The Space
A unique space in the heart of Milan
Milano Painting Academy is not just an art school — it’s a living, authentic, and inspiring place where the creative power of figurative painting is experienced every single day.
Our spacious, bright, and immersive studios are designed to offer a complete artistic experience: students work from life models, under natural light or carefully controlled lighting, in an environment that closely resembles the workshops of the great Renaissance masters.
Our entire lighting system was designed in collaboration with Rimani, a leading company in museum lighting, to ensure the highest visual quality and the optimal environment for studying the human figure, observing color nuances, and capturing painterly detail.
A place like this hadn’t existed in Milan for decades.
Here, art is practiced, observed, and discussed.
Students—of all ages and levels—meet, exchange ideas, and grow together within a vibrant, international, and passionate community. Sharing knowledge is a core element of our method: learning happens side by side, through gesture, dialogue, and shared time.
The Milano Painting Academy gives back to the city a place of cultural and human exchange, where tradition and innovation come together to shape a new Renaissance.
Why Milan?
Milan is the city that, more than any other in Southern Europe, has been able to equip itself with a contemporary art system in relation to large museums, foundations and public and private collections.
The partners of the Milano Painting Academy, and the relationship system that binds them to the most important stakeholders in the Milanese metropolitan area, have deep connections with the network of galleries, dealers, fairs, districts and museum organisations active in Italy and internationally.
Until now, being in Milan was the best way for an artist to oversee the places where contemporary art develops its dynamics and exchanges at the highest speed, density and intensity.
Thanks to Milano Painting Academy, this relational richness is now added to a knowledge and teaching experience that represent a deviation and important added value, because they put back into circulation in this ecosystem an inimitable know-how in making art and in teaching it with methods and approaches that go against the mainstream of traditional and contemporary academies.
Why the Stadera district
We chose the location partly based on the desire to bring the quality of this painting school into the reality of this popular district of Milan, in accordance with the principles of spreading culture and promoting art that have always inspired and guided the activity of the Maimeri Foundation.
We have found a multifunctional space that we have radically renovated and refurbished to ensure optimal diffusion of natural light, which is an essential condition for two of the training pillars of the MPA method, the daily practice of painting and observation of “real life” models.
A suggestive location that will host professional Academic Courses, Seminars, Workshops, Events, and Exhibitions to enable and promote talents, kick-start an artistic-cultural fusion with the city, and create positive, good quality relationships around the theme of beauty and art.
