Triennale Milano, Vincenzo Trione elected president of the foundation

The new Board of Directors of Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, which will serve for the next four years, took office today, Thursday, June 4, 2026. At its first meeting, the Board of Directors unanimously elected Vincenzo Trione as president of the Milan-based cultural institution, entrusting him with the task of leading one of the most important organizations on the Italian and international scene dedicated to design, architecture, visual arts and contemporary culture. At the same time, the board of directors appointed Maria Adele Porro as vice president of the foundation and confirmed Carla Morogallo in the role of director general, thus ensuring continuity in the administrative and organizational management of the institution.

The new Board of Directors is composed of nine members designated by the various entities represented within the governance of the Foundation. For the Ministry of Culture, Vincenzo Trione and Dario Rinero, appointed under Article 16(a) of the Statute, and Stefano Zecchi, appointed under Article 16(c), sit on the Board. Representing the City of Milan are Alberto Ferdinando Maria Toffoletto, appointed under Article 16(c), and Donatella Sciuto, designated under Article 16(a), on the Board.

The Lombardy Region is represented by Davide Rampello, appointed under Article 16(b), while the Milan Monza Brianza Lodi Chamber of Commerce has designated Regina De Albertis and Antonio Calabrò, both under Article 16(b). Maria Adele Porro, a joint expression of the institutional representatives of the Lombardy Region and the Milan Monza Brianza Lodi Chamber of Commerce, appointed under Article 16(c), completes the council.

Vincenzo Trione is full professor of Art and Media and Contemporary Art History at Iulm University in Milan. From 2015 to 2024 he served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Tourism at Iulm University, contributing to the development of training paths dedicated to cultural and creative professions. Since 2016, he has coordinated the PhD program in Visual and Media Studies and, since 2023, has directed the Center for Media and Visual Studies at the same university. Trione has also collaborated for years with Corriere della Sera, where he regularly speaks on issues related to contemporary art, cultural policies and contemporary languages.

His resume also includes numerous positions ùin the Italian cultural system. In 2003 he was commissioner of the XIV Quadriennale di Roma, while in 2009 he assumed the general direction of Valencia 09 - Confines. Pasajes de las artes contemporaneas. Another particularly significant step in his career came in 2015, when he was appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale dedicated to the visual arts.

From 2013 to 2020, he directed the Research and Education Department of the Madre Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples, contributing to the consolidation of the institution’s scientific and educational activities. Subsequently, from 2020 to 2024, he served as president of the Ministry of Culture’s School of Cultural Heritage and Activities, a body dedicated to higher education and professional development in the field of cultural heritage management.

Also particularly relevant is his relationship with the Treccani Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia. A member of the institution’s Scientific Council, Trione is general editor of the four-volume Treccani Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art, published in 2021 and considered one of the most important reference works dedicated to contemporary artistic production. Over the years he has curated numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

His books include The Poet and the Arts. Apollinaire and the Time of the Avant-Garde, published in 1999, Inside Things. Ardengo Soffici the Art Critic, 2001, Metaphysical Atlases. Giorgio de Chirico: art, architecture, criticism of 2005 and The Cities of Silence. Giorgio de Chirico: architecture, memory, prophecy in 2009. In 2014 he published City Effect. Art Cinema Modernity, a volume that won him the Rome Prize. In 2017 he co-signed with Tomaso Montanari the book “Contro le mostre,” dedicated to a critical reflection on the contemporary exhibition system. Recent works include L’opera interminabile. Art and the 21st Century in 2019, Artivism. Art, Politics, Engagement 2022, Heavenly Prologue. In Anselm Kiefer’s Atelier of 2023, winner of the Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize for non-fiction, and “Reframing the World. The Ages of the Avant-Garde,” published in 2025.

Triennale Milano, Vincenzo Trione elected president of the foundation

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