Gallerie d'Italia, exhibitions and collections for free on 25 April. What to see from Milan to Naples

For Liberation Day, all four branches of Intesa Sanpaolo's Gallerie d'Italia in Milan, Naples, Turin and Vicenza will be open with free admission, with the possibility to visit the permanent collections and the current exhibitions.

At the Gallerie d'Italia - Milan the photographic exhibition The Road to Cortina. VII Olympic Winter Games 1956, realised on the occasion of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The exhibition, curated by Aldo Grasso, highlights the photographic services produced by the Publifoto Agency on the occasion of the first Winter Olympics hosted in Italy, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in 1956. The construction sites for the Ice Stadium and the Trampoline Italia, athletes and tourists, Sophia Loren godmother of the event, the presence of the newly born television, and a new background landscape with signs, billboards in post-war Italia, ready to experience the economic boom. At the Gallerie d'Italia - Naples there is VORTICI. Alexi Worth in dialogue with ancient ceramics, which links the Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics in the Intesa Sanpaolo collection with the works of American artist Alexi Worth. Nine paintings dialogue with artefacts from the Caputi Collection, selected by Richard Neer (University of Chicago), in a confrontation on the theme of the symposium and the gesture of drinking. Worth's essential and controlled style reworks everyday subjects in a suspended and contemplative key.

At the Gallerie d'Italia - Turin the stars are two exhibitions. Nick Brandt. The Day May Break. The light at the end of the day presents for the first time the entire photographic cycle started in 2020, with images taken in different areas of the world marked by the climate crisis. Alongside this, Diana Markosian. Replaced explores intimate and universal themes of loss, memory and identity through a strongly autobiographical visual project.

At the Gallerie d'Italia - Vicenza the exhibition CERAMICS AND CLOUDS. Cosa le antiche ceramiche greche raccontano di noi (What ancient Greek ceramics tell us), curated by the Associazione Illustri and extended until 7 June: an unprecedented scientific-educational project dedicated to enhancing the Intesa Sanpaolo collection of Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics.