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.

Almine Rech now represents Christopher Le Brun

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the representation of British artist Christopher Le Brun, in conjunction with Lisson Gallery and Albertz Benda.

The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will be on view at Almine Rech Paris, Turenne from 18 October to 15 November, 2025. The gallery will present works by Christopher Le Brun at Art Basel, Basel, June 2025.

Sir Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951, UK) is one of the leading British painters of his generation, celebrated internationally since the 1980s, making both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture, and print. He was an instrumental public figure in his role as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. Since 1990 he has served as a Trustee of major British institutions at Tate, National Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and was a founding Trustee of the Royal Drawing School. He was awarded a Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) for services to the Arts in the 2021 New Year Honours.

"There aren’t any reasons for painting. That’s what is special about it. It doesn’t need justification. It’s essential that it is not used for other purposes. All the things which will, as it were, take away from what is mysterious about it."

— Christopher Le Brun

His work is in many museum collections including Tate, London, UK; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US; Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP), Shenzhen, China; British Museum, London, UK; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Whitworth, Manchester, UK; Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, US; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, US; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, US. Le Brun’s public sculptures include Union (horse with two discs) at the London Museum, UK; City Wing on the site of the original London Stock Exchange, UK; and The Monument to Victor Hugo in Saint Helier, Jersey, UK.

photo: Maureen M. Evans

Lindsay Adams now represented by Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce representation of Lindsay Adams.

Lindsay Adams, born in 1990 in Washington, D.C., is a visual artist whose practice is focused on painting and drawing. Employing her educational foundation as a social scientist, with a background in foreign relations, sociology, and cultural anthropology, her work systematically engages with precise critical analysis and a perceptive understanding of the complex fabric of social dynamics. Lindsay received BAs from the University of Richmond in both International Studies: World Politics and Diplomacy and Spanish, she has an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Embracing her intersectional identity, Lindsay’s work serves as a reflection of self, exploring personal and collective histories and the role imagination plays in mining the complexities and nuances of life. Her current body of work is a conceptual investigation of the balance between the known and the possible, examining themes of place, liberation, expanse, and freedom. Each mark intuitively invites a dialogue between reality and dreaming, as she mines through layers of gesture and color to build worlds. Adams alternates between abstract and representational forms, employing formal techniques that highlight the physicality of paint and the delicacy of gesture. In this way, she weaves multiple paintings within one, crafting a rich tapestry informed by interconnected experiences that invites reflection on the boundlessness of dreaming. Her work highlights her interest in constructing imagined ecologies—spaces in which rhythmic gestures and dynamic hues engage in a continuous dialogue.

Lindsay Adams had her inaugural exhibition with the gallery at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles in January 2025. On joining the gallery, Adams said, “I’m honored to join Sean Kelly Gallery, a program committed to vision, creativity, and artists who continually push the boundaries of their practice. This marks a pivotal moment for me—an opportunity to deepen the questions I’m asking, expand the scope of the work, and grow within a dynamic community that challenges and inspires.”

Lindsay Adams is represented by Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles in collaboration with PATRON Gallery, Chicago.

photo: Ray Abercrombie

GalleriesNow Partners with London Gallery Weekend as Official Navigation Partner

May 29, 2025

GalleriesNow is delighted to announce its partnership with London Gallery Weekend (LGW) as the official navigation sponsor for this year’s event (6-8 June 2025).

This collaboration brings together London’s premier gallery platform with the capital’s most significant contemporary art weekend to create an enhanced experience for art enthusiasts across the city.

“London Gallery Weekend showcases everything we love about the city’s art scene” said Tristram Fetherstonhaugh, co-founder at GalleriesNow, adding “being their navigation partner lets us help people discover exhibitions and events they might never have found otherwise”.

In the days running up to the event as well as for the weekend itself, the GalleriesNow app will serve as the event’s comprehensive digital companion, featuring all participating galleries’ exhibitions and events in one seamless platform.

The collaboration features a fully branded experience within the GalleriesNow app, including:

• Integrated LGW routes that guide visitors through carefully curated gallery trails across London
• Specialised bookable events calendar showcasing opening receptions, artist talks, and other events
• Complete exhibition listings from all participating Weekend galleries

The GalleriesNow app is available to download for free on iOS and Android platforms.

Participating galleries will also feature on the GalleriesNow Summer London Gallery Map with LGW.

Glasgow International announces Helen Nisbet as Festival Director

May 28, 2025

Glasgow International, Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art, has announced Helen Nisbet as its new Director. Nisbet will assume the post from summer 2025 ahead of the 11th edition of the festival, which takes place from Friday 5 to Sunday 21 June 2026.

Nisbet takes over the role from previous Director Richard Birkett. Her artist-led practice, which emphasises solidarity and representation, will build on Birkett’s open and embedded artistic and organisational vision for Glasgow International which saw the festival team work in close partnership with Glasgow-based and international artists and organisers to produce an acclaimed edition in 2024.

Nisbet’s appointment coincides with other key appointments within the Glasgow International Festival team: Pelumi Odubanjo (Curator) and Martel Ollerenshaw (Festival Manager). They join existing staff Siobhan Carroll (Open Programme Convenor), and Poi Marr (Curator).

Every two years Glasgow International presents an array of artists’ projects across Glasgow by international artists and those based locally, amplifying the city’s identity as a vibrant and distinctive centre for artistic production, presentation and cultural organising. These projects are selected through an open call by an invited panel of international and local artists, curators and producers and the Glasgow International Programme team. The open call for submissions to be part of Glasgow International 2026 closed on 26 May.

photo: Christa Holka

Art Basel, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and QC+ announce partnership to launch Art Basel Qatar in Doha

May 20, 2025

Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, and leading Qatari organisations Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), a major investor in sports, culture, entertainment and lifestyle, and QC+, a strategic and creative collective specialising in cultural commerce, today announced a one-of-a-kind partnership that will include the launch of a new fair of modern and contemporary art in Qatar.

Debuting in Doha in February 2026, Art Basel Qatar will embed itself in Qatar's vibrant cultural landscape and the dynamic arts ecosystem of the MENA region, providing an unparalleled platform to showcase leading galleries and artistic talent from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and further afield. The inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar will be held in M7 creative hub and the Doha Design District in downtown Msheireb, in proximity to world-renowned landmarks including the National Museum of Qatar.

photo courtesy of Art Basel