Havanas apartment-galleries have been vital venues for the citys art scene since the 1990s, hosting art exhibitions, workshops, and conferences. In the context of Cubas limited art market and dearth of cultural institutions with international reach, these residential spaces have offered artists a unique opportunity to display their work and to connect with international art circuits. Focusing on the histories of three specific apartment-galleries El Apartamento, Estudio Figueroa-Vives, and Avecez Art Space this chapbook reflects on the complex interplay of the local and the global in the worlding of cultural institutions.