Miart Turns 30 With a Bigger, Bolder Edition in Milan

Gallery Network Miart Turns 30 With a Bigger, Bolder Edition in Milan Staged across three distinct levels of the Allianz MiCo South Wing, Miart 2026 is organized as an evolving journey of discovery. Staged across three distinct levels of the Allianz MiCo South Wing, Miart 2026 is organized as an evolving journey of discovery. Artnet Gallery Network ShareShare This Article Earlier this year, Miart announced that for its 30th-anniversary edition it would debut in its new residence, the Allianz MiCo South Wing in Milan, as well as the theme of “New Directions: Miart, but different,” tapping the creative legacy of jazz icons John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Now, as Miart 2026 gears up to open its doors April 17–19, 2026, the fair has unveiled further insights into the forthcoming edition, which will welcome 160 galleries hailing from 24 countries organized across the new venue’s three levels creating a progressive, explorative experience for fair visitors. Visitors of the fair will be met by some of the world’s most exciting new voices with the Emergent section, the official starting point of Miart’s exhibition route. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, and a collection of first-time participants from Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Istanbul, and beyond, galleries with experimentation either in programming or art they platform are brought together to illuminate the latest trends as well as possible future of contemporary art. Through the various presentations, themes like climate change, speculative fiction, and identity politics that tackle the present zeitgeist, and those that revisit the past such as art history, memory, and the evolution of ideas around femininity converge. Several booth presentations will also showcase site-specific installations, including at Ilenia, London; Matta, Milan, and Commune, Vienna, just to name a few. At the heart of Miart 2026 is the Established sector, which offers a unique opportunity for international galleries to intermingle various eras, mediums, and voices. This year, a number of galleries presenting within the sector will take the opportunity to show monographic exhibitions, including Massimo De Carlo with a solo presentation of work by Nicole Wittenberg; Galleria dello Scudo focusing on the practice of Emilio Vedova from the 1980s and ’90s; and both Andrew Kreps Gallery and SpazioA dedicating their presentations to Chiara Camoni who is representing Italy at the 61st Venice Biennale. Complementing the main sector is Established Anthology, held on floor two of the site and featuring 20 galleries that will present exhibitions that share a common goal, “to narrate the complexity, trajectories, and transformations of time.” Here, the manner of exchange and influence between modern and contemporary artistic vernaculars. Finally, crowing the fair’s 30th anniversary is a special project produced in collaboration with St. Moritz Art Film Festival dedicated to the moving image: Movements. Curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, the sector will feature 20 films produced by artists represented by participating galleries, exploring not only placing film in dialogue with other modes of artistic expression but delving into the unique and nuanced landscape of moving image itself. Together, Miart’s 30th anniversary edition promises to underscore the fair’s continued dedication to all creative art forms both now and looking to the future. Miart 2026 will be held April 17–18, 2026, at Allianz MiCo South Wing, Milan.