Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction (table / table)

Riet Wijnen

Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction (table / table)

@ Assab One

Kunstverein proudly presents Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction (table / table) the first solo show by dutch artist Riet Wijnen in Italy.

New Books & New Cocktails

Riccardo Arena, Deniz Gül, Claudia Losi, Daniele Maffeis, Gianfranco Pola

New Books & New Cocktails

@ Casa degli Artisti

Gianfranco Pola, barman e scrittore, interpreta e traduce alcuni libri, pubblicati da KV Publishing Milano, in cocktails.

TABS on the Move#2

TABS on the Move#2

@ Casa degli Artisti

Durante la settimana dell’Art Week, Casa degli Artisti ospiterà la seconda tappa di The Art Book Shop on the Move il bookshop itinerante con una selezione di pubblicazioni di libri pubblicati da Kunstverein Publishing, edizioni e libri d’artista e pubblicazioni di case editrici indipendenti.

TABS on the Move#1

TABS on the Move#1

@ Galleria Milano

The Art Book Shop Project di Kunstverein Milano si trasforma in travelling bookstore con prima tappa alla Galleria Milano.

Breve Incontro

Simone Forti, Claudia Losi, Riet Wijnen, Clement Parrocchetti

Breve Incontro

”...un vero incontro non si dimentica, perché è un atto di violenza...”
da “La radicalità dell’amore. Desiderio e Rivoluzione” di Srećko Horvat

Roses & Lillies

Jacopo Miliani

Roses & Lillies

@ TABSP Milan

Alphabet brunch & Tarot card Major Arcana Reading & Drawings

With Roses & Lillies, a special project that Jacopo Miliani (1979, Florence) presents at Kunstverein Milano, the artist continues his interdisciplinary research on the language between performance, collage and photography.

Zapp magazine

Zapp Magazine (Corinne Groot, jack Jaeger, Arnold Mosselman & Rob van de Ven)

Zapp magazine

@ TABSP Milan

29 October 2019

6pm Artist's talk and presentation with founders of Zapp Corinne Groot & Rob van de Ven

7pm Opening with 90s music

Long before Video on Demand, smart TV, webcams, YouTube, UbuWeb and Facebook Live, there was Zapp Magazine – a (initially) quarterly magazine on VHS videotape, which allowed you to watch exhibitions from the comfort of your own couch. The parts you didn’t like you could fast-forward through, the ones you did you could watch on endless repeat.

MASQUERADE

Vermeir & Heiremans

MASQUERADE

@ Carico Massimo

The 25.10.19 | 5,30pm Kunstverein presents
“Masquerade” | Vermeir & Heiremans
in the frame of ART, MAGIC AND CAPITALISM, organized by CARICO MASSIMO

Kunstverein @Bookpride2019

Kunstverein @Bookpride2019

@ Fabbrica del Vapore

Riccetario Imaginato

Leone Contini

Riccetario Imaginato

@ Kunstverein Amsterdam & Mangiassai, Amsterdam

2 taccuini
ca. 250 ricette
1 Grande Guerra
1 prigioniero di guerra e prozio, Giosué Fiorentino
1 artista e pronipote, Leone Contini
1 custode/ trascrittrice e pronipote, Annamaria Caputo
2 Kunstverein Amsterdam & Milano
1 traduttore
1 grafico

Prospettiva#1 Lubumbashi, Snaps in a City

Sammy Baloji, Dominique Bwalya, John Kankonde, Jean Katambayi, Nelson Makengo, Douglas Masamuna, Moustache, Rita Mukebo, Mukunday & Tétshim, Séraphine Mbeya Nawej, Frank Francesco Nchikala, Alain Nsenga, Isaac Sahani, Georges Senga, Daddy Tshikaya

Prospettiva#1 Lubumbashi, Snaps in a City

@ The Art Book Shop Project & careof | Fabbrica del Vapore

An exhibition commissioned and produced by: CEF - Centre d'Eveil de la Femme (Lubumbashi), with Centre d’Art et de Recherche Picha (Lubumbashi), Complex La Plage
Sous le haut patronage du Parlement européen

Biografia plurale. Virginia Ryan: arte, Africa e altrove

Biografia plurale. Virginia Ryan: arte, Africa e altrove

@ The Art Book Shop Project | Fabbrica del Vapore

In occasione di Bookcity Milano 2018, Kunstverein Milano ha il piacere di invitarvi negli spazzi di The Art Book Shop Project alla presentazione del libro "Biografia plurale. Virginia Ryan: arte, Africa e altrove", Fabbri Editore, 2018 a cura di Ivan Bargna e Maurizio Coccia.

CUratedCUbe#2

Tadej Pogačar & AB Collection by Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E

CUratedCUbe#2

@ The Art Book Shop Project | Fabbrica del Vapore

The second instance of CUratedCube – presentations dedicated to publications and artists’ books published by national and international Institutions and Publishing Houses around the world, selected by Kunstverein Milano for The Art Book Shop Project – presents the AB Collection by Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
On view is a selection of publications and fanzines by OHO, Sanja Ivekovic, Mladen Stilinovic, Goran Trbuljak, Balint Szombathy, Dejan Habicht, Tadej Pogačar, Paula Roush, SBD, Temporary Services, Jesper Fabricius, Tadej Vaukman.

Contemporaneously Kunstverein Milano presents Nasa zena (Our Woman), a series of magazine covers from a popular Slovenian women’s magazine, by Tadej Pogačar who is also the director of Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. (Museum of Contemporary Art).

The Library of Unread Books

Heman Chong & Renée Staal

The Library of Unread Books

@ The Art Book Shop Project | Fabbrica del Vapore

Open Call: Donate an unread book!'

The Library of Unread Books is an itinerant library initiated by Heman Chong and Renée Staal, it is a living reference library with a collection of nearly 600 titles, that traces the perimeters of knowledge and reflects on notions of access, excess and the politics of redistribution.

CUratedCUbe#1

Fabio Tasca & Artphilein Editions

CUratedCUbe#1

@ The Art Book Shop Project | Fabbrica del Vapore

Pubblicazioni selezionati da istituzioni e case editrici nazionali e internazionali

Nel mese di giugno The Art Book Shop presenta la casa editrice svizzera Artphilein Editions, specializzata in libri fotografici e libri d’artista. Artphilein Editions è fondata nel 2013 da Caterina De Pietri - direttrice di Artphilein Foundation - con l’intento di collaborare attivamente con gli artisti nell’ideazione, progettazione e realizzazione delle pubblicazioni.

Il 7 Giugno 2018 alle ore 19.00
Fabio Tasca in conversazione con Giulia Brivio
Segue aperitivo “noir” e accompagnamento musicale di Simone Barbieri, "Milano Esterno Notte".

Anna Banana

Anna Banana

Anna Banana

@ The Art Book Shop Project | Fabbrica del Vapore

I focus not on making things, but on making things happen, conceptualizing and producing interactive events; engaging active, public participation; and questioning assumptions about art.​ [Anna Banana]

Kunstverein Milano is happy to announce the exhibition Anna Banana showing the work of Canadian mail artist, Anna Banana.

Opening on 22 March, this is the third instance of the show, after stops at Kunstverein Toronto (22 September – 14 October 2017) and Kunstverein Amsterdam (22 October 2017 – 20 January 2018).

The exhibition encompasses Banana’s work from the last forty-five years and is the first comprehensive retrospective in Italy of her groundbreaking oeuvre as prolific artist, publisher, collector, researcher and costume designer.

MORE WORDSHIP

Richard Kostelanetz Bookstore

MORE WORDSHIP

@ P74 Gallery | Ljubljana, Slovenia

Kunstverein (Milano) is proud to present for the first time in Slovenia MORE WORDSHIP, The Richard Kostelanetz Bookstore.

40° 48’ 28.94” N 16° 37’ 29.15” E

Sofia Bteibet

40° 48’ 28.94” N 16° 37’ 29.15” E

@ The Art Book Shop Project / Fabbrica del Vapore

Con 40° 48’ 28.94” N 16° 37’ 29.15” E Kunstverein Milano porta avanti il programma dedicato a progetti di artisti legati alla carta stampata, sperimentando nuovi formati e display per la loro presentazione.

The Art Book Shop Project

Books & Cocktails

The   Art   Book   Shop   Project

@ @ The Art Book Shop Project | Fabbrica del Vapore

artisti: Federico Cavallini, Leone Contini, Sanna Marander & Niklas Tafra, Ivan Moudov
graphic designer: Brice Delarue
architetto: Olivier Vadrot

Kunstverein Milano , dopo 7 anni di itineranza urbana, apre “The Art Book Shop Project” che occuperà permanentemente uno spazio all'interno di Careof, a la Fabbrica del Vapore, di Milano.

workshop per "The Art Book Shop Project"

Olivier Vadrot

workshop per  "The Art Book Shop Project"

@ Fabbrica Del Vapore

Viva Caporetto! un omaggio ai vinti nel centenario della disfatta

Leone Contini

Viva Caporetto! un omaggio ai vinti nel centenario della disfatta

@ Circolo Reduci E Combattenti | Bastioni Di Porta Volta | via Alessandro Volta 23 | Milano

Cena commemorativa guidata da Leone Contini con Giosuè Fiorentino / Elaborazioni live di Gak Sato al theremin

Much Less than Useless

Federico Cavallini

Much Less than Useless

@ Zirkumflex | Berlin

On the occasion of Kunstverein’s summer programme in Berlin KV Milano and Zirkumflex are thrilled to present Much Less than Useless, a new artist’s book by Italian artist Federico Cavallini published by KV Publishing.

You say it best when you say nothing at all

Sanna Marander / Niklas Tafra

You say it best when you say nothing at all

@ Haus der Kulturen der Welt | Berlin

On the occasion of Kunstverein’s summer programme in Berlin, KV Milano is thrilled to present a performance by Sanna Marander and Niklas Tafra. The performance takes place during the Conceptual Poetics Day organised by Miss Read, the Berlin art book fair.

Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé

Michalis Pichler

Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé

@ Il Lazzaretto | Milan

if a work paraphrases one explicit historical or contemporary predecessor in title, style and/or content, this technique is what I would call a "greatest hit”
MP

People in a Building Without the Building

People in a Building Without the Building

@ex Guarmet, via Col Moschin 8, Milano

Alterazioni Video, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Lupo Borgonovo, Simone Brollis, Beatrice Catanzaro, Heman Chong, Anna Franceschini, Riccardo Giacconi, Aldo Giannotti, Lav Kontinovic, Marcos Lutyens, Daniele Maffeis, Diego Marcon, Kinkaleri, Jacopo Miliani, Elena Nemkova, Ozmo, Parasite 2.0, Maria Pecchioli, Davide Savorani, Enzo Umbaca, Valentina Vetturi, Driant Zeneli

The Glass Builders #2. Sparkling like pyramids

Daniele Maffeis

The Glass Builders #2. Sparkling like pyramids

@ASSAB ONE | via Assab 1, Milano

An extensive solo exhibition by Daniele Maffeis (Bergamo 1982), revolves around contemporary glass architecture as seen through the retrograde filter of the plate glass utopia that inspired the expressionist architects around Bruno Taut (1880-1938).

Coffee Portraits

Ivan Moudov

Coffee Portraits

around the world

At Kunstverein, Moudov continuous his reflections on Portraiture in the context of the visual arts field and beyond.

Certificate of Authenticity

Ivan Moudov

Certificate of Authenticity

@oTTo, Milano

In the frame of Turbo Conceptualism Kunstverein presents an retrospective exhibition in the form of a catalogue for sale.

Books in Residency#1

Federico Cavallini, Juan Pablo Macías, Brice Delarue

Books in Residency#1

@Careof

Books in residency è uno spazio che Careof dedica all'editoria d'arte e al libro d'artista, ospitando temporaneamente case editrici e programmi editoriali diversi all’interno del bookshop.

Books in Residency #2

Nicola Gardini & Meri Gorni

Books in Residency #2

@ Careof | Milano

Nicola Gardini & Meri Gorni
Uno scrittore che dipinge e un’artista che scrive

Si parlerà di scrittura, di arte, di simmetrie e rispecchiamenti tra le varie forme del comporre.

K-tanglement

Marcos Lutyens

K-tanglement

@Piaza Duomo Milano, Time Square New York, Rembrandtplein Amsterdam, Toronto

A multi-person, quadrilocation-bitemporal hypnosis event by Marcos Lutyens

Menu Immaginato II

Leone Contini

Menu Immaginato II

@Kunstraum, München, Germania

Imagined Menu by Italian artist Leone Contini arises from a historical event that happened in October 1917 with the worst defeat in the history of the Italian military: the “Rotta di Caporetto” (the Defeat of Caporetto).

A collaboration between Kunstraum München & Kunstverein Milano

Fellow Traveller

Fellow Traveller

@Zirkumflex, Berlin

On the occasion of the VIII Berlin Biennale, Kunstverein Milano celebrates its five-year collaboration with graphic design studio Zirkumflex.

housebreaking

Sanna Marander & Niklas Tafra with Claes Tellvid

housebreaking

@Spazio Borgogno, Milano

Kunstverein (Milano) presents new work by Swedish artists Sanna Marander and Niklas Tafra.

MORE WORDSHIP

The Richard Kostelanetz Bookstore

MORE WORDSHIP

@Spazio O’ | via Pastrengo, 12 | Milano

A survey show in the form of a functioning bookstore, presenting the work of one of the main figures of the New York avantguarde since the mid 1960s. Kunstverein (Milano) is proud to host for the first time in Italy MORE WORDSHIP, The Richard Kostelanetz Bookstore.

Scenario

Zbyněk Baladrán & Jiří Kovanda

Scenario

@Spazio O’ | via Pastrengo, 12 | Milano

A dialogue between Zbyněk Baladrán e Jiří Kovanda for the presentation of a collaborative project, the publication The Nervous System (2013) and a new edition by the two artists.

PLOTTING THE URBAN BODY

Maria Pecchioli

PLOTTING THE URBAN BODY

@DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano

Therapeutic performances for the city

AtWork @ Kunstverein

60 artisti

AtWork @ Kunstverein

online exhibition

Kunstverein hosts AtWork online platform on its website. AtWork is a project taking its point of departure from a collection of “artists' notebooks”: unique works of art created in Moleskine notebooks by more than sixty international artists. As well as a chain of interviews by the participating artists.

MENU IMMAGINATO, QUANNO TU MANGIAVI COR PENSIERO...*

Leone Contini

MENU IMMAGINATO, QUANNO TU MANGIAVI COR PENSIERO...*

@Kunstverein 
Amsterdam

A supper, based on a selection of remembered regional recipes collected in a notebook by Italian war-prisoners in Germany during the First World War, is proposed by Italian artist Leone Contini as a reflection memory, conviviality, community and identity. Notions which may need reconsidering in times in which manifold crises go hand in hand with continuous worldwide displacement.

CIVIC VIRTUE: Grand Tour 2012

CIVIC VIRTUE (Geirthrudur Finbogadottir Hjovar, Gijs Wahl, Ruchama Noorda, Brian McKenna in collaboration with Natalia Dominguez)

CIVIC VIRTUE: Grand Tour 2012

@Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milano

The Italian chapter of "Grand Tour" 2012 departs from the neo-classical tradition in which Northern European aristocrats travelled south for their cultural education.

As primas da Bulgária

Carla Filipe

As primas da Bulgária

@Frigoriferi Milanesi

The first solo exhibition in Italy by Portuguese artist Carla Filipe.

Food/Corp The ABC of art and food

CAC TV, Beatrice Catanzaro, Gordon Matta Clark, Leone Contini, Hiwa K., Raimundas Malasauskas, Cesare Pietroiusti, Martha Rosler...

Food/Corp The ABC of art and food

@MuSA Museo Multimediale della Scultura e dell'Architettura Pietrasanta (Lucca)

CAC TV, Beatrice Catanzaro, Gordon Matta Clark, Leone Contini, Hiwa K., Raimundas Malasauskas, Cesare Pietroiusti, Martha Rosler...

Un archivio video in progress che dagli anni 70 ripercorre il ruolo della gastronomia e del cibo nella pratica artistica.

Evolution de l'art

Paola Anziché, Heman Chong, Michelangelo Consani, Ivan Moudov, Daniele Maffeis, Ruth Sacks & Simon Gush, Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh, Italo Zuffi

Evolution de l'art

@Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milano

The gallery for immaterial works of art, now also in Milan! Evolution de l’Art is a gallery for contemporary art, which only sells artworks that are immaterial, with no physical residue, and it does not release certificates of authenticity, nor statements or receipts.

The Nervous System

Zbyněk Baladrán & Jiří Kovanda

The Nervous System

@Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milano

A show by Zbyněk Baladrán (1973) and Jiří Kovanda (1953), two Czech artists who work together for the first time in an experimental and inter-generational project.

The Thinking Eye #2

Juan Downey

The Thinking Eye #2

@ Careof/DOCVA | Fabbrica del Valpore | Milano

The Thinking Eye. Culture as an Instrument of Active Thought
screenings & talks

The Kunstverein Survey Shop @ Artissima, Torino

Carlos Amorales, Zbyněk Baladrán, Travis Boyer, CCH, Heman Chong, Sarah Crowner, Carla Filipe, Isola & Norzi, Ben Kinmont, Richard Kostelanetz, Gabriel Lester, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Juan Pablo Maçias,Raimundas Malasauskas, Renzo Martens, Simon Martin, Willem Oorebeek, G. T. Pellizzi, Adam Pendleton, Cesare Pietroiusti, Michael Portnoy, Guillermo Santamarina, Alexandre Singh, Nedko Solakov, Enzo Umbaca, Marianne Vitale, Barbara Visser

The Kunstverein Survey Shop @ Artissima, Torino

@ Artissima, Torino

The Kunstverein franchise is proud to announce its participation at the International Contemporary Art Fair, Artissima in Torino.

Agitazione Personale

Daniele Maffeis

Agitazione Personale

@NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti | Milano

Una manifestazione privata che si realizza in uno spazio pubblico ideata dal giovane artista Daniele Maffeis all'interno del grande evento dedicato alla performance,“100 di 50”.

The Thinking Eye # 1

Renzo Martens

The Thinking Eye # 1

@ Careof – Fabbrica del Vapore | Via Procaccini, 4 | Milano

screenings & talks
Part 1: Renzo Martens

I'm On Your Side

Heman Chong, Cesare Pietroiusti, CCH, Zirkumflex

I'm On Your Side

@Galvanotecnica Bugatti , Milano

The inaugural event of Kunstverein (Milano)'s activities. The title of the entire event is taken from a special project realised by Singapore artist Heman Chong, who after his recent participation in Manifesta8 shows for the first time in Italy presenting a three-part intervention.

Open Ended

progetto di ricerca

Open Ended

A multifaceted and longterm research project (2010-2012) articulated around the notion of 'sharing' in the field of contemporary arts and culture.

Suitcase Illuminated #6 Tunnel Effect

Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter

Suitcase Illuminated #6 Tunnel Effect

@ Kaleidoscope Headquarters Milan

This first solo exhibition in Italy of Belgian artists Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys takes place in Kaleidoscope HQ’s project space in Milan.