Miart 2023: Growing. International modern and contemporary art fair returns to Milan.

From April 14-16, 2023, miart, Milan’s international modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano and directed for the third year by Nicola Ricciardi, returns.

With 169 participating galleries (a double-digit increase over 2022), from 27 countries around the world, featuring works by modern masters and established and emerging contemporary artists, this 27th edition reaffirms its role as an important appointment for the art public, while also reaffirming its internationality with nearly 40 percent more exhibitors with a foreign base.

After “dismantling the silence” in 2021 and initiating a “first movement” in 2022, this year the fair continues to be inspired by music, building the imagery of the new edition around the word Crescendo: a term that in the language of music indicates the gradual increase in intensity of sound but in relation to the fair is also meant to underscore the progressive growth in participation and audience recorded over the past two years and the desire to continue on this trajectory beyond 2023.

Also in relation to the idea of Crescendo, the contents of the fair for the first time extend beyond its traditional boundaries to graft itself into other places in the city, starting, on Saturday, April 15, at Triennale Milano, which is hosting a series of conversations titled miart LIVE at Triennale Milano: meetings developed around the theme of art’s own ability to appeal to other places and other disciplines far from traditional containers and schedules. Massimiliano Gioni and Beatrice Trussardi will talk about how Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, a nomadic museum par excellence, has spread contemporary art in multiple contexts and through the most diverse channels, twenty years after its first intervention in Milan, in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, in 2003; Angharad Williams and Gianmaria Andreetta will talk about The Wig, an initiative with which they reflect on artistic practices that take shape in contexts other than the studio; Jonathan Monk will converse with Anna Ebner and Marco Scotti about the Multiple Locations exhibition project, which during miart will bring some of Monk ’s editions to stores, restaurants and bars on Via Porpora in Milan; Davide Giannella will invite Riccardo Benassi and the duo Eva and Franco Mattes to reason together about the evolution of the concept of public art and question its possible future interpretations; Gianni Pettena and Italo Rota will discuss the relationship between architecture and landscape, art and mountains; Valerio Barberis, Loris Cecchini and Mario Cucinella will question the city of the futureparticularly from an unprecedented alliance between art, architecture and reforestation; and finally, Nico Vascellari will dialogue with Damiano Gullì, Gea Politi and Cristiano Seganfreddo starting with his work Falena, which will be on display in the institution’s outdoor spaces from April 15.

The collaboration between miart and Triennale Milano is also underlined by the exhibition FOG - Triennale Milano Performing Arts, which will present two Italian premieres to the public during the days of the fair: How a Falling Star Lit Up The Purple Sky by Jeremy Nedd, an international choreographer and performer, and Impilo Mapantsula, a global network specializing in energy-charged dance (April 12 and 13); and Le sacre du printemps, choreographic research by the Dewey Dell inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece, a milestone of musical literature and endless visual source (April 15 and 16). Also particularly significant is the synergy with the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, with which miart has shared some special projects for the city of Milan in the past. This year, the Foundation has chosen to kick off the celebration of its first 20 years as a nomadic museum right inside the pavilions of the fair: on April 13, Beatrice Trussardi and Massimiliano Gioni will involve the public present in the cutting of a cake given by Maurizio Cattelan. The circulation of artistic content inside and outside the fair is also reaffirmed by the unprecedented partnership with fashion brand MSGM, which commissioned a site-specific work for the miart entrance from artist duo Eva & Franco Mattes. Composed of digital conduits that allow the passage of data, the installation that welcomes the public circulates within it an invisible image that is sent to passersby absolutely randomly via AirDrop from the duo’s personal smartphone. Inspired by the widespread practice among teenagers of taking advantage of moments of crowds to airdrop digital materials, Eva & Franco Mattes’ work is one capable of generating a human connection that runs counter to the idea of the fair as a place of only commercial transactions. Each visitor, even without being a collector, will thus have the opportunity to take away, and in turn redistribute, unique artistic content.

Confirming the ambition to involve an increasingly wide audience, for the first time the themes of the fair are also conveyed through music thanks to the project The Sound of miart powered by Radio Deejay, Radio Capital and Radio m2o: three music playlists created by the Gedi Group broadcasters, which can be downloaded from QR codes present at the fair or from the miart digital website and which follow the mood of each of the sections, Established, Emergent, Decades.

miart 2023 therefore intends to position itself as a promoter and producer of culture, capable of creating synergy between the art system, citizens and the territory; this is also underlined by the new edition of Milano Art Week (April 11 - 16), the widespread event coordinated by the Culture Department of the City of Milan, which networks the city’s main public institutions and private foundations dedicated to modern and contemporary art, with a program of exhibitions and activities. On the occasion of Milan Art Week, some of the season’s exhibitions open in important city venues. Among them just to name a few: Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens’ solo show at Pirelli HangarBicocca; Candice Lin | Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture at GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna in collaboration with Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro; Yuri Ancarani’s solo show and Silvia Giambrone’s Project Room at PAC; the Forum 900 project at the Museo del Novecento in which the ground-floor gallery hosts contemporary artworks and design seating, transforming the large spaces into a place for confrontations, debates and presentations; the two projects dedicated to modern art Diego, the other Giacometti and Hortus Alchemicus at the Fondazione Luigi Rovati; and the exhibition dedicated to the installations and videos of artist Dara Birnbaum at the Fondazione Prada Observatory.

Protagonists of Milano Art Week will also be the spaces of Fondazione Prada with the exhibition Anatomical Waxes, Fondazione ICA Milano with the solo show by Nathlie Provosty and Triennale Milano with the new exhibitions Lisa Ponti. Drawings and Voices, Text and Droog30. Design or Non-design? and with a new installation for the Museum of Italian Design, performances and installations. Special activities, guided tours and extraordinary openings characterize the spaces that feature exhibitions already underway, such as the Palazzo Reale, Museum of Science and Technology, Armani/Silos and Gallerie d’Italia, which exceptionally opens its vault with an excursus into Italian and international 20th-century art.

There is also no shortage of initiatives dedicated to public art, thanks to the inauguration of three new works by Rossella Biscotti, Liliana Moro, and Otobong Nkanga for ArtLine, the site-specific contemporary art itinerary in the Citylife park; Franco Mazzucchelli’s double intervention at the Triennale and at the Darsena, in collaboration with the Public Art Office; and Falena, Nico Vascellari’s monumental installation designed for the exterior of the Triennale Milano building.

The collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo Group, which supports miart as main partner, continues. Internationality, excellence and attention to the cultural development of the territory are the values that bind miart to the banking group, with the aim of consolidating Milan’s centrality in the national and international scene and offering the city a further driver of economic, cultural and civil growth and development. As per tradition, the Bank will contribute to the 2023 edition by also bringing its own original content. Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking will present its Art Advisory activity and related art asset management services by welcoming guests to the Fair, in the VIP Lounge, where an exhibition dedicated to young emerging artists will be set up as part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Culture Project.

The Fondazione Fiera Milano Acquisition Fund establishedin 2012 is confirmed for the 27th edition of miart. Worth 100,000 euros, it is earmarked for works of art that will implement Fondazione Fiera Milano’s collection, now housed inside the Palazzina degli Orafi, Fondazione’s headquarters, and currently consisting of more than 100 works representing different artistic languages. In selecting the acquisitions, Enrico Pazzali, President of Fondazione Fiera Milano, will be assisted by a high-profile international jury chaired by Diana Bracco, a member of Fondazione’s Executive Committee, and joined by Ralph Rugoff, Director, Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London; Dirk Snauwaert, Director, WIELS, Brussels; and Bettina Steinbrügge, General Director, Mudam Luxembourg.

Also confirmed are: the Herno Prize, now in its eighth edition, which awards 10,000 euros to the stand with the best exhibition project; the LCA Prize for Emergent, worth 4.000 euros, born in 2015 from the collaboration with LCA Studio Legale and destined for the gallery with the best presentation within the Emergent section; the Covivio Prize, dedicated to the Emergent section and which will select an artist to commission a site-specific work with an investment of up to 20,000 euros to be set up at the proworking space Wellio by Covivio, in Via dell’Unione 1 in Milan.

These awards will be joined by: the first edition of the Fondazione Henraux Sculpture Commission, which will commission a marble work to be exhibited from April 2024 at the Museo del Novecento in Milan. The winning artist will carry out the project during a residency at the Foundation in Querceta di Seravezza (LU), where he or she will be able to engage with the stone materials of excellence, historic craftsmanship and innovative technologies of Henraux Spa.The Orbital Cultura - Nexi Group Prize dedicated to photography was created with the aim of endowing Italy’s historic museums with contemporary, quality images and fostering a continuous exchange of glances between past and present. The prize goes to an artist from the Established or Decades sections who is commissioned to document a museum center with a contribution of 10,000 euros. This first edition is dedicated to the Uffizi Galleries. The Matteo Visconti di Modrone Prize, in memory of the President of the Battaglia Art Foundry, worth 10.000 euros, awarded to an artist who will be able to create his or her work in the Foundry with the assistance of the artisans who work there; after a one-year hiatus, the Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize for Contemporary Art and Young Artists-established in 2009 as the first award in the context of miart-returns to its thirteenth edition, which provides for the acquisition of a work by an emerging or mid-career artist to be donated to the Museo del Novecento in Milan. Finally, the Massimo Giorgetti Prize, in its first edition, born out of the desire of fashion designer and collector Massimo Giorgetti to support young artists at the beginning of their careers, and which awards a prize of 5,000 euros. Also thanks to these awards, more than doubled in number compared to 2022, miart 2023 demonstrates a renewed internationality, expressed by the prestigious list of directors and curators who will have the task of identifying the winning works and artists. Among them: Fernanda Brenner (Artistic Director, Pivô, São Paulo); Nicholas Cullinan (Director, National Portrait Gallery, London); Sébastien Delot (Director, LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut); Yilmaz Dziewior(Director, Museum Ludwig, Cologne); Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director, New Museum, New York and Artistic Director, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan); Leonie Radine (Curator, Museion, Bolzano); Laura McLean-Ferris (Writer and independent curator, Turin); Catherine Nichols (Creative Mediator, Manifesta 14, Pristina and Curator, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

Renewed for 2023 is the partnership with Maison Ruinart, which confirms its commitment to the world of art and sustainability by presenting an unprecedented art project in the Ruinart VIP Lounge in the presence of Carte Blanche 2023 artist Eva Jospin.Confirmed its presence Switzerland Tourism, which presents an innovative concept expressing the many souls of the Swiss territory.

On the other hand, the renewed partnership with Elle Decor Italia will enhance the miart VIP Lounge with furnishings by Kartell and Saba.A very welcome novelty for lovers of Italian excellence: with miart 2023, the combination of art and food comes to life thanks to the Italian Association of Ambassadors of Taste. Taking the field are 10 Milan-bound Ambassadors of Taste - Andrea Berton, Cesare Battisti, Vittorio Borgia, Vincenzo Butticè, Carlo Cracco, Roberto Di Pinto, Antonio and Vincenzo Lebano, Davide Oldani, Aya Yamamoto, Viviana Varese - called upon to dedicate one of their creations to art and to host in their restaurants some of the most beautiful works of art from the private collection of Fondazione Fiera Milano.

Growing around miart is also collecting and in particular international collecting also thanks to ICE - Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies that supports the event in the incoming of a selection of international collectors. It is also thanks to the support of ICE Agenzia that the Goldsmiths’ Club Italy is taking part in miart for the first time with the Double Face exhibition featuring artist’s jewelry.

INFORMATION miart 2023 Allianz MiCo, Pavilion 3 viale Scarampo, Milan T. +39 02 49977134

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Miart 2023: Growing. International modern and contemporary art fair returns to Milan.

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