
Think of a place, a spot where there are no rules, there is no above and below, where there are no limits (if not human ones)... where everything can go beyond... where everything can be created. Imagine being able to live thousand times, imagine being able to expand until conceive, touch 'the other'. Open with us this infinite space where you can be infinite.
Don't be afraid to open the box!

The project's aim is the realization of an art piece linked to the recycling of books from Lafkan antique book shop. It will be a tribute to the now closed shop (founded in 1971), but also to the printed book: in a physically and symbolically way, and the social aspects related to it. Granted by Svenska Kulturfonden, Vaasa City & Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse.
1-year pilot and trial plan for a development art project in southern Ostrobothnia through the integration of public art in relation to the community and the territory. The activities are divided into two phases: studies of the territory and the impact that a public artwork can visually have on the community, design and implementation of the artwork/s in the chosen locations, in 2022. Granted by Svenska Kulturfonden - Frans Henriksson fond.
The mural painting rapresents the genesis of an idea, that moment before being understood, in a still indefinite and abstract space, full of creative tension. An ode to intuition and to that precise moment, when our thoughts meet and click, making it all start. The initiative to create and host a public artwork came from Wasa Innovation Center. The art piece was implemented on the external left side, concentrated on the first floor with lateral extensions that reach the second one.
The project's aim is the realization of an art piece linked to the recycling of books from Lafkan antique book shop. It will be a tribute to the now closed shop (founded in 1971), but also to the printed book: in a physically and symbolically way, and the social aspects related to it. Granted by Svenska Kulturfonden, Vaasa City & Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse.
Black Box Genesis is an art brand that encompasses the experience in fine arts and artistic/cultural activities of Valentina Gelain and Bekim Hasaj. Established in 2018, in Vaasa / Finland as an art studio and art space, we have collaborated with various organizations, art foundations, artists, associations, organizing and creating events, exhibitions, and public art works. Now, projected towards the latter and online, pop-up exhibitions, Black Box Genesis consolidates the form of a platform for the presentation and training of the two founders in relation to the future.
Main Collaborations
Malakta ry/rf | Elokuvakeskus Botnia ry/Filmcentrum Botnia rf | Vaasa City | La Faretra | Pohjanmaan tanssin aluekeskus ry/Regionala danscentret i Österbotten | Wasa Innovation Center | OGAF | Makers' Gallery
Exhibition in collaboration with Makers' Gallery, Vaasa, December 2021.
Art film premiere in collaboration with Elokuvakeskus Botnia / Filmcentrum Botnia, Vaasa, December 2021.
Mural painting in collaboration with Malakta - Mural Rural Festival, Malax, May 2021.
Exhibition in collaboration with Makers' Gallery, Vaasa, December 2021.