Art To The People

Pirelli HangarBicocca presents a new calendar with revised dates to ensure continuity and free admission to exhibitions.

The institution opens its digital resources to the public, with artists’ contributions and new projects, including music playlists and creative ideas, in-depth analyses and 360° Street Views.

New 2020 calendar
Following the current health situation, the entire 2020 exhibitions calendar has been revised with the aim of ensuring the continuity of our exhibitions, maintaining the quality of our projects, and providing free access for all.

As soon as the spaces are reopened, visitors will be able to come back and admire the exhibitions the eye, the eye and the ear by Trisha Baga (until July 19) and ….the Illuminating Gas by Cerith Wyn Evans, which will remain on display until July 26. These two exhibitions offer a keen, cultured and wry vision of our contemporary world and its complexities, using different forms of artistic expression.

The exhibition devoted to Chen Zhen (1955—2000), scheduled for April 2020, will be postponed until the autumn, opening to the public from October 15, 2020 until February 21, 2021. It will include more than 20 large-scale installations created by the artist in the last ten years before his passing in 2000, with numerous loans from major Italian and international collections.

The dates of the show by Neïl Beloufa (1985) remain unchanged from September 10, 2020 to January 17, 2021. For his first solo show in Italy, the artist will create a site-specific intervention for the spaces of Pirelli HangarBicocca, with a rich selection of works, including all his films, installations, and sculptures.

The exhibition by Steve McQueen (1969)—realized in collaboration with Tate Modern in London, originally scheduled for October 2020 to February 2021—will go on show in April 2021, offering visitors a rare opportunity to view and examine the work of one of today’s most relevant contemporary artists, filmmakers, and screenwriters.

Art To The People – Digital Projects
The exhibition spaces are temporary closed, but the doors of Pirelli HangarBicocca remain wide open on its social media channels, with a constant flow of contemporary art and culture. At a time like this, there is an even bolder commitment to keeping art open and accessible to all. We decided to expand our selection of digital contents. Much of the content and many of the issues will appear in the program which will be distributed over the coming days via Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter: starting from the #Playlists project, our new profile on Spotify—where artists, curators and thinkers will share a playlist of their top music preferences—to #AskTrisha, a spin-off of our Public Program, created together with the artist Trisha Baga. Moreover #ArtToTheKids, a special project dedicated to the younger ones: a new drawing by the artist Alice Ronchi will be released each Saturday for six weeks, with the aim of being completed, coloured-in and turned into an original work like no other.

Thanks to the 360° Street Views on the Google Arts & Culture platform, you can explore The Seven Heavenly Palaces, the permanent work by Anselm Kiefer, as well as take a virtual walk through the light installations created by Cerith Wyn Evans. The Google Arts & Culture platform also contains an image archive of the history of Pirelli HangarBicocca exhibitions from 2012 to the present day, with over 400 images and full documentation of 36 shows.

You can visit our website pirellihangarbicocca.org and go through the contents of our Video Channel, which unveils interviews with artists and curators, the “making of” of exhibition projects, together with documentation of our past events, such as concerts, performances, tours, and conferences.

The Pirelli HangarBicocca team hopes to reopen its doors to the public soon—and not just its virtual ones, which remain open all the time, but also the physical space to welcome all the visitors again.

Here find our revised exhibition calendar:
Trisha Baga. “the eye, the eye and the ear”—until July 19, 2020
Cerith Wyn Evans.“....the Illuminating Gas”—until July 26, 2020
Neïl Beloufa—September 10, 2020—January 17, 2021
Chen Zhen—October 15, 2020—February 21, 2021
Steve McQueen. In collaboration with Tate Modern, London—April 8—July 2021