From Pablo Picasso to Dolce and Gabbana, from Edvard Munch to Mike Bongiorno, up to director Tim Burton with his extraordinary creative universe.
There are almost fifty exhibitions scheduled for 2024 in Milan, at Palazzo Reale and in the other locations of the Municipality, basically one a week confirming a varied offer.
Furthermore, 2023 was a year of record numbers with over 3 million visitors to the exhibitions and museums of the Municipality, while 1,475,776 visitors arrived at the exhibition venues of the temporary exhibitions (over 40% more than in 2022).
These are "positive data which are not a point of arrival, but an incentive to continue with the collaboration between art, tourism and exhibitions", observed the Municipality's Culture Councilor Tommaso Sacchi.
While Mayor Giuseppe Sala spoke of "numbers that give us confidence and allow us to relaunch with conviction in 2024", he underlined it.
2024 and 2025 will be characterized by modern and above all contemporary art, the absolute protagonist of the exhibition programme, in the name of the relationship between Italy and France, between Milan and Paris, which begins with the great return of Pablo Picasso.
There are two exhibitions dedicated to him: one at Palazzo Reale from September, in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, which will follow the thread of his status as an "eternal foreigner" in France;
and the other at Mudec, in collaboration with the main Spanish museums and Picasso's heirs.
In May, again at Palazzo Reale, the artist Ercole Pignatelli will reinterpret Guernica, Picasso's masterpiece, in a performative key, painting a canvas of the same size over the course of six days, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the extraordinary exhibition of Guernica in Hall of Caryatids.
The 2024 exhibitions will be inaugurated on 24 February by 'Giuseppe De Nittis, European artist', the most complete monograph on the painter who conquered Paris, with 90 works on display.
From February, an exhibition dedicated to Brassaï, the Hungarian-born and French-by-adoption photographer with iconic images from 1930 to 1958, is scheduled to be held at Palazzo Reale. Thanks to the collaboration with France, from 19 March 'Cézanne and Renoir.
from the collections of the Musée d'Orsay and the Orangerie'.
And the monographic work by Paolo Troubetzkoy scheduled for 2026 at the GAM-Gallery of Modern Art was born from a collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
From art to fashion with the exhibition 'From the heart to the hands.
Dolce and Gabbana 'which will liven up Palazzo Reale in April, while in 2025 it will be Dalì's turn and her connection with fashion.
Coinciding with Rai's 70th anniversary in September, Palazzo Reale will host an exhibition that traces the personal and professional story of one of its main protagonists, Mike Bongiorno, whose birth centenary this year marks.
Centenary exhibition also for Enrico Baj, while the year of Palazzo Reale will close with Edvard Munch with works from the Munch Museet in Oslo and one dedicated to the photography of Ugo Mulas.
The genius of Tim Burton will arrive at the Steam Factory in 2024 with the "Labirynth" exhibition, a journey into the creative universe of the director of Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas.
Civic museums also contribute to the temporary exhibition proposal.
At the Risorgimento Museum, for example, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, in the autumn the Anna Kuliscioff Foundation will create, in collaboration with the Civiche Raccolte Storiche, a historical-documentary exhibition to thoroughly investigate the figure of Matteotti and his relationship with the city of Milan.
Already scheduled for 2025 at the Gam-Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan is the exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, which will dialogue with the Quarto Stato, the protagonist masterpiece of the Museum's permanent collection.
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