Luciano Fabro, Sala Pentagonale, 1970, Installation view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2026, Reconstruction by Silvia Fabro. © Silvia Fabro (Archivio Luciano e Carla Fabro). Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo: Agostino Osio.
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
October 8, 2026–February 21, 2027
Titled, “Abitare lo spazio. Inhabiting Space”, the exhibition is the first museum retrospective dedicated to Luciano Fabro in Italy since his death in 2007. The exhibition brings together around fifty of the artist’s most significant sculptures and installations.
It examines the artist’s conceptual and formal approach to space, exploring the ways it engages with the perception of those who inhabit it. Emphasis is placed on Fabro’s investigations into perception and spatial experience, initiated in the 1960s, tracing their development from his early experiments with mirroring surfaces through the following fifty years. This evolution culminated in increasingly complex architectural structures and spaces—often made of paper—which the artist referred to as “habitats”: ideal environment, either autonomous/self-contained or integrated into existing spaces, conceived to house and activate his works.