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.

Sholto Blissett joins Pilar Corrias

Pilar Corrias is thrilled to announce representation of London-based artist Sholto Blissett, in joint collaboration with Alexander Berggruen, New York.

Sholto Blissett’s imagined landscapes question preconceived notions about the natural world, prompting viewers to reconsider inherited ideas and categories that shape our understanding of nature and the wilderness.

Building upon the traditions of landscape painting, Blissett approaches nature as an unfolding process rather than a fixed scene, where change occurs in rhythms and forces far beyond human perception. In his work, the natural world is not a mere backdrop but an active participant, vibrant in its entirety; a forest is as alive as any single tree, and a river carries the pulse of a place as vividly as its flora and fauna. Infused with elements of surrealism and magical realism, his imagined worlds resist fixed geography or chronology.

Blissett’s world-building invites the viewer to consider a natural world unbound by imposed categories and to recognise humanity’s inseparable connection to its living fabric. Blissett’s uncanny paintings fuse an appreciation of nature as spectacle with the possibility of relating to landscape as a dynamic and interconnected presence that acts upon us as much as we act upon it.

‘Sholto brings a vital perspective on humanity’s inter-connected relationship to landscape and its place within collective idealisations, in a time when the very idea of the survival of the planet is being put into question. Sholto’s work offers a fresh lens on the history of landscape painting and is one of the most exciting new voices to challenge how we perceive the world around us.’ – Pilar Corrias

Sholto Blissett will have his first solo exhibition with the gallery in March 2026.

photo: Hugo Lami

Esther Schipper now represents Lee Bae

August 28, 2025

Esther Schipper is delighted to announce the representation of Lee Bae.

Lee Bae was born in 1956 in Cheong-do, Korea. He received his BFA and MFA in Fine Arts at Hongik University in 1981 and 1986. The artist lives and works between Paris and Seoul.

The artist was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2018), 4th National Association of Art Critics Award (2013), Artist of the Year, Korean Cultural Center, Paris (2009), and Artist of the Year, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2000).

Lee Bae’s work honors the rituals and traditions of Korean folk culture and craft. While he uses wood, fire, and Hanji (Korean Mulberry paper) to produce sculptures, installations, drawings, and assemblages, his main medium is charcoal. The artist employs it as a transformational material, drawn from the elements and history of Korea, imbued with a rich aggregate of personal, cultural and spiritual associations. Lee Bae transforms charcoal into large-scale sculptures, assembled as wall-mounted surfaces akin to paintings, turned into ink that captures the physicality of the artist’s brush work.

Syzygy, Lee Bae’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, opens on 11 September 2025 at Esther Schipper, Berlin, during Berlin Art Week.

photo © Sangtae Kim

Karla Diaz awarded 2025-26 Artist-in-Residence by The Latinx Project

August 11, 2025

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to announce The Latinx Project has selected Karla Diaz as the 2025-26 Artist-in-Residence.

The Latinx Project at New York University explores and promotes U.S. Latinx Art, Culture and Scholarship through creative and interdisciplinary programs. The 2025-26 Artist-in-residence program is made possible with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Karla Diaz is a writer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist who engages in painting, installation, video, and performance. Using narrative to question identity, institutional power, and explore memory, her socially engaged practice generates exciting collaborations and provokes important dialogue among diverse communities. Notably, she is the co-founder of the collective and community artist space Slanguage. Critical discourse is central to her practice as she explores social, subcultural, and marginalized stories.

As a stroke survivor, she practices repetitive memory exercises, using drawing as a tool for excavating and retaining information. Personal memories, folklore, familiar iconography of her Mexican heritage, and American pop culture are intertwined in surreal compositions that consider family, loss, and the complexities of the Latinx experience in the United States.

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles will present Mal de Ojo (Evil Eye), a solo exhibition by Karla Diaz, from 13 September.

photo: Aydinaneth Ortiz

Ana Cláudia Almeida joins Stephen Friedman Gallery

August 7, 2025

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce co-representation of Brooklyn-based, Brazilian artist Ana Cláudia Almeida, in collaboration with Quadra and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel. This partnership underscores a shared commitment to nurturing the artist’s practice, expanding her exhibition history and broadening her global presence.

"For Ana Cláudia, identity is both the medium and the message," shares Stephen Friedman. "She weaves together personal histories, social structures, and materiality to question established narratives and spark dialogue about how we see and understand ourselves-and each other-through art. In many ways, she’s an alchemist-transforming lived experience into powerful, abstract form. I am excited to see how she continues to evolve her unique blend of abstraction and materiality, expanding the ways we think about representation in art."

Opening 5 September, Stephen Friedman Gallery will present Over Again, Almeida’s first solo exhibition in New York. The presentation brings together a site-specific installation, new fabric works and large-scale paintings. Moving across paper, oil, plastic, fabric and space, Almeida builds what she calls "an ecosystem of pieces" where each medium leaks into the next-a monotype that wants to be a drawing, a drawing that wants to be a painting, plastic remnants that refuse to be cast off. These processes coexist and collide, shifting perception and opening portals to disruption but also reinvention. The work asserts an urgent need to break patterns that no longer serve us in mind, body and daily life.

Looking ahead, Stephen Friedman Gallery will present Almeida’s work at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Recent exhibitions include: Ana Cláudia Almeida & Tadáskía a dialogue-exhibition between the two artists held simultaneously at Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel and Quadra spaces in São Paulo (2024); Tadáskía and Ana Cláudia Almeida: A Joyner/Giuffrida Visiting Artists Program at the Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada, United States (2024); Guandu Paraguaçu Piraquara at Carpintaria, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel's venue in Rio de Janeiro (2023); and Submersiva Ato II (with Carla Santana) at Quadra, Rio de Janeiro. Almeida’s works are part of the permanent collections of the Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil; Instituto Inhotim, Brazil; and Sesc Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others.

Pace now represents Lauren Quin

August 6, 2025

Pace is pleased to announce its representation of the Los Angeles-based artist Lauren Quin, who is known for her expansive, vibrant abstractions in which she orchestrates layers of colors, patterns, and symbols to describe, deconstruct, and interrogate the entanglement of real and pictorial space. Quin’s repertoire of dynamic movements and non-compositional forms create pulsating networks of marks and countermarks, which churn and fluctuate between the concrete and the ephemeral.

Often working at large scale, Quin constructs her paintings methodically from an arsenal of recurring gestures and techniques. Expressionistic brushstrokes are truncated by channels carved across a painting’s surface, creating sculpted fissures in images that Quin further disrupts through passages of monoprinted ink, which she weaves between layers of paint. Turbulent and engrossing, her works are as much excavated as they are made. Past and present mingle on the surfaces of her canvases, interrupting and distorting one another.

Lauren Quin’s first solo exhibition with Pace will open in Los Angeles in February 2026. Her work will be featured prominently in the gallery’s booth at the upcoming edition of Frieze Seoul in September.

photo: Lee Thompson

GRIMM announces a new address in London

July 16, 2025

GRIMM is pleased to announce its expansion to a new gallery space in St James’s, opening to the public this fall to coincide with Frieze Week in October.

The new gallery will be situated on the ground and lower floor of 43a Duke Street, St James’s, a prominent corner site in a historical late Victorian building.

As founder Jorg Grimm shares, “We are proud to be moving to this iconic neighbourhood in London that for centuries has been a historical base for the display of art. Following the gallery’s establishment in London in 2022, our expansion is a logical progression, and in line with the gallery’s goal – to provide the best possible platform for our artists, many of them based in the UK. The gallery prides itself on its active management of all aspects of an artist's career, the foundation on which the gallery has been built. Our program continues to grow and we’re very excited to be able to provide this new space, and the context of the neighbourhood, for our artists to present their work in London going forward.”

43a Duke Street, St James’s will open with a solo exhibition of new paintings by Matthias Weischer.

image: Impression of GRIMM London at 43a Duke Street, St James’s, London (UK)

Tolarno Galleries now represents Djurrayun Murrinyina

July 11, 2025

Tolarno Galleries is pleased to announce representation of Djurrayun Murrinyina.

This young woman is one of the few Djarrwark artists within the Miwatj region, or north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The Djarwarrk clan is numerically very small and parts of its territory fall outside the Miwatj region, where the effects of colonisation were stronger.

Djurrayun lives at Gäṉgan, a remote inland community, 206 kilometres from Yirrkala, where Dr. Gawirrin Gumana AO maintained the art and culture of this, one of his maternal clans, in his role as a Djuŋgaya ('care-taker'). Gawirrin was her maternal uncle and in the year 2007 she began to paint these designs in her own right. She is the only member of this clan to have provided such works in at least fifteen years.

It is believed that she is the only living artist producing works based on Djarwarrk sacred clan design. She is one of four daughters and two sons of Malaluba Gumana (1954-2020), who was an award winning exponent of mixed colours drawn from earth pigments.

Djurrayun is the mother of two adult sons and has lived at Gäṉgan all her life. She is a long term ranger with the Laynhapuy Homelands Association's Yirralka Rangers who care for and protect a massive Indigenous Protected area around the Laynha area. She works with the Yirralka Miyalk to harvest and produce bush medicines. She has extensive cultural knowledge in plant and fibre knowledge.

Tolarno Galleries is looking forward to exhibiting works by Djurrayun Murrinyina in early 2026.

Art Basel Qatar names Wael Shawky as artistic director

July 9, 2025

Art Basel Qatar has appointed the internationally acclaimed Egyptian-born artist Wael Shawky as Artistic Director for the inaugural edition of the fair.

Together with Art Basel’s Chief Artistic Officer and Global Director of Fairs Vincenzo de Bellis, Shawky will lead the curatorial vision of the first edition, and guide the gallery selection process in consultation with the fair's Selection Committee.

The newly launched fair will take place in the M7 creative hub (pictured) in the heart of Doha’s Design District in early February 2026 and, in what is being described as an unconventional move, will not follow the traditional booth model. The fair will instead “prioritize an engaging experience that maintains strong market relevance” with presentations by galleries responding to a central thematic framework.

Shawky, who represented Egypt at the last Venice Biennale, says “It is a privilege to work with Art Basel on this groundbreaking new format. The opportunity to explore artistic practices from across the MENA region and beyond, within a framework that values research, narrative, and experimentation, is extremely meaningful to me. I look forward to collaborating with galleries and artists to help shape a platform that speaks to the complexity and richness of the region while remaining globally relevant”.

The new fair is the centerpiece of a partnership between Art Basel, parent company MCH Group, Qatar Sports Investments, and cultural commerce collective QC+.

Shawky is represented by Lisson gallery.

photos: courtesy of Art Basel