Milano Design Agenda

The architect and designer Andrea Branzi rediscovers the masters of twentieth-century painting and transforms their creations. On display is the series of drawings from which it takes its title, created in the 2000s. Accompanying the exhibition is Archetypes, which collects the theoretical mental models that anticipate material creation.

Ordet presents The Ruling, the first solo exhibition by Sung Tieu (Vietnamese artist based in Berlin) in Italy. The Ruling recalls the intricate interplay between colonial interests, bureaucratic and administrative governance strategies, and their impact as lasting legacies of colonial oppression—revealing the asymmetry between the metric system’s universality and its implementation as a tool of exploitation, capital accumulation, and world trade.
 

Galleria Indice presents the solo exhibition of photographer Mattia Balsamini, curated by Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala.
The five projects on display in the exhibition, " Mezza Luce," focus on some recurrent themes in Balsamini's projects over the past four years, in particular the night and its disappearance due to light pollution.

The Collezione Ramo in Milan presents, from Saturday 25 November to Sunday 3 December 2023, the third edition of Milano Drawing Week, an annual event with the patronage and collaboration of the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Milan, which involves the entire city in a focus on drawing and takes shape in a series of exhibitions spread throughout the Milanese territory: a twelve-stage journey through the city, among contemporary artists and masters of the 20th century. Locations: Castello Sforzesco / Museo di Storia Naturale / Clima / Galleria Tiziana Di Caro / Galleria ZERO… / Gió Marconi / kaufmann repetto / Loom Gallery / Monica De Cardenas / OPR Gallery / Renata Fabbri / Spazio Lima

Based on an idea by Remo Salvadori, the exhibition brings together the latest works by Marco Andrea Magni, Filippo Manzini and Sandro Mussida. Three works, three artists, one space and one conductor.

The installation by Bruno Pellegrino offers a thoughtful look through sixty-three two-dimensional painted iron sculptures and six monochrome masks. The exhibition creates an emotional journey, exploring the expressive intensity of faces and involving viewers with a multi-sensory projection. The central theme of PERSONAE focuses on the human in modernity, exploring concepts of individuality, diversity, solitude and collectivity.

Fast, the Italian company specializing in outdoor furniture, together with the new creative directors - the architects and designers Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces - hosts the exhibition “A Photographic Journey into Fast, by Stefan Giftthaler”. An opportunity to discover the Made in Italy reality and its essential relationship with the territory of origin, Valle Sabbia, in an intimate portrait of the combination of technology and craftsmanship.

The exhibition "Riccardo Blumer - MOVIMENTS OF SOULS, Diatoms, Dancers, Shells, Souls and Notebooks," curated by Andrea Ciotti, offers a glimpse into the work of the Italian-Swiss architect, designer and professor. Blumer presents luminous and written objects that reflect his interdisciplinary work, creating installations that explore structural, optical and geometric themes.

A major exhibition about the work of photographer Gabriele Basilico, divided between two exhibition venues: Palazzo Reale and Triennale Milano.The exhibition presents the documentation work Basilico has done on his own city over the course of nearly 40 years, recounting the architecture, building fabric, monuments, urban development and transformations of Milan and its metropolitan area. 

The exhibition presents forty years of activity of Alberto Meda, Italian engineer, designer and planner, with projects, photographs, prototypes, drawings and unpublished materials. It is divided into seven sections that follow the main themes of his compositional poetics. The exploration of design and the relationship between design, technology and the user is developed in the Design Platform and Quadreria spaces, with a light installation conceived specifically for the Scalone d'Onore.

First solo exhibition dedicated to Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan by an Italian institution. "Reincarnations of shadows" traces Thao Nguyen Phan's delicate work through multiple artistic expressions: from installations, to watercolors and video productions.

An immersive journey into the world of the Italian design luminary whose creative brilliance has indelibly shaped the design landscape. This exposition showcases Crespi's creations and adds a contemporary resonance to the narrative: the exhibition is in fact enriched by juxtaposing contemporary luminous creations by Maximilian Marchesani.

Real and at the same time rarefied places are embedded into the introspective images of Veronica Gaido in an authentic, artistic journey exploring the icons of Made in Italy design created by Boffi|DePadova. Curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli.

On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the first edition of the book "The Adventures of Pinocchio - Story of a Puppet" by Carlo Collodi, ADI Design Museum presents "Carissimo Pinocchio, designer e grafici italiani ridisegnano il burattino più famoso del mondo" curated by Giulio Iacchetti: a selection of 62 new specially created projects dedicated to the icon that has inspired generations of creatives and thinkers.

On display are the works of James Lee Bryars, one of the most recognized American artists from the 1960s to the present. The spaces of Hangar Bicocca present a retrospective of the artist, hosting for the first time in Italy some of his most monumental works.

A visual overview of the work of Mario De Biasi (1923-2013), a versatile photographer, defined by Enzo Biagi as 'the man who could photograph everything'. And in this everything he favoured the city of Milan, where he moved at the age of 15. Thus, one hundred years after his birth, the Museo Diocesano in Milan is dedicating to him an "Extraordinary Edition" that brings together a series of iconic shots dedicated to his adopted city.

An extensive exhibition curated by Nicholas Cullinan that investigates the histories and semantics of folding screens by tracing trajectories of cross-pollination between East and West, processes of hybridization between different art forms and functions, collaborative relationships between designers and artists, and the emergence of newly created works.

A retrospective dedicated to Carlo Zauli, the Italian ceramicist and sculptor, curated by Nina Yashar in collaboration with Museo Carlo Zauli.

The exhibition "Fornasetti servitore di Arlecchino" is hosted in the foyer of the Cineteca Milano Arlecchino, a historic cinema inaugurated at the end of the 1940s. Curated by Fornasetti, the exhibition revolves around Piero's work "La scuola degli Arlecchini", a series of enamelled and ink-decorated wooden panels dated 1948.

Curated by Sarah Cosulich, the exhibition Peter Dreher:100 Days sparks an unforeseen dialogue between the ceramic surfaces by Mutina and a collection of 100 canvases by the artist, drawn from the series Day by Day, Good Day and presented as a unified, expansive installation.

Design Metaphors is the fourth exhibition that takes place in the space of Casa Lana - the interior of a private residence designed by Sottsass around the mid-1960s in Milan. The exhibition brings together a series of photographs taken by Sottsass between 1972 and 1978 on the subject of architecture, design and living.

The Museum of Italian Design celebrates the centenary of Triennale Milano with a new path that starts from the foundation of the institution in 1923 and ends with the development of technological, material and social research that has transformed the identity, aesthetics and main features of design Italian. The exhibition itinerary presents over 300 objects from the permanent collection which, when related to the history of the institution, tell the story of Italian design through the reconstruction of some domestic interiors. A journey that culminates in the Design Platform, a space that hosts temporary exhibitions of young designers and new forms.

The Museum of Italian Design is a Permanent Exhibition of Triennale MIlano