Atlas gallery announces representation of Jan C. Schlegel

September 10, 2025

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

Echo Soho, a new female-led art fair, to launch during London’s Frieze Week

India Rose James, Founder and Director of Soho Revue, has announced the launch of Echo Soho – a new art fair founded by and for female-led galleries, taking place at Artist’s House, Manette Street, London, from 16 to 19 October 2025.

Conceived as a cultural intervention during Frieze Week, Echo Soho celebrates the influence of women in contemporary art, offering a pioneering, intimate fair model tailored to the needs of today’s emerging galleries. Set across two floors of a historic townhouse in the heart of Soho, the fair brings together a curated selection of female-led galleries and under-represented artists to present bold, resourceful, and representative approaches to art making and collecting.

Founded by a gallerist and seasoned art fair exhibitor, Echo Soho responds to the shifting art market with practical, maverick solutions. Booths range from 6 to 9 square metres, complemented by wall-based project spaces for emerging artists and an installation site located in the building’s former chapel. Echo Soho is built with financial accessibility in mind, offering affordable booth rates, on-site art handling, booth photography, shared VIP lists, and PR support included.

Timed to coincide with Frieze Week, Echo Soho offers a meaningful counterpoint to the scale and saturation of the larger fair circuit. Its compact format and collaborative ethos allow for close, thoughtful engagement between galleries, collectors, institutions, and curators.

As part of its special projects, Echo Soho will host a curated presentation by AWITA (the Association of Women in the Arts). Titled "Resonant Spaces: Curating Echoes," the booth will be selected via an open call, inviting AWITA members to propose artists and works that engage with ideas of memory, repetition, sound, and feminist leadership. Proposals are open across disciplines, including visual art, performance, and sound, with selected works reflecting AWITA’s inclusive mission and supporting the launch of the inaugural AWITA Research Bursary. The booth is not limited to women artists or women-led narratives, but instead embraces a wider, intersectional ethos.

photo: courtesy of Echo Soho

National Portrait Gallery announces a new programme of contemporary commissioning, supported by CHANEL Culture Fund

July 1, 2025

Today the National Portrait Gallery announces Artists First: Contemporary Perspectives on Portraiture, a new programme of contemporary commissioning made possible through a continued partnership with the CHANEL Culture Fund. The programme will see eight contemporary artists create new works in a variety of media that reclaim untold narratives for display alongside works from the National Portrait Gallery’s historic collection. Installation, textile, painting, collage, drawing and film works will be shown across galleries from 6 September 2025, coinciding with a programme of special events with participating artists.

Artists First: Contemporary Perspectives on Portraiture features artists all exhibiting at the National Portrait Gallery for the first time, including Helen Cammock, Giana De Dier, Mary Evans, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Ravelle Pillay, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Soheila Sokhanvari and Charmaine Watkiss.

In dialogue with the Gallery’s Collection, the new commissions will respond to past and present histories, displayed alongside six centuries of portraiture, from the Tudor period to the present day.

Artists First: Contemporary Perspectives on Portraiture will be on display until August 2026. The programme builds upon the legacy of Reframing Narratives: Women in Portraiture, the National Portrait Gallery’s three-year partnership project with the CHANEL Culture Fund that enhanced the representation of women across the National Portrait Gallery’s displays.

photo: L-R: Helen Cammock © Alun Callender; Giana De Dier © Luna Wallace; Mary Evans © Mary Evans; Małgorzata Mirga-Tas © Hendrik Zeitler; Ravelle Pillay © Stephen White & Co; Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley © Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley; Soheila Sokhanvari © Tomos Davies; and Charmaine Watkiss © Charmaine Watkiss.

lbf contemporary now represents Gaia Ozwyn

June 24, 2025

LBF Contemporary is pleased to announce the representation of London-based painter Gaia Ozwyn. The artist’s debut solo exhibition, Incantations to a Vague Borderland, ran from 22 May to 19 June, 2025.

Gaia Ozwyn (b. 1991, Plymouth, UK) is a Caribbean-British artist, who completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024, supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. Originally trained as a biomedical scientist and in Medicine, she spent several years working as a doctor in the NHS before committing to a full-time painting practice. Ozwyn’s work explores transitional spaces - borderlands and peripheries - as sites of tension, transformation, and truth. Rooted in the shared experience of inhabiting a corporeal and shifting world, the paintings reflect a dynamic interplay between material presence and transience. Sculptural forms and gestural mark-making come together, in compositions where weight and motion are held in delicate balance. In 2025, Ozwyn was selected for the RCA BLK x Yinka Shonibare Foundation residency, held at the G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.

photo: Nathan Grace for Artiq

Nara Roesler announces representation of Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

June 18, 2025

Nara Roesler is pleased to announce the representation of Asuka Anastacia Ogawa (1988, Tokyo, Japan) in collaboration with BLUM. Born in Japan, Ogawa spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Brazil, completed her studies in Sweden, and graduated from Central Saint Martins College in London. The cultural diversity that permeated her formative years greatly impacted her artistic production, incorporating different visual references, religions, and traditions.

Ogawa’s dreamlike paintings characteristically depict androgynous children with almond-shaped eyes that gaze far beyond the limits of the canvas and are set against vibrant monochrome backgrounds. Though the compositions do not have definite themes, Ogawa’s images mainly refer to her Japanese and Afro-Brazilian ancestry, in her words: "Although I don’t have a specific theme in mind when I paint, I’m always thinking about my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, and our ancestors’ beauty, strength, struggle, and love."

This ancestral legacy is visible through other elements of Ogawa’s paintings, such as clothing, adornments, objects, and animals juxtaposed in compositions that enigmatically portray everyday events, such as an individual doing laundry or a game between children. Ogawa engages with ideas of affection and spiritual rites, creating often ambiguous and mysterious settings charged with hybrid symbolism that echoes her diverse roots.

In March 2024, Nara Roesler São Paulo presented Melinha, Asuka Anastasia Ogawa’s first solo exhibition in Brazil, featuring a set of thirteen new paintings, the result of the artist’s most recent research developments. Between July and August of the same year, new works by the artist were part of the group exhibition 'Japan In/Out Brazil,' in dialogue with works by Tomie Ohtake and Lydia Okumura. From June to July 2025, the artist will participate in an artistic residency at Pivô Salvador. This will be the first time the artist produces works in the country.

photo: Hannah Mjølsnes

Perrotin now represents Nina Chanel Abney

June 10, 2025

Perrotin is thrilled to announce representation of Nina Chanel Abney (born Chicago, IL, USA; lives and works in New York). Her debut exhibition at Perrotin will open at the Paris gallery in September, marking Abney’s first exhibition in France since her large-scale exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in 2018.

Combining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney’s paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives. The effect is information overload, balanced with a kind of spontaneous order, where time and space are compressed and identity is interchangeable. Her distinctively bold style harnesses the flux and simultaneity that has come to define life in the 21st century. Paying homage to the sophisticated color theories of Matisse, continuing the legacy of cubists, Picasso and Léger, and connecting with the synesthetic sensibilities of Harlem Renaissance greats, Douglas and Lawrence, Abney brings these historical movements into contemporary pertinence.

Perrotin will represent Nina Chanel Abney in collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery and Pace Prints.

photo: Todd Midler

Jack Shainman announces representation of Elizabeth Neel

June 4, 2025

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce representation of Brooklyn-based artist Elizabeth Neel, in collaboration with Vielmetter, Los Angeles and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.

Known for her abstract painting practice that merges diverse mark-making techniques with explorations of perception, knowledge and the psychological resonance of natural forms, she brings an impactful new voice to the gallery’s roster. Her work will debut with the gallery at Art Basel this year, ahead of a highly-anticipated solo exhibition set for February 2026 at the gallery’s flagship location in Tribeca, New York.

Over the past twenty years, Neel has created a new and distinct form of abstraction that expresses the tension between control and chaos particular to this historical moment. Using a wide range of tools and methods, including brushes, rags, rollers and mono printing techniques requiring human touch, Neel has developed an extensive lexicon of gestures. In her compositions, color, movement and form possess their own objecthood while at the same time serving as vehicles for
earthly metaphor and poetic suggestion.

Central to Neel’s practice is the gathering of images, texts and ephemera from the world around her. X-rays and biological schema interact with architectural plans, data visualizations and references to Medieval history, all of which Neel metabolizes and transmutes into the conceptual and emotive structures of her paintings.

photo: Brad Ogbonna

Hauser & Wirth announces worldwide representation of Cristina Iglesias

June 3, 2025

Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Marc Payot, Presidents of Hauser & Wirth, announced today the gallery’s worldwide representation of artist Cristina Iglesias.

Over more than four decades, Cristina Iglesias (b. 1956, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain) has defined a unique sculptural vocabulary, creating immersive and experiential environments that reference and unite architecture, literature, psychology, mechanics, natural elements and site-specific content. Guided by a profound cultural and historical sensitivity, as well as a deep concern for the natural world, Iglesias’ works poetically redefine the viewer’s relationship to time and place.

Iglesias creates imaginative arenas, accessible to the viewer both psychologically and physically, to explore ideas of memory, reverie and refuge. Her formal language fuses manmade and organic materials to create structures ranging from screens, pavilions and latticed panels to tidal pools and deep wells. As the artist has said, ‘I am interested in the symbolic connotation of growth and metamorphosis. The growth of living creatures has its own rhythm and is unstoppable. However, we constantly affect the environments in which we exist, and not always in a positive way. The idea of slowing down proliferation, solidifying millennia of evolution within layers of hardened matter puts our temporal existence into perspective.’

Hauser & Wirth will present a new sculptural work by Iglesias at Art Basel from 19 to 22 June entitled ‘Entwined VI’ (2025). The artist’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth will open in London on 14 October 2025.