Sally Tallant appointed Director of the Hayward Gallery

January 21, 2026

The Southbank Centre announces that Sally Tallant has been appointed Director of the Hayward Gallery and Visual Arts.

Tallant will take up the role from July 2026 and will lead a programme of work that includes directing and curating exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, the Southbank Centre’s contemporary art space. She will also organise visual arts installations across the whole Southbank Centre site and will oversee a national programme of work through Hayward Gallery Touring which reaches hundreds of thousands of people across the UK every year.

“I am delighted to be returning to London as Director of the Hayward Gallery and Visual Arts, Southbank Centre. It is an honour to join Mark Ball and Elaine Bedell, and to build on the outstanding legacy of Ralph Rugoff, shaping the next chapter of this vital cultural destination and civic institution,” says Sally Tallant.

Tallant is currently Director of the Queens Museum in New York, where she has overseen over 30 major exhibitions, including Fia Backstrom, A Billion Dollar Dream, Suzanne Lacy, Tracey Rose, Christine Sun Kim, Aliza Nisenbaum, Aki Sasamoto, Lyle Ashton Harris, Stephanie Dinkins, Charisse Pearlina Weston, Emilie Gossiaux, Caroline Kent, Pia Camil and Mierle Laderman Ukeles as well as wide-reaching education, public programmes and community events in one of the most diverse communities in the US.

She takes over from Ralph Rugoff OBE, who will step down in Spring 2026 after 20 years in the post. Beyond the end of his Director role, Ralph Rugoff will provide curatorial oversight for a major retrospective of Anish Kapoor, opening on 16 June 2026 as part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th Anniversary celebrations.

photo: Thierry Bal

New Museum to reopen in March 2026

January 13, 2026

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Executive Architect Cooper Robertson will open to the public on 21 March 2026.

The inaugural exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future will unfold throughout the entirety of the expanded New Museum. This ambitious thematic survey will bring together works by more than 200 artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers to explore how dramatic technological and societal changes have spurred new conceptions of what it means to be “human.” Placing new and recent works by artists including Sophia Al-Maria, Lucy Beech, Meriem Bennani, Cyprien Gaillard, Pierre Huyghe, Tau Lewis, Daria Martin, Wangechi Mutu, Precious Okoyomon, Berenice Olmedo, Philippe Parreno, Hito Steyerl, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Andro Wekua, and Anicka Yi in the context of works by twentieth-century artists and cultural figures such as Francis Bacon, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Salvador Dalí, Ibrahim El-Salahi, H.R. Giger, Kiki Kogelnik, Hannah Höch, Tatsuo Ikeda, Gyula Kosice, El Lissitzky, Lennart Nilsson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Carlo Rambaldi, Germaine Richier, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, New Humans examines the ways in which artists’ visions of the future have evolved throughout time.

Alongside New Humans, the New Museum will also unveil a number of major new commissions that will be on long-term view in dedicated sites in and around the building, including a work by Tschabalala Self created for the Museum’s façade, a monumental sculpture by Klára Hosnedlová for the Museum’s new Atrium Stair, and a work by Sarah Lucas created for the Museum’s new public plaza at the building’s entrance.

The New Museum will offer free admission for its opening weekend, welcoming neighbors from across New York City and visitors from around the world to explore the Museum’s new space, experience its reopening exhibition and site-specific commissions, and celebrate with music and activities for art lovers of all ages. Registration for free opening weekend tickets, made possible through the generous support of New Museum Trustee Charlotte Feng Ford, will go live in February 2026.

image courtesy OMA/bloomimages.de

David Zwirner announces representation of Amy Sillman

January 9, 2026

David Zwirner is pleased to announce the representation of New York–based artist Amy Sillman. Sillman’s first exhibition with the gallery will be in New York in 2027.

Amy Sillman is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters of her generation. Since the early 1990s, she has developed a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, drawing, digital animation, printmaking, large-scale installations, and critical writing. Sillman’s process-oriented work navigates the contested terrains between images and words, line and shape, object and site, meaning and feeling.

The artist’s decisive compositions emerge from accumulated layers of painting, erasure, and revision in a process that is at once slow and immediate, deliberate and impulsive, and ultimately considers notions of time. Engaging deeply with the history of painting, Sillman draws from a wide range of high and low art influences and precedents—from gestural to hard-edge painting, abstract expressionism to minimalist seriality—excavating and remaking them in an expansive practice that speaks to the present. The artist also deploys diverse modes of inquiry from film, music, and philosophy, using humor, improvisation, and ambiguity as radical strategies for dismantling hierarchies and constructing new meaning.

photo: Bruno Staub

Felix & Spear now represents Amanda Holiday

Felix & Spear is pleased to announce representation of Amanda Holiday.

Amanda Holiday was born in Sierra Leone in 1964 and moved to the north of England at the age of five. She studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art and was actively involved in the UK Black arts movement, exhibiting in landmark Black art exhibitions during the 1980s, before transitioning into film.
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In 1989, she directed the Arts Council–funded documentary Employing the Image, which examines the lives and work of five young Black British artists, including Sonia Boyce and Zarina Bhimji. This was followed by the one-minute film Manao Tupapau, which reanimates a Gauguin painting from the perspective of the model. Her BFI-funded experimental drama Miss Queencake reimagines elements of Gauguin’s life as a decolonial anti-narrative. From 2001 to 2010, Holiday was based in Cape Town, where she worked in educational television.
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Her 1987 drawing Red Riding Hood was exhibited in Women in Revolt!, which toured from Tate Britain in 2024 to the Whitworth, Manchester, in 2025. In the same year, she undertook a UKRI travel research fellowship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Her artworks have been included in the group exhibitions Bloom Song and Gloam, both presented by Vivienne Roberts Projects, and her drawing The Sense is currently on view in the Courtauld’s East Wing Biennial until 2027. Holiday has been selected as one of two artists representing the UK at the Malta Biennale 26.
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She is currently completing a PhD in Poetry, Race and Art at the University of Brighton.

Perrotin announces representation of Kathia St. Hilaire

January 5, 2026

Perrotin is thrilled to announce the representation of Kathia St. Hilaire on the occasion of her first solo exhibition, The Vocals of the Chaotic Burst, at Perrotin Paris. This new exhibition marks the artist’s first presentation in France, following her participation in the group exhibition FEMMES, curated by Pharrell Williams. Her first solo exhibition with the gallery took place in Perrotin New York in 2024.

Informed by her experience growing up in Caribbean and African American neighborhoods in South Florida, the artist seeks to memorialize the communities that she has been a part of through innovative printmaking techniques. Her work draws inspiration from Haitian Vodun flags, which are used to tell the country’s history and honor ancestral spirits. Using nontraditional materials such as beauty products, industrial metal, fabric or tires, she creates ornate tapestries that seek to preserve the Haitian history and Vodun religion that lives around us in Miami.

Kathia St. Hilaire received her M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut and her B.F.A. in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has recently been featured in solo shows at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA; Perrotin, New York, NY; and the NSU Art Museum Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; as well as group exhibitions at the Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Half Gallery, New York; Blum & Poe, New York; and James Fuentes, New York.

photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli

In Memoriam: Ceal Floyer (1968-2025)

December 11, 2025

Esther Schipper is saddened to announce the passing of Ceal Floyer. She died on 11 December 2025 after a long battle with illness.

Floyer was one of the most radically conceptual artists of her generation, renowned for her concise humor and profoundly understated visual language. Her works are brilliantly inventive and, just like her, full of razor-sharp intelligence, dry wit, and visual acuity. The minimal interventions she defined as her artworks—shifts in scale, subtle spatial displacements, plays on words and nearly invisible edits—provoke a heightened awareness of perception itself.

Like a haiku, Ceal’s art was built from restraint, with every choice being highly intentional and nothing left to chance. Her work is poetic yet uncompromising, and invites viewers to reconsider the mechanics of seeing, naming, and meaning. She achieved, in her practice, a paradoxical condition of feather-light gravitas. Exuding a quiet but forceful presence, her distinct artistic voice was both playful and profound.

As in her “nail-biting performance” at Symphony Hall in Birmingham in 2001, pictured above, everything is contained in a single gesture: success and anxiety, presence and absence, confidence and fragility–distilled into the smallest possible action.

As she used to say when people asked what it was about: “It's Ceal.”

Ceal Floyer was born in 1968 and grew up in England. She studied at Goldsmiths College, London. Since the late 1990s Floyer lived in Berlin. In 2007 Floyer was awarded the prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Berlin and in 2009 the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize by the Nam June Paik Center, Yongin. Floyer participated in Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel (2012), and in the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Floyer's work has been exhibited extensively. Among the most important solo exhibitions are: Ceal Floyer, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2016); On Occasion, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2016); Ceal Floyer, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2015); Ceal Floyer, Museion, Bolzano (2014); Ceal Floyer, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven (2013); Things, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2011); Works on Paper, CCA, Tel Aviv (2011); Ceal Floyer, DHC/ART, Montreal (2011); Auto Focus, Museum of Modern Art (MOCA), North Miami (2010); Ceal Floyer, KW Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin (2009), and Gakona, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009)

photo © Hugo Glendinning

Alison Jacques now represents Gina Kuschke

December 9, 2025

Alison Jacques announces representation of London-based artist Gina Kuschke (b.1992, Cape Town, South Africa), and presents ‘A Place Beyond’, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of her work, taking place from 15 January to 21 February, 2026.

Since completing her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art and BA in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Kuschke has developed a practice of abstract painting, giving form to a confluence of cultures, migratory patterns and memories. Kuschke works the paintings until they reflect a true translation of her lived experience.

Growing up between South Africa and London, Kuschke spent long periods by the sea and in the savanna, developing a heightened attentiveness to nature’s cues; how water, rocks, and the shifting contours of the varied and distinct landscapes that she moved between, reveal the visual effects of time. This, together with the inevitable adaptations that define the migrant experience of navigating contrasting contexts, cultivated her sensitivity to place. In her gestural approach to landscape, she maps the meeting of her external environment and inner geography, delivering a true translation of her lived experience.

Kuschke’s large-scale paintings are created through a sustained physical performance, making each composition intensely bodily. The works begin the moment she makes the painting’s ‘support’ – constructing the frame, stretching and grounding the canvas. ‘It is never a blank canvas’, she explains. Even before picking up a tool, Kuschke builds the work – materially and conceptually – a process which is integral to the final resolve.

photo: Matthew Coles

Galerie Eva Presenhuber announces representation of Sandra Mujinga

December 4, 2025

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is proud to announce the representation of Sandra Mujinga, alongside Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and The Approach, London.

Working across installation, sculpture, performance, text, and digital media, Mujinga explores shifting economies of visibility and opacity, self-representation, and the politics of surveillance. Her work is deeply invested in traces and concealment, what lingers, haunts from history, or slips away, and in how bodies are remembered. Often drawing from fossils and science fiction, she speculates on creatures from the past and the future, while conjuring ghostly figures that resist fixed identities. Informed by post-human theory and the afterlives of colonialism, Mujinga envisions alternative worlds where technology, humans, and other beings merge in speculative and political acts of becoming.

Mujinga’s solo exhibition Skin to Skin is currently on view at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam until January 11, 2026. In December 2025, she will participate in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi, India. In January 2026, her most comprehensive solo exhibition to date will open at the Belvedere in Vienna.

I am thrilled to welcome Sandra to our gallery! I greatly admire how she challenges and broadens our understanding of past, present, and future bodies through her highly versatile multimedia practice. Amid the ongoing cultural discourse around identities and technology, it is critical thinkers and artistic visionaries like Sandra who are paving the way ahead with clarity and power. I am very excited for our upcoming collaborations in 2026 and beyond.
- Eva Presenhuber

photo: Chai Saeidi

Serpentine and The FLAG Art Foundation announce major new transatlantic collaboration

December 1, 2025

Serpentine and The FLAG Art Foundation have announced the creation of a new prize dedicated to supporting artists worldwide. Over the next decade, a total of £1 million will be awarded biennially - £200,000 to each recipient - to five artists, providing unmatched support at a pivotal moment in their careers. This will be the UK’s largest contemporary art prize given to a single artist.

Each recipient will stage a solo exhibition that debuts at either Serpentine or The FLAG Art Foundation and is then reimagined for the partner institution, creating an ongoing artistic dialogue between the two.

This partnership will establish a decade-long collaboration, awarding five prizes to five outstanding artists. The first artist to be awarded funds will be selected in 2026, with the inaugural exhibition set to open at Serpentine in London in Autumn 2027, before travelling to FLAG in New York in Spring 2028. Each presentation will be accompanied by a dedicated catalogue and a dynamic live programme, developed and produced collaboratively by both institutions.

This long-term partnership reflects the shared commitment between FLAG and Serpentine to support artistic experimentation, and exchange across borders. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize underscores both organisations’ belief in the power of collaboration to shape the future of contemporary art.

Artists will be considered for the award through a nomination process, with a rotating jury of internationally renowned curators, art historians and artists selecting the final recipients. Details of the jury to be announced in due time.

The prize is intended to provide artists, at a significant stage in their careers, with the freedom and time to develop a substantial new body of work, exhibit them, and explore new ideas.

Artists selected for the prize will be of any generation or age, from all geographies, will have been exhibiting professionally for less than 10 years and will be actively working to grow and sustain a strong record of international museum and gallery exhibitions, including gallery representation, honours, awards, art critic reviews, grants and publications.

photo: © Andy Stagg for Serpentine

Perrotin now represents Todd Gray

November 25, 2025

Perrotin is pleased to announce the representation of Todd Gray (b. 1954, Los Angeles). Known for his photo-sculptural compositions that interrogate the long reach of colonization, Gray draws from his own archive of photographs—taken over the course of five decades—to reorient how we see the world. With an incisive eye for detail, he directs our attention to the visual and historical connections between African landscapes and Renaissance interiors, pop icons and sculptural monuments, classical order and the digital glitch.

Gray will have his first solo exhibition with the gallery at Perrotin Los Angeles in March 2026. Gallery founder Emmanuel Perrotin says, “From my first introduction to Todd Gray’s work, I have been impressed by its ambition, originality, and vitality.” The recipient of prestigious fellowships including the Rome Prize and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Gray will debut a monumental work commissioned by LACMA for its Peter Zumthor-designed permanent collection galleries when the new building opens in spring 2026.

In addition to Perrotin, the artist will continue to be represented by Lehmann Maupin.

photo: Kyungmi Shin

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.