Metafisica / Metafisiche | WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | UGO MULAS | ETTORE SPALLETTI | Group Show | Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento, Milan

With Wool. Silk. Resistance., the Museum Angewandte Kunst focuses exclusively on rugs, carpets, and tapestries for the first time in 45 years, at a moment of renewed global interest in handmade textiles. Rather than a traditional art-historical approach, the exhibition explores these works through the lens of resistance: how rugs, carpets, and tapestries can express an “aesthetics of textile resistance.” It highlights contemporary international artists who engage with social, political, and environmental issues, using textile art as a flexible and evolving medium. Resistance here is seen as an experience of difference, generating diverse aesthetic and artistic expressions. The exhibition addresses political opposition, resilience, and endurance, confronting power structures, discrimination, trauma, and environmental destruction.

• Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
• Schaumainkai 17, 60594 Frankfurt am Main, Germania
• 7 febbraio – 24 maggio 2026

Pozzolengo honors Ugo Mulas with the exhibition Ugo Mulas: Pozzolengo. Dalle origini ai maestri at the Palazzetto della sala civica. The exhibition, promoted by the Municipality in collaboration with the Ugo Mulas Archive and Fondazione Il Vittoriale, features his series dedicated to masters such as Lucio Fontana, Marcel Duchamp, and Fausto Melotti. The show connects with an exhibition at the Vittoriale degli Italiani on Ossi di seppia by Eugenio Montale, creating a cultural bridge between the two shores of Lake Garda. Opening hours: Tuesday–Thursday 16:00–19:00, Friday–Sunday 10:00–12:00 and 16:00–19:00. The inauguration on 15 March at 16:30 includes the unveiling of a commemorative marker at Mulas’s birthplace and a short itinerary through the town.

• Sala Civica, Pozzolengo, Italy
• 15 marzo – 15 settembre 2026

An intense and evocative encounter between two artistic languages — photography and poetry — and two major figures of Italian culture, Ugo Mulas and Eugenio Montale, who engage with the same subject: the impression and concept of the Ligurian landscape. Through the photographer’s precise and lyrical gaze, the images convey the essence, light, and silence of a territory that transforms into an inner space and poetic vision. In this context, the exhibition Ugo Mulas. Ossi di Seppia. Per Eugenio Montale, hosted in the home of Gabriele d’Annunzio, creates an ideal convergence of three major figures of Italian culture, weaving together photography, poetry, and the memory of place into a single cultural horizon. The exhibition is curated by Guido Risicato and the Ugo Mulas Archive.

• Fondazione il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera, Italy
• Via al Vittoriale, 12, 25083 Gardone Riviera BS
• 14 marzo – 26 settembre 2026

Lia Rumma Gallery presents The-exchange-value-of-language-has-fallen-to-zero, an exhibition by Joseph Kosuth at Casa dei Tre Oci, opening 28 March 2026. Kosuth, renowned for exploring language as both subject and content, debuts a new large-scale neon commission, A Chain of Resemblance (2026), based on a text by Michel Foucault, highlighting how meaning is shaped by text and context. The first-floor gallery showcases Kosuth’s early works from the 1960s, including One and Three Mirrors (1965), where image, object, and text interact, reflecting the viewer and exploring Ludwig Wittgenstein’s idea that meaning is use. Three adjacent rooms feature works questioning authorship and audience, including The Fifth Investigation (1969), Text/Context(1978–79), and Where Are You Standing? (1976), with The Seventh Investigation (1970) re-created for a public installation. Kosuth has deep ties to Venice, participating in eight Biennales, representing the Hungarian Pavilion (1993), and creating permanent and commissioned works, including The Material of Ornament (Querini Stampalia, 1997) and To Invent Relations (For Carlo Scarpa) (2016, Università Ca’ Foscari).

• Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice
• Fondamenta Zitelle, 43, 30133 Venezia VE
• 28 marzo – 22 novembre 2026

Data Dreams explores artificial intelligence and its impact on contemporary life through the work of ten visionary artists. Presented as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2025–26, the exhibition marks a major Australian premiere, bringing together international artists who push the boundaries of art and technology. Their works examine how AI is reshaping the way we live, think, and create. Focusing on urgent contemporary issues, Data Dreams addresses the relationship between technology and power, the influence of algorithms on our perception of reality, and the environmental cost of the data economy.

• MCA, Sydney, Australia
• 140 George St, The Rocks NSW 2000
• 21 novembre 2025 – 27 aprile 2026

There is a new landscape within the three arches of the Loggiato Maggiore — and it’s not what you expect. At Palazzo Ducale in Genoa comes Paradossi dell’Abbondanza (2017–2026), a site-specific installation by Marzia Migliora. Ten arches become a single scenario: storm, infestation, hybrid flowers that endure. A landscape suspended between the natural and the artificial, prompting reflection on our responsibilities. A new chapter in the contemporary “re-cladding” of the palace.

• Loggia, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
• Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 9
• 12 febbraio 2026