MIART in MILAN

From the 1st to 3rd of April 2022, miart, Milan’s international modern and contemporary art fair, returns. It will be the first 2022 art fair in Italy and one of the first in Europe.

With galleries operating in 20 different countries from all over the world, the fair's twenty-sixth edition - the second directed by Nicola Ricciardi - amplifies its international scope and consolidates links with Milan and its institutions.

miart 2022 leads the symbolic start of a new phase, the primo movimento of a potential new symphony, in an April full of major events for the art world.

Now in its twenty-sixth edition and directed for a second time by Nicola Ricciardi, miart is the first art fair held in 2022 in Italy and one of the first in Europe. miart continues to be a fundamental event for both the public and Italian and international collectors in search of great masterpieces of the 20th century as well as from the latest generations of contemporary artists and in signature design.

Once again miart 2022 is hosting major Italian galleries while also significantly strengthening its international reach, thanks to the return of a consolidated group of devoted galleries and extraordinary new arrivals. The projects, scrupulously selected by the Committee, aim to compose a coherent and thorough fair, promote dialogue between iconic works and new talent, and celebrate tradition while always looking toward the future. Artists being on display also include some of the protagonists of 59. International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, such as Carla Accardi, Tomaso Binga, Miriam Cahn, Giulia Cenci, Gabriel Chaile, Louise Nevelson, Joanna Piotrowska and Grazia Varisco, to name but a few.

In order to present a clearer, more readable allocation of the spaces, the fair’s sections have been reduced to three: Established, the main section hosting galleries exhibiting the most contemporary kind of works alongside those dedicated to twentieth century art, not to mention those active in collectibles and signature design; Decades, curated by Alberto Salvadori, which explores the history of the last century through monographic projects from the 1910s to the 2010s; and Emergent, the section curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini and centred around younger galleries, which will be well-placed at the exhibition entrance in order to highlight research by the youngest generations of gallery owners and artists.

While miart 2021 aimed to retune its art market instruments after a long break, the primary objective of the twenty-sixth edition is to launch a new phase: the primo movimento of a potential new symphony. This term, borrowed from classical music but endlessly suggestive, not only represents the industry’s desire to pick up the pace and take a leap forward, but is also a reference to the art history and the succession of movements over time that intertwine and influence one another.

The concept of movement also played a central role in developing miart’s new brand identity and original photography campaign, entrusted for the first time to Cabinet Milano, a multidisciplinary studio founded by Rossana Passalacqua and Francesco Valtolina. For the 2022 edition, Cabinet collaborated with German photographer and choreographer Isabelle Wenzel, who photographed herself in a series of actions on the border between performance space and digital environment.