Every Olympic cycle, Triennale Milano collaborates with the Organizing Committees of the Olympic Video games (OCOGs) for the Olympic Artwork Posters challenge – an initiative that commissions ten authentic works from artists below the age of 40. Immediately marks the official unveiling of the artists and their posters for the following Olympic and Paralympic Winter Video games, to be held in Milano Cortina, Italy, from 6-22 February 2026.
5 posters have been created for the Olympic Video games (this time, all by girls) and 5 for the Paralympic Video games. The artists hail from throughout Italy, every providing their distinctive perspective on winter sports activities and venues, rendered in a variety of mediums together with oil, gouache, acrylic, digital illustration and combined media.
The OCOGs have commissioned official posters to advertise the Video games for the reason that early twentieth century, with previous contributions coming from the likes of David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Chris Ofili and Beatriz Milhazes. The 2026 Olympic Artwork Posters, proven under, comply with in these illustrious footsteps, providing up to date reflections on the Video games and their values.
Olympics Video games posters
Beatrice Alici – ‘Silver Peaks’
(Picture credit score: Beatrice Alici)
Alici’s wintry imaginative and prescient depicts three figures silhouetted in opposition to the snow-covered Venetian Prealps. A leaden sky constituted of silver leaf looms, whereas the determine on the left holds aloft a gold-and-copper-leaf Olympic torch – a beacon of heat in an in any other case icy scene. One other determine holds a banner bearing the 5 Olympic rings.
Martina Cassatella – Torch
(Picture credit score: Martina Cassatella)
Cassatella’s composition reveals intertwined fingers merging with flame, evoking the Olympic torch in addition to concepts about collaboration and connection. Cassatella is understood for her depictions of fingers, seeing them as motifs that transcend language and tradition, very similar to the Olympics.
Giorgia Garzilli – ‘2026’
(Picture credit score: Giorgia Garzilli)
On this graphite and colored pencil work, the Olympic rings are reimagined as scoops of ice cream – a playful tackle the thought of the chilly. The picture is impressed by a toy from Garzilli’s youth – a cone that launches a ball when pressed – representing the countdown to the opening of the Video games.
Maddalena Tesser – ‘The Mountain’
(Picture credit score: Maddalena Tesser)
Vivid with the Olympic colors, Tesser’s composition sees a feminine determine metamorphosing into Monte Cristallo, one of many Dolomites’ most well-known peaks, her head forming the mountain ridge and her hair a ski slope marked with tracks. The picture symbolises the approaching collectively of people and nature through the Winter Video games.
Flaminia Veronesi – ‘The Oasis of Play’
(Picture credit score: Flaminia Veronesi)
In Veronesi’s dreamlike mixed-media piece, a central determine floats amid deconstructed Olympic rings surrounded by symbolic imagery. The dragon nods to Milan’s heraldic biscione; on its again, the Dolomites of Cortina, the setting of the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Paralympic Video games posters
Roberto de Pinto – ‘Untitled (Snowdrops)’
(Picture credit score: Roberto De Pinto)
This monochrome work makes use of the snowdrop – a flower that pushes by means of snow and ice to bloom on the finish of winter within the Italian mountains – as an emblem of the resilience of Paralympic athletes within the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Andrea Fontanari – ‘Collectively We Play, Collectively We Rework’
(Picture credit score: Andrea Fontanari)
Set within the snowy terrain of Trentino-Alto Adige, two cross-country skiers assist each other throughout a end line – an homage to the act of sportsmanship between Braima Suncar Dabo and Jonathan Busby on the 2019 Doha World Championships.
Giulia Mangoni – ‘Victory is Extra Than a Second’
(Picture credit score: Giulia Mangoni)
Mangoni’s poster combines figures with textual content to place ahead the concept the Paralympics is about greater than particular person achievement – it represents the broader liberation and triumph of the disabled group. The unique hand-drawn picture was later digitally reworked, and took inspiration from the wheelchair curling remaining through the Beijing Video games of 2022.
Aronne Pleuteri – ‘Untitled’
(Picture credit score: Aronne Pleuteri)
In a riot of coloration and motion, Pleuteri’s poster depicts a cascade of our bodies hurtling down a slope – an emblem of their escape from established norms and preconceptions. Created from digital sketches in paint, inkjet prints and combined media, his stylised figures draw from childhood references (like Pinocchio) and 2000s beginner digital aesthetics.
Clara Woods – ‘You Love’
(Picture credit score: Clara Woods)
Woods’ joyful scene options two characters amid a winter scene of what the artist describes as ‘therapeutic snow’. It’s an affirming scene, with faces smiling from the clouds, flowers blooming within the frost, and the phrases ‘love you and you like’ emblazoned throughout the poster.
Supply: Wallpaper
