Clima Gallery in Milan
Porta Venezia · Contemporary programme
Editorial Profile
Clima is a commercial gallery based in the Porta Venezia neighborhood of Milan, operating within an emerging and mid-career segment of the international contemporary art market. Founded with a program oriented toward younger and underrepresented voices, the gallery has developed a distinctive curatorial identity that balances painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. Its roster reflects a genuinely international outlook, featuring artists such as Nicola Martini, Valerio Nicolai, Vijay Masharani, Bri Williams, Kelsey Isaacs, and Dana Lok, among others — a mix of Italian and international practitioners whose work engages with materiality, process, and postcolonial or social concerns. The gallery's exhibition programme tends toward solo and two-person shows that allow for sustained critical engagement with individual practices, and its curatorial collaborations — including projects curated by artists such as Valerio Nicolai — suggest a model attentive to peer exchange within the field.
Within the broader landscape of galleries in Milan, Clima occupies a considered position: neither a blue-chip institution nor a purely experimental project space, but a mid-size commercial gallery with a coherent, research-informed programme. Its participation in Liste Art Fair Basel — one of the most selective platforms for emerging and cutting-edge positions — signals its active integration into international circuits. The gallery also supports artists beyond its own walls, as evidenced by its engagement with institutional exhibitions such as the Premio Lissone and collaborations with spaces like Kunsthalle Zürich and Veronica in Seattle. For those navigating contemporary art in Milan, Clima represents one of the more programmatically coherent commercial proposals in the city's evolving gallery scene.
Selected Artists
Nicola Martini
Italian
Florence-born, Milan-based sculptor working with organic and inorganic materials — minerals, metals, resins, fabrics — to explore materiality, duration, and perception through experiential installations.
Valerio Nicolai
Italian
Italian artist whose large-scale paintings and installations combine crayons, acrylics, and found imagery in densely layered compositions that blend popular culture, narrative, and humor with formal experimentation.
Vijay Masharani
American
Bay Area-born artist and writer working across video and installation to address race, identity, and postcolonial experience; his first institutional solo exhibition was held at Kunsthalle Zürich in 2025.
Kelsey Isaacs
American
American painter working primarily in oil on canvas, producing figurative and semi-abstract compositions that engage with personal narrative, pop cultural references, and the materiality of paint.
Dana Lok
American
New York-based painter known for intimate oil paintings that merge still life traditions with psychological undertones, often exploring domesticity, desire, and the ambiguity of everyday objects.
Matteo Nasini
Italian
Rome-born artist working at the intersection of sound, installation, and new media, creating immersive environments that investigate natural phenomena, scientific systems, and sensory perception.
Andrew Ross
American
American sculptor working with industrial and everyday materials — plastic, aluminium, wood — to construct kinetic or structurally complex objects that explore energy, movement, and physical tension.
Selected Exhibitions
Kenji Ide / Nicola Martini
Kenji Ide, Nicola Martini
A two-person exhibition pairing Japanese and Italian artists whose practices share a material sensibility, presenting sculpture and installation works in dialogue within the gallery space.
Sequin, Shadow
Vijay Masharani
Solo exhibition by Vijay Masharani presenting new works that explore visibility, surface, and identity through an interplay of light, material, and cultural reference.
Ventaglio
Giovanna Belossi, Francesco De Bernardi, Riccardo Giacomini, Max Glader, Francesco Maluta, Claudia Mangone, Eleonora Mariani, Alice Peach, Barbara Prenka, Paolo Pretolani
A group exhibition curated by gallery artist Valerio Nicolai, bringing together emerging Italian practitioners across painting, drawing, and installation in a peer-curated format.
1669
Nicola Martini
A site-specific sculptural project conceived for the gallery, its date-title referencing the great eruption of Mount Etna and engaging themes of geological time, material transformation, and natural force.
subliminal archipelagos
Nina Hartmann, Marie Matusz, Jack O'Brien, Jay Payton
A four-person group exhibition bringing together international artists whose works navigate fragmented spaces, perception, and material accumulation across sculpture, installation, and mixed media.
you can now enter: notes on immersion
Tarek Lakhrissi, Tai Shani
A curated two-person exhibition by Giulia Civardi presenting works by Tarek Lakhrissi and Tai Shani that explore immersive states, embodied experience, and speculative world-building.
To dream a man
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Farah Al Qasimi, Dalton Gata, Brook Hsu, Elizabeth Jaeger, Fin Simonetti
A group exhibition curated by Samantha Ozer examining dreams, mythology, and human-animal relations through works that draw on Borges' fiction to explore the porous boundary between interior and exterior worlds.
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