Art galleries in Milan’s Lambrate district

The Francesca Minini art gallery

One such example is the FRANCESCA MININI gallery, founded in 2006. Located on Via Ventura, it offers numerous exhibitions and installations, focusing on emerging young Italian and international artists, with particular emphasis on the Middle East and South America.  Not far away, Pietro Monopoli’s “Galleria Monopoli” opened in 2011 after moving from Pavia.     

The Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani

Another important gallery in Lambrate is the Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani. The Milanese gallery was opened in 2005 and features bare concrete spaces. A second site in Lucca is found in a deconsecrated church.

The gallery places a special emphasis on exploring political and social issues through multimedia visual art by international contemporary artists. 

One Planet One Future Gallery and Association of Anne de Carbuccia

Via Conte Rosso is the location of One Planet One Future, the gallery and premises of the eponymously-titled association, which also exists as a foundation in the United States.

The project was the brainchild of Anne de Carbuccia, a Corsican photographer and film-maker who tirelessly travels the world to document human impact on the environment and to campaign for a positive Anthropocene.

The One Planet One Future Gallery in Lambrate was set up in an old hardware store, which was entirely redeveloped according to sustainable building principles.

This space contains an impressive exhibition of many of the photographer’s works. Schools and universities are made particularly welcome at the gallery.

Scalo Lambrate and the Reinventing Cities project

Although the Reinventing Cities project envisages the demolition of the railway goods yard to make way for its revitalisation, it is important to mention Scalo Lambrate.

This is an interesting urban regeneration project centring on an early-20th century, long-abandoned railway area in Via Saccardo.

The multifunctional space is currently used as a coworking space, art exhibition venue, and events location.

When the big industries in Lambrate and Ortica went into decline, the large unused spaces left behind prompted debate on the future of these districts.

Although industrial archaeology attracts many fans of abandoned factories, it became clear that these neighbourhoods would have to be redeveloped with an entirely new purpose.

That is why, when plans were launched in 2000 to attract other industries, the focus was on the creative sector.

In more recent years, architects’ studios, craft workshops, design schools and art galleries have sprung up, mainly along Via Ventura, Via Massimiano and Via Conte Rosso.

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