Pirelli HangarBicocca

Pirelli HangarBicocca is a non-profit foundation, established in 2004, which has converted a former industrial plant in Milan into an institution for producing and promoting contemporary art.

Pirelli HangarBicocca is a non-profit foundation, established in 2004, which has converted a former industrial plant in Milan into an institution for producing and promoting contemporary art. This dynamic center for experimentation and discovery covers 15,000 square meters, making it one of the largest contiguous exhibition spaces in Europe. It presents major solo shows every year by Italian and international artists, with each project conceived to work in close relation to the architecture of the complex, and explored in depth through a calendar of parallel events. Admission to the space and the shows is completely free of charge, and facilitators are on hand to help the public connect with the art. Since 2013, Vicente Todolí has been the foundation’s Artistic Director.

The complex, which once housed a locomotive factory, includes an area for public services and educational activities, and three exhibition spaces whose original twentieth-century architectural features have been left clearly visible: Shed, Navate, and Cubo. As well as its exhibitions program and cultural events, Pirelli HangarBicocca also permanently houses one of Anselm Kiefer’s most important site-specific works, The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015, commissioned for the opening of Pirelli HangarBicocca.

HOW TO REACH

FROM SESTO MARELLI (M1 – Red Line)
Take bus Line 51 (Direction: Istria M5) to the stop Via Chiese – HangarBicocca
or
Take bus Line 87 (Direction: Stazione Centrale) to the stop Via Chiese

FROM PONALE (M5 – Lilla Line)
Take bus Line 51 (Direction: Cimiano M2) to the stop Via Chiese – HangarBicocca

FROM STAZIONE GRECO PIRELLI
Take bus Line 87 (Direction: Sesto Marelli M1) to the stop Via Chiese – HangarBicocca

FROM STAZIONE CENTRALE (M2 – Green Line / M3 – Yellow Line)
Take bus Line 87 (Direction: Sesto Marelli M1) to the stop Via Chiese – HangarBicocca
or
Take bus Line 728 (Direction: Cinisello B. – Bicocca Università) to the stop Viale Sarca – Via Chiese

FROM STAZIONE PORTA GARIBALDI
Take subway M5 – Lilla Line (Direction: Bignami) to the stop PONALE
Take bus Line 51 (Direction: Cimiano M2) to the stop Via Chiese – HangarBicocca

ADMISSION

FREE ADMISSION