On Sunday, September 19th, 2021, on the occasion of MIART 2021, BUILDING will be open from 10AM to 7PM.

BUILDING presents Before Thunder, After Dark, the first solo exhibition by Japanese – Swiss artist Leiko Ikemurato be held in Italy, curated by Frank Boehm. On view from September 4th to December 23rd, 2021, the project is a broad overview of the work of Ikemura and gathers a selection of 50 artworks realized between the 1980s until today.

BUILDINGBOX presents, from August 31st, 2021 to September 30th, 2021, a site-specific work by Sophie Ko (Tbilisi, 1981), the ninth artist of The Shape of Gold, the annual exhibition project curated by Melania Rossi, which investigates the use of gold in contemporary artistic research through the works of twelve artists invited to compete with the chosen theme. The installations are visible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from the window in via Monte di Pietà 23 in Milan.

The ancient Greek word metaxú is an adverb comprising metá (in the middle, between) and sún (with, together, together with), thus denoting a space that lies between, and connects. The word itself contains two antithetical meanings linked together: on one hand it implies the concepts of distance and separation, while on the other it expresses a drawing near, a connection.