Cloe Piccoli Appointed Director of miart Milan for 2027-2029

Cloe Piccoli has been named the new director of miart, Milan's contemporary art fair, for the three-year term 2027-2029, succeeding Nicola Ricciardi who led the fair from 2020 to 2026. The announcement was made by Fiera Milano, the fair's organizer. Piccoli, an art critic and curator, teaches contemporary art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and writes for La Repubblica. She has curated projects for institutions including MAXXI Rome, Triennale Milano, MoMA New York, and Fondazione Querini Stampalia, as well as brands like Christian Dior and Acqua di Parma. From 2012 to 2014, she was curator of site-specific architecture at Museo del Novecento in Milan. In 2022, she won the Italian Council with the curatorial project "20/20.000 Hz" by Masbedo. Piccoli is the daughter of ceramist Rosanna Bianchi Piccoli, who died in 2025. Her appointment is part of Fiera Milano's strategy to reposition miart as a year-round platform generating cultural and relational value. Francesco Conci, CEO of Fiera Milano, emphasized investing in miart to strengthen brand equity and position Milan as a European capital of creativity. Piccoli envisions miart as an infrastructure connecting artistic production with cultural and economic capital, fostering inclusive dialogue between public and private sectors. The fair recently moved to the South Wing of Allianz MiCo.