He arrived at MUDEC Photo, where Milan combines culture and visual language “Unexpected Trentino”an exhibition that turns the usual views of the Trentino area upside down. From 22 November 2025 to 6 January 2026, the rooms of the Museum of Culture welcome the exhibition project that emerged from the volume of the same title edited by Denis Curti and which, after a preview at the Mart di Rovereto, finds a new life in the Lombard capital, more urban, more cosmopolitan, more open to contamination.
Dialogue between landscape and metropolis
More than eighty photographs taken by Simone Bramante, Gabriele Micalizzi, Roselena Ramistella, Massimo Sestini and Newsha Tavakolian build a choral story that never stops shifting the boundaries between reality and interpretation. In the context of Milan, Trentino This is reflected in a city accustomed to complexity, contrast and continuous change. Thus, the images are imbued with new resonances: mountains ideally blend with the horizon, Alpine communities meet an international dimension, nature meets the pulsating rhythm of a metropolis.
Five authors, one possible narrative
The power of the exhibition lies in its gaze photographerall famous but very different from each other. Bramante presents his narrative world made of suspended colors and atmospheres; Micalizzi renders the territory with the force of direct reportage; Ramistella explores identity and the relationship between humans and nature; Sestini offers a dizzying perspective of the sky; Tavakolian combines documentation and introspection with his profound political poetry. Together they composed a fresco that does not limit itself to observing Trentino: he interprets it, dissects it, presents it through the prism of different sensibilities.
A region as a contemporary metaphor
The exhibition’s itinerary passes through physical and symbolic places. The book speaks of the border as a region of travel, explores the verticality of mountains as a metaphor for challenge and endeavor, enters into the authentic everyday lives of those living in places far from conformism, reflects on care understood as a personal attitude that becomes a collective responsibility and investigates the traces that generations leave on those who come after. It is a journey that flows between memory and the future, between intimacy and vastness, between legacy and change, building a complex and profound portrait of humanity.
Milan as a cultural booster
While presenting this initiative, CEO of Trentino Marketing, Maurizio Rossiniunderlines the desire to entrust the freedom of authentic stories to writers, far from stereotypes. Denis Curti, the curator, instead speaks of an “exercise of visual freedom” capable of focusing attention not only on the wonder of the landscape, but also on the intangible heritage that ties people to their land. In Milan, all this is reflected in a different way: the exhibition is no longer only in dialogue with its home region, but with an international audience, with a city that thrives on encounters, stratification and multiple identities.
Backstage as the end of a journey
The exhibition ends with picture and video stories which reveals behind the scenes of the work in Trentino, allowing visitors to get closer to the author’s research, choices and movements.
It is an epilogue that does not close, but relaunches: an invitation to question what makes a region truly “unexpected”, about what remains after passing through images that speak of places but, above all, of people.
