28–30 March 2014
Preview: Thursday 27 March, noon–6pm (VIP card only)
Vernissage: Thursday 27 March, 6–9pm
(invitation and VIP card only)
Fair hours:
Friday 28 March, noon–7pm
Saturday 29 March, noon–7pm
Sunday 30 March, 11am–7pm
Fieramilanocity – Pav 3, Gate 5
Viale Scarampo
IT-20149 Milan
www.miart.it
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The nineteenth edition of miart, scheduled for 28 to 30 March, opens at Fieramilanocity – Pav 3 Gate 5, Viale Scarampo, Milan.
This year’s edition features 148 international galleries representing twenty countries. miart has established itself as a preeminent art fair in which modern and contemporary art communicate constant references with explicit echoes: a great opportunity to grasp links between the past and present.
Here is the list of exhibitors of the four sections of the fair: www.miart.it/en/exhibitors
miart’s artistic director Vincenzo de Bellis and his team are developing an artistic vision, through programming for the fair and for the city. The Spring Awakening is a program of events, openings and special visit hours in Milan, in public institutions, foundations and private galleries, starting on the spring equinox and continuing through the final day of the fair.
With this initiative, miart 2014 sets out to renew and expand the close cooperation with public and private realities of the city of Milan, offering the public and sector professionals a wide-ranging cultural experience that engages the whole city during the week of the fair.
Highlights of the program are Piero Manzoni, Palazzo Reale; Cildo Mereiles, HangarBicocca; Year after Year. Works on paper from the UBS Art Collection, Galleria d’Arte Moderna; Regina José Galindo, Pac-Padigline d’Arte Contemporanea; Michael E. Smith and Ian Cheng, Triennale di Milano.
Full list of events available at www.miart.it/en/spring-awakening.
A key component of miart week and special project for the 2014 edition is Cine Dreams, organized by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and miart.
Cine Dreams is a special contemporary art project curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Vincenzo de Bellis, in the unique setting of Milan’s Ulrico Hoepli Planetarium, in collaboration with the City of Milan. The evenings of Friday 28, Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 March, from 10pm on, will be enlivened by the works of Stan VanDerBeek, Jeronimo Voss and Katie Paterson: projects conceived especially for planetariums, which have been adapted on this occasion to the gorgeous neoclassical building designed in the late 1920s by the architect Piero Portaluppi.
With its installations, multimedia projections, and sound and video works, Cine Dreams will be a miniature art festival that weaves tales of constellations and parallel universes, turning the planetarium into a place of discovery where different disciplines—optics, theater, computer science, literature, and more—flow together in a journey to find new possible worlds.
More info at www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.com
A new series of miartalks will take place during the fair with a multidisciplinary program of lectures, conversations, and interviews featuring outstanding international personalities—artists, designers, museum directors, critics, curators, and collectors. The themes discussed will range from production to distribution, encouraging reflections and variations around four cultural clusters for which Milan is an international point of reference: art, collecting, design and fashion.
Curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti, Editor-in-Chief of Mousse magazine, Milan / Curator, Visual Arts & New Media, Triennale di Milano, Milan; Maria Cristina Didero, independent curator, Milan / Director, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza; Alessia Glaviano, Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia / L’Uomo Vogue, Milan; Luca Lo Pinto, independent curator, Rome / Editor-in-Chief of NERO magazine, Rome and Alessandro Rabottini, Curator at Large, GAMeC, Bergamo/MADRE, Naples.
miartalks will feature more than 35 international professionals: Andreas Angelidakis, Magalí Arriola, Felix Burrichter, César Cervantes, João Fernandes, Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin), Juan A. Gaitán, Beatrice Galilee, Nav Haq, Jörg Heiser, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Jens Hoffmann, Lilli Hollein, Joan Jonas, David Lamelas, Lisa Le Feuvre, Marcella Lista, Jean-Hubert Martin, Daniel McClean, Mike Meiré, Alessandro Mendini, Tom Morton, Guta Moura Guedes, Matthias Mühling, Alice Rawsthorn, Marco Sammicheli, Alberto Salvadori, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Andy Stillpass, Luca Stoppini, Alexander von Vegesack, Juergen Teller, Martin J. Tickner, Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, and Akram Zaatari.
The full program of panels is available at www.miart.it/en/miartalks-0.
As in the last edition, once again there will be Prizes and Acquisition Funds, in collaboration with institutional partners:
Giampiero Cantoni acquisition fund of Fondazione Fiera Milano:
Jury: Lorenzo Benedetti, Director, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; Moritz Wesseler, Director, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
Emergent Prize:
Jury: Martin Clark, Director, Bergen Kunsthall; Margot Heller, Director, South London Gallery; Bart Van der Heide, Director, Kunstverein München, Munich
The Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize for contemporary art and young artists:
Jury: Cristiana Perrella, Curator of the art and science project, Fondazione Marino Golinelli; Professor of phenomenology of contemporary art, IED, Rome; Laura Cherubini, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Brera Fine Arts Academy, Milan; Christian Marinotti, publisher, collector, former president of Rotary Club Milano Brera and founder of this prize; and Andrea Viliani, General Director, Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Napoli.
