miart growing bigger and more and more international. Kicking off the 2018 edition

From April 13 to 15, 2018, Milan will host the twenty-third edition of miart, the international fair of modern and contemporary art, which again for 2018 will be directed, for the second year in a row, by Alessandro Rabottini. 184 international galleries (of which 61 are participating for the first time: among them some biggies such as Gagosian, Thomas Dane Gallery, Dvir Gallery, Studio Trisorio), and of these 75 foreign ones coming from 19 countries in 4 continents besides Italy (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Romania, Spain, South Africa, the United States, Switzerland, Turkey, Hungary), make up the rich parterre of the kermesse that this year involves more than 60 curators, museum directors and personalities from around the world, and will award 7 prizes worth several tens of thousands of euros. The appointment, as always, is at fieramilanocity (hall 3, gate 5).

The fair will consist of seven sections this year: Established, the main section (124 exhibitors) divided in turn between Contemporary (79 galleries, dedicated to contemporary art) and Master (45 galleries presenting masterpieces of 20th century art); as well as Emergent (20 galleries presenting young international talents), Generations (eight pairs of galleries that put two artists of different generations in dialogue), Decades (nine galleries that offer a decade-by-decade scan of the 20th century), On demand (a cross-section where context-based and site-specific works such as installations and wall paintings are offered), and Object (14 galleries that promote contemporary design with limited-edition objects enjoyed as works of art). Among this year’s new features is the main sponsorship of Intesa Sanpaolo to renew the bank’s commitment alongside the country’s leading cultural entities, the Art night nonprofit spaces event on Saturday, April 14 (an entire evening dedicated to openings, performances and events organized by nonprofit spaces such as Assab One, Cabinet, Dimora Artica, Edicola Radetzky, FuturDome, Mars-Milan Artist Run Space, Marsèlleria, Mega, Standards, t-space, [.BOX] Videoart Project Space), the extraordinary opening of the Milan galleries scheduled for Sunday, April 15, and the new miarteducational service, a free mediation service that miart, in collaboration with Fidenza Village, makes available to the fair audience.

The days of the fair will be accompanied by miartalks, conferences with 40 speakers including artists, curators, museum directors, writers and architects, who will discuss the theme What Can We Imagine?, all dedicated to imagination as a force that creates and transforms reality (the curatorship of the miartalks is entrusted to João Ribas and Fatos Üstek). As for the prizes awarded by the international jury, all seven prizes from the last edition are confirmed, namely: Fiera Milano’s “Giampiero Cantoni” Acquisition Fund (one hundred thousand euros in acquisitions to enrich Fiera Milano’s collection), the Herno Prize (for the stand with the best exhibition design, ten thousand euros), the Fidenza Village Prize for Generations (for the best stand in the Generations section, ten thousand euros), the On Demand by Snaporazverein Prize (for the best presentation in the On Demand section, ten thousand euros), the LCA Prize for Emergent (for the best gallery in the Emergent section, four thousand euros), the CEDIT Prize for Object (for the best work presented in the Object section, which will be acquired and donated to the permanent collection of the Triennale Design Museum), the Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize for Contemporary Art and Young Artists (a prize-purchase worth ten thousand euros for the work of a young talent, which will be destined for a museum institution in Milan).

“miart is a privileged opportunity to create culture within a business platform between industry insiders and enthusiasts,” says Fabrizio Curci, CEO of Fiera Milano. “Year after year, it is growing in numbers but, above all, in quality, testifying to the design choice supported by Fiera Milano, thus becoming an unmissable moment for Italian and foreign collectors who choose to come to Milan to find that right selection of galleries that make it unique in the international fair scene. In addition, miart erepresents Fiera Milano’s ability to create quality events related to the art world-a know-how that, in addition to Milan, is also expressed in South Africa, with the Cape Town Art Fair.” “miart,” says artistic director Alessandro Rabottini, “has developed a formula in which the Italian art system, national and international galleries, collectors from multiple continents, and public and private institutions in Milan recognize and support each other. The 2018 edition is the fruit of this choral work, of a multiplicity of voices that represent an enormous richness and plurality of visions: ours is a complex present that requires as much historical memory as it does imagination about the present and the future, and it is this diversity and inclusion that the many international galleries present at miart will bring to our audience. There are many leading galleries in the sector present at miart for the first time in 2018, and many that have chosen Milan as their international stage for several years: this is a sign of trust and continuity to which we have decided to respond by consolidating the format of the fair and expanding our work, which is fa t of experimentation but anchored in deep roots.”

The opening hours of miart 2018: Friday 13 and Saturday 14 from 12 to 8 p.m., Sunday 15 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets: full price 15 euros, online presale 12 euros (special rate can be purchased here, reduced for children aged 14 to 17 and university students 10 euros, reduced baby for students of fine arts academies or art history degree programs 1 euro. All info at www.miart.it.

miart growing bigger and more and more international. Kicking off the 2018 edition

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