200sqm in the Corvetto area, Viafarini.Work is a multipurpose space and a center for artistic, film production, sociocultural and educational projects. Inside are artist studios, a film production set and workshops open to children and the local area.
Opening hours:
by appointment
Nonprofits and archives
VIR Viafarini-in-residence
VIR Viafarini-in-residence is the shared studio program for artists and curators, born in the Via Carlo Farini 35 venue and expanded to Fabbrica del Vapore and Viafarini.work at Via Marco d'Agrate 33 in Milan.
VIR gives space to artists' productions and fosters the exchange of skills and professional growth; at regular intervals the doors of the space, which can always be visited by appointment, are open to the public at Open Studio events, for visual restitution and presentation of the work done. Meetings and talks are organized.
Artists are selected through open calls launched on a regular basis, upon recommendation by curators and self-nominations.
Opening hours:
by appointment
Nonprofits and archives
Viasaterna
Viasaterna was founded in 2015 on the initiative of Irene Crocco, founder in 2011 of the Da vicino project, for which she exhibits the works of numerous Italian artists in her Milan apartment.
The gallery's name pays homage to Via Saterna, an imaginary street described by Dino Buzzati among the plates of "Poema a Fumetti," (1969, Arnoldo Mondadori). A world in which dream and reality mingle in a web of people, destinies, lives and imagination. Irene Crocco was inspired by this magical and mysterious place, giving life to a gallery that, through art, could become a living meeting place for people and ideas. Starting with an interest in photography, today Viasaterna explores every other form of contemporary art.
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday, 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Mornings and Saturdays by appointment
Galleries
Visualcontainer + [.BOX]
VISUALCONTAINER[.BOX] is a research and dissemination hub on the moving image and its many hybridizations, based in the Niguarda neighborhood since 2024.
VISUALCONTAINER[.BOX] is a place for research, experimentation, meeting and discussion with exhibitions, workshops, screening from festivals and collaborations from Italy and around the world. A place open to the citizenship to welcome students, artists, professionals and scholars in a transdisciplinary and collaborative mode to develop new projects on the territory and new collaborations with our international partners.
VISUALCONTAINER[.BOX] space is part of the social enhancement program of the City of Milan.
Opening hours:
Wednesday-Friday, 6-8:30 p.m. during programming activities
Nonprofits and archives
WIZARD LAB.
WIZARD LAB is a contemporary art gallery founded in November 2024 by the collaboration between Gabriela Galati e WIZARD GALLERY (Federico Luger and Riccardo G Luger).. WIZARD's playful association with LAB evokes a space for artistic invention both scientific and imaginary. It refers to the artist's creative studio and the magician's tower or alchemical laboratory, spaces rich in imaginative experimentation. The gallery represents artists with research-based practices that explore the intersections of art, science, technology, environment and living systems. WIZARD LAB presents their work through a dynamic program of exhibitions, both in the gallery and off-site, as well as through participation in national and international art fairs.
Opening hours:
Monday through Thursday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m,
or by appointment.