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Pirelli HangarBicocca unveils its 2024–2025 exhibition program, marking its 20th anniversary.
Over the next two years, Pirelli HangarBicocca will feature eight exhibitions, specifically produced, or repurposed for its former-industrial spaces, as well as a special Urban art project. The solo shows, focusing on artists from different backgrounds, generations, and cultures, will present a variety of worldviews and perspectives on the complex issues of the current social and geopolitical situation. The calendar for 2024–2025 is developed by the curatorial department headed by Vicente Todolí, Artistic Director since 2012. Each year, in the 15,000 square meters of Pirelli HangarBicocca, the program alternates between two exhibitions in the Navate space, featuring established and historical artists, and two in the Shed space, presenting younger and mid-career artists.
In 2024, Pirelli HangarBicocca will present: in the Navate space Nari Ward from March 28, 2024; Jean Tinguely from October 10, 2024. In the Shed space Chiara Camoni from February 15, 2024; Saodat Ismailova from September 12, 2024. In addition, a new intervention by the artist eL Seed is planned for the exterior walls of the Pirelli HangarBicocca building (from July 2024). In 2025: in the Navate space Yukinori Yanagi from March 27, 2025; Nan Goldin from October 9, 2025. In the Shed space Tarek Atoui from February 6, 2025; Yuko Mohri from September 11, 2025.
2024
Shed space
Chiara Camoni
February 15–July 21, 2024
Curated by Lucia Aspesi and Fiammetta Griccioli.
The exhibition at Pirelli Hangarbicocca brings together the largest body of work ever presented by the Italian artist Chiara Camoni and, together with a series of new productions, creates an architecture of collectivity and recollection, whose forms are inspired by Italian gardens of the late Renaissance and ancient amphitheaters.
Navate space
Nari Ward
March 28–July 28, 2024
Curated by Roberta Tenconi with Lucia Aspesi.
The retrospective exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca retraces over thirty years Nari Ward’s career, between historical artworks and new productions. It will focus on his works related to time-based media practices and his collaborative projects, paying special attention to video, sound, and performative installations.
Special project: Outside the Cube
eL Seed
Opening: July 3, 2024
Curated by Cedar Lewisohn.
eL Seed, an artist whose practice is influenced by calligraphy and Urban Art, will work on the exterior walls of Pirelli HangarBicocca, with a monumental intervention focusing on the history and social evolution of the district.
Shed space
Saodat Ismailova
September 12, 2024–January 12, 2025
Curated by Roberta Tenconi.
Pirelli HangarBicocca will hold the first and most comprehensive survey of Saodat Ismailova, a filmmaker from the first generation of Central Asian artists of the post-Soviet era, in an Italian institution, presenting works from over ten years of practice and a new spatial environment especially designed for the occasion.
Navate space
Jean Tinguely
October 10, 2024–February 2, 2025
Curated by Camille Morineau, Lucia Pesapane and Vicente Todolí with Fiammetta Griccioli.
Jean Tinguely is one of the great pioneers of 20th-century art and one of the foremost exponents of kinetic art. The exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca is the most extensive retrospective in Italy since the artist's death and will include more than thirty seminal works from the 1950s to the 1980s. The exhibition is realized in collaboration with Museum Tinguely, Basel.
2025
Shed space
Tarek Atoui
February 6–July 20, 2025
Curated by Lucia Aspesi.
For his first solo exhibition in Italy, Tarek Atoui, artist and electroacoustic composer, will present a combination of previous projects and new productions commissioned by Pirelli HangarBicocca. Through a combination of visual, tactile, and sound elements, the public will be encouraged to experience the gallery space on a multi-sensory level.
Navate space
Yukinori Yanagi
March 27–July 27, 2025
Curated by Vicente Todolí with Fiammetta Griccioli.
The exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca is the first major survey in Europe of Yukinori Yanagi, one of Japan's most influential contemporary artists, presenting a wide selection of his most iconic works from the 1980s and 1990s, recontextualized and adapted to the former industrial spaces of the institution.
Shed space
Yuko Mohri
September 11, 2025–January 2026
Curated by Fiammetta Griccioli and Vicente Todolí.
Pirelli HangarBicocca presents the first institutional exhibition of works by Yuko Mohri, who will represent Japan at the upcoming Venice Biennale in 2024. Her solo show will include numerous sculptural, and sound works that reveal Mohri’s unique approach in studying physical events and phenomena such as gravity and magnetism.
Navate space
Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well
October 9, 2025–February 15, 2026
Exhibition organized by Moderna Museet in collaboration with Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Réunion des musées nationaux—Grand Palais, Paris.
Curated by Fredrik Liew, Chief Curator at Moderna Museet. The presentation at Pirelli HangarBicocca is curated by Roberta Tenconi, Chief Curator, with Lucia Aspesi, Curator.
Nan Goldin is one of the most recognized artists of our time. Her exploration of the human experience is legendary, and her work has had a profound influence on generations of artists. "This Will Not End Well" is the first exhibition to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin's work as a filmmaker and the Milan iteration will include the largest selection ever of her slideshows, installed in structures designed by architect Hala Wardé in close connection with each work.
*[1] Courtesy of the artist and Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection. Photo: Camilla Maria Santini. [2] Courtesy of the artist, and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London. [3] Courtesy of the artist. © Saodat Ismailova. [4] Museum Tinguely Basel. The Museum Tinguely is a cultural commitment of Roche. © Museum Tinguely, Basel. Jean Tinguely by SIAE, 2023. Photo: Daniel Spehr. [5] Courtesy of the artist. © The Austin Contemporary. [6] © YANAGI STUDIO. Photo: YANAGI STUDIO. [7] Courtesy of the artist. Photo: glimworkers. [8] © Nan Goldin. Courtesy Gagosian. [9] Courtesy of eL Seed. eL Seed by SIAE, 2023.
