Press release

Paris Internationale Milano announces the 34 galleries participating in the first edition of the fair outside France, taking place in Milan from 18–21 April 2026, with a VIP Preview on 17 April, at Palazzo Galbani on Via Fabio Filzi.

Taking place during Milano Art Week and in the opening days of Milano Design Week, Paris Internationale Milano brings together an international selection of galleries whose programmes reflect the fair's curatorial identity: an independent platform that places emerging artistic practices in dialogue with more established research, creating a space for exchange between different generations, geographies, and sensibilities across the contemporary art scene. Selected for the clarity and ambition of their programs, the participating galleries includes long-standing members of the Paris Internationale community—such as Ciaccia Levi (Paris/Milan), Crèvecœur (Paris), Deborah Schamoni (Munich), Gregor Staiger (Zurich/Milan), Stereo (Warsaw), and Veda (Milan)—alongside galleries joining the fair for the first time, including Emanuela Campoli (Paris/Milan), Jocelyn Wolff (Paris), kaufmann repetto (Milan/New York), Luisa Delle Piane (Milan), and Sylvia Kouvali (London/Piraeus).

Faithful to its curatorial approach, Paris Internationale privileges ambitious presentations, often dedicated to one or two artists and conceived as fully fledged exhibition projects. This format encourages a slower, more attentive viewing experience and allows galleries to develop coherent and sophisticated proposals, in which works enter into dialogue with one another and with the space, fostering direct exchange between artists, gallerists, and audiences. In this context, participating galleries present a range of projects that reflect the diversity of practices, research, and generations shaping the international art scene today.

The selection unfolds through a series of focused formats conceived as dialogues and singular presentations, with highlights including Leonora Carrington with Galerie 1900–2000 (Paris), Prinz Gholam with Jocelyn Wolff (Paris), Caroline Bachmann and Walter Pfeiffer with Gregor Staiger (Zurich/Milan), and Lou Masduraud with Mezzanin (Geneva). Emanuela Campoli (Paris/Milan) will present a major, museum-scale work by Nick Mauss in relation with Benni Bosetto, further articulating the fair's attention to ambitious, exhibition-like formats. Among the artists presented, Crèvecœur (Paris) foregrounds Martine Bedin, a founding member of the Memphis group, while Deborah Schamoni (Munich) presents Maria VMier and Nicole Wermers. Ibuki Inoue is presented by Ciaccia Levi (Paris/Milan), and Tomasz Kręcicki by Stereo (Warsaw), reinforcing the fair's engagement with a new generation of artists. The programme also includes a dialogue between Gaetano Pesce and Giovanni De Francesco with Luisa Delle Piane (Milan), and Renato Spagnoli, presented jointly by Laveronica (Modica) and Gian Marco Casini (Livorno). Further contributions include Alek O. and Santo Tolone with Martina Simeti (Milan), David Medalla with Mountains (Berlin), and a dialogue between the historical artist Anna Zemánková and Samuel Haitz, jointly presented by Sophie Tappeiner (Vienna) and Triangolo (Cremona).

Alongside the gallery presentations, Special Projects unfold throughout the building as site-responsive interventions. Conceived as moments of focus within the exhibition parcours, they expand the traditional fair format and reinforce Paris Internationale's commitment to experimentation. Highlights include projects by Anthea Hamilton (kaufmann repetto, Milan/New York), Ambra Castagnetti (Francesca Minini, Milan), Anna Franceschini (Vistamare, Milan/Pescara), as well as presentations dedicated to Lee Scratch Perry (suns.works, Zurich) and Robert Mapplethorpe (Franco Noero, Turin). Keteleer (Antwerp) and Lia Rumma (Milan/Naples) also present a joint project by Luca Monterastelli, while Ordet (Milan) will present a new series of photographs by Cosima von Bonin.

​Paris Internationale Milano is hosted in the spaces of Palazzo Galbani, a modernist building constructed between 1956 and 1959 to a design by the brothers Eugenio and Ermenegildo Soncini—key figures in post-war Milanese architecture—with structural engineering by Pier Luigi Nervi. The building is currently undergoing a conservation-led restoration overseen by the Milan-based architecture studio Park. The fair's exhibition design is developed in collaboration with the Swiss architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein, which has been working with Paris Internationale since 2022 to shape its spatial identity.

For this edition, Christ & Gantenbein, together with local designers NM3, developed a custom-made system, continuing their previous common work on temporary fair designs. Banca Ifis is an Associate Partner of Paris Internationale with the brand Ifis art, created in 2024. Founded in Paris in 2015 by a group of gallerists, Paris Internationale is today an independent non-profit platform that promotes an alternative model of art fair: more focused, curatorial in approach, and attentive to the needs of artists and art professionals. Alongside the gallery presentations, Paris Internationale is, as usual, accompanied by a series of special collaborations that give rise to a rich public program. During the days of the fair, audiences are invited to take part in talks, panels and workshops, as well as the Daily Derives, a program of guided visits led by guest contributors.

Together, these initiatives broaden the fair's perspective and reinforce its role as a platform for encounter and exchange within the contemporary art scene.