Alcova 2025 Reveals Full Lineup Across Four Venues

Alcova returns to Milan from April 7 to 13, 2025, pushing further into new territory while reinforcing the city’s dynamic role in contemporary design. For its ninth edition, the project activates four distinctive locations in Varedo, continuing its expansion into spaces that invite experimentation and reinterpretation.

This year’s venues include the return of Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, introduced in 2024, and the debut of two additions, the former SNIA factory and the Pasino Glasshouses. Each site brings its own rhythm and texture, offering designers a stage where architectural memory and natural reclamation can shape new creative output.

Located next to Villa Bagatti Valsecchi inside an outdoor hippodrome, the Pasino Glasshouses once supported one of Europe’s largest white orchid cultivations. Now, the structure takes on a new role as an exhibition space for site-sensitive installations. Participants in this space include AVAU, David Aliperti x SoMad.NYC, Greek Marble x Objects of Common Interest, Marcin Rusak Studio, News & Coffee x St. Moritz, Sema Topaloğlu Studio, Terraformæ, and Terzofoco ceramics.

The SNIA site once led global synthetic fiber production and still bears the scale and order of rationalist industrial architecture. Now partially overtaken by vegetation, the structure enters a new chapter. Alcova positions this space as a place for dialogue between decay and renewal.

Here, Burg Giebichenstein University for Art and Design Halle, Decibel x Vizcom, Habitare, Ranieri, SPREAD, and Warm Weekend (Mathias Palazzi and Robinson Guillermet) contribute installations that speak to the site’s raw edges.

Alcova brings contemporary design into Villa Bagatti Valsecchi’s mix of formal halls, quiet chambers, and tucked-away grottoes. The 19th-century villa offers a network of spaces that support large installations as well as subtle interventions. This year’s expansive lineup features 11 (eleven), Aleksandra Jakuć, AnanasAnanas x Parasite 2.0, ARTESANOS, Basetale, Belgium is Design, Bohinc Studio, Bokrijk | VAKlab x Michaël Verheyden, Centre for Creativity, Museum of Architecture and Design, Darmes, Dekoriti TC, DI PALMA for IL PICCOLO, Diaphan Studio, and Dunie Studio.

Also presenting are El Espartano, ESTO, FABER, FAP CERAMICHE, Florencia Bacci, Fomu Studio, Forma Rosa Studio, GIOPAGANI, GRÔPK, Grou Serra, Guatemala Diseña con las Manos, Harvest Salon x Valentin Klauss, Hiroto Yoshizoe, Jean-Baptiste Durand & Waiting for ideas, Jorge Suarez-Kilzi (Kilzi) and curated artists, Leilei Wu, Lemon, MAQSTONE, Marlot Baus, MASAYA KAWAMOTO DESIGN, nss edicola x Alcova Design Shop, nysædition, Plato Design, PONCE, READY TO HANG, Rive Roshan x SOL R&D, Room–file Group Show, Sfossils, Shakti Design Residency, SKNYPL, SOLEILLE GALLERY, Sten Studio, Studio Bovti, Studio Gonzalo Bascuñan, Studio Graeff, Studio LoopLoop, Studio Lugo, Studio Noké, Moon Seop Seo, SUPER YAYA / CONIE VALLESE, The New Raw, THESHAW STUDIO, TOUCH WITH EYES, UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Uniqka, VAYREDA LAB, Wei Xiaoyan Studio & UNICOGGETTO, YOCHIYA, and ZAROLAT.

At Villa Borsani, Alcova invites designers to respond directly to the building’s modernist design. The residence becomes a setting for contemporary works that either contrast or build upon its lines and materials. Exhibitors include Atelier dell’Errore, AtMa inc., Béton Brut x Salvino Marsura, CHELEBI, Completedworks, Contem Furniture, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Estudio Material, Haus of Hu, Inderjeet Sandhu, Kiki Goti + Office of Tangible Space, Lemon, mati sipiora, Monstruosus, Noritake Design Collection, OOG OBJECTS, Ryuichi Kozeki, S.E.X.A.C, SOFT WITNESS, Source Édition, Studio Musa, Supaform, The Breeder x Objects of Common Interest, Theo Galliakis, and VeeCollect.