Pirelli HangarBicocca

Pirelli HangarBicocca is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the production and promotion of contemporary art.

Founded in 2004, Pirelli HangarBicocca is now a leading institution for the international art community, for the citizens, and for the local area. A completely free, accessible, and open museum, it is a place for experimentation, research, and dissemination where art provides food for thought on the most current issues in contemporary culture and society.

Its activities, aimed at a wide and diverse audience, include a calendar of important solo exhibitions by Italian and international artists, a multidisciplinary program of collateral and in-depth events, scientific and educational publishing, and educational and training initiatives. Dialogue between the public and art is also encouraged by the constant presence of museum mediators in the exhibition spaces.

Housed in a former industrial building, once the site of a locomotive factory, Pirelli HangarBicocca covers an area of 15,000 square meters and is one of the largest horizontally developed exhibition spaces in Europe. The exhibition area includes the Shed and Aisles

(Italian: Navate) spaces, dedicated to hosting temporary exhibitions, and Anselm Kiefer’s permanent work, The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015 (Italian: I Sette Palazzi Celesti 2004-2015), a monumental installation consisting of seven reinforced concrete towers that has become one of the most iconic works in the city of Milan.

Inside the building, there are also areas dedicated to public services: the large entrance hall with reception, the area for educational activities, the workshop room used for conferences and meetings, the bookshop, and the bistro with its pleasant outdoor area.

With the easy-to-read guide by Museo per tutti, visitors with intellectual disabilities can discover unconventional art forms — non-figurative sculptures, large-scale installations, works that play on symbols and space — with which they may not be familiar.

Easy-to-read information facilitated sheets have been produced for each work (also available in English) which, starting from an observation of the concrete elements present in the works, guide visitors towards an understanding of the themes and expressive

languages used by the artists. In addition, a collection of AAC symbols can be downloaded for use in creating more personalized support materials.

In the guide, visitors and their companions can find more information about the unique features that make Pirelli HangarBicocca a unique exhibition space, with environmental characteristics such as the size of the exhibition areas and the lighting that characterize the visit.

If you are reading the complete Pirelli HangarBicocca guide on a computer, mobile phone, or tablet, remember that you can click on:

• the titles of the tabs in the index
• the titles of the in-depth articles
• the symbols at the top of all pages