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Galleria Raffaella Cortese

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Galleria Raffaella Cortese

Galleria Raffaella Cortese is a contemporary art gallery based in Milan since 1995

Founded in 1995, Galleria Raffaella Cortese is one of Italy's leading contemporary art galleries. Based in Milan since its conception, today the gallery is active with three exhibition venues on the same street, via Stradella. Raffaella Cortese is renowned for her rigorous exhibition program which focuses on critical individual, national and political identities, feminist issues, language and lite

rature. The gallery is well known and appreciated for the representation of 30 international established artists, especially women, working across different media, with a long-standing commitment to the promotion of photography, video, installation and performance art. Galleria Raffaella Cortese was one of the first galleries in Italy to show the works of a number of American women artists, who express an introspective and poetic vision of femininity and feminism. This constant and intense cooperation has allowed Galleria Raffaella Cortese to follow and nourish all aspects of these artists' researches and markets. Through group and solo shows placed in the three exhibition venues at the same time, the gallery aims at creating a nurturing dialogue between the practices of different artists across generations and countries. This approach also informs the gallery's consistent participation to selected European and North American art fairs, with specially curated projects. In a continuous and stimulating balance between research and experimentation, and thanks to its deep relationship with the represented artists, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, almost at its 25th year, is playing an active role in the city of Milan, collaborating with relevant local and national institutions, and adding to international artistic scene by promoting projects and exhibitions abroad.

01/06/2026

Until August 31, Anna Maria Maiolino is on view at MAAT Lisbon with Poetic Earth, a majestic presentation dedicated to her research with clay sculpture.

A dozen works — the largest she has ever produced — were modelled on site and now populate the vast space of the Oval Gallery, defining the public’s path through the exhibition and inviting visitors to establish a deeply sensory and poetic relationship with the materiality of the pieces, themselves in a state of continuous transformation.

Images:
1, 3. View of the exhibition Anna Maria Maiolino – Poetic Earth, MAAT, 2026.
2. Untitled, from the series “Terra Modelada” (1993-2026), exhibition Anna Maria Maiolino – Poetic Earth, MAAT, 2026.
4. Untitled, from the series “Do Barro à Escultura” (2026), exhibition Anna Maria Maiolino – Poetic Earth, MAAT, 2026.
Photo: Pedro Tropa (tspt), courtesy of EDP Foundation.

30/05/2026

A new selection from the gallery’s library, moving between landscape, metaphysical atmospheres, and poetry.

This edition brings together two publications connected to artists in the gallery’s programme — from the Castello di Ama Collection, with works by Miroslaw Balka and Roni Horn, to Metafisica / Metafisiche, including Marcello Maloberti — and closes with a Poetry Pick where writing and visual language meet.

~ Castello di Ama: Dell’operosità e della luce, Steidl, 2025, photographs by Aurelio Amendola, text by Bruno Corà

~ Metafisica / Metafisiche. Modernità e malinconia, Electa, 2026, curated by Vincenzo Trione

~ Poetry Pick: Peacocks with Hiccups, Sternberg Press, 2014, edited by Fiona Bryson and Keren Cytter, with contributions by Karl Holmqvist, Luna Miguel and Catherine Wagner, and drawings by Koo Jeong-a

More soon from the library.

29/05/2026

Last two weeks to visit Yael Bartana. Mir Zaynen Do!, on view until June 14, 2026 at Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

At the centre of the exhibition is Bartana’s video and sound installation Mir Zaynen Do! (2024), whose Yiddish title — “We Are Here!” — recalls a song of Jewish resistance during the Second World War.

Set in the ruins of the Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro in São Paulo, the work brings together Coral Tradição, a Jewish-Brazilian choir, and Ilú Obá De Min, an Afro-Brazilian street music ensemble. Through songs, rhythms, gestures, and collective presence, Bartana reflects on how communities emerge across histories of displacement, memory, and resistance.

Image:
Yael Bartana, Mir Zaynen Do (We Are Here!), 2024, video still, Ph. Pablo Saborido

25/05/2026

Monica Bonvicini, Marcello Maloberti and Liliana Moro are among the artists included in Tragicomica. Prospettive sull’arte italiana dal secondo Novecento a oggi, on view at MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome.

Curated by Andrea Bellini and Francesco Stocchi, the exhibition traces over eighty years of Italian art, exploring the tension between the tragic and the comic as a lens through which to read the complexity, contradictions, and vitality of Italian culture.

On view through September 20, 2026.

Images:
Tragicomica. Prospettive sull’arte italiana dal secondo Novecento a oggi
MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 2 April – 20 September 2026
Exhibition view, photo ®Simon d'Exea, Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI

23/05/2026

Nicole Colombo’s Rosario (to the moon and back) is on view in Albisola Superiore.

Taking the rosary as a point of departure, Colombo reimagines it as a sculptural form suspended between devotion, protection, and material memory. Each element echoes the shape of the water chestnut seed, an apotropaic figure that becomes, in the artist’s hands, a trace of gesture, repetition, and transformation.

Presented by Raffaella Cortese in collaboration with Triangolo, the work was produced during Colombo’s residency in Albisola with Studio Ernan Design.

Images:
Nicole Colombo, Rosario (to the moon and back), 2026, Raffaella Cortese, Via Colombo 54, Albisola Superiore. Installation view: Debora Maurelli

22/05/2026

On view at Raffaella Cortese, Bearing continues to unfold across the gallery’s three spaces.

Gabrielle Goliath’s exhibition reflects on the body as a site of memory, vulnerability, and strength, bringing together works shaped by gesture, presence, and endurance, suspended between intimacy and resistance.

If you haven’t seen the show yet, this is a good moment to spend time with it.

Installation view: Andrea Rossetti

21/05/2026

ART BASEL 2026
Hall 2.1 - Booth L9
June 18-21, 2026

Discover our preview through the Linktree in bio

20/05/2026

Happy Birthday to Anna Maria Maiolino!

Italian-born and based in São Paulo, Maiolino moves across performance, sculpture, video, photography, installation, and drawing—turning everyday gestures into acts of material, political, and existential inquiry. Her work holds creation and destruction together, dissolving boundaries between inside and outside, emptiness and matter, ancient and contemporary.

Her work has been presented at Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2008, with a collaboration established in 2009 and unfolding through a group exhibition and subsequent solo presentations. On the occasion of Cioè (2015), Maiolino also presented the new action In ATTO, marking a special return to performance with artist Sandra Lessa as guest.

Images:
1. Anna Maria Maiolino
2. 2008, Versus Inversus (group exhibition), Raffaella Cortese, via a. stradella 7, Milan. Ph. Antonio Maniscalco
3. 2010, Videos and Photographs from the ‘70-‘80s, Raffaella Cortese, via a. stradella 7, Milan
4. 2015, Cioè, Raffaella Cortese, via a. stradella 7, Milan
5. 2015, Performance IN ATTO, Raffaella Cortese, via a. stradella 1, Milan. Ph. Lorenzo Palmieri
6. 2019, Aqui e Agora, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, via a. stradella 1–7, Milan. Ph. Lorenzo Palmieri
7. 2023, Ações Matéricas, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, via a. stradella 1, Milan. Ph. Lorenzo Palmieri

15/05/2026

Raffaella Cortese is proud to announce the representation of Liliana Moro.

Born in Milan in 1961, Liliana Moro is a visual artist whose practice spans environmental works, drawing, collage, sculpture, theatre, and sound installation.

Since the late 1980s, Moro has developed an incisive and poetic language that investigates space, sound, perception, and everyday experience, foregrounding art as a political space of relation between work, viewer, and context.

Her work has been exhibited in and acquired by major institutions across Italy, Europe, and the United States. In 2019, she was one of the three artists invited to represent Italy at the Venice Biennale, and in 2024 she was the subject of a major retrospective travelling from Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein to PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan.

Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri

13/05/2026

Opening this weekend in Albisola Superiore: Nicole Colombo, Rosario (to the moon and back)*+.

The project was developed through a ceramic production residency at Studio Ernan Design, where Colombo’s research enters into dialogue with Albisola’s material history and ceramic tradition. Shaped one by one in black clay and metallic powders, the work’s elements emerge from a process of firing, transformation, and repetition.

On the occasion of the opening, Nicole Colombo will be in conversation with Giovanna Manzotti at Museo Trucco, Albisola Superiore, on Saturday, May 16, at 11 AM — a moment to discover more about the work and the process behind it.

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Via Alessandro Stradella, 7
Milan
20129

Orario di apertura

Martedì	10:00 - 13:00
	14:30 - 19:00
Mercoledì	10:00 - 13:00
	14:30 - 19:00
Giovedì	10:00 - 13:00
	14:30 - 19:00
Venerdì	10:00 - 13:00
	14:30 - 19:00
Sabato	10:00 - 13:00
	14:30 - 19:00

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