The Solar Bien­nale at Milano Design Week 2025

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For Milan Design Week, the Museum of Contem­por­ary Design and Applied Arts (mudac), located in Lausanne, Switzer­land, presents BADDANCE WITH THEBAD­WEEDS by artist Rocio Berenguer at House of Switzer­land in Milan. As part of Soleil·s, exhib­i­tion currently on view in Lausanne for the second edition of the Solar Bien­nale, this parti­cip­at­ory install­a­tion invites visit­ors to trans­form and join THEBAD­WEEDS, a trans-species music band half human / half plant. These mutants embody a queer ecolo­gical trans­ition: emer­ging from cracks, obli­vion, and the most inhos­pit­able places, they humor­ously high­light the resi­li­ence and resist­ance of weeds. The immers­ive exper­i­ence encour­ages the audi­ence to mutate and dance, offer­ing a fest­ive and play­ful perspect­ive on ecolo­gical trans­ition. Every­body is invited to make its mutant body bad dance and earn seeds of futures.

”We must now learn to feed no longer on death (oil) but on life (the sun).” Eco-respons­ible commit­ment also involves the desire and the will to embrace attract­ive futures, to parti­cip­ate in an imagin­at­ive world based on pleas­ure. In response to cata­strophic, alarm­ist, anxious and fatal­istic imagin­ar­ies, to imagin­ar­ies of fear and guilt, Rocio Berenguer has taken up the chal­lenge of creat­ing an eco-sexy story and deliv­er­ing a simple yet power­ful message: THE FUTURE IS VEGETAL.

With this year’s theme focused on collab­or­a­tion, the exhib­i­tion returns to the iconic Casa degli Artisti in Brera with multiple projects displayed across its three floors. Draw­ing on the legacy of the coun­try’s design herit­age, renowned and emer­ging talents take resid­ence side-by-side trans­lat­ing the theme through their own unique vision and inter­pret­a­tion.

7 April: 10am–5pm
8–13 April: 10am–8pm

Casa degli Artisti
Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga | Corso Garibaldi, 89/A
20121 Milano