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Next exhibition: Alcova Milano 2025
Next exhibition: Alcova Milano 2025
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Alcova has redefined how contemporary design engages with historical and unconventional spaces, transforming abandoned and historical buildings into immersive exhibitions. It has activated diverse locations to showcase emerging talents, experimental projects, and research-driven design. Each edition fosters a global dialogue on sustainability, material innovation, and new production methods, creating a dynamic intersection of past and future.

Exhibition
Exhibition
  • Milano
  • Miami
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2019
  • 2018

Today, in a state of disuse, but poised for a radical and permanent transformation, the area will be activated by Alcova in an interstitial phase. Once again brings design and research into dialogue with surprising and historically significant urban settings, entering into a temporary relationship of cohabitation with nature that has grown wild and spontaneously taken over these imposing sites.

After having activated a former bakery factory, a cashmere factory, the buildings of a military hospital complex, Alcova renews its commitment to bring historical and significant spaces for the city to life, transforming them into a stage of unrivalled beauty for a selection of designers shaping the future. Whether designers, galleries, museums, schools or companies, Alcova seeks to shine a spotlight on the most forward-looking design being produced today.

Exhibitors of Alcova Milano 2023

  • INTERNA_MENTE
    MATERICA
  • PUBLIC SPACE WITH PRIVATE INTENTIONS
    MIRA BERGH & JOSEFIN ZACHRISSON
  • MOBILIER NATIONAL
    MOBILIER NATIONAL
  • SOLAR FLARE SUNSET
    MONSTRUM STUDIO
  • HARVEST
    MUTHESIUS UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN KIEL
  • NATALIA TRIANTAFYLLI / ANDREW SCOTT
    N/A
  • L’ALLIEVO. UN DIALOGO TRA GENERAZIONI DI PROGETTISTI NABA
    NABA, NUOVA ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI
  • BRICK TEXTILES - WEAVING BRICKS BACK INTO ARCHITECTURE
    NATURAL MATERIAL STUDIO
  • HABITAREMATERIALS
    NEMO ARCHITECTS
  • SOFT REFLECTIONS
    NO STUDIO NAME – COLLABORATION BETWEEN LUCIA NEAMTU AND KOUROS MAGHSOUDI
  • NMAA - NM3 BURÖCORE
    NM3
  • ANALOG AESTHETICS
    NOVO TYPO

Partners

Sponsors
REDO
Culligan
Atelier Areti
AND
Nordic Copper
Kettal
Baudoin & Lange
dott
Aplat
Bedont
one to one
DURAT
City Vision
hexagro
Milano Design Week

Team and credits

Founders
Valentina Ciuffi (Studio Vedèt)
Joseph Grima (Space Caviar)
Alcova Team
Marco De Amicis, Roberta Usai, Nicolò Cozza, Alice Moretto, Riccardo Righi, Matteo Maggi, Asia Trianda, Andrea Guarinoni, Sofia Pia Belenky, Giovanni della Ratta, Verena Mantovani
Visual Identity
Studio Vedèt
Spacial Design
Space Caviar
Press Office & Communication
Maddalena Bonicelli, Mattia Ambrosini
Official Photographers And Videomaker
Piergiorgio Sorgetti
Piercarlo Quecchia (DSL Studio)
Special Thanks
Avra Jain, Irving Weisselberger, Züst&Bachmeier, The Moving Company, SumUp, Artemide, Glenn Valencia, Brandon Grom, Eric Beare, Andrew Jonathan Haug, 
 Susana Betancourt