Announcing Thaddaeus Ropac Milan Gallery opening in 2025
We are excited to share the news with you that we will open a gallery in central Milan in the early autumn of 2025 and welcome Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa as Executive Director for our seventh location. Elena brings to her new role almost twenty-five years of experience working in the fields of modern and contemporary art, with particular expertise in Italian and American art.
Situated in the Palazzo Belgioioso, one of Milan’s architectural treasures close to Teatro alla Scala and Via Monte Napoleone, the renovated gallery spans two grand rooms across 280 square metres of the historic building’s first floor. The exhibition spaces extend beyond the palazzo to the Piazza Belgioioso, the prominent public square outside, where the gallery will exhibit sculptures.
Located in the city’s cultural complex, and a short distance from the Duomo di Milano, the gallery sits within the network of the city’s museums: the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Palazzo Reale, the Museo del Novecento and the newly opened modern and contemporary art museum Palazzo Citterio.
Built for Prince Alberico XII di Belgioioso d’Este, the Palazzo Belgioioso is among the finest examples of Neo-Classical architecture in Lombardy. The palatial residence was completed in 1781 by Giuseppe Piermarini and extensively restored to its former glory in 1991. The palazzo’s rooms feature period decorations, including remarkable frescoes by Martin Knoller and stuccos by Giocondo Albertolli. The public square beyond the palazzo, Piazza Belgioioso – also facing Casa Manzoni, home of Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) – will provide a public space in which the gallery will exhibit sculptures and installations by our artists.
Milan is at Europe’s crossroads, Italy the continent’s heartbeat, a country that profoundly shaped the evolution of art through the ages and where crucial modern art movements were conceived. We increasingly felt Italy was missing from our constellation of European galleries, since it has always been important to how we have grown internationally and to our artists’ development. Many have had groundbreaking institutional exhibitions, and now with our new gallery we can enable the first exhibitions in Italy for more of our artists. We have fostered such meaningful relationships with collectors and institutions here over several decades, and with the momentum of Milan as a destination for the arts, it’s a natural home for us. Having the ideal team as well as the ideal location is essential, so we are absolutely delighted that Elena will be at the helm of our Milan gallery. — Thaddaeus Ropac
