Giampaolo Abbondio Opens Playlist Gallery in Milan

Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio, formerly Galleria PACK (founded 2001 in Milan), has opened a new experimental space called Playlist at Via Carlo Poma 18 in Milan's Dateo district. The 32-square-meter venue, launching April 9, 2024, with Pablo Candiloro's exhibition "Fiori di Maggio a Febbraio," is designed for artist-led experimentation, free from the pressure of larger spaces like the gallery's 180-square-meter historic palazzo in Todi, Umbria (relocated June 2021). Abbondio aims to support both emerging and established artists—such as Matteo Basilé, who might explore watercolors—in a low-stakes environment. The program includes performances by Elyla (Nicaragua, also at 2024 Venice Biennale) in June, Russian photographer Elena Ovecina in September, and a curatorial project by Francesca Pasini in autumn. Playlist is part of Abbondio's broader 20-year career system, which previously featured artists like Zhang Huan (performance at Musei Capitolini, Rome, 2005), Matteo Basilé (53rd Venice Biennale), Masbedo (Italian Pavilion curated by Luca Beatrice and Beatrice Buscaroli), Andrei Molodkin (Russian Pavilion curated by Olga Sviblova), and Marìa Magdalena Campos-Pons (documenta 14, 2017, with "Matanzas Sound Map"). The gallery adopted its current name in September 2019.