Milano Art Week - Secret Vault

To mark the 2026 edition of miart, the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan will host Robert Ryman’s monumental Surface Veil IV in the Sala Manzoni, while the vault - open to the public by appointment during miart – will be hosting a selection of works by Robert Ryman and Mario Schifano from the Group’s collections, continuing on from the exhibition “Ryman / Schifano, Standard / Variations. 1960–1970: controlled improvisations from modal to monochrome” which will be held in the Intesa Sanpaolo lounge area during the fair.

GUIDED TOURS IN ITALIAN

Friday 17 April h 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00 e 18.00

Saturday 18 April h 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00 e 18.00

Sunday 19 April h 11.00, 12.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00 e 18.00

GUIDED TOURS IN ENGLISH

Friday 17 April h 13.00

Saturday 18 April h 13.00

Sunday 19 April h 13.00

The vault of the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan's Piazza della Scala, designed in the early years of the last century by Luca Beltrami, features a singular and symmetrical compositional design: the space is supported by two imposing columns of an explicit Doric order, with pulvinos with triglyphs. Today, the place, which can normally only be visited by appointment via guided tours, no longer contains security boxes, but holds something equally precious: around 500 of the over 3500 20^th and 21^st century artworks belonging to the Intesa Sanpaolo collection. The works of art are hung on sliding mesh panels, with an optimal system for storage and conservation, designed to keep the works on view, almost as if to create small, unexpected exhibition itineraries.