Domus’s guide to miart and Milano Art Week 2025
A deep dive into this year’s fair, insights from director Ricciardi, and the must-see events in Milan as the city transforms into a contemporary art international hub.
Hans Hollein exhibition at Centre Pompidou goes beyond postmodernism
The work of the Austrian designer, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1985, is a visionary experience in which "everything is architecture": to celebrate this, an exhibition is being held in the Paris museum, which will soon be closed for renovation.
What makes a place “real” in an increasingly digital world?
A place is a fluid entity, between the physical and the virtual, memory and perception. “A Place Has a Place Has a Place” challenges its stability through immersive works that explore shifting landscapes and multispecies interactions.
Those who left us in 2020
Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.
Do not miss this one: the Pinault Collection is on show at Tadao Ando's Bourse de Commerce
From the evocative portraits of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye to the powerful visual manifesto of Arthur Jafa, “Corps et Âmes” presents a journey through iconic works from the Pinault Collection, capturing the essence of the human experience.
Inside the tunnels under Milan's Central Station there is now an art installation by Tosatti
With ‘Paradiso’, the artist of the Italy Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022 transforms the former Magazzini Raccordati into a place of contemplation and reflection on the fragility of our times.
Andrés Jaque
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
An electronic music performance in the church by Gardella and Ferrieri
The composer Neuf Voix will debut a work of concrète music and showcase his newly-designed sound diffusion system in the late Sixties Milanese modernist landmark.
The ideal city
From Renaissance visions to futuristic dystopias: artists and philosophers have shaped the concept of ‘ideal city’ for centuries, leading up to today’s challenges of sustainability and inclusion.
The art of surviving oneself: Tracey Emin on display at Palazzo Strozzi
Between neon, painting, and sculpture, the work of the british visual artist, now on display in Florence, does not seek comfort but rather pure existence: a visceral narrative of fragility and resilience, of life and loss.
Nick Cave has taken up ceramics too: his ‘devils’ on display
Seventeen glazed ceramic figurines created by the Australian musician tell the story of a Devil—far more human than one might think— in “The Devil – A Life,” now on view at Museum Voorlinden, in the Netherlands.
10 exhibition to visit in March 2025 because they’re closing soon
Domus picked ten must-see exhibitions across Europe in March before they close, including performance, architecture and contemporary art.
De bello civili
The British Prime Minister announces an increase in military spending: a need for defense or a will to power? An age-old question, once echoed in the canvases of great masters of art.