Miart returns to Milan with the title no time no space: here is the program of the fair

From April 12 to 14, 2024, miart, Milan ’s international modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano and directed for the fourth year by Nicola Ricciardi, returns. Through spatial portals and time corridors, suggested already by the title no time no space, miart 2024 aims to further expand its boundaries, mixing past, present and future to talk about our time.

The starting point of this path will be the Italian galleries, which represent more than half of the total number of selected exhibitors and make the Milan fair an excellence of attraction for collectors, curators and artists in search of novelty but also of local specificity. These include Helena Anrather (New York), Galerie Buchholz (Cologne, Berlin), Emanuela Campoli (Paris, Milan), Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), greengrassi (London), Georg Kargl Fine Arts (Vienna), KOW (Berlin), Fabienne Levy (Lausanne, Geneva), Galerie Neu (Berlin), Nosbaum Reding (Luxembourg, Brussels), Dawid Radziszewski (Warsaw), Super Dakota (Brussels), and Galerie Tschudi (Zuoz, Zurich), to name a few. In addition to new entries, there are also confirmations from international galleries that have already enlivened the last editions of the fair, such as 1 Mira Madrid (Madrid), ChertLüdde (Berlin), Ciaccia Levi (Paris, Milan), C L E A R I N G (Brussels, New York, Los Angeles), Corvi-Mora (London), Dvir Gallery (Tel Aviv, Brussels, Paris), Ehrhardt Flòrez (Madrid), Felix Gaudlitz (Vienna), Galerie Peter Kilchmann (Zurich, Paris), KLEMM’S (Berlin), Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York), GALERIE LELONG & Co. (Paris, New York), Madragoa (Lisbon), Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich), MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo), Galerie Michel Rein (Paris, Brussels), Richard Saltoun Gallery (London, Rome), GIAN ENZO SPERONE (Sent), Galerie Gregor Staiger (Zurich, Milan), Gallery Sofie Van de Velde (Antwerp), Galerie Fons Welters (Amsterdam), and Galerie Hubert Winter (Vienna). Then returns as usual Emergent, the section curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini reserved for galleries focused on promoting the most recent generations of artists, which this year welcomes 23 realities from all over the world: from Lisbon to New York, from Los Angeles to Belgrade. Again there is an interesting mix of returns-Bel Ami (Los Angeles), Sébastien Bertrand (Geneva), Sans titre (Paris)-and new entries, such as Arcadia Missa (London), ASHES/ASHES (New York), Lovay Fine Arts (Geneva) and Sweetwater (Berlin). The year 2024 will then be marked by the first edition of Portal, an unprecedented section curated this year by Julieta González and Abaseh Mirvali, which hosts twelve selected galleries offering ten small exhibitions distributed within the main section and designed to discover or rediscover universes and artistic practices that are only seemingly distant: a window to look at the present through parallel dimensions and unconventional prisms. The artists represented here will be Anna Boghiguian (Franco Noero Gallery), CATPC (KOW), Simone Fattal (Galerie Hubert Winter), Francesco Gennari (Ciaccia Levi/ZERO...), Maria Lai (New Morone Gallery), Bertina Lopes (Richard Saltoun Gallery), Turiya Magadlela & Senzeni Marasela (Kalashnikovv Gallery), Troy Makaza & Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude (First Floor Gallery Harare), Franco Mazzucchelli (ChertLüdde), and Erika Verzutti (Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel/Andrew Kreps Gallery).

Further novelty is the thematic section Timescape, an exhibition project that will be developed over the next three years and that each year will bring to the attention of the miart audience works created in eras increasingly distant in time from the fair’s traditional chronological offerings. Through a series of artworks, artifacts and objects, the galleries participating in this section present micro-exhibitions, which enrich miart with a trans-historical and transversal approach and increase the attractiveness of Italian and foreign collectors, curators and professionals. This journey through time will begin in 2024 with a lunge on the early 20th century thanks to the contribution of Aleandri Arte Moderna (Rome), Bottegantica (Milan), ED Gallery (Piacenza), Galleria Carlo Virgilio & C. (Rome), Galleria Gomiero (Montegrotto Terme) and Galleria Russo (Rome). The collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo Group, which supports miart as the main partner, continues. As per tradition, the Bank will contribute to the 2024 edition by also bringing its own original content: an exhibition dedicated to young emerging artists curated by Luca Beatrice will be set up in the Group’s Lounge area, and Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking will present its innovative and comprehensive wealth management solutions with a particular focus on the art advisory service, dedicated to those who consider art as an opportunity for diversified growth of their assets. For the 28th edition of miart, the presence of the Fondazione Fiera Milano Acquisition Fund, established in 2012, is confirmed. The fund, worth 100,000 euros, is earmarked for the acquisition of works of art that will enrich the Fondazione Fiera Milano collection, currently housed in the Palazzina degli Orafi, the Foundation’s headquarters, and which has more than 110 works representing various artistic languages.

Also confirmed are: the Herno Prize , which awards a prize of 10,000 euros to the booth with the best exhibition project; the LCA Studio Legale Prize for Emergent, worth 4.000 euros destined for the gallery with the best presentation within the Emergent section; the second edition of the Henraux Sculpture Commission Foundation, which includes the commissioning of a work in marble; the second edition of the Orbital Cultura - Nexi Group Prize the only award within miart exclusively dedicated to photography in all its forms; and the Matteo Visconti di Modrone Prize, in memory of the President of the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, worth 10.000 euros, awarded to an artist who will be able to create his or her work in Fonderia Artistica Battaglia. Also returning are the Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize for Contemporary Art and Young Artists, which provides for the acquisition of a work by an emerging artist to be donated to the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Milan, and the Massimo Giorgetti Prize. Born out of fashion designer and collector Massimo Giorgetti’s desire to support young artists at the beginning of their careers, the award gives a prize worth 5,000 euros. It also continues the partnership with the fashion brand MSGM, founded by Giorgetti himself, which will again in 2024 commission a chosen artist to create a site-specific work to make the entrance of miart unique and special. Finally, the IKONIC Prize, in its first edition and worth 5,000 euros, which will be awarded to the best presentation within the curated Portal section. In the context of prizes, acquisitions and commissions, it is also worth mentioning the new collaboration with SZ Sugar, a major music publisher specializing in contemporary cultured music, founded in 1907 under the name Edizioni Suvini Zerboni and now part of the SugarMusic group, led by Caterina Caselli and Filippo Sugar. On the occasion of miart 2024, SZ Sugar will offer participating galleries the opportunity to have their artists interpret the first page of the score of Allez Hop, a mimic tale by Italo Calvino set to music by Luciano Berio.

The first trespass, both geographic and thematic, is represented by Comets. Vanguards of Another Solar System, a project curated by Marta Bianchi and Marta Cereda that inaugurates a relationship between miart and Careof, in collaboration with the City of Milan, and presented at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema. Comets is a screening program of artists’ film works from the Video Archive of Careof, the time-based media production and insight center, from the collections of the City of Milan and from the galleries participating in miart. Another ideal portal that will open onto the city will be a project conceived specifically for miart 2024 by U.S. conceptual artist David Horvitz: a site-specific intervention curated by Nicola Ricciardi that takes over the spaces of BiM, an ambitious urban regeneration project that is transforming a monumental building designed in the Bicocca district by Vittorio Gregotti into a cutting-edge work destination. Somewhere between installation and performance, and at the intersection of the real and virtual worlds, the project will offer a reflection on art’s own ability to take hold of other places and other disciplines far from traditional containers and palimpsests, ideally continuing the debate originated in 2023 by the miart LIVE at Triennale Milano talks series. The link with the city will then be strengthened by a new edition of Milano Art Week from April 8 to 14, 2024, 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. Protagonists of Milan Art Week 2024 will also be the main exhibitions of the season organized and hosted by Fondazione Prada, Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Triennale Milano, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, BASE Milano, Fondazione ICA Milano and Fondazione Luigi Rovati, among others.

The extension of miart’s boundaries is underscored by the 2024 visual campaign, which also explores the theme of the portal as a metaphor for an interstitial passage between different realities. Entrusted for the third year to Cabinet, a multidisciplinary studio founded by Rossana Passalacqua and Francesco Valtolina, the image of the 28th edition is created in collaboration with U.S. photographer Charlie Engman recognized for his work straddling photography and artificial intelligence and challenging the limits of the traditional image. Blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary, Engman creates a parallel universe in which the animal world seems to have taken the place of the human one, challenging the viewer’s perception invited and entering a dreamlike world to reflect on the fluid nature of reality and art. In this year’s novelties, two significant renewals stand out: the confirmation of the partnership with Maison Ruinart, committed to art and sustainability with a new art project in the Ruinart VIP Lounge, and the collaboration with the Italian Association of Taste Ambassadors, consolidating the link between art and food already highlighted in the previous edition. The Goldsmiths’ Club renews its collaboration with a curatorial project to promote goldsmith art and artist jewelry. Collecting, especially international collecting, on the other hand, continues to grow around miart, with the support of ICE - Agency for the promotion of Italian companies abroad, which brings a selection of international collectors.

“With 181 galleries (a double-digit increase over 2023) from 28 countries and 10 Prizes, which will be awarded during the days of the exhibition, the 28th edition of the Milan fair reaffirms its role as an essential appointment for the entire art public,” says Roberto Foresti, deputy general manager of Fiera Milano.

“The week dedicated to art in all its forms returns again this year, which with a calendar of installations, exhibitions, events and meetings turns the spotlight on the art sector and its professionals, with a special focus on emerging talents, while consolidating Milan as the capital of contemporary art. The goal is to involve an increasingly wide audience, made up not only of experts in the field, but also of citizens, tourists and enthusiasts,” said Culture Councillor Tommaso Sacchi “Of course, all our museums will also be involved, especially those dealing with modern and contemporary art, such as PAC Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Museo del Novecento, Palazzo Reale, GAM Gallery of Modern Art and MUDEC Museum of Cultures.”

Miart returns to Milan with the title no time no space: here is the program of the fair

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