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GHOST TRACK | MILANO ART WEEK 2026
A site-specific journey across the civic museums
From April 14 to 19, Milan Art Week returns for its tenth edition and is enriched by a new project, GHOST TRACK, born from the collaboration between MAC – Milano Art Community and the Municipality of Milan | Culture.
In musical terminology, a ghost track is a hidden track: a piece concealed at the end of an album, invisible in the official tracklist—an unexpected presence revealed only to those who choose to go beyond the intended listening.
Ghost Track brings this concept into the museum, activating an unexpected dimension of viewing through a series of artistic interventions that engage in dialogue with the permanent collections of the Civic Museums not dedicated to modern and contemporary art, creating true visual counterpoints to the historical heritage. Placed in display cases or along exhibition routes, these presences generate perceptual shifts and open up new levels of interpretation.
From April 14 to 19, works by Thomas Jeppe and Markus Schinwald engage with the collections of the Museo del Risorgimento, while a sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan appears in the Ancient Egypt Gallery at Castello Sforzesco.
Within the museums of Castello Sforzesco, the works of Alina Chaiderov in the Sala della Griselda, Latifa Echakhch in the Museum of Decorative Arts, Gina Folly and Hans Josephsohn in the Museum of Ancient Art, Matteo Nasini in the Sala della Balla, and Virginia Russolo in the Museum of Ancient Art are revealed, scattered throughout the exhibition path.
These interventions are joined by installations by Joana Escoval, Vasilis Papageorgiou, RM, and Natália Trejbalová at the Natural History Museum, paintings by Xiao Zhyiu at the Biblioteca Sormani, and an installation by Alessandro Carano at the Biblioteca Parco Sempione.
Ph. Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
“Ghost Track is an invitation to lose oneself in the city’s museums by following subtle traces, detours, and apparitions. A project that reactivates the gaze, creates tension between past and present, and transforms heritage into a living space, traversed by presences that do not impose themselves, but emerge,” said Councillor for Culture Tommaso Sacchi.
Admission to the Civic Museums of the Municipality of Milan is free for holders of the Milano Museo Card and the miart VIP card.
Thanks to: Castiglioni; CFA; Ciaccia Levi; Clima; eastcontemporary; FANTA MLN; Fondazione ICA Milano; Gió Marconi; Istituto Svizzero; kaufmann repetto; Martina Simeti; MASSIMODECARLO; RIBOT; Thaddaeus Ropac; UNA; Villa Clea; Vistamare.
Project curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Chiara Nuzzi
Directed by Astrid Welter
For info: www.milanoartweek.it