Contemporary Art Galleries

In the midst of the Covid19 pandemic, Adora Mba has opened a gallery in Accra, Ghana. It is also a time of great international interest in contemporary African art, and many young talents are achieving rapid success. What they need is a platform to show their work.

Soon after the end of the lock-down, Gregor Staiger travelled from Zurich to Milan to open a temporary space. Since June 2020, the gallery has presented a rich program of exhibitions by Lucy Stein, Nora Turato, and Raphaela Vogel.

My trip to Iran was one of the most beautiful travels I have ever done. One of the person I have to thank for is gallerist and curator Behzad Nejadghanbar, who showed us Tehran’s contemporary art scene and its people’s generosity.

One of the most stunning views of the Gulf of Naples is the one you can enjoy from the gallery of Thomas Dane, inaugurated in 2018 and located in Villa Ruffo in Via Crispi. A longstanding presence in the art world, Thomas Dane has been involved with London's evolving art scene since the 1990s.

Cordova is a curatorial project based in Barcelona. In this interview Cory Scozzari talks about his origins with curatorial work in Vienna, his current program of solo exhibitions, performances and events, and his plans for the future.

You wouldn’t expect an art gallery inside a vape shop. Yet that is what you find in the back room of Mist Vape Shop in Hove, East Sussex, England. By settling in an existing commercial business, the directors of 650mAh, Ella Fleck and Tabitha Steinberg, are challenging the traditional gallery model.

In 2005 Astrīda Riņķe opened her gallery with Ilva Krišane. Since then the gallery has focused on Latvian artists working in diverse media.

Although Japan does not have a strong art market, it has a rich gallery scene which is constantly evolving. Jeffrey Rosen and Misako Rosen have been involved with it for a long time.

Goswell Road is a space run by Coralie Ruiz and Anthony Stephinson, two artists who opened up their atelier to other artists. Departing from the traditional concept of the gallery, Goswell Road aims to compensate for the lack of representation of many artists in Paris.

The son of famous gallery owner Hans Mayer, Max Mayer opened his gallery in 2011. His aim was to develop long lasting collaborative relationships with the artists he admired. And in order to do that, he at first decided he did not need a physical space.

There was once a horse named Ribot, a champion in the past century. “He is the good luck omen for my artists” explains Monica Bottani, the founder of the Ribot Gallery in Milan. On a hot summer afternoon we visited the gallery in the Citta Studi area, not far from the famous Bar Basso.

We became acquainted with Sophie Tappeiner’s gallery at the 2018 edition of Miart, where she was awarded the LCA Prize for the best booth in the Emergent section for her solo exhibition of Angelika Loderer. Marking her first participation in an art fair, it was a flawless presentation.

Engadin might be better known as a luxurious skiing resort, but it actually has a long artistic tradition, being home to artists such as Segantini and the Giacomettis. In the last years, new fairs and galleries have opened here, but there is one deeply rooted in the local tradition, Stalla Madulain.

In 2017 your gallery moved to Vauxhall district. What kind of space have you chosen? Why have you chosen this location? We moved into a space that was previously occupied

From emerging artists to the avant-garde generation, Margit Valkó's gallery Kisterem displays the diversity of the Budapest art scene.

In a very candid interview, Marta Kołakowska – who was described in The New York Times as “one of the most generous and unmissable forces in the Polish art world” – told us about what it’s like to run a gallery in Poland in these troubled times. But she hasn’t lost hope.

A gallery deeply rooted in the Cologne art scene, striving to continue the fruitful artistic exchange that took place between the Rhine city and New York in the 1960s and 1970s.