New Generation · Young Patron
Join the
institution.
A structured membership program connecting collectors under 30 directly to the artists, studios, and exhibitions of Open Universe — with real access, real relationships, and a permanent founding record.
This is not a donation. It is a position. MoMA has Young Patrons. The Whitney has Contemporaries. Open Universe is building its founding cohort now.
Join Young PatronAge cap is 30. Join before you age out. Founding members are named permanently.
Founding spots — closes permanently once full
Founding member entry — per year
Age cap — join before you age out
Three levels.
One founding record.
Every Young Patron is named permanently in the founding cohort regardless of level. The tiers determine access — all three are part of the same institution.
- Named permanently on the founding list
- Invitation to founding reception — Basel or Miami week
- Early access to OI artist editions and prints
- Annual impact report
- Everything in Founding Member
- One work from the Living Collection — full provenance
- One curatorial studio visit per year
- VIP access to OI fair preview
- Everything in Young Collector
- Named in OI fair programming
- Direct artist introduction by OI
- Curator dinners at fair editions
"The artists are early. The institution is early. The moment to be a founding patron is now."
Your credential
Young Patron, Open Universe · Founding Cohort · [Year]Every Young Patron is permanently named in the Open Universe founding record. The cohort closes at 25 members and does not reopen. Your name is there from the beginning — long before the institution is fully built.
Your name is on this
permanently.
The founding cohort closes once it fills. There is no second founding. The 25 people who join now are the founding Young Patrons of Open Universe — permanently, in the institutional record, for as long as the museum exists.