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Consonni Radziszewski Launches With a Three-City Footprint

Born from the merger of Matteo Consonni's Mandragoa and the eponymous Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, the project connects Lisbon's creative energy, Milan's cultural heritage and Warsaw's booming art scene.

If 2025 revealed the structural cracks in the way the traditional art world—and particularly the gallery business—has operated, this year has offered a tantalizing glimpse of myriad possible solutions, from acquisitions to international partnerships and local cooperative infrastructure. Adopting more fluid and flexible structures, dealers and art professionals are rewriting the playbook of a highly competitive, potentially unsustainable system that has risked veering too far from its original purpose: supporting and circulating art across geographies and communities.

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Consonni Radziszewski launched with a new space in Milan timed to the city’s art week and the coming Venice Biennale, the result of a merger between Lisbon-based Mandragoa, founded by Matteo Consonni, and Warsaw-based Galeria Dawid Radziszewski. The pairing was a natural outgrowth of a collaboration that began in 2021 with shared art fair booths and joint projects, including the co-representation of Polish photographer Joanna Piotrowska. “At first, it was about sharing visibility with different publics, but also sharing ideas: how to install a booth, how to communicate a project. Then it evolved into sharing all costs and all profits. That was the best test to understand that we could really work together,” Consonni tells Observer. “Through these experiences over the years, we realized we could collaborate more, do things together and actually benefit from each other. That gradually led to something that is no longer a collaboration but a full project. Now we are one entity.”

Consonni Radziszewski will maintain spaces in Lisbon and Warsaw while it opens a third gallery in Milan. Housed in a historic early 20th-century Milanese building, the new space reflects both opportunity and necessity. With rising demand for real estate in the city and a new tax regime that facilitates an influx of capital and wealthy international residents, the choice was partly strategic and also aligned with dealers’ shared ambition to establish a stronger foothold........

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