The MUDEC museum in Milan is hosting the first exhibition of the street-artist’s works in an Italian public museum.
Entitled A Visual Protest, the exhibition opened on Wednesday and runs until April 14, 2019.
It comprises around 80 works, including paintings and prints, alongside objects, photographs, videos and memorabilia, which denounce themes such as consumerism and US imperialism.
The display comes just weeks after Banksy, whose identity remains famously unknown, made international headlines by partially shredding one of his works at a London auction.
The solo show was organised without Banksy’s authorisation and curator Gianni Mercurio said it was “very difficult, it was like working with a ghost”.
Banksy’s true identity has been a mystery since the start of the 1990s.
He is believed to be British and comes from Bristol.
“Banksy owes a lot of his success, or rather to his popularity, to the fact that he is an anonymous artist,” Mercurio said.
“It’s a contradiction: his notoriety comes from his anonymity.”
