OPEN PROTOCOL
Before you build, send the signal.
Tell the Republic where the next gallery will appear.
Every Bannana Gallery begins with a message.
This is how the gesture continues.
The project lives when gestures become visible to one another.
How to trigger it:
1. FIND the boxes
2. RAISE the walls
3. INVITE people
4. DEFINE the art
5. SHARE the trace
If you build a wall from boxes and call it a gallery — it is yours.
If you invite people inside — it is an exhibition.
If you exhibit inside — you are an artist.
If you bring this idea to your city — you are Bannana Gallery.
The protocol is open.
The responsibility is yours.
Tell the Republic where the next gallery will appear.
Every Bannana Gallery begins with a message.
This is how the gesture continues.
The project lives when gestures become visible to one another.
How to trigger it:
1. FIND the boxes
2. RAISE the walls
3. INVITE people
4. DEFINE the art
5. SHARE the trace
If you build a wall from boxes and call it a gallery — it is yours.
If you invite people inside — it is an exhibition.
If you exhibit inside — you are an artist.
If you bring this idea to your city — you are Bannana Gallery.
The protocol is open.
The responsibility is yours.
THE INTERVENTION
Local Initiators
Want Bannana Gallery in your city?
Send the signal. Then build it.
When a Bannana Gallery appears somewhere in the world, the gesture continues.
Your city becomes part of the same story.
Send the signal. Then build it.
When a Bannana Gallery appears somewhere in the world, the gesture continues.
Your city becomes part of the same story.
Curators & Artists
Want to exhibit?
Send the signal. Then build it.
Find boxes, raise walls, invite people.
That’s all.
Every wall is a potential exhibition.
Curate what you love. Invite who you want.
Send the signal. Then build it.
Find boxes, raise walls, invite people.
That’s all.
Every wall is a potential exhibition.
Curate what you love. Invite who you want.
LEGACY
In Kind
Send a physical banana box. It will join the next Wall of Freedom. When the crates gather, they manifest as a gallery. Every box is a brick. Every sender is a co-author.
We share walls, stories, and credit.
We do not share power — because there is none.
We do not share power — because there is none.
The World's Freest Gallery
A global network of pop-up freedom, built from empty banana boxes.
Boxes travel more freely than any of us. Across oceans, borders, and customs — unnoticed, yet holding the world together.
They are the invisible skeleton of globalization.
I make them visible.
Even a single banana box is already a Bannana Gallery.
Everything else is optional.
Born from the experience of cardboard echoing Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics, this is a gallery of human interaction. No doors, no roof.
Everything becomes art the moment people enter.
These walls grew so free they evolved into the Bannana Republic of Art.
Founded in 2023 by artist Arkadi Kotanjyan as a tool for artistic autonomy.
Joseph Beuys freed the human from the role of spectator.
I free the artist from the institution.
Every artist is a gallerist.
Our mission is to reduce art ghettos worldwide and make exhibition possible anywhere.
Build your gallery anywhere. From a New York parking lot to St. Mark’s Square in Venice. The instructions are simple: the boxes will find you.
Boxes travel more freely than any of us. Across oceans, borders, and customs — unnoticed, yet holding the world together.
They are the invisible skeleton of globalization.
I make them visible.
Even a single banana box is already a Bannana Gallery.
Everything else is optional.
Born from the experience of cardboard echoing Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics, this is a gallery of human interaction. No doors, no roof.
Everything becomes art the moment people enter.
These walls grew so free they evolved into the Bannana Republic of Art.
Founded in 2023 by artist Arkadi Kotanjyan as a tool for artistic autonomy.
Joseph Beuys freed the human from the role of spectator.
I free the artist from the institution.
Every artist is a gallerist.
Our mission is to reduce art ghettos worldwide and make exhibition possible anywhere.
Build your gallery anywhere. From a New York parking lot to St. Mark’s Square in Venice. The instructions are simple: the boxes will find you.