Galleria Tega has a family tradition. Giulio's father, Dino, began the business as an art dealer in 1939. In 1964 Dino Tega opened a gallery in Riccione with an exhibition dedicated to Filippo De Pisis, followed by other important exhibition like the one realized for Savinio.
Giulio, following in the father’s footsteps, absorbing both the sensitivity and the ability to choose quality art-works , inaugurated in 1979, an art galery in Via Senato (Milan) with an exhibition dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico. The following year they organized a retrospective of Alberto Magnelli which was followed by exhibitions dedicated to Mathieu, Chagall, Savinio, De Pisis, Kolar, Perilli, Schneider, Tadini, Melotti and Uncini.
Afterwards, Galleria Tega began to attend the most important international fairs like Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, Art Geneve and the FIAC in Paris. In the 1995’s Paris edition, Giulio Tega exhibited an extraordinary retrospective of Giorgio Morandi (composed by eighteen paintings), which will allow incredible visibility to the gallery, so that the French daily Le Figaro quoted Mr. Tega by the nickname of "Monsieur Morandi ".
In the same period were organized in Milan three major exhibitions dedicated to Osvaldo Licini, Hans Hartung and Afro. The following years were marked by art events dedicated to Fontana, Manzoni, Burri, Kounellis and Perilli.
In 2006 Giulio Tega opened his showroom in Pietrasanta (LU), with an important exhibition of the famous Colombian master Fernando Botero. In the following years at the summer showroom there were several solo and group exhibitions: like the one dedicated to Schifano and the one dedicated to Christo.
In 2012, Galleria Tega inaugurates its new headquarters in Via Senato 20 (always in Milan) with a review of Valerio Adami.