Summer is packed with events for art lovers — pick your favorites and mark the dates in your calendar!
Here’s a list of must-see exhibitions over the coming months:
Travelogue. Stories of Journeys, Migrations, and Diasporas
MUDEC – Museum of Cultures – Until September 21, 2025
Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo, this exhibition highlights the origins of MUDEC’s collections as a reflection of the city’s history. Integrated into Milan’s civic museums from the very beginning, these collections were formed from “exotic” artifacts brought back from around the world by citizens, enthusiasts, businessmen, travelers, and researchers. The exhibition features objects linked to the idea of travel—souvenirs that reflect specific relationships between collectors and artifacts. The show is preceded by Adrian Paci’s site-specific installation Your Sky Was the Sea, Your Sea Was the Sky, on view in MUDEC’s Agora.
Tarek Atoui. Improvisation in 10 Days
Pirelli HangarBicocca – Until July 20, 2025
“Improvisation in 10 Days” is the title of Tarek Atoui’s exhibition. Borrowing a term from the language of music, Atoui explores compositional potential within space, engaging with the material, sculptural, architectural, and relational qualities of his works in dialogue with the immaterial nature of sound and its resonance through bodies and objects. Using the Shed as a vast white canvas, the artist dismantles and reassembles works from a previous exhibition, embracing the space’s identity as a site of production and its temporal dimensions (the days of setup) to “improvise” movements, harmonies, and tunings, creating a collective experience and a sound-based environment.
Premio Acacia 2025. Adelita Husni Bey
Museo del Novecento - Until September 28, 2025
The Museo del Novecento presents ACACIA Prize 2025. Adelita Husni Bey. The artist is the winner of the 2025 ACACIA Prize with her 2023 photographic series Briganti, now entering the museum’s collection as part of the donation initiative promoted by the ACACIA Association since 2015.
Rauschenberg and the Twentieth Century
Museo del Novecento - Until June 29, 2025
This exhibition project for the first time builds a bridge between the works of this pivotal figure in art history and key masterpieces from the museum’s collections, weaving connections between the American artist’s innovative vision and the rich fabric of twentieth-century Italian art
Lovett/Codagnone. I Only Want You To Love Me
PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea - Until September 14, 2025
PAC presents I Only Want You To Love Me, the first retrospective dedicated to the artist duo Lovett/Codagnone, founded in 1995 by John Lovett (Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1962) and Alessandro Codagnone (Milan, 1967 – New Jersey, 2019). Promoted by the City of Milan and organized in collaboration with Participant Inc of New York, the exhibition is curated by Diego Sileo. It features early photographic and video works, more recent sculptural installations, billboard pieces, and a previously unseen neon work created specifically for this show.