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Founded in 2007 in Milan, located first in London and from 2022 in Lugano, Repetto Gallery is a modern and contemporary art gallery actively engaged in promoting and enhancing Italian artists, including Accardi, Burri, Capogrossi, Chighine, Ghirri, Fontana, Melotti and Munari; some of the protagonists of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art, Boetti, Calzolari, Paolini, Pistoletto as well as major international artists, including Christo, Long, Matsutani, Marca-Relli, Motonaga, and Neshat. The historical artist of the gallery is Melotti, whose support led Repetto Gallery to the important exhibition in 2014 at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice.

Among the most significant exhibitions:  Postwar Italian Ceramics curated by Luca Massimo Barbero with works by Fontana and Melotti; the solo shows by Pistoletto, Paolini (with text by Andrea Cortellessa), Ghirri (with text by Ennery Taramelli) and Calzolari curated by David Anfam; the ones dedicated to Carol Rama, Vasarely, Marca-Relli in collaboration with their archives and to the Japanese artist Motonaga, one of the leading protagonists of the Gutai group; We Land, Land Art group show with works by De Maria, Long, Penone among others; Metamorphosis: the Alchemist of Matter, with texts by Bruno Corà, dedicated to Arte Povera; Threading spaces with works by four Italian female artists: Maria Lai, Franca Sonnino, Elisabetta Gut and Nedda Guidi; The boundaries of subconscious. Informal art in Italy, 1952-1962 with Afro, Moreni, Morlotti and many others; kένωσις – Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti; Schifano. Pittura felice in collaboration with Marco Meneguzzo; Il canto della terra, group show dedicated to art/nature/ecology.

Repetto Gallery current program includes the promotion and rediscovery of the artist and designer Bruno Munari, the promotion of the works by poetess and verbovisual artist Mirella Bentivoglio; and it is focused on opening up a broader dialogue between historical and contemporary artists, for example with the exhibition Giorgio de Chirico, nello specchio del Novecento. Warhol, Schifano, Paolini, Ghirri, Salvo in 2023; with the solo show and related catalogue dedicated to Arcangelo Sassolino curated by Luca Massimo Barbero in 2024; and in 2025 with Giorgio Morandi and Beyond, exhibition and catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bandera with works by the renowned Italian painter and engraver and by modern and contemporary artists who, through varied and heterogeneous approaches, engage with his poetics.

Repetto Gallery is also active on art fairs, having participated in or exhibited at major events such as Art Basel in Basel, The Armory Show in New York, Frieze Masters in London, BRAFA and Art Brussels in Brussels, Arco in Madrid, Miart in Milan, Arte Fiera in Bologna, Artissima in Turin. Finally, Repetto Gallery offers consultancy and art advisory services for both institutional and private clients.