Fondazione Prada has announced Global Antiquity, a research exhibition that will run in Milan from 5 November 2026 to 1 March 2027. The show brings together more than 150 objects made between 600 BC and AD 1000, drawn from the ancient Mediterranean world and Asia, and examines the artistic connections that linked those regions across sixteen centuries.

The exhibition is curated by Salvatore Settis, Anna Anguissola and Chiara Ballestrazzi, and its design is by Rem Koolhaas with AMO, the research arm of his practice OMA. The combination of a scholarly curatorial team and an architect-led installation signals the foundation's ambitions for the show, which is conceived as a research project as much as a display.

Its span is deliberately wide: rather than confining itself to the classical Greek and Roman world, Global Antiquity follows objects, materials and ideas as they travelled between the Mediterranean and Asia, from the sixth century BC to the first millennium AD. That breadth, and the research framing the foundation has given the project, suggest the catalogue and the programme around it will carry as much weight as the objects on display. The show's dates place it squarely in the foundation's winter season, running from early November through the end of February.

The announcement comes in the same week that Fondazione Prada is also installing Alex Da Corte's Housepainter II in the Torre, giving the Milan institution a double programme of a major historical survey and a contemporary pairing. Global Antiquity opens on 5 November and runs through the winter, closing on 1 March 2027.