Genova Design Week 2026
2026-06-03 10:00 - 2026-06-07 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Distretto del Design, Piazza dei Giustiniani, Genova, Italy
7°A GENOVA DESIGN WEEK
The splendour of Genoa Design Week returns to the streets of the city centre from 3 to 7 June 2026 with a new theme – balance – featuring exhibitions in the entrance halls and grand floors of historic buildings and in the squares of the Design District, alongside events taking place in spaces open to the public.

An opportunity for visibility and professional development to highlight the immense potential for designers, both in terms of quality and design.
THEME 2026: BALANCE

The design is based on the theme of balance: balance as the ability to harmonise different, often opposing elements. Balance between form and function, between tradition and innovation; balance between people, the environment and technology; visual and perceptual balance, as well as social and cultural balance.
Balance as a conscious design practice, constantly seeking harmony between complexity, ethics and aesthetics.

Organised by Dide (the Genoa Design District), the event is now announcing its seventh edition, featuring some of the highlights that have made it famous over the years, such as Designer Under 35; Container 03; Design Talk Festival, and new additions such as F/A FakeAutentic, making its debut in Genoa with the first edition of the exhibition at Santa Maria di Castello dedicated to research themes and creative artefacts, and Interior Architecture in Liguria, an exhibition scheduled at Galleria Mazzini involving 60 architectural practices.

EXHIBITING INSIDE PALACES
The exhibition venues are not just any old spaces, but gateways to places steeped in history and beauty, which are specially opened up to make them accessible to the general public. A blend of history and design in the heart of Genoa’s historic centre.
CONFIRMATIONS
Following the success of the previous two editions, Container 03 returns for the third consecutive year. This installation features ten distinct interior design scenarios, each set within a shipping container. The exhibition will be structured to reflect design’s ability to adapt to contemporary challenges and to embrace new technologies, materials and creative processes. The exhibition, curated by Simona Finessi, will take place in the Porto Antico and Darsena areas.
UNDER 35
Once again this year, there is a focus on new talent with ‘Designer Under 35’, an exploratory programme for emerging designers where the flow of ideas shapes the new cornerstones of the project, giving voice to the vision of the future. Curated by Laura Palazzini, the competition remains an opportunity for young creatives to showcase their work, experimenting with new forms and ideas centred on simplicity, functionality and sustainability. The programme also includes meetings and workshops with industry experts.
FESTIVAL DESIGN TALK
The Design Talk Festival, meanwhile, will see the return of leading figures from the worlds of architecture and design to Genoa, creating an event celebrating high-calibre design culture, open to the public. The 2024 edition featured architects Michele De Lucchi, Fabio Novembre and Clara Bona in conversation with Luca Molinari. The 2025 edition featured architects Mario Cucinella, Luigi Priano (RPBW director) alongside Gabriel Fagundes and Raffaella Parodi, and Massimo Adiansi of Architerror.

Dialectics of Balance: group exhibition
2026-06-03 18:00 - 2026-07-03 21:00 | Rossetti arte contemporanea, Via Chiabrera 33r, Genova, 16123, Italia
THE DIALECTIC OF BALANCE: BETWEEN DOMINATION AND LOSS OF CONTROL.
THE GROUP EXHIBITION DURING GENOA DESIGN WEEK
A group exhibition conceived and organised around the concept of ‘Balance’, the central theme of the Genova Design Week 2026.
Balance as the ability to harmonise different, often opposing elements. Balance between form and function, between tradition and innovation; balance between people, the environment and technology; visual and perceptual balance, social and cultural balance.
Balance as a conscious design practice, constantly seeking harmony between complexity, ethics and aesthetics.
The artists Gianni Lucchesi, Paolo Ceribelli, Gianluca Patti and Julian T. engage in a dialogue within the exhibition to explore the concept of balance, not as static symmetry, but as a dynamic tension between opposing forces: fullness and emptiness, light and shadow, chaos and order. Not a point of arrival, nor a state of motionless stillness. In art, balance is a dynamic process, a constant dance between contrasting forces that strive not to succumb to one another.

Is balance, then, the result of an ‘artifice’, a human need to impose meaning on the becoming of things?

This exhibition has been conceived to explore that “fine line” upon which creativity and existence itself rest. Through the works on display, the concept of balance reveals itself in its duality: on the one hand, classical proportion, which reassures the eye with its harmony; on the other, the fragility of the precarious, which leaves us breathless before sculptures that seem to defy gravity.

In a world dominated by disorder and speed, art acts as an interpreter of our need to find a centre. The selected installations and paintings do not offer definitive answers, but pose the fundamental question: how can we remain standing in a universe that is constantly changing?

Gianluca Patti –

Paolo Ceribelli –

Juilian T.

Gianni Lucchesi

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 3 June at 6.00 pm at the gallery premises at 33r Via Chiabrera.
