Coinciding with Milan Art Week, but independent thereof, Miart is the sassy, savvy fringe event that promises to leave a deeper impression than the headliner.
The 2025 edition, titled among friends, borrows its name from the final major retrospective dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg (1925 – 2008) by MoMA. The event draws inspiration from the artist on the centenary of his birth, shaping the fair around the concept of active participation and the key principles that defined his artistic approach: openness to the world, insatiable curiosity, and a commitment to dialogue and interdisciplinarity.
The main stage of this festival will be miart 2025 itself, where visitors will encounter a carefully curated selection of masterpieces from the early and mid-20th century. The programme will also include special initiatives celebrating the Italian masters who shaped the country’s vibrant artistic landscape, cutting-edge contemporary works, and creations by some of the most promising artists making waves in today’s international market.
Returning to miart 2025 is Emergent, the section curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, dedicated to galleries focused on experimental practices and emerging voices within the contemporary art scene. Also renewed this edition is Portal – curated for the first time by Alessio Antoniolli, Director of the Triangle Network in London and curator at Fondazione Memmo in Rome. Portal will showcase projects that break down boundaries between disciplines, time, and space, taking inspiration from Rauschenberg’s view of artistic creation as a collective process. Rauschenberg once described his collaborative works as “one single group of minds, feelings, and solutions”, and Portal will feature projects that challenge our understanding of geographies and temporalities, offering a richer, more complex vision of the past and present to reframe the future.
Additional stages will come to life in the months leading up to the fair through a series of talks, developed in partnership with five public and private institutions across the city. These conversations will explore the theme of friendship in the artistic field, offering interpretations based on the work of the artists being showcased. This programme, with five monthly events running from November 2024 to March 2025, will see the institutions come together in a unified and meaningful collaboration.
Miart
4 to 6 April 2025
Various venues, Milan, Italy
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
