Marco Sammicheli

Marco Sammicheli (Fano, 1979) is Curator of Design, Fashion, Crafts sector at Triennale Milano and Superintendent of Museo del Design Italiano. Since 2018 he’s been working as International Relations Chief Officer at Triennale Milano, where he’s supervising the International Exhibition program in collaboration with the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. On the occasion of the 23rd International Exhibition he curated for the Italian pavilion the exhibition La tradizione del nuovo – A tradition of the new. 

He has curated exhibitions in Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, and published essays in catalogs for cultural institutions, museums and private galleries in Europe and in the Middle East, with a particular focus on designers such as Zaha Hadid, Mario Bellini, Steven Holl, Bruno Munari, Carlo Mollino, Jaime Hayon. During the Salone Internazionale del Mobile he curated The Design City. Milano Città laboratorio, published by Forma Edizioni in 2018. Columnist for “Wallpaper*” and for “Il Sole 24 Ore”, he has contributed to several international magazines. 

After graduating in Communication Science from the University of Siena and specializing in History of Design at the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, in 2009 Marco earned a Doctorate in Design and Technology for the Development of Cultural Heritage at Politecnico di Milano and Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Chile.