“For me the machine is above all an instrument that permits me to be poetic. If you respect the machine, if you enter into a game with the machine, then perhaps you can make a truly joyous machine—by joyous, I mean free.” — Jean Tinguely “From October… Read More
All posts tagged “Pirelli HangarBicocca”
Nari Ward: Ground Break at Pirelli HangarBicocca, March 28 – July 28, 2024
“Pirelli HangarBicocca presents ‘Ground Break,’ an exhibition dedicated to one of America’s foremost contemporary artists, Nari Ward. Since the 1990s, Ward has produced installation comprising everyday objects and re-purposed highly symbolic materials to make layered references to social issues and historical traumas—past, recent and contemporary. … Read More
Chiara Camoni: Call and gather. Sisters. Moths and flame twisters. Lioness bones, snakes and stones at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, through July 21, 2024
“Chiara Camoni (Piacenza, 1974; lives and works in Seravezza, Italy) is one of the foremost Italian artists of her generation. Her practice ranges from drawing to vegetable prints, from video to sculpture, with a particular focus on ceramics. Her work is characterized by the use of objects… Read More
James Lee Byars at Pirelli HangarBicocca, through February 18, 2024
“Pirelli HangarBicocca is pleased to present an exhibition of James Lee Byars, one of the most enigmatic and legendary figures in 20th-century art. The show, the first retrospective in Italy dedicated to the American artist since his death in 1997, journeys through his layered work,… Read More
Thao Nguyen Phan “Reincarnations of Shadows” at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, through January 14, 2024
“Pirelli HangarBicocca presents ‘Reincarnations of Shadows,’ Thao Nguyen Phan’s first solo show in Italy. Internationally recognized for her combined use of painting, moving image, and sculpture, the Vietnamese artist creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that trace the history of her country in relation to contemporary… Read More
Maurizio Cattelan: Breath Ghosts Blind at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, July 15, 2021 – February 20, 2022
“Pirelli HangarBicocca presents the exhibition Breath Ghosts Blind by Maurizio Cattelan. One of the world’s most renowned figures of the contemporary art scene, with his work the artist reveals the fractures in our everyday existence, depicting reality even in its most dramatic aspects. It marks Cattelan’s… Read More
Neïl Beloufa: Digital Mourning at Pirelli HangarBicocca, February 17 – July 18, 2021
“Digital Mourning, curated by Roberta Tenconi, is the first major solo exhibition devoted to Neïl Beloufa in an Italian institution, and it stems from a reflection on the current times and on the concept of life in our digital world. Right from the title, the… Read More
Chen Zhen: Short-circuits at Pirelli HangarBicocca, October 15, 2020 – February 21, 2021
“Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Short-circuits a retrospective exhibition curated by Vicente Todolí, devoted to Chen Zhen, one of the leading figures of contemporary art. Celebrated by the world’s most important museums, the artist managed to bridge the gap between the art of the East and that… Read More
Milano Art Week 2020, April 14 – 19
Milano Art Week 2020 presents a program of initiatives, exhibitions and performances organized by the City of Milan (April 14-19), that flanks miart, the trade fair of modern and contemporary art that takes place in Fiera Milano (April 17-19). Milano Art Week sees the participation of… Read More
Mario Merz: Igloos at Pirelli HangarBicocca, through February 24, 2019
“Pirelli HangarBicocca presents ‘Igloos’, a show by Mario Merz (Milan, 1925–2003), bringing together his most iconic group of works: the ‘Igloos’, dating from 1968 until the end of his life. The exhibition spans the whole 5,500 square metres of the Navate and the Cubo of… Read More










You must be logged in to post a comment.