Contemporary Art Galleries

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.

Piotr Drewko opened his gallery in 2017 because he believes that in art what we see depends on what we know and Piotr Drewko wanted to know more. Before the gallery settled down in Warsaw it has been a project space in selected locations across Europe.

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.

When Gypsum opened in 2013, the model of the international commercial art gallery did not really exist in Egypt. Since that days Aleya Hamza is working on building up her gallery for an international audience in a city that is off the beaten track.

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 by an off license in one unit and a chicken shop in the other. The gallery consists of a double

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.