Milano

Art Week

2026

April 13-19, 2026

A week dedicated to art in all its forms

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14.4.26
Romane de Watteville. I’ll miss you when I scroll away
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Istituto Svizzero presents Romane de Watteville’s first solo exhibition in Italy with an environmental installation that explores the sense of entropy in the time following the end of a party.

14.4.26
Romane de Watteville. I’ll miss you when I scroll away
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Istituto Svizzero presents Romane de Watteville’s first solo exhibition in Italy with an environmental installation that explores the sense of entropy in the time following the end of a party.

13.4.26
Performance Marco Fusinato - Special event
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Australian artist Marco Fusinato presents a radical and hypnotic sound performance at the PAC in direct dialogue with his first European monographic exhibition.

15-18.4.26
ArtLine Milano: Open Air Collection
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The City of Milan presents the ArtLine catalogue and inaugurates Jeremy Deller's work Octospider with a series of walks guided by the curators in the CityLife park.

19.4.26
Special screening of Dolle (2023) by Diego Marcon
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Museo del Novecento and ACACIA present a screening of Dolle by Diego Marcon, winner of the 2026 ACACIA Award, at the Cinema Arlecchino.

18.4.26
Program of performances by Benni Bosetto
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On the occasion of the Rebecca exhibition, artist Benni Bosetto presents a day of performances, expanding on the exhibition's themes through the body and live action.

13-19.4.26
Ghost Track
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MAC and Milan Art Week present Ghost Track, a widespread project that includes contemporary works among the permanent collections of the Civic Museums.

16-19.4.26
Arte Sagra
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Spazio UFO is transformed into a convivial village square with the Arte Sagra event, featuring bocce tournaments and music, to rediscover the less serious side of the art system.

17.4.26
Alchemy between Science and Art
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Artist Anselm Kiefer talks with historian Natacha Fabbri in a discussion moderated by Gabriella Belli.

19.4-4.10.26
Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Present
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A major monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Branzi, who is told through the eyes of Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito, Branzi's longtime friend and collaborator.

17.4.26
Club Radioso
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Fondazione Elpis hosts a morning event in the Lavanderia spaces that combines music, spoken word, and performance, on the occasion of the exhibition Smooth Operator by Villiam Miklos Andersen.

29.1-17.5.26
Robert Mapplethorpe. The Shapes of Desire
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Palazzo Reale celebrates Robert Mapplethorpe with a major retrospective of over 200 works that explore the formal perfection and sensuality of the human body.

18.4.26
Corpi sul paRco
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Burri's Teatro Continuo hosts a series of short performances curated by Gabi Scardi and Andrea Contin for an afternoon of interaction between stage and audience.

9.4-28.9.26
Cao Fei: Dash
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The new multimedia project conceived by Chinese artist Cao Fei for Fondazione Prada. An exhibition that combines photography, video installation, virtual reality, documentary, and archival materials.

14.4.26
Paper | An exhibition by Gianni Pettena
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Paper, a historic 1971 work by Gianni Pettena, a leading figure in radical architecture, opens in Milan.

13-18.4.26
Banca Generali - BG arTalent 2026
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Banca Generali exceptionally opens the BG Art Gallery in Milan to present the works of the BG ArTalent project and the new features of the 2026 edition.

14.4-31.5.26
UPRISE di Fabio Giampietro
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UPRISE was born in the transit space of La Porta di Milano, a project that reflects on the transformation of the contemporary city and the progressive shift in human perspective.

19.11-28.6.26
Chiharu Shiota - The Moment the Snow Melts
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“The Moment the Snow Melts” is the site-specific installation by Chiharu Shiota presented at MUDEC as a preview of the exhibition “Il Senso della Neve”.

13.4.26
LETIA - Letizia Cariello: Παρνασσός Parnassus
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The Sala del Parnaso hosts the site-specific installation LETIA – Letizia Cariello. The work, in dialogue with Appiani's frescoes and the surrounding garden, marks the artist's first major public museum project in Milan.

13.2-2.8.26
Depero Space to Space
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Museo Bagatti Valsecchi brings together over forty works by Fortunato Depero with the neo-Renaissance furnishings of the house museum, creating a parallel between ancient and contemporary.

15.4.26
Francesco Simeti - This room no longer has walls
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Francesco Simeti - Questa stanza non ha più pareti

Musicista visto di spalle su un palco con una chitarra acustica davanti a uno sfondo luminoso decorato con disegni floreali.

Milano Art Week is a week dedicated to art, promoted by the Municipality of Milan, coordinated by the Associazione Arte Totale – comprising ArtsFor_, Artshell, and MAC Milano Art Community – in collaboration with miart and the city’s leading public and private cultural institutions.

Marco Fusinato  DESASTRES  Two day performance on world’s largest volume LED screen (12 x 88 metres). Now or Never Festival, Melbourne, 2024. Photography: NoN
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Cao Fei, “Dash” (still), 2026. Courtesy the artist, Vitamin Creative Space, and Sprüth Magers. Work produced by Fondazione Prada

From April 13th to 19th, the city comes alive with the tenth edition of Milan Art Week. The program offers over 400 events, including exhibitions, talks, performances, and special openings, presented by 230 institutions, foundations, galleries, and independent spaces.

Diego Marcon, video still from Dolle, 2023, digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, colour, sound, dur. 29min. 32 sec., looped. Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. © Diego Marcon
Talpa realistico seduto su una poltrona rosa che legge un foglio di carta.
Sala blu con due casse acustiche, un tavolo con un case per attrezzature e una proiezione di piatti da DJ e mixer sulla parete.

In both iconic institutional venues and independent spaces across the city, the public has the opportunity to embark on a journey through the many facets of contemporaneity, engaging with crucial themes such as identity, memory, geopolitics, and the environment. The program fosters collaboration among artists, institutions, and audiences, while celebrating the vitality of Milan’s artistic landscape and the city’s role as a key reference point on both the national and international art scene.

Ph Agostino Osio
BROWSE MAW 2026 program
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