Milano Art Week, the art week in April: what to see

The Milano Art Week 2026 will take place from April 13 to 19, 2026.

During the same dates, Miart, the international fair of modern and contemporary art, will also be held. Days filled in Milano with more than 350 events, including 60 openings, 50 workshop talks and presentations, over 50 guided tours, and studio visits.

Milano Art Week 2026

The Milano Art Week is the week of art in all its forms.

The goal of the week is to transform Milan into a true stage for contemporary art, capable of exploring the world around us, raising questions about the present and the future through art.

The events of the Milanese art week

The events of Milano Art Week are numerous, scattered across all the museums and exhibition spaces in the city. Below is a brief selection of some of the exhibitions and events happening during those days in the city.

What do you want to see?

Among the most anticipated events of this edition of Milano Art Week is the exhibition THE ONLY TRUE ANARCHY IS THAT OF POWER at the PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea – which opens Milano Art Week on April 13 with a performance by Australian artist Marco Fusinato – and the site-specific work Παρνασσός / Parnassus created specifically by Letia (Letizia Cariello) for the Sala del Parnaso at the GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna.

The Museo del Novecento continues and strengthens its efforts to enhance its collection through a series of new projects that specifically and broadly intervene in the spaces and exhibition devices of the museum: salut! hallo! hello! by Diego Marcon becomes part of the ACACIA Collection donated to the museum, while the FOCUS900 program is enriched with Vedere l’aria by Bruno Munari; on the ground floor, the “quadreria” of the FORUM900 renews the permanent path through a selection of contemporary works added to the collection over the years, and LOUNGE900 presents the reinstallation of a selection of works from the Collezione Spagna Bellora.

At Palazzo Reale, the exhibition program continues with Le Alchimiste, the new impressive exhibition by Anselm Kiefer; Metafisica/Metafisiche, Robert Mapplethorpe. The Forms of Desire and Macchiaioli. At MUDEC – Museo delle Culture, Il Senso della Neve continues, along with the site-specific installation The Moment the Snow Melts by Chiharu Shiota; at the Castello Sforzesco, Leonardo Parlante, a project by Sabrina D’Alessandro that recovers the “otherwise lost” words of Leonardo from the Trivulziano Codex, continues.

These proposals are complemented by those from private institutions such as Fondazione Prada, where the new multimedia project by Cao Fei and the site-specific intervention by Mona Hatoum at the Largo Isarco location will be ongoing, while the project by Hito Steyerl will still be visible at the Observatory location. Pirelli HangarBicocca presents The House That Jack Built, a retrospective on the thirty-year research of Rirkrit Tiravanija around spatial and architectural practice, and Rebecca, the first major institutional exhibition of Benni Bosetto, which will activate on April 18, 2026 with a full day of performances. In the spaces of Triennale Milano, the monographic exhibition Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito: Continuous Present reflects on the intersections between art, architecture, and design.

The program of Milano Art Week then extends to other city institutions, including the Istituto Svizzero, with the exhibition of Romane de Watteville and the evening of screenings dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Mousse Magazine. And then there’s Fondazione ICA Milano, Fondazione Luigi Rovati, Gallerie d’Italia – Milano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, ADI Design Museum which hosts the exhibition of participants in the 29th edition of the Compasso d’Oro Award.

For all other exhibitions and events, here is the link to the complete program.

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