The shapes of the gap: the International Exhibition that questions the world

Until November 9, 2025, Triennale Milano hosts the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities. A journey through art, architecture, and critical thinking that addresses global inequalities with 8 exhibitions, 10 special projects, and a rich public program.

Inequalities: The Exhibition that Focuses on the Fractures of the Present

After exploring sustainability with Broken Nature (2019) and the mystery of the universe with Unknown Unknowns (2022), Triennale Milano concludes the trilogy dedicated to major contemporary challenges with an edition entirely focused on the urgent and cross-cutting theme of inequalities. With Inequalities, it reflects and magnifies the fractures of the world, summoning critical thinking, artistic practices, architecture, performance, and collective participation.

A collective project that talks about cities, bodies, margins

With 28 curators and over 340 authors from 73 countries, Inequalities unfolds across 7,500 square meters of exhibitions and installations. The reflection is articulated along two main axes: the geopolitics of inequalities, hosted on the ground floor, and the biopolitics of inequalities, on the first floor of the Palace of Art. On one hand, cities are investigated as places of fracture between wealth and poverty; on the other hand, differences in social bodies, lifestyles, health expectations, and mobility are analyzed.
A perspective that goes beyond mere denunciation, seeking possible answers in the project and culture.

Architects, artists, and intellectuals for a collective narrative

The Exhibition hosts prominent figures of the global cultural scene. Among the curators: Norman Foster, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Theaster Gates. Among the authors: Pritzker Prize winners Kazuyo Sejima and Alejandro Aravena, Elizabeth Diller, Boonserm Premthada, Amos Gitai.
Eight main exhibitions and ten special projects narrate the theme with interdisciplinary approaches, from data visualized by Federica Fragapane, to urban memory according to Kimia Zabihyan, to the immersive installations by Gates and Diller. Each work is a fragment of a global and yet personal discourse.

International participations: cities as case studies

As tradition dictates, the Exhibition welcomes international participations selected under the auspices of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). Each pavilion focused on a symbolic city, proposing urban policies and visions to address inequalities in different contexts.
The Lebanon Pavilion, curated by Ala Tannir, was awarded the Bee Award for best pavilion, while an honorable mention went to the project from Porto Rico, Había una vez y dos son tres feminisitios by Regner Ramos.

A widespread exhibition: performances, tours, and public programs

The exhibition path is enriched by a performative programming curated by Umberto Angelini: until November, artists such as Chiara Bersani, Muna Mussie, Virgilio Sieni, and Peeping Tom will bring vulnerable, desiring, and marginal bodies to the stage. Simultaneously, with Triennale on Tour, the exhibition will leave its own spaces, reaching the eight municipalities of Milan to meet children, families, and citizens, with a perspective of exchange and inclusion.

Art, data, and communication: the visual identity of Pentagram

The graphic project of the edition is signed by the international studio Pentagram, under the direction of Giorgia Lupi, who has conceived a communication capable of transforming data into visual storytelling. A strategy that also accompanies the editorial publications: the official catalog curated by Electa and, in the autumn, a double issue of the Lotus magazine dedicated to the theme of inequalities, to offer critical reflections and in-depth insights.