miart 2026: New Directions

Press release

VIP Preview: April 16

With the title New Directions—a nod to Coltrane’s seminal 1963 album and a true declaration of intent—miart 2026 embraces a metamorphosis that touches every layer of its identity: from curatorial approach to its dialogue with galleries, from visual identity to the very way visitors experience the fair.

Symbolically marking this new evolutionary phase, miart is changing location and moving to the South Wing of Allianz MiCo: an architecturally international space adjacent to the fair’s historic pavilion and overlooking the contemporary park of CityLife — an urban landscape that becomes a metaphor for openness and vision, expanding, welcoming, listening: an exhibition spacelike a musical score, ready to be interpreted in a new way, between experimentation and belonging, between the new and the recognizable.

Inside the exhibition complex, spread over three levels, the historic sections are confirmed: Emergent and Established, which this year is enriched by a new selection of exhibition projects called Established Anthology.

Alongside them, the new section Interplay completes the offer.