The Cardi Gallery was founded in Milan in 1972 by Renato Cardi.
In the late 1960s, Renato Cardi, with great foresight, began to collect works by artists such as Cy Twombly, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Michelangelo Pistoletto, who were all relatively unknown at the time, thus building a prestigious collection ranging from Arte Povera to Spatialism and earning a reputation as a promoter for developing artists, having made an important contribution to launching many of their careers.

Now led by his son Nicolò, the gallery continues to shape the cultural landscape in Milan and abroad. In 2015, it opened its first venue abroad, expanding its presence in the London borough of Mayfair, the epicenter of the European art world. Both venues regularly host museum-quality exhibitions accompanied by an academic catalog or monograph with texts by eminent critics.

The Cardi Gallery exhibits every year at major international art fairs, focusing on masterpieces by Arte Povera, Minimalism and Zero Group artists.

The Cardi Gallery exhibits every year at major international art fairs, focusing on masterpieces by Arte Povera, Minimalism and Zero Group artists. The Cardi Gallery has helped build some of the most beautiful and historically important private collections in the world.