The centre for contemporary art presents new spaces and new exhibitionsfrom 11 April 2012
HangarBicocca reopens to visitors on 11 April 2012, having been temporarily on hold, with renewed spaces, a new visual identity and two original exhibition projects: NON NON NON, the first retrospective dedicated to visual artists Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, undisputed voices of artistic culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, and an original version of the famous installation Shadow Play by German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann, among the most highly rated in the world.
HangarBicocca has improved its 15,000 m² with more functional spaces for exhibitions and cultural activities: there will also be a special space for children, an interactive multimedia wall, a multifunctional area for workshops and conferences and a café-restaurant. HangarBicocca is a place with an international outlook for the production and exhibition of contemporary art; it is now opening up more to local needs, with programmes aimed at a broad audience, seeking to involve them in art related initiatives.
Other innovations include: longer opening hours, extending into the evening (from 11 AM to 11 PM), free entry, continuing education activities, the presence of trained staff to accompany visitors and talk about the themes presented in the exhibitions, and new-look informative and educational visual materials.
HangarBicocca performs a cultural, educational and constructive role, with the aim of offering visitors the opportunity to confront the artists' ideas and their works, making them comprehensible and accessible to all, and not only to the experts.
A big workshop with an experimental and informative vocation, and programming entrusted to the capable hands of director Chiara Bertola and curator Andrea Lissoni.
The exhibition projects will continue to interact with the permanent installations: Anselm Kiefer's evocative work The Seven Heavenly Palaces (2004) and Fausto Melotti's sculpture, Sequence (La Sequenza) (1971-1981), located in the public garden.
The HangarBicocca project is promoted by Pirelli, a founding partner of the Fondazione HangarBicocca, chaired by Marco Tronchetti Provera, together with the Region of Lombardy and the Milan Chamber of Commerce.
Pirelli views the HangarBicocca project as the natural extension of a business culture that has always been centred around innovation and research. The decision to support an institution focusing on contemporary art and open to the people of the city is the fruit of a deep-seated belief that culture is one of the main drivers of social development.
HangarBicocca, Via Chiese 2, Milan
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