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“Points on Your Journey” by Jennifer Guidi
When: Through May 24
Where: MassimoDeCarlo
Why It’s Worth a Look: Jennifer Guidi brings chromatic intensity and textural nuance to the neoclassical interiors of Casa Corbellini-Wassermann in this latest exhibition. Her dowel-punched sand paintings and patinated bronze sculptures—set atop plush pink carpeting—unfold into a sensory landscape.
Know Before You Go: As light shifts, Guidi’s radiant surfaces shimmer like living sundials. For design lovers, the show is a quiet masterclass in texture, color, and rhythm.
“Thögal: Pausa nel Paesaggio” by Yoab Vera
When: Now on view
Where: Casa MB
Why It’s Worth a Look: At Casa MB, painter Yoab Vera turns a domestic setting into a sanctuary of color and form. Inspired by Thögal, a Tibetan sky-gazing meditation, his horizon-line canvases invite a slower, contemplative viewing. Layered with oil, oil stick, and concrete, the paintings echo natural landscapes while grounding viewers in a space that feels part pristine gallery, part vibrant retreat.
Know Before You Go: Each room of the apartment gallery is color-blocked to guide you gently between canvases—turning spatial transition into part of the show.
“Mysterious Barricades” by Hardy Hill
When: Through May 17
Where: Fanta-MLN
Why It’s Worth a Look: A former theologian turned printmaker, Hardy Hill builds his drawings like quiet riddles—layered, precise, and bristling with unease. Rendered in iron gall ink, chalk, and charcoal on cotton rag paper, his figures appear elusive and slightly withheld. At Fanta-MLN, the artist’s latest suite of work deepens his inquiry into both absence and intimacy, offering images that feel more conjured than composed.
Know Before You Go: A short text accompanying the show draws on the Internet-born practice of "tulpamancy," in which individuals create alternate identities within themselves. Through this lens, Hill’s ghostly figures gain a haunting new dimension—as projections, protectors, or fragmented selves.
“not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour” by Dozie Kanu
When: Through April 30
Where: Galleria Federico Vavassori
Why It’s Worth a Look: Dozie Kanu retools industrial remnants—steel wire, shattered ceramics, car parts—into deeply personal structures shaped by grief. Made after his father’s passing, the objects occupy a liminal space between furniture, sculpture, and elegy.
Know Before You Go: The spatial arrangement evokes a spare domesticity, where each object holds emotional and material weight. This exhibition marks itself as a standout for those interested in the emotional afterlives of objects, and the blurred edge between furniture, memory, and form.
“BODY OF EVIDENCE” by Shirin Neshat
When: Through June 6
Where: PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Why It’s Worth a Look: Spanning over three decades and nearly 200 works, “BODY OF EVIDENCE” offers a powerful survey of Shirin Neshat’s uncompromising vision. From her "Women of Allah" series to more recent video installations echoing the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, Neshat’s work captures the complexities of resistance and identity through a singular lens.
Know Before You Go: This is not just an exhibition—it’s a reckoning. Neshat’s elegant, honest images remind viewers that the personal is always political, and the body is always a site of power.
“Gaze Into The Distance” by Kenji Sugiyama
When: Through May 1
Where: Primo Marella Gallery
Why It’s Worth a Look: A miniature theater shaped like a human eye—fringed with curtain-like lashes—draws viewers into a private, uncanny world. Only one person can peer inside these miniatures at a time, turning the act of looking into a cinematic ritual of slowness and solitude.
Know Before You Go: Layering space like Russian dolls, the new works draw viewers into a realm built from Sugiyama’s memories. Part sculpture, part low-tech diorama, the pieces are designed to be seen slowly—and only from just the right distance.
“ESSERE DONNA: Il corpo come strumento di creazione e atto di ribellione”
When: Through May 30
Where: Galleria Fumagalli
Why It’s Worth a Look: Curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli and Annamaria Maggi, "ESSERE DONNA" is a visual manifesto. The exhibition draws from Oriana Fallaci’s seminal feminist text Lettera a un bambino mai nato, asking what it means to create—and to rebel—through flesh.
Know Before You Go: A journalist and novelist, Fallaci spent her life challenging power and patriarchal narratives—both in war zones and on the page. Her words set the tone for this show, which channels the emotional and political urgency of womanhood as a lived, embodied struggle with pieces by artists including Marina Abramović, Sang A Han, and Annette Messager.
“Anticamere” by Norberto Spina
When: Through May 23
Where: Cassina Projects
Why It’s Worth a Look: Norberto Spina’s first solo show at Cassina Projects begins with a bold gesture: a dark wooden structure built inside the gallery, housing a single painting. Around it, his haunting oil works layer archival imagery with obsessive strokes, confronting history, power, and personal inheritance.
Know Before You Go: The show’s title, "Anticamere," hints at thresholds—transitional spaces that hold psychological weight. Spina’s debut show is a must-see for those drawn to form-as-memory, and the ways spaces can carry historical residue.
“NADA” by Thierry De Cordier
When: Through September 29
Where: Fondazione Prada
Why It’s Worth a Look: At Fondazione Prada’s Cisterna, Belgian artist Thierry De Cordier stages a monumental reflection on emptiness. Ten large-scale black paintings—initially created to symbolically erase the crucifixion—are now portals into what he calls “the grandeur of nothingness.”
Know Before You Go: The installation is site-specific and rigorously composed: towering canvases are paired with quiet benches, with natural light filtered in from above. For those craving silence and scale, “NADA” offers an architectural retreat.
“Revival”
When: Through May 10
Where: Francesca Minini
Why It’s Worth a Look: Curated by Giulia Civardi, “Revival” maps the structure of dub music—a genre characterized by repetition, rupture, and remix—onto a visual form. Denzil Forrester’s charged nightclub scenes, Phoebe Collings-James’s sonic ceramics, and Kate Spencer Stewart’s ambient canvases build a tactile, rhythmic atmosphere.
Know Before You Go: More than an art show, “Revival” feels like a sound system cracked open—and is the first in a forthcoming series of shows matching intergenerational discourse with sonic influences on artistry.
“Laboratorio” by Valerio Adami
When: Through May 10
Where: Fondazione Marconi
Why It’s Worth a Look: A sweeping tribute to Valerio Adami’s formative years, “Laboratorio” charts a decade of formal experimentation and conceptual boldness. From London to New York, the exhibition tracks his sharp-edged figuration, love of speed, and cinematic framing.
Know Before You Go: Expect car crashes in silhouette, pastel interiors layered with tension, and a screening room showing Adami’s Vacanze nel deserto.
“lines are telling stories” by Silvia Bächli
When: Through April 26
Where: Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Why It’s Worth a Look: Silvia Bächli works with the barest means—paper, brush, and color—to build a language of rhythm, restraint, and sensation. Red brushstrokes, color fields in earthy blues and rust tones, and spare lines on paper form a meditative practice.
Know Before You Go: Spread across two gallery spaces, the show reads like a score composed of intervals and silences. For those seeking quiet precision amid Milan’s overstimulation, Bächli’s drawings offer the perfect opportunity.
