Helvetika 1575 announces inaugural exhibition in Zug

November 19, 2025

Opening on 28 November, Helvetika 1575 presents CELEBRATION, a highly anticipated group show to inaugurate the new gallery space in Zug, Switzerland. In a curatorial first, the exhibition brings together ten artists whose creative vision resonates powerfully across a vast array of media. From drawing and painting to sculpture and installation, their multi-faceted practice spans a broad range of topics that address some of the most pertinent issues humankind is facing today.

Specialising in contemporary art, Helvetika 1575 supports and promotes the careers of leading international and visionary artists whose practices shape and challenge the global discourse of art today. Through a dynamic programme of exhibitions, publications, and interdisciplinary collaborations, the gallery is committed to fostering meaningful engagement among artists, collectors, and audiences worldwide.

Founded and supported by a private foundation, Helvetika 1575 is devoted to presenting and promoting the work of its artists, advancing their creative visions, cultivating their legacies, and ensuring their voices resonate within an international context.

The gallery is housed in a restored 16th-century palazzo in the heart of Zug’s historic old town, a site that once served as a medieval goods transshipment center, a testament to the city’s rich mercantile heritage. Overlooking Lake Zug and framed by the Swiss Alps, the space harmoniously bridges past and present through its architectural blend of history and modernity.

CELEBRATION will remain on view until 15 January 2026.

Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 23rd edition

November 10, 2025

The 23rd edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will take place at Miami Beach Convention Center from 5 - 7 December 2025 (preview days: 3 - 4 December), uniting 283 leading galleries from 43 countries, with UBS as Global Lead Partner. This year’s edition foregrounds the voices, histories, and innovations that define the American art scene today — within a truly global conversation.

“Art Basel Miami Beach stands at the intersection of culture and the market — a platform where artistic vision and economic energy converge to define what comes next,” said Bridget Finn, Director, Art Basel Miami Beach. “In 2025, we bring together exceptional galleries, artists, and patrons in an environment defined by rigor, exchange, and possibility.”

From Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic practices to emergent digital forms, this year’s fair re-examines Modernism through a trans-hemispheric lens — tracing how artists across the Americas continue to remap the canon and reshape global artistic imagination.

Across its core sectors — Galleries, Positions, Nova, and Survey — the fair showcases work of the highest caliber, reflecting Art Basel’s deepened commitment to curatorial excellence, geographic breadth, and historical rediscovery.

Highlights include:

- Meridians, curated by Yasmil Raymond, returns as the curatorial epicenter with the theme The Shape of Time, exploring how artists stretch, distort, and embody temporal experience.
- A revitalized Conversations program brings artists, collectors, and thinkers together for three days of live debate and visionary exchange — opening with a full day devoted to art and sport, and featuring the return of daily Digital Dialogues.
- The debut of Zero 10, curated by Eli Scheinman, introduces a new platform for art of the digital era. Presented with the support of OpenSea, it connects leading and next-generation artists, studios, galleries, and digital innovators within Art Basel’s global ecosystem — setting a new benchmark for how digital art is exhibited, contextualized, and collected today.
- The Art Basel Awards, presented in partnership with BOSS, premiere in the United States, honoring 11 outstanding practitioners and institutions with the inaugural Gold Awards on 4 December.

Featuring a new constellation of partnerships across fashion, design, technology, and hospitality, Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 reaffirms the fair’s role as a catalyst for creative exchange and cultural innovation — where histories are re-examined, boundaries blurred, and new voices rise to meet the future.

photo courtesy of Art Basel

Galerie Peter Kilchmann now represents Ishita Chakraborty

November 7, 2025

Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zürich/Paris is pleased to announce the representation of artist Ishita Chakraborty (b. 1989, West Bengal, India; lives and works between Switzerland and India).

Ishita Chakraborty works across painting, drawing, installation, sound, and poetry, exploring themes of migration, ecology, and language. Her practice combines careful attention to materials — porcelain, glass, pigment, and sound — with an interest in memory, histories, and the traces of human and ecological presence. Drawing on research, experience, and poetic reflection, her work creates spaces where fragility and resilience intersect.

I Recall the Forest Inside Me, Chakraborty’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, is on view in Zürich until Saturday 8 November. The exhibition brings together drawing, sculpture, and installation to form an immersive reflection on landscape and memory. Large wall drawings in chalk and charcoal, porcelain and glass objects, and delicate fabric works evoke the tension between ecological beauty and political violence. The exhibition addresses the notion of the forest — both real and internal — as a living archive of displacement and belonging.

Alison Jacques announces representation of Pacita Abad

October 20, 2025

Alison Jacques has announced representation of the Pacita Abad Art Estate, in partnership with Tina Kim Gallery in New York and Silverlens in Manila. Pacita Abad’s (b.1946; Batanes, Philippines; d.2004, Singapore) first solo exhibition at the gallery will take place in 2027.

Abad’s recent major survey exhibition, curated by Victoria Sung, at the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (2023) travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, New York and Art Gallery of Ontario (2024-2025). A fully illustrated monograph including essay contributions by Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson, artist Pio Abad, and fellow curators Nancy Lim, Xiaoyu Weng and Ruba Katrib was published in 2023.

Recent group exhibitions include, ‘Foreigners Everywhere’, 60th Venice Biennale (2024); ‘Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textile in Art’, Barbican, London (2024); ‘Sweat’, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2022); and the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020). Abad was also included in epoch-making exhibitions: ‘Beyond the Border: Art by Recent Immigrant’, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (1999) and ‘Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art’, Asia Society Galleries, New York (1994).

photo: © Pacita Abad Art Estate

Shaqúelle Whyte awarded Contemporary Art Society’s Collection Fund at Frieze 2025

October 15, 2025

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce that Shaqúelle Whyte has been selected as one of two winners for the Contemporary Art Society’s Collections Fund at Frieze London 2025, with In an embroiled fashion (2025) being acquired for the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. With 2027 marking the Walker’s 150th Anniversary, these acquisitions have been made to feature as centrepieces of their celebrations, as well as becoming part of the museum’s contemporary collection.

Whyte’s In an embroiled fashion (2025) presents a moment of conflict between two men grappling in either a playful wrestle or a heated fight. Whyte’s compositions are often ambiguous, presented in media res or in swirling motion. He creates charged emotional instants that draw the viewer in for clues, the expression of his varied brushwork lending narrative and atmosphere. In an embroiled fashion (2025) is part of a larger body of work which is on view during Frieze London in Winter Remembers April, Whyte’s second solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.

Whyte’s painting is on view at Frieze London with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Booth A21.

Workplace now represents Ki Yoong

Workplace is pleased to announce the representation of artist Ki Yoong.

Ki Yoong’s paintings are marked by a quiet tenderness, underscored by his distinctive use of tightly cropped compositions upon found materials including copper, steel, acrylic, and glass. The removal of visual information opens space for projection, inviting the viewer to bring their own associations and memories into the process of looking. His works simultaneously explore portraiture and object making.

Rendered with meticulous detail, Yoong’s paintings are constructed from multiple translucent layers of oil paint, each applied with a fine brush in a process akin to drawing. Rather than bold, expressive brushstrokes, Yoong favours subtle accumulation, delicate gestures that coalesce into images that are concurrently precise and ephemeral.

Ki Yoong (b.1988, Bradford, UK) lives and works in London. Yoong received his BA in Fine Art from The University of Leeds in 2010 and his MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2013.

out now! the London Gallery map with Frieze

October 14, 2025

The Autumn/Winter London Gallery Map - produced with Frieze - is out now, grab your copy at the Fair and at all the best galleries around town!

You can also download a pdf here - and check the website or download the app for daily updates.

Perrotin announces representation of Oli Epp

October 8, 2025

On the occasion of Frieze London, Perrotin has announced the representation of Oli Epp.

Born in 1994 in London, Oli Epp’s paintings circulate a number of themes to do with the tragicomic element of living in the 21st century society, dealing with the complexity of identity and anxieties living in the digital age; consumerism and consumption which leads to control and addiction, anxiety and conflict. The paintings work in an endlessly cyclical way of Epp ironically questioning idealisms and our pursuit of perfection.

In 2022 the exhibitions Do you want somebody to Love? and in 2024 Fire the Menu were shown at Perrotin New York. He is regularly invited as curator and artist. In 2025, Perrotin Paris has invited him to curate Clear History.

His works are included in prestigious collections such as: Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Museum of Fine Art in Montreal, Canada, among others.

Oli Epp is also represented by Semiose, Paris

photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli

Gallery Climate Coalition launches new fundraising initiative at Frieze London

October 2, 2025

This October, Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) marks its fifth anniversary with the launch of ‘10% Of’, a bold new initiative debuting at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025.

Reimagining the familiar “10% off” sale sign, ‘10% Of’ transforms the language of the art market into a call for generosity and collective responsibility. Participating galleries will nominate artworks from their stands and pledge 10% of the sale price to support climate action in the visual arts. The initiative draws on artist Gary Hume’s reflection: “I can’t claim to be an environmental activist, I’m more like a ten percent activist. But I think there are lots of us who are ten percent activists, and if you put a lot of ten percent together, it begins to add up.”

Coinciding with GCC’s fifth anniversary and the lead-up to COP30, ‘10% Of’ comes at a pivotal moment. Global emissions remain on the rise, climate impacts are accelerating, and the need for collective action has never been clearer.

Since 2020, GCC has mobilised over 2,000 members in 60+ countries, equipping the arts sector with practical tools including its widely used carbon calculator, sector guidelines, and research. Through initiatives like ‘10% Of’, GCC continues to show how the mechanisms of the art market can be redirected toward meaningful climate solutions.

As Frances Morris, Chair of GCC, puts it: “By reframing a standard art market gesture, this initiative shows how the sector can work together to drive systemic change—an impact greater than the sum of its parts.”

Leading galleries already committed to the initiative include:

Axel Vervoordt, BASTIAN, Berry Campbell, D'LAN CONTEMPORARY, Edel Assanti, Frith Street Gallery, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Hollybush Gardens, Kate MacGarry, Lisson Gallery, Maisterravalbuena, Michael Werner Gallery, October Gallery, Pedro Cera, Peter Blum Gallery, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Soft Opening, Sprüth Magers, Thaddaeus Ropac, Thomas Dane Gallery, Union Pacific, Victoria Miro, Waddington Custot, White Cube.

artwork: Thomas Demand, Eis, 2025 © Thomas Demand / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025, Courtesy Sprüth Magers as part of the '10% Of' initiative.

Nicola Vassell now represents Na Kim

September 30, 2025

Nicola Vassell is pleased to announce its representation of artist Na Kim, whose series of paintings offer a nuanced exploration of perception, memory and belief. This announcement follows Kim’s debut exhibition with the gallery in January of this year, titled Memory Palace.

The concept of Memory Palace—or the Method of Loci, a technique of mentally reconstructing space—mirrors Kim’s approach to painting. Rooted in repetition, her process challenges both herself and her viewer to continually rethink her chosen subjects. Her paintings reveal how much information is needed to recognize and understand any given subject: by whittling away what is extraneous, she attempts to capture only what is foundational.

photo: Brian Finke

Tolarno Galleries announces representation of Tennant Creek Brio

Tolarno Galleries is pleased to announce representation of Tennant Creek Brio, a cross-cultural artist collective living and working on Warumungu Country in the Northern Territory of Australia. Once a station for the Overland Telegraph Line, later the site of extensive gold mines, Tennant Creek is today the home of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Presently, the collective work between studios in Melbourne and Tennant Creek.

Living in and around Tennant Creek, Brio came together as a group in 2016. Its current members include Fabian Brown Japaljarri, Lindsay Nelson Jakamarra, Rupert Betheras, Joseph Williams Jungarayi, Clifford Thompson Japaljarri, Jimmy Frank Jupurrula, Simon Wilson, Fabian Rankine Jampijinpa, Marcus Camphoo Kemarre, and recent collaborators including Eleanor Dixon Jawurlngali, Lévi McLean, Gary Sullibhaine, Jonathan Leahey, Arthur Dixon Jalyirri.

Known for their punk attitude and use of salvaged materials from the region’s historical mining boom, their work explores the confluences and conflicts between industrialisation and traditional ways of life.

Tennant Creek Brio’s first exhibition at Tolarno Galleries will open in February 2026. The same month, the major sculpture Rumpofsteelskin is anticipated to be a highlight of the Melbourne Art Fair.

photo: Harry Price

Mai 36 Galerie now represents Maia Ruth Lee

September 25, 2025

Mai 36 Galerie is pleased to announce the representation of Maia Ruth Lee (*1983, Busan, South Korea).

Maia Ruth Lee’s work explores the shifting landscapes of language, memory and identity within the context of migration and personal mythology. Born in South Korea, raised in Nepal, and having lived in cities as varied as New York and Salida, Colorado, she has developed a visual language that navigates the dislocation and fluidity of cross cultural experience.

Her practice spans photography, video, painting, and sculpture, examining lives shaped by precarity and unrootedness—where maps, atlases, and banners serve as markers of movement and, often, of loss. Through translation as a method, Lee moves her work across mediums, linking themes of borders, community, and language with material embodiments of carriers and acts of self-preservation. Lee’s work creates a passageway, forging new lexicons that give form to transient lives and their stories—moving beyond conventional notions of legibility and comprehension.

Maia Ruth Lee received a BFA from Hong Ik University in Seoul and attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Migration Studies at University of San Francisco.

photo: Peter Sutherland

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery announces representation of Masao Nakahara

September 17, 2025

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce representation of Japanese artist Masao Nakahara, who has lived in Germany since the early 1980s. In his poignant reflections on childhood, memory, and the transience of all things, Nakahara advocates for a deep appreciation of the present moment. His intimate paintings and sculptures are populated by a cast of innocent, ageless figures set within captivating dreamscapes, imbued with a sense of serenity and surreality. Drawing on both Japanese and European art history, his work is influenced by his long-term admiration of artists such as Maurice Utrillo, Edvard Munch, and Jan van Eyck.

Masao Nakahara (b. Saitama, Japan, 1956) lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He received degrees from Nihon Art School, Tokyo (1980), and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1988). Following a thirty year career hiatus, during which he worked as a translator, Nakahara returned to public recognition in 2021, when at the invitation of his long-time friend Yoshitomo Nara, he was included in tomodachi to: With Friends at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Other recent and upcoming solo and group exhibitions include The Urawa Art Museum Tokyo (2026); Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo (2026, 2022); Sens Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); and Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam (2022). Nakahara's work is housed in the collection of the Yoshitomo Nara Foundation. The artist is also represented by Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam.

Nakahara’s first solo exhibition with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Floating Through Time, is on view until 4 October 2025.

photo: Todd White Art Photography

Martha Tuttle joins Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the representation of Martha Tuttle in London. This winter, the gallery will present a solo exhibition of new work by the artist, incorporating select materials gathered during a month-long residency in Somerset this past summer. In collaboration with Timothy Taylor, Tuttle will continue to be represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York.

Interweaving elements of sculpture, textile, and painting, Tuttle creates subtle compositions that reflect on materiality, impermanence, scale, and flux. She uses earthen materials—plant dyes, stone pigments, wool, linen, and silk—to build fractured topographical surfaces that return the language of geometric abstraction to the natural world. The painting I walk along the bottom of a canyon, finding mineral matter and fragments of bones (2025), for example, evokes both the strictures of the grid and the shifting appearance of light on water. Featuring geode fragments and bronze casts of cow bones, this work is characteristic of Tuttle’s material exploration. She often embeds diverse objects—stones, charred wood, cast aluminium—into her compositions.Together, these varied elements create sophisticated and complex dynamics of opacity and transparency, interior and exterior, weight, and tension.

Tuttle engages slow, deliberate processes: grinding her pigments; spinning, weaving, felting, and sewing her textiles. These practices emphasise both the role of the hand and the inherent qualities of her materials. The resulting works possess a tactile intimacy and a quiet, resonant care. Often, Tuttle’s paintings respond to specific landscapes, including those she inhabited as a child growing up in rural New Mexico. “My work is always asking how we, as human beings, can encourage intimacy with the nonhuman world that surrounds us,” she has said. With formal gestures that speak to difference, multiplicity, and balance, Tuttle’s abstractions offer emotional and embodied responses to our environment.

photo: Daniel Browne

Esther Schipper now represents Rafa Silvares

September 15, 2025

Esther Schipper is delighted to announce the representation of Rafa Silvares.

Rafa Silvares was born in 1984 in Santos, Brazil. He holds a BFA from FAAP (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado), São Paulo and a BA in Language and Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at the University of São Paulo. The artist lives and works in Berlin.

In Rafa Silvares’s work, time appears arrested and space collapsed onto itself. Amidst the seductiveness of their smooth surface and the visual pleasure of expanses of brilliant color, we have an intuitive understanding of the allegorical nature of his paintings. Their frozen movements evoke the end of the belief in the inherent benefit of progress. The static fluidity of their masses—be they natural formations (water, mud, or lava) or expelled from human-made machinery (pipes, pistons, or washers)—is in a kind of limbo. Caught in the paradox of agitated stillness, liquids overflow, bursting brightly from pistons, pipes, the ground, or the sky. The absence of human depictions in the paintings is counteracted by the feeling of looking at a human-made world. And us: Silvares’s paintings seem unusually aware of the onlooker’s presence, even counting on it.

Solace can be found in the objects. Silvares lovingly paints the shiny metal of his human-made motifs with an eye for precisionist effect and the beauty of their abstract shapes. Together, triangles, rectangles, slivers of black, and shades of gray form the impression of seductive silvery surfaces. The metal is a recurring motif that exerts symbolic power; its hard, lustrous, reflective shell evokes the promise of modernity with its scientistic notions of cleanliness and the antiseptic. As with the hyper-seductive surfaces of consumer objects in late capitalism, his paintings are knowing, perhaps even willfully complicit in the intermingling of pain and pleasure. And yet they have an affirmative quality: the silver lining on their melting horizons is a belief in color and shape as forces of renewal.

In November 2025 Jac Leirner and Rafa Silvares will have a joint exhibition at Esther Schipper, Berlin.

photo © Jerzy Goliszewski

New Museum announces Partnership with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

September 11, 2025

The New Museum today announced a new partnership with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, furthering both organizations’ commitment to supporting the production and exhibition of new work by the most exciting international artists working today. The New Futures Production Fund will be an annual program supporting the production of a major new work to be presented at the New Museum in New York City followed by a presentation at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Expanding on the New Museum’s mission to catalyze the creation and appreciation of the global art of today, the establishment of the New Futures Production Fund builds on the Museum’s long history of collaboration and exchange with arts institutions around the world. The first work realized through the partnership will be a new work created by Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy; lives and works in Milan) and presented at the New Museum in 2026 followed by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

“We have been honored to have Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo closely engaged with the New Museum for more than fifteen years and a founding member of the New Museum’s International Leadership Council, and we are thrilled that our two institutions have come together on this new partnership,” said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum. “We look forward to exhibiting the work supported by this collaboration as one of many new initiatives to be presented in the OMA-designed expansion of the New Museum.”

photo: Andrea Rossetti

Sylvia Kouvali now represents Grant Mooney

September 10, 2025

Sylvia Kouvali is pleased to announce the representation of Grant Mooney.

Occupying intermediary positions between abstract, autonomous, and site-specific sculpture, the work of New York-based artist Grant Mooney is acutely concerned with tactility and connectivity, while straddling associations of studio craft, material histories, and site-responsive gesture.

photo: Stephen Faught

Atlas gallery announces representation of Jan C. Schlegel

Schlegel is known for his unique black and white images and to introduce the artist the gallery is presenting his series, Life on Earth.

Through a mesmerising series of handmade platinum prints, Life on Earth reveals the invisible world of phytoplankton with captivating detail and poetic allure. Schlegel invites us into a delicate microcosms, of these life-sustaining organisms that remain largely unseen by the naked eye.These microscopic forms, responsible for generating more than half of the world’s oxygen, are reimagined through the artist’s singular analog process into monumental, abstract compositions. Each image is a masterful study in contrast, structure, and form. Floating against deep backgrounds, the luminous silhouettes appear both graphic and sculptural. Their biological origins transcended, inviting quiet reflection and wonder.

Available as a portfolio of 51 handmade prints crafted entirely by the artist, these works are also offered for the first time in two larger sizes, expanding their visual impact while preserving their intricate beauty.