From 14 to 16 April 2023 miart, Milan's international modern and contemporary art fair, organised by Fiera Milano and directed by Nicola Ricciardi will be back.

Crescendo is the title and the keyword of the 27th edition. In fact, the number of participating galleries increased (169 from 27 countries), the international exhibitor roster grew by 40%, prizes and acquisitions doubled.

The relationship and exchange with the city, its institutions and citizens also grow thanks to a new edition of Milano Art Week and new collaborations with Triennale Milano and Fondazione Nicola Trussardi.

Milano, 30 March 2023 – From 14 to 16 April 2023 (VIP preview on 13 April) miart the international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan, organised by Fiera Milano and directed for the third year by Nicola Ricciardi, returns. With 169 participating galleries (a double digit increase compared to 2022 edition) from 27 countries around the world, with works by modern masters, established and emerging contemporary artists alike, this 27th edition confirms its role as a key appointment for the art public and its international appeal with almost 40% more exhibitors based abroad.

After smantellato il silenzio (dismantling silence) in 2021 and starting a primo movimento (first movement) in 2022, this year the fair continues to draw inspiration from music, building the imagery of the new edition around the word Crescendo, an expression that in music language marks the gradual increase in the intensity of sound but referred to the fair wants to emphasise the progressive growth in participation and audience observed in the last two years and the wish to continue on this trend beyond 2023.

Inspired by the concept of Crescendo, for the first time, the contents of the fair extend beyond its traditional boundaries to engage other places in the city, starting on Saturday 15 April with Triennale Milano which is hosting a series of conversations titled miart LIVE at Triennale Milano: meetings developed around the theme of art's ability to appeal to other places and other disciplines far from the traditional locations and schedules.

Massimiliano Gioni and Beatrice Trussardi will talk about how Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, a nomadic museum par excellence, has disseminated contemporary art in multiple places and through the most diverse channels, twenty years after its first intervention in Milan, in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, in 2003; Angharad Williams and Gianmaria Andreetta will talk about The Wig, an initiative through which they reflect on artistic practices that take shape in places other than the studio; Jonathan Monk will speak with Anna Ebner and Marco Scotti about the Multiple Locations exhibition project that during miart will bring some of Monk's editions to shops, restaurants, and bars in via Porpora in Milan; Davide Giannella will invite Riccardo Benassi and the duo Eva & Franco Mattes to discuss the evolution of the concept of public art and its possible future interpretations; Gianni Pettena and Italo Rota will discuss the relationship between architecture and landscape, art and mountains; Valerio Barberis, Loris Cecchini and Mario Cucinella will wonder about the city of the future starting from an unprecedented alliance between art, architecture and reforestation; and finally, Nico Vascellari will talk with Damiano Gullì, Gea Politi and Cristiano Seganfreddo starting with his work Falena, which will be installed in the institution's outdoor spaces from 15 April

The collaboration between miart and Triennale Milano is also highlighted by the exhibition FOG - Triennale Milano Performig Arts, which will present two Italian premieres to the public during the fair: How a Falling Star Lit Up The Purple Sky by Jeremy Nedd, an international choreographer and performer, and Impilo Mapantsula, a global network specialising in energy-packed dance style (12 and 13 April); and Le sacre du printemps, a choreographic research by Dewey Dell inspired by Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece, a milestone in musical literature and an endless visual wonder (15 and 16 April).

Particularly significant is also the synergy with Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, with whom miart has shared several special projects for the city of Milan in the past. This year, the Foundation has chosen to begin the celebrations for its first 20 years as a nomadic museum right inside the pavilions of the fair: on 13th April, Beatrice Trussardi and Massimiliano Gioni will involve the public in the cutting of a cake donated by Maurizio Cattelan.

The circulation of artistic content inside and outside the fair is also highlighted by the unprecedented partnership with the fashion brand MSGM, which commissioned a site-specific work for the miart entrance at the artist duo Eva & Franco Mattes. Consisting of digital cables that allow the transfer of data, the installation that welcomes the public rotates an invisible image inside sent randomly via AirDrop from the duo's personal smartphone to passers-by. Inspired by the widespread practice among teenagers of exploiting crowds to airdrop digital materials, Eva & Franco Mattes' work can generate a human connection that is in contrast with the idea of the fair as a place for commercial transactions only. Every visitor, even without being a collector, will have the opportunity to take away, and in turn redistribute, a unique artistic content.

Confirming the ambition to involve a wider audience, for the first time the themes of the fair are also conveyed via radio with thanks to the project The Sound of miart powered by Radio Deejay, Radio Capital and M2O: three music playlists created by the Gedi Group radio stations, downloadable from QR codes across the fair or from the website miart digital and that follow the mood of each section, Established, Emergent, Decades.