Exhibitions

Until January 12 2025, Triennale Milano, Italy This is the first bona fide retrospective devoted to Gae Aulenti (1927 – 2012), one of the most representative practitioners of contemporary architecture and design. In her over 60-year career, the multitalented designer worked in various fields: from design on an urban scale to exhibition design, landscape architecture, interior decoration, furniture design, graphics and set design. The exhibition presents her career in both an analytical and striking way to convey her personal mode of seeing, imagining and designing reality, which left its mark on several Italian and foreign contexts in the second half of the 20th century. TheRead More →

Triennalle Milano Permanent exhibition In the spaces of Sala Sottsass, on the second floor of Triennale Milano, the central core of Ettore Sottsass’s Casa Lana has been reconstructed and is on permanent display. An interior of a private residence that the great architect and designer designed around the mid-1960s in Milan, imagining to create “a little square in which one turns and meets.” The arrangement of the room and its philological reconstruction were the subject of an important collective work, an in-depth study by the archive and restoration laboratory of Triennale Milano, in which Luca Cipelletti, who oversaw the arrangement in the space, and ChristophRead More →

Triennale, Milano, Italy Through April 23, 2023 Architect, designer, sculptor and academic, Angelo Mangiarotti was a leading figure in international architecture and urban planning, one of the few Italian masters able to export his design philosophy abroad. The exhibition is one of the most comprehensive and exhaustive retrospectives ever held on the figure of the Milanese architect and traces more than sixty years of activity through a wide selection of works, projects, documents and materials, many of which have never been exhibited before, made available by the Angelo Mangiarotti Foundation. Triennale MilanoRead More →

Museum Für Gestaltung Zürich Until 26 March, 2023 The Swiss design pioneer Willy Guhl (1915-2004) designed world-famous seating furniture such as the Eternit beach chair and Europe’s first plastic seat shell. For decades, Guhl conveyed a holistic design approach geared to people and their needs: durability, functionality and reduction to the essentials characterize his homely interiors and well thought-out everyday objects. As a teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts (today Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK), he showed generations of interior designers and product designers how good design is recognized with all the senses. The exhibition presents Willy Guhl’s work using design processes,Read More →

11 May – 12 September 2021 The retrospective, realized in collaboration with Fondazione Vico Magistretti and curated by Gabriele Neri, brings together the heritage of drawings, sketches, models, photographs, prototypes and original pieces preserved in the archives of the Milanese architect and designer. The exhibition traces Magistretti’s entire design career, which began at the Palazzo dell’Arte after World War II. Divided into thematic sections, the exhibition presents for the first time the work of Vico Magistretti in a unified way, from architecture to installations, from design to urban design, together with his numerous international contacts. Red, the distinctive color of many of his projects, constitutesRead More →

Enzo Mari Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli Enzo Mari leaves us with an exhibition that documents his more than 60 years of activity. He is one of the main masters and theorists of Italian design. The exhibition project is divided into a historical section and a series of contributions by international artists and designers – Adelita Husni-Bey, Tacita Dean, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mimmo Jodice, Dozie Kanu, Adrian Paci, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vo, Nanda Vigo, Virgil Abloh for the special mercahandising project – invited to pay tribute to Mari through site-specific installations and new works commissioned for the occasion. Nanda Vigo’sRead More →