Miart 2026

 

 

 Collector's preview – upon invitation only

 

 

 

 

Primo Marella Gallery is delighted to announce its continued partectipation in the 30th edition of Miart art fair, taking place from April 17th to 19th, 2026 (preview on April 16th – upon invitation only) at Allianz MiCo South Wing, in Milan.

 

On the occasion of Miart and in dialogue with this year's theme New Directions, our booth's project presents itself as a focused reflection on the trajectories through which contemporary artistic practice is redefining its languages, materials, and conceptual horizons. Rather than foregrounding individual positions, the exhibition constructs a field of tensions in which diverse directions – geographical, aesthetic, and symbolic – converge to outline new possibilities for artistic practice today. Within this framework, certain practices emerge as exemplary in articulating the directions the project seeks to explore.

The work of Joël Andrianomearisoa (whose works entered the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022 and who was shortlisted for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2026), Tegene Kunbi (who will represent Ethiopia with a national pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2026), and Samuel Nnorom can be understood as key examples of these trajectories: a redefinition of the relationship between painting and textile, surface and space, as well as between intimate dimension and collective construction.

 

Through these tensions, the exhibition fully aligns with the spirit of New Directions: not a single trajectory, but a plurality of orientations that challenge established categories – between tradition and contemporaneity, visible and invisible, surface and space.

What emerges is a vision in which change is not merely represented, but embedded within the very processes of the works, making evident how new directions in art today take shape through a continuous shifting of languages, techniques, and perspectives.