The Milan location will be led by Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa as Executive Director. She brings nearly 25 years of experience in modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on Italian and American art.

Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa, Executive Director of the Milan Gallery (Image: Thaddaeus Ropac)

Housed in the historic Palazzo Belgioioso, a celebrated architectural gem near Teatro alla Scala and Via Monte Napoleone, the gallery spans 280 square meters across two elegant rooms on the first floor. The venue extends its reach to the adjacent Piazza Belgioioso, where sculptures will be displayed in the public square.

Within Walking Distance of the City’s Iconic Duomo

Positioned in Milan’s cultural heart, the gallery is within walking distance of the city’s iconic Duomo di Milano and integrates seamlessly into the surrounding network of renowned museums. These include the Pinacoteca di Brera, Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento, and the recently opened Palazzo Citterio, dedicated to modern and contemporary art.

This new venture further solidifies Thaddaeus Ropac’s presence as a leading figure in the international art world while adding a significant contemporary art space to Milan’s vibrant cultural landscape.

Highlights in Singapore

Austrian gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac (Image: provided)

Thaddaeus Ropac also attends this year's ART SG. Highlights of the gallery's presentation include:

• Robert Rauschenberg's Original artwork for the First International Festival of Asian Film, (1989). Deeply inspired by the Asian cultures he encountered when traveling, Rauschenberg overlaps silkscreen prints of an illustrated tiger – a symbolic creature in Buddhist cultures and a group of water lilies, imbuing the work with a cinematic quality. Celebrating the artist's centenary year in 2025, a major exhibition bringing together a selection of Rauschenberg's works during and in response to his time in Asia will be on view at M+ Museum, Hong Kong, opening in November 2025.
• David Salle's New Pastoral 1, 2, 3 (2024) is from Salle's latest series of works, made in collaboration with an artificial intelligence algorithm into which the artist feeds his own series of Pastoral Paintings (2000–2002) as raw material, exploring the generative possibilities of technology while the hand of the painter himself remains present.
• Alvaro Barrington’s NHC 2024/Mangrove Sunset (Y1) (2024) was conceived as one of many paintings to decorate the exterior of a parade float for the 2024 iteration of London’s Notting Hill Carnival. Referencing the vibrant colors of the Caribbean landscape, the stylized sunsets recall the geography of Barrington’s early youth spent in Grenada. The work is shown at ART SG ahead of Barrington's solo exhibition, Soul to Seoul, opening at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul in February 2025.
• Works by Martha Jungwirth are presented ahead of a major exhibition opening at the Long Museum, Shanghai on 1 February 2025, marking the Austrian artist's first solo institutional show in China.