Milan Art & Design Week 2026

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Paris Internationale Milan

All day · Apr 13 – 19

Palazzo Galbani

Paris Internationale Milano presents its first edition outside France, taking place at Palazzo Galbani, a landmark 1950s modernist building, with 2500 m² of exhibition space, with scenography developed in collaboration with Swiss architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein. Conceived as a focused and rigorously curated platform, the fair brings together approximately 35 internationally selected galleries committed to ambition, criticality, and long-term artist relationships. Faithful to its foundi

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Mega Art Fair

1:00 PM · Apr 15 – 25

Mega Art Fair aims to give an alternative narrative to the consolidated gallery exhibition and art fair dynamics in terms of time and space. It wants to create a shared platform, an artistic lounge for encounter and socialisation within the art system, encouraging opportunities for work and dialogue between collectors and art world professionals. MEGA has been conceived by BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory as a social space for art, where people gather to chat, have a drink, listen to music and talks, connecting artists, gallery owners, and curators with the audience. Open until late every day, MEGA provides an exceptional experience, leveraging a moment of visibility for the exhibited artists, the participating galleries and the whole artistic and creative system. The extended opening hours also speak of the inclusion of broader demographics compared to traditional art fair and exhibition models, allowing art to reach audiences who haven’t been engaged in the right way. Mega Art Fair changes its venue every year, inhabiting a reclaimed space and contributes to revitalising an urban redevelopment project in the heart of Milan, working closely with the neighbourhood and its inhabitants.

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Arte Sagra

All day · Apr 16 – 19

UFO Milano

16 – 19 April 2026 16:00 – 23:30 Free admission Curated by Nicolas Ballario After being sacred, art becomes a "sagra": during Milano Art Week, a new art square is created at the UFO space in Via Orobia 26, featuring convivial tables, darts, card tournaments, bocce, table football, and ping pong, concerts, and prices far from the Milanese standard. Is it possible to recreate a village square in Milan, where professionals and enthusiasts can meet without taking themselves too seriously? Arte Sagra is an event promoted by Fondazione ICA, Associazione Arte Continua, UFO, SpaceDelicious, and Cucù.

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miart 2026

All day · Apr 17 – 19

Allianz Mico - Gate 3 · Fiera Milano City

With the title New Directions—a nod to Coltrane’s seminal 1963 album and a true declaration of intent—miart 2026 embraces a metamorphosis that touches every layer of its identity: from curatorial approach to its dialogue with galleries, from visual identity to the very way visitors experience the fair. Symbolically marking this new evolutionary phase, miart is changing location and moving to the South Wing of Allianz MiCo: an architecturally international space adjacent to the fair’s historic pavilion and overlooking the contemporary park of CityLife — an urban landscape that becomes a metaphor for openness and vision, expanding, welcoming, listening: an exhibition spacelike a musical score, ready to be interpreted in a new way, between experimentation and belonging, between the new and the recognizable. Inside the exhibition complex, spread over three levels, the historic sections are confirmed: Emergent and Established, which this year is enriched by a new selection of exhibition projects called Established Anthology.

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Private View Hidden Architectures Alcova

11:00 AM

Villa Pestarini

From April 20–26, 2026, Alcova returns for its eleventh edition, unfolding across two extraordinary sites that each, in their own way, capture the essence of Milan’s urban identity. We’ll be opening up new, unseen spaces within the Baggio Military Hospital, a vast, verdant complex in the Primaticcio district, originally designed in the post-WW1 era. Our second site will be the legendary Villa Pestarini by Franco Albini, the only villa designed by the great pioneer of Italian rationalist architecture in Milan. Today a private residence, it has never before been accessible to the public.

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Salone del Mobile

All day · Apr 21 – 26

Fiera Milano · Rho

The 64th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano will take place from April 21 to 26, 2026, at the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition center. This year's core theme, "A Matter of Salone," focuses on raw materials as the generative heart of design, exploring how substances like stone, wood, and petals transform into functional art.