The Open Box: A Collector-Curated Garage Gallery Expands Beyond Milan

Key facts

• The Open Box is a nonprofit exhibition space in a Milan garage at Via Pergolesi 6, open by appointment since 2015.
• Founders are artists Valentino Albini, Andrea Francolino, Gaspare Luigi Marcone, and David Reimondo.
• The space focuses on site-specific works or re-contextualized interventions.
• Giorgio Fasol curated the exhibition 'Caso x caos x infinite variabili' featuring Andrea Francolino.
• Previous exhibitions include Gianni Caravaggio's 'Sostanza Incerta' (curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone, January 2017), Flavio Favelli, Endri Dani, Pamela Diamante, and Sophie Ko.
• International invitations to export the project to Brussels and New York are under evaluation.
• In 2015, a double solo show of Francolino and Elisabeth Scherffig was held in Verona, supported by Alberto Geremia and Giorgio Fasol.
• In 2017, The Open Box was selected by Nesxt during Artissima in Turin as one of Italy's most interesting independent spaces.
• Future plans include an all-female exhibition and a One-Day Show in September.