WIZARD LAB is a contemporary art gallery founded in November 2024 through a collaboration between Gabriela Galati and WIZARD GALLERY (Federico Luger and Riccardo G Luger). The gallery represents artists with research-based practices that explore the intersections of art, science, technology, the environment, and living systems. These artists critically engage with the media and tools central to their creative processes. WIZARD LAB presents their work through a dynamic program of exhibitions —both in-gallery and off-site — as well as through participation in national and international art fairs.

The playful association of WIZARD with LAB evokes a space for both scientific and fictional artistic invention. It references the artist’s creative studio, “the library as a hub of theoretical research” — described by Jussi Parikka in The Lab Imaginary —and the wizard’s tower or alchemical lab, spaces rich with imaginative experimentation. It also alludes to a historical era when magic, artistic inquiry, and science—as the methodological study of the natural and physical world—were deeply intertwined.

Corso di Porta Ticinese 87.  20123 Milan. Italy 

lab@wizardgallery.com

Why Corso di Porta Ticinese, 87:

Corso di Porta Ticinese, a space in Milan’s historic centre, was occupied for ten years by Pasquale Leccese’s gallery, Le Case d’Arte. A renowned Italian gallerist and curator, Leccese organised international exhibitions for artists such as Richard Prince, John Baldessari, Marlene Dumas, Alighiero Boetti, and many emerging Italian talents. His close friendship and collaborations with Federico Luger and Gabriela Galati eventually led him to pass on the Porta Ticinese space to them, allowing them to continue a high-calibre international contemporary art program. WIZARD LAB now takes on the responsibility of preserving this historic space, pivotal to the Milanese cultural scene.