Exhibition program 2026–27

Pirelli HangarBicocca 2026–27 program introduces a series of eight new exhibitions bringing artists, works, and architecture into dialogue. A shared experience that invites the public to discover the museum as a living organism, open and responsive to our time.

The two-year exhibition program will feature eight major monographic exhibitions dedicated to Italian and international artists. The program will present new perspectives and dialogues through site-specific shows designed for the museum’s distinctive exhibition spaces, while drawing the public's attention to artistic practices that critically examine the present by exploring forms of collective knowledge. It will also offer an experience consistent with the museum’s mission to produce, promote, and make contemporary art more accessible to a larger audience. The program 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, two exhibitions in the Navate space, featuring established and historical artists, alternate with two in the Shed space, presenting younger and mid-career artists.

The solo exhibitions scheduled for 2026 are dedicated to Benni Bosetto, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Aki Sasamoto, and Luciano Fabro. In 2027, the featured artists will be Carlos Bunga, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Hicham Berrada, and Cecilia Vicuña.

Benni Bosetto: February 12–July 19, 2026 
Curated by Fiammetta Griccioli. Shed space.

Benni Bosetto will transform the Shed into a living domestic environment, where rooms, walls, and surfaces come to life, giving to the space a distinctly human dimension. The show will invite profound reflections on the body, exposed intimacy, and on care and rest as forms of resistance. Her practice moves across drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance, exploring representations of identity and grasping the human experience.

Rirkrit Tiravanija: March 26–July 26, 2026 
Curated by Lucia Aspesi and Vicente Todolí. Navate space.

Among the most influential contemporary artists of the international scene, Rirkrit Tiravanija has explored questions of cultural identity and encouraged visitor participation, introducing everyday life into the museum. The retrospective at Pirelli HangarBicocca will center on his long-standing investigation into architectural practice by creating spaces for gathering and sharing real-life experiences, drawing inspiration from visionary figures such as Rudolf Michael Schindler, Fredrich Kiesler, Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Jean Prouvé and Sigur Lewerentz.

Aki Sasamoto: September 17, 2026–January 17, 2027
Curated by Roberta Tenconi with Tatiana Palenzona. Shed space.

At the intersection of performance, sculpture, installation, and video, Aki Sasamoto creates environments and situations in which objects and people engage in unusual interactions. The exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca will delve into the notion of connectedness and the intricate structures of human relationships—how we understand each other, navigate social life, and negotiate the elasticity of bonds.

Luciano Fabro: October 8, 2026–February 21, 2027
Curated by Fiammetta Griccioli, Roberta Tenconi and Vicente Todolí with the collaboration of Silvia Fabro (Archivio Luciano e Carla Fabro). Navate space.

A prominent exponent of the Arte Povera movement and a central figure in postwar Italian art, Luciano Fabro initiated in the 1960s a personal exploration into sculpture and the concept of inhabiting space, conceived as a dynamic field of action. After more than 45 years since his last exhibition in Milan, the retrospective at Pirelli HangarBicocca delves into his perceptual and spatial investigations tracing the evolution through seminal works and culminating in complex architectural structures and ideal environments—often made in paper—that the artist referred to as “Habitat”.

Carlos Bunga: February–July 2027
Curated by Lucia Aspesi and Sandra Guimarães. Shed space.

Carlos Bunga will radically transform the architectural setting of the Shed at Pirelli HangarBicocca, redefining its spatial boundaries and transfiguring its volume. Through his peculiar use of color, transient materials, sculpture, and performance, his ongoing processes of construction and demolition bring forth layered and urgent issues such as migration, demography, and socio-economic disparity.

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: March–July 2027
Curated by Fiammetta Griccioli and Vicente Todolí. Navate space.

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are one of the most compelling artistic collaborations in contemporary art. Their practice challenges sensory experience, creating immersive, ambiguous and emotionally charged settings where sound guides vision, and observation yields to auditory experience. For their retrospective in Pirelli HangarBicocca, the Navate will be inhabited by monumental installations, and sonic works alongside more intimate pieces. 

Hicham Berrada: September 2027–January 2028
Curated by Vicente Todolí with Tatiana Palenzona. Shed space.

Hicham Berrada will bring to Pirelli HangarBicocca a selection of his most emblematic and multisensory landscapes that blur the boundaries between art and science. Situated somewhere between a scientific laboratory, a Wunderkammer, and cinematic set, the Shed will be transformed into a hybrid environment where photographic prints and video projections interact with uncanny vitrines staging the unpredictable spectacle of nature in motion.

Cecilia Vicuña: October 2027–February 2028
Curated by Lucia Aspesi and Roberta Tenconi. Navate space.

Cecilia Vicuña is an artist, poet, and activist that has developed a multidisciplinary practice—spanning sculpture, installation, poetry, painting, video, performance, and sound. Her work is deeply rooted in political and social engagement, drawing on Indigenous knowledge systems and ancestral cosmologies to question the violence of modernity. The retrospective will feature a wide selection of her works, transforming the Navate space into a living archive of fragments and precarious gestures traces of memory and rituals, where natural materials such as wool, shells, feathers, and found wood become carriers of ancestral wisdom.