Although the Rho Fiera, the fairground the place Salone del Cellular is staged, is the true powerhouse of the broader Milan Design Week – the company gasoline that retains the business working – it’s the smaller, unbiased tasks that a lot of the design watchers who flock right here every April actually need to see. These exhibitions – largely unbiased and self-funded – are the design world’s bellwethers, the concepts, aesthetics, and supplies we’ll see spreading throughout the globe over the following yr.
Naturally, you’ll discover a dense focus of gallery tasks clustered at Alcova, just a few prepare stops north of the town in Varedo, the place many unbiased areas could have new tasks on show. However within the metropolis centre, the place exhibitions are scattered throughout disparate neighbourhoods, it’s barely more durable to navigate what’s on – so we’re right here to assist.
From intimate shows in non-public properties to new openings from up-and-coming galleries, listed here are the eight exhibitions we’re most excited to see when Milan Design Week 2025 kicks off on 7 April.
Rising galleries to go to throughout Milan Design Week 2025
Boon Editions x A-N-D
(Picture credit score: Stefano Giacomello)
Parisian collectible design gallery Boon Room returns to Milan Design Week with a daring presentation in collaboration with A-N-D, the Vancouver-based design studio and producer. Taking on a former financial institution in Piazza Affari, the monetary district, the 2 be part of forces to unveil 4 new collections: sculptural marble furnishings by Pieter Maes; Stefano Giacomello’s homage to Eighties Italian design; monolithic items by Atelier Pendhapa; and new works by Tom Hancocks impressed by digital artwork.
Through San Vittore al Teatro 1/3
3-12 April
11am-7pm
Studioutte
(Picture credit score: Studioette)
The inside and furnishings design observe Studioutte made waves final yr with ‘Sala D’Attesa’, an clever tackle the ready room. This yr, it returns with an equally compelling presentation at its new headquarters on Through Volturno in Moscova. The duo, Guglielmo Giagnotti and Patrizio Gola, introduce a group centered on simplicity and important types – monolithic tables, chairs, and lighting decreased to their purest expression.
Through Volturno 45
7-13 April
10am-7.30pm
Oxilia Gallery
3D picture of the ‘Bamba’ couch
(Picture credit score: Kutarq)
Considered one of Milan’s most cutting-edge younger galleries, Oxilia, within the vibrant NoLo neighborhood, presents ‘Duetto’ – a hanging dialogue between artwork and design. This twin exhibition pairs Flaminia Veronesi’s dreamlike work with the modern work of Spanish design studio Kutarq, led by Jordi López Aguiló. Among the many highlights, Kutarq unveils the ‘Bamba’ couch, its sinuous kind impressed by a single pencil stroke, whereas Veronesi responds with a textile interpretation of her Chironte Blu canvas, reimagined in knit by Gruppo Florence.
Through Nino Oxilia 9
5-13 April
11am-7pm
Tutto Bene x Beton Brut
(Picture credit score: Tutto Bene x Beton Brut)
(Picture credit score: Tutto Bene x Beton Brut)
Design studio Tutto Bene, led by Felizia Berchtold and Oskar Kohnen, debuts its first furnishings assortment – glossy, metal-framed sofas and pared-back lighting echoing the curves of a traditional cornice – inside a lavishly embellished non-public flat within the Monti district. Becoming a member of them, collectible design gallery Beton Brut presents, for the primary time, archival items by late Italian sculptor and designer Salvino Marsura. Beton Brut can even showcase Marsura’s work at Alcova’s Villa Borsani.
By appointment solely
Cour & Uppercut
(Picture credit score: Cour & Uppercut)
(Picture credit score: Cour & Uppercut)
A number of galleries, artists, and designers converge at Ordet, which not too long ago relocated from Porta Romana to Isola. The exhibition ‘Information From Dwelling’ guarantees to be a standout. Belgian gallery Cour, that includes works by Fritz Adamski, Hermann Becker, and Yoonjeong Lee, transforms the artist’s studio into an area for experimentation and dialogue. In the meantime, Belgian gallery Uppercut brings Milan’s Concorde and LS Gomma to stage ‘a collision of historic opulence and radical new types’.
Through Filippino Lippi 4
8-14 April
12pm-7pm
Giuseppe Porcelli
‘Garçonnière’ armchairs
(Picture credit score: Giuseppe Porcelli)
Inside designer Giuseppe Porcelli, the visionary behind The Arts Membership’s London and Dubai areas, debuts his first furnishings assortment in an intimate presentation at a non-public residence in Città Studi. Titled ‘Garçonnière’ – a nod to secretive bachelor pads as soon as used for illicit affairs, now reimagined by a queer lens – the present options exquisitely crafted items, together with hanging mirrors adorned with bamboo and tassels, and desk lamps with softly pleated shades.
By appointment solely
Riviera
(Picture credit score: Benjamin Lund)
(Picture credit score: Benjamin Lund)
Canadian designer Jamie Wolfond and inventive company Easy Aptitude discover the design of clocks of their collaborative exhibition ‘SpaceTime’. The group present options 24 interpretations of a timepiece by designers together with Maddalena Casadei, Sam Stewart, and Marco Campardo. The scenography embraces time journey, with collectible design gallery Vaspaar curating classic furnishings, together with uncommon Sixties and 70s flooring lamps by Giuliano Cesari and Goffredo Reggiani, all displayed at Riviera’s Cinque Vie house.
Through Gorani 4
7-13 April
9am–7pm
Strata
(Picture credit score: Strata)
Three powerhouses of Belgian design unite for ‘Strata’: Tim Vranken, Middernacht & Alexander, and Linde Freya Tangelder of Destroyers/Builders. Exhibiting each new and archival works at a post-industrial venue close to Fondazione Prada, the exhibition is framed as an ‘interaction between particular person expression and collective presence’.
Through Rutilia 10/9
7-13 April
11am-7pm
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