These awards will be joined by: the first edition of the Henraux Foundation Sculpture Commission, which will commission a work in marble to be exhibited from April 2024 at the Museo del Novecento in Milan. The winning artist will realise the project during a residency at the Foundation in Querceta di Seravezza (LU) where confront himself with the marble stone, the historical craftsmen and the innovative technologies of Henraux Spa. The Orbital Cultura - Nexi Group Prize dedicated to photography with the aim to provide Italian historical museums with contemporary and high-quality images, to encourage a continuous exchange between past and present. Selected among those represented by the galleries in the Established and Decades sections, one artist will be commissioned to create, with an award of Euro 10,000, a photographic documentation work of the external buildings and common spaces of a museum complex. The first edition of the prize is dedicated to Gallerie degli Uffizi complex. The Matteo Visconti di Modrone Prize, in memory of the President of the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, worth 10,000 euros, will be awarded to an artist who can create his/her work in the Foundry with the assistance of the artisans working there; After a year off, for its thirteenth edition, the Rotary Club Milano Brera Award for Contemporary Art and Young Artists returns, established in 2009 as the first recognition in the context of miart, provides for the acquisition of a work by an emerging or mid-career artist to be donated to the Museo del Novecento in Milan. Finally, the Massimo Giorgetti Prize, in its first edition, born from the desire of fashion designer and collector Massimo Giorgetti to support young artists at the start of their careers, will award a prize of 5,000 euros.

Also thanks to these awards, which more than doubled in number compared to 2022, miart 2023 demonstrates a renewed international spirit, expressed by the prestigious list of directors and curators who will have the task of identifying the winning works and artists. Among them: Fernanda Brenner (Artistic Director, Pivô, São Paulo); Nicholas Cullinan (Director, National Portrait Gallery, Londra); Sébastien Delot, (Director, LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut); Yilmaz Dziewior (Director, Museum Ludwig, Colonia); Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic director, New Museum, New York e Artistic Director, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan); Radine Leonie (Curator, Museion, Bolzano); Laura McLean-Ferris (Curator-at-Large, Swiss Institute, New York); Catherine Nichols (Creative mediator, Manifesta 14, Pristina e curator, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

The partnership with Maison Ruinart is also renewed for 2023, confirming its commitment to the world of art by presenting an unprecedented art project in the Ruinart VIP Lounge for this edition with the presence of the artist Carte Blanche 2023 Eva Jospin.

Switzerland Tourism, which presents an innovative concept expressing the many faces of Switzerland has confirmed its participation.

The renewed partnership with Elle Décor Italia boosts miart 's VIP Lounge with furniture by Kartell and Saba.

A very welcome novelty for those who love Italian excellence: with miart 2023 the combination of art and food comes to life thanks to the Italian Association of Ambassadors of Taste. The 10 Milan-bound Ambassadors of Taste - Andrea Berton, Cesare Battisti, Vittorio Borgia, Vincenzo Butticè, Carlo Cracco, Roberto Di Pinto, Antonio and Vincenzo Lebano, Davide Oldani, Aya Yamamoto, and Viviana Varese - were called upon to dedicate one of their creations to art and to host in their restaurants some of the most beautiful works of the private collection of Fondazione Fiera Milano.

Also growing around miart is collecting and in particular international collecting also thanks to ICE - Agenzia per la promozione all'estero e l'internazionalizzazione delle imprese italiane which supports the event in the incoming of a selection of international collectors. It is also thanks to the support of ICE Agenzia that Club degli Orafi Italia takes part in miart for the first time with its Double Face exhibition with artist's jewelry.