Over the next two years, Pirelli HangarBicocca will present 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 while advancing its long-term mission to make art and culture more accessible.
Exhibitions in 2026 will spotlight Benni Bosetto, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Aki Sasamoto, and Luciano Fabro, with 2027 featuring Carlos Bunga, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Hicham Berrada, and Cecilia Vicuña.
The 2026–2027 calendar was developed by the curatorial department led by Vicente Todolí, Pirelli HangarBicocca’s Artistic Director since 2012 and former director of the Tate Modern in London, the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto, and the IVAM in Valencia.
In 2026:
Benni Bosetto from 12th February 2026 (Shed)
For her first major institutional solo exhibition, Bosetto will transform the Shed into a domestic environment, a living organism, where rooms, walls, and surfaces come to life, giving to the space a distinctly human dimension.
Rirkrit Tiravanija from 26th March 2026 (Navate)
Major retrospective centering on Tiravanija’s long-standing investigation into architectural practice. Alongside a selection of historical works, the exhibition will create spaces for gathering and sharing real-life experiences, with works drawing inspiration from visionary figures such as Rudolf Michael Schindler, Frederick Kiesler, Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Jean Prouvé and Sigur Lewerentz.
Aki Sasamoto from 17th September 2026 (Shed)
Sasamoto’s first major institutional presentation in Europe spanning nearly two decades of artistic exploration, delving 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 from 8th October 2026 (Navate)
After more than 45 years since his last exhibition in Milan, the retrospective at Pirelli HangarBicocca, organized in collaboration with the Archivio Luciano e Carla Fabro, 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”.
In 2027:
Carlos Bunga from February 2027 (Shed)
For his first solo exhibition in Italy, Bunga will radically transform the architectural setting of the Shed at Pirelli HangarBicocca, redefining its spatial boundaries and transfiguring its volumes.
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller from March 2027 (Navate)
For their first major retrospective in an Italian institution in over two decades, the Navate of Pirelli HangarBicocca will be inhabited by monumental installations, and sonic works alongside more intimate pieces, including historical works and new pieces specifically conceived for the exhibition space.
Hicham Berrada from September 2027 (Shed)
For his largest exhibition to date—and for the first time in an Italian institution—Berrada will showcase a selection of his most emblematic and multisensory landscapes that blur the boundaries between art and science, transforming the Shed into a hybrid environment, somewhere between a scientific laboratory, a Wunderkammer, and cinematic set.
Cecilia Vicuña from October 2027 (Navate)
Major retrospective of Vicuña will transform the Navate 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.
Founded in 2004, Pirelli HangarBicocca has converted a former industrial plant in Milan into an institution for producing and promoting contemporary art. It has become a reference point for the city of Milan and a leading player in the international contemporary art scene. Its mission to make art open and accessible to all began in 2004 with the commission of one of Anselm Kiefer’s most important site-specific works, ‘The Seven Heavenly Palaces’, and will continue in the coming years through research, experiment, and communication.
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