24th International Exhibition

May 13 – November 9 2025

Photo by Johnny Miller/Unequal Scenes

The 24th International Exhibition, under the title Inequalities, will run from May to November We have organized International Expositions every three years since 1923, inviting designers, architects and artists from around the world to engage with a key contemporary theme.

After tackling the themes of sustainability with Broken Nature (2019) and the mysteries of the universe with Unknown Unknowns (2022), the 24th International Exposition closes this trilogy by focusing reflection on the human dimension and addressing an urgent and political issue such as the growing inequalities that characterize cities and the contemporary world. Inequalities is a collective project that, through exhibitions, installations, special projects and events, questions the global challenges related to the differences present in various spheres of existence: from economic to ethnic, from geographic origin to gender.

The 24th International Exhibition also includes a section devoted to international participations, solicited under the auspices of the BIE - Bureau International des Expositions.

Visual: Pentagram

Tosin Oshinowo, Ngarannam UNDP Village, Nigeria, photo by Tolu Sanusi

Exhibition

Cities

The thematic exhibition builds a choral reflection on the new dialectic between wealth and poverty, society and community, ecologies and cities, and the surprising forms in which they can manifest today in the territories inhabited by our species

Essential Homes Research Project, © Pablo Gómez-Ogando, courtesy of the Norman Foster Foundation

Exhibition

Towards an Equal Future

A thematic exhibition curated by the Norman Foster Foundation addresses the housing crisis in emergency contexts.

Rory Pilgrim, RAFTS, Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance, Production Still, 2021

Installation

Radio Ballads

The special project curated by Serpentine aims at creating contemporary ballads that highlight how artistic collaboration can create spaces to reflect on, and process, experiences of mental health, domestic abuse, terminal illness, grief, care, healing, inequalities.

Exhibition

Milano: paradossi e opportunità

The project reflects on the paradoxes that define Milan, reconsidering seemingly irreversible scenarios and uncovering latent resources made visible by viewing diversity as dynamic, adaptable, and evolving values.

Data Visualization by Federica Fragapane

Installation

Shapes of Inequalities

llustrated by information designer Federica Fragapane, ten large data visualization depict different shapes of inequalities.

Installation

471 days

The installation on Triennale's Scalone d'Onore, curated by Filippo Teoldi and designed by Midori Hasuike, explores the war in Gaza through data, transforming statistics into a visual and tangible experience.

E-Coli rendering based on scanning electron microscopic (SEM) imagery, Alissa Eckert for CDC, public domain

Exhibition

We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture

The exhibition curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley explores the intersection of bacteria and buildings, emphasizing how they have been deeply intertwined from Neolithic times to today.

Exhibition

A Journey Into Biodiversity Eight Forays on Planet Earth

The exhibition curated by Telmo Pievani addresses inequalities from an evolutionary perspective.

Martino Gamper, Sitzung, photo by Sebastiano Pellion di Persano, courtesy of the artist and Galleria Franco Noero

Exhibition

The Republic of Longevity In Health Equality We Trust

The irreversibility of the contemporary demographic phenomenon, driven by the collapse in birth rates and the lengthening of life expectancy, serves as the starting point for an in depth analysis of the society of longevity.

Theaster Gates, Yoshihiro Koide Collection (1941-2022). Courtesy Theaster Gates Studio and Mori Art Museum

Installation

Clay Corpus

The special project curated by Theaster Gates in Casa Lana tackles inequalities from the standpoint of lost and found craftsmanship.

Installation

NOT FOR HER AI Revealing the Unseen

An installation created with artificial intelligence invites visitors to immerse themselves in the theme through the simulation of different biopolitical conditions.

Giosuè Sala detto il Saletta, Maria de Córdoba y Valcárcel, 1802, Milano, Ca’ Granda, inv. 154

Exhibition

Portraits of Inequalities Pittura di classe

The exhibition narrates the extraordinary story of the Milanese Ca' Granda institution by displaying a gallery featuring artist portraits of its principal benefactors.

Exhibition

The Space of Inequalities: Environment, Mobility, Citizenship

At the introduction of the pavilions, the contribution of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano structures three thematic insights to create a collective narrative and interpretation from a territorial perspective.

Talk

Transitions: climate change, green paradox and inequalities

What are the problems, obstacles and paradoxes related to climate change? We discuss these with a number of international scholars who address the issue.

Show

Nomadic Canto per la biodiversità

Telmo Pievani and Gianni Maroccolo

The show explores human and animal migration routes, inviting us to overcome mental and physical barriers and recognize diversity as an asset and source of resilience.

Conference

Biopolitics of Inequalities

Forum Inequalities

The afternoon session of the forum will focus on reflections on the biopolitical implications of social, economic, and gender inequalities, and in particular on practices, styles, and expectations of life in contemporary societies.

View of Mumbai, India, Andrei Armiagov on Shutterstock

Conference

Geopolitics of Inequalities

Forum Inequalities

The morning session of the forum sees academics, artists, scientists and designers reflect on the new meaning that the two opposing terms of “wealth” and “poverty” have taken on in the different spheres of the living world.