Apartment art is a collective artistic project conceived and created by Elisa Bollazzi, Raffaella Bandera and Pino Ceriotti.

The idea was born from the desire to create a network, an alternative system to the institutional one, in which private citizens, lovers of art and design, open their homes for a one day exhibition.

Apartment art is a traveling frame, a container house that moves around the area and presents different artistic proposals each time. But Apartment art is also the final work of art that includes the hosting structure, the artists, the public. The systematic foundations on which this work is based are gratuitousness, trust, hospitality, understood as irreplaceable values of the creation and diffusion of art and design and which the current reality seems to forget.

This idea of sharing, the birth of alternative networks, gift art, the free gift, but also the connection with the territory, are elements without which the project could not sustain itself. The objective is to find hosts who offer their home and new artistic proposals to present, thus favoring the public, often intimidated by the rigor of traditional galleries and exhibition spaces, and the artists who can express themselves in a different environment, giving them the possibility of relating to a real, lived, true... non-aseptic space

We therefore enter private homes and the world of their owners for a day with respect, aware that at the basis of this exchange there is a very rare gesture of trust and welcome, which demonstrates great open-mindedness and faith.

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Deep Relationships. Critical text by Alessandro Castiglioni

In a certain sense the name itself says it, Apartment Art is an artistic project in which Elisa Bollazzi and Raffaella Bandera (creators of the whole dynamic), are looking for private citizens willing to open their home to host a sort of one-day exhibition, in which artists, critics, performers and the public experience art in a different, familiar, welcoming, warm and everyday dimension.

But this aspect, however essential, is not the most important. It's not the founding one.

Ap Art does not end in the day, in the subtle and fast life of an event. The profound relationality that gives substance to the project consists, more than in everything said above, in the construction of a network, of a system, of a constant and continuous dialogue that spreads over time and space (examples are the dozens and dozens of offers made by simple visitors at each Ap Art event).

The action of the two artists is therefore interesting, not because a private house is opened for a one-day exhibition, but because of a specific relational dynamic. I mean the construction of a system (as much of the relational art of Beuys and Naumann taught us) that investigates a process, a dialogue, a passage, rather than the objectification of a content.

This is perhaps less reassuring, it makes it more difficult to classify Ap Art, to close it in one category. Seen from here, the project stimulates, as well as a bit of play and fun, important reflections, I'm talking about sharing experiences, life between lives, which, after all, is what we usually call Art.