April
Milan owns April: Salone opens the fairgrounds in Rho, miart runs in MiCo, and the city's installations eat the rest of the month.
Salone del Mobile.Milano marks its 64th edition, minus Euroluce this year, gaining EuroCucina and the International Bathroom Exhibition. miart moves to the South Wing of Allianz MiCo under Nicola Ricciardi's New Directions framing. In Paris, Art Paris returns to the Grand Palais and Anselm Kiefer closes a long London trilogy at White Cube Bermondsey. Venice opens on 9 May, so everything here is the run-up.
Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026
1,900 exhibitors across 169,000 square metres, with EuroCucina and the International Bathroom Exhibition doing the heavy lifting in Euroluce's off-year. Zaha Hadid Architects drop a titanium-coloured fiberglass portal on a reflecting pool at Portrait Milano for Audi, Sara Ricciardi inflates Serotonin across the Pinacoteca di Brera cloister for American Express, and Molteni builds six gardens at Garden Senato with Elisa Ossino. The fair itself is quieter than 2025. The city is not.
Also this month
Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations
Veronica Ryan
Ryan’s first full retrospective. Four decades of sculpture, with new ceramics and textiles made for the show, and earlier pieces that haven’t been out since the 1980s.
Venice Biennale 2026 pre-openings: In Minor Keys
Curated by Koyo Kouoh (posthumously, with her appointed team)
National pavilions begin soft-opening in the final week of April ahead of the 6-8 May previews. Kouoh's theme is carried forward by Beckhurst Feijoo, Pereira, Salti, Mitter and Tsapayi, with Wolff Architects on the scenography and indigo banners falling from the Arsenale rafters.