Return to main Milan What's on page: click here
What's on in Milan - Archives
Carla Maggi exhibition at Palazzo Reale
Thursday, July 15th 2010
15 July-5 September 2010. This retrospective is dedicated to the talented Milanese artist Carla Maria Maggi (1913-2004). It explores her expressive journey and focuses on the main artistic genres and artists who worked in Milan in the 1930s. Maggi’s works have been previously displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. more
Ermenegildo Zegna at Triennale
Tuesday, June 22nd 2010
22 June-1 August 2010. This exhibition pays homage to the Italian designer Ermenegildo Zegna on the centenary of his death. Through a vast selection of photographic material, films, projects, documents and clothing from different historical periods it describes the aims and aspirations of this luxury brand, as well as telling the story of a century of Italian industry, design, handicraft, art, style and environmental sustainability. more
Wednesday, June 30th 2010
30 June-31 July 2010. This exhibition entitled Nigeria brings together 30 images by the Dutch reporter Kadir Van Lohuizen, which were originally published in Amnesty International’s annual report on Nigeria: petroleum, pollution and poverty in the Niger Delta. Van Lohuizen immortalises the violation of human rights and the environment in the oil-rich Niger Delta area caused by the activities of multinational industries, especially oil companies. more
Wednesday, June 16th 2010
16 June-5 September 2010. This exhibition, subtitled Light and colour in Milan in the 1930s, presents about 110 works focusing on the "chiarismo" artistic movement and pays a special homage to its main protagonist, Francesco De Rocchi (1902-1978). The term “chiarismo” was coined in 1935 by Leonardo Borgese and refers to a group of young Italian artists of the period including Angelo Del Bon, Francesco De Rocchi, Cristoforo De Amicis, Umberto Lilloni, Adriano Spilimbergo, Renato Vernizzi, Goliardo Padova and Oreste Marini, who worked in close contact with the art critic Edoardo Persico and produced neo-Romantic paintings characterised by light and bright colours. De Rocchi produced some of the most poetic works of that period, inspired by Amedeo Modigliani, Simone Martini, Bernardino Luini and Gaudenzio Ferrari. His adolescent angels in pink and ivory tones are particularly well known. more
Wednesday, June 23rd 2010
23 June-10 July 2010. This photographic exhibition entitled Starved for Attention: Food is not enough is part of a global multimedia campaign promoted by the association Doctors without Borders and VII Photo Agency focusing on the serious problem of child malnutrition, which claims the lives of millions of children around the world. This event coincides with the beginning of a particularly harsh “hunger gap” season in Africa’s Sahel region, when staple food crops run out before the next harvest. As part of the campaign malnutrition will also be explored through a seven-part mini-documentary series to be released over a seven-week period around the world. more
Metropolises photographed by Marcello Pulicelli
Thursday, June 10th 2010
10-27 June 2010. This exhibition, entitled The Theorem of Delirium, presents international metropolises such as Milan, London and Stockholm as portrayed by the young Italian photographer Marcello Pulicelli. The artist revisits the boring usual spaces of the cities with their points, lines, polygons and angles, emphasising the geometry that surrounds us from a very unusual point of view. Pulicelli, aged 22, is the co-founder of the cultural and sporting association Alpha Leonis and has already held a successful first exhibition dedicated to industrial archeology. more
Ives Bélogerey’s Vertical Sections
Friday, May 14th 2010
14 May-11 July 2010. This exhibition, on show at Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese and at Fondazione Stelline, has been organised in conjunction with the Xippas Gallery of Paris and pays homage to the young French architectural painter Ives Bélorgey, who has been described by the press as a hyper-realist and the possible successor of Giovanni Panini and Hubert Robert. On display are over 40 large acrylics depicting contemporary urban architecture. The paintings, which resemble photographs, try to represent urban transformation as a reflection of social and cultural change in contemporary society. more
Milan and the Style of a City between 1700 and 1900
Tuesday, March 2nd 2010
2 March-2 July 2010. The new Museum of Costume at Palazzo Morando hosts a large exhibition dedicated to the city of Milan and its fashion and style between 1700 and 1900. On display are original vintage clothes and paintings, currently owned by the civic collections Civiche Raccolte d’Arti Applicate del Castello). The show aims to give new visibility to the extraordinary artistic heritage represented by the clothes and accessories in this museum. more
Wednesday, May 26th 2010
26 May-26 June 2010. This exhibition inaugurates a new cycle at Triennale Design Museum dedicated to the articulate and colourful world of contemporary Italian design. On display is work by Italian designers, companies and institutions, with projects based on a concept of very open and innovative design that can be applied to material as well as to immaterial things leading to the creation of simple objects. The participants have conceived their work within the context of sustainability, scientific and cultural experimentation, the study of the landscape, technology and society. The exhibition includes Recycled Kint by Asap, which promotes the recovery of unused fibres from cashmere to create new knitwear. more
Haiti portrayed by Moises Saman
Tuesday, June 15th 2010
15-30 June 2010. This exhibition, entitled Haiti, the Melancholy of Shadows, displays work by the Peruvian photographer Moises Saman taken in two different moments: after the elections of 2006 and after the earthquake that devastated the Caribbean country in January 2010. The images testify to life and death in a country that for many years has been forgotten or even denied. Saman has worked as a professional photographer in New York since 2000. He has focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and on different projects in Pakistan, Nepal, Cuba, Lebanon and Haiti. He is currently a contributor to The New York Times, Newsweek and Human Rights Watch. more