KV Duong joins Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

April 9, 2025

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce representation of KV Duong (b. 1980, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). Duong is an ethnically Chinese artist with a transnational background - born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, and now living and working in the UK. His work explores migration and cultural assimilation through personal and ancestral histories.

Duong’s paintings forgo more traditional materials of canvas or linen in favour of latex, which is poured onto wooden board or concrete floor, then dried, painted, stretched and resin-fibreglass coated on the reverse. As a medium, latex bears fetishistic and sensuous connotations, particularly in conversation with queer identity politics, evoking sexual fantasy and intimacy. Yet it is also connected with the rubber industry, referencing the history of rubber plantations under French colonial rule in Vietnam, which lasted from 1887 until 1954. As Duong foregrounds the materiality of his medium – his painting responding to the bubbles, surface impressions, films and ripples that form as latex dries – he asks us to consider the history of exploitation and extraction surrounding the Vietnamese rubber trade.

photo: courtesy of Brave Projects and James Champion

Frances Morris CBE appointed Chair of Gallery Climate Coalition Board

April 4, 2025

Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) announces that Frances Morris CBE has been appointed as Chair of the organisation’s Board. A museum curator, art historian and writer, Frances Morris played a key role in establishing Tate, and in particular Tate Modern, as one of the most important galleries in the world. After studying at Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute, she joined Tate as a young curator in 1987, and when Tate Modern opened, took on the responsibility of introducing an entirely new way of seeing the national collection of modern and contemporary art, first as Head of Displays (2000-2006), and then Director of Collections, International Art, until she took over as Director of Tate Modern from 2016 to 2023.

Frances’s legacy at Tate includes the geographical expansion of Tate’s collection beyond the western canon, gender equality in Tate Modern’s artistic programmes, extending the repertoire of contemporary art by making space for performance and live art in the gallery’s collections, and helping to shape internal and international green museum principles. In 2019, Frances spearheaded Tate’s public commitment to addressing climate extinction via the declaration of a Climate Emergency. This initiative offered a platform for discussion in partnership with artists, campaigners, artistic communities and cultural organisations, a commitment to reducing the organisation’s carbon footprint by 50% by 2023, alongside other measures including the adoption of a train-first travel policy, the switch to a green electricity tariff, the commitment to regular carbon auditing and the sustainable sourcing of produce for Tate’s restaurants.

As a leading voice in the discussion around culture and sustainability, Frances Morris will contribute her broad experience, expertise and international network towards GCC’s mission of mainstreaming Environmental Responsibility in the art world and reducing the sector’s CO₂ emissions by 50% by 2030, from a 2019 baseline.

Frances Morris:
“I am thrilled to be joining Gallery Climate Coalition as Chair at such a critical moment for both the organisation and the wider visual arts sector. The urgency of the climate crisis demands bold, collective action, and GCC has already made remarkable strides in galvanising the art world towards meaningful change. I have long admired the coalition’s commitment to practical, systemic solutions, and I look forward to working alongside the team and its members to accelerate this progress. Together, we have an opportunity—and a responsibility—to ensure that the arts lead by example in building a more sustainable future.”

Celebrating its 5th anniversary this year, Gallery Climate Coalition is an international coalition of over 1800 arts organisations and professionals working to urgently decarbonise the visual arts. GCC develops and shares best practice, provides leadership on sector specific environmental issues, and works to leverage the collective power of its membership to achieve systemic changes.

photo courtesy Tate © Samia Meah

Almine Rech now represents Heinz Mack

April 1, 2025

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the global representation of German artist Heinz Mack.

The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will be on view at Almine Rech New York, Tribeca from 9 May to 14 June, 2025. The gallery and Fondation Le Corbusier will present a solo show by Heinz Mack at Maison La Roche, Paris in October 2025.

“I love the story of the ZERO group, founded in 1957 in Düsseldorf by Mack and Piene and joined by Uecker in 1960. ZERO represented the zero hour, a new beginning after the destructions of the Second World War. Mack decided to use light and glass, it was like 10 years earlier but it’s echoing the Californian Light and Space movement that forms the basis of the gallery’s program since the 1990’s. Mack soon began to develop his painting work, abstract approach of light and space through color research.” — Almine Rech

Heinz Mack (b. 1931, Germany) is the co-founder of the ZERO movement, known for his explorations of light, color, and movement through painting, sculpture, and installation. His work has been exhibited in major institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands; and is part of the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US, and the Tate Modern, London, UK, among others.

photo: Archive Studio Mack

Perrotin announces representation of the Estate of Young-Il Ahn

March 28, 2025

Perrotin is pleased to announce its exclusive representation of the Estate of Young-Il Ahn (1934–2020). Ahn, a Korean-American painter celebrated for his exquisite abstractions based on the Pacific Ocean and the light of California, vaulted to critical acclaim late in his career following a solo show at LACMA in 2017–18. Perrotin, with locations across three continents, will represent the Estate globally.

In conjunction with the announcement, Perrotin presents Young-Il Ahn: Selected Works 1986–2019, a survey exhibition highlighting the lyrical range of Ahn’s work spanning a period of three decades. Curated by art historian and Perrotin Senior Director Jennifer King, the exhibition will be on view at Perrotin Los Angeles from 11 April to 24 May, 2025.

Emmanuel Perrotin states, “As a result of the gallery’s expansion to Los Angeles in 2024, we now have the wonderful opportunity to work intimately with the Estate of Young-Il Ahn, and to steward the legacy of an important Korean-American artist who made Los Angeles his home for over 50 years.” King adds, “Over the years, Perrotin has established a strong program of Korean and Korean diaspora artists including Chung Chang-Sup, Lee Bae, Park Seo-Bo, GaHee Park, and Shim Moon-Seup. It’s extremely gratifying to be able to build upon this strength of the gallery from a curatorial perspective.”

photo: courtesy of the Young-Il Ahn Estate

Emanuela Tarizzo appointed as director of Frieze Masters

Frieze has named Emanuela Tarizzo as the new director of Frieze Masters. She will take up the post at the beginning of April. Bringing strong experience in the art market and a rich appreciation for historical art across time periods and geographies, Tarizzo will lead Frieze Masters into its next chapter.

Tarizzo joins Frieze Masters with a wide network across the art world, built through years of collaboration with dealers, collectors, museums and scholars. With a background as an independent art advisor and former gallery director at Tomasso, London, she has cultivated a deeply rooted understanding of galleries and art fairs, as well as a passion for connecting audiences with historical art. Tarizzo is widely regarded for her research-driven approach, curatorial insight and commitment to fostering meaningful relationships within the cultural sector.

‘We are delighted to welcome Emanuela as director of Frieze Masters,’ said Kristell Chadé, executive director of fairs, Frieze. ‘Her extensive knowledge of the art market, combined with a rigorous approach to historical art, will strengthen the fair’s unique position as an essential platform for defining works of art history and deepen relationships with leading museums and collectors whose insight and ambition shape the field.’

Launched in 2012, Frieze Masters presents a contemporary perspective on thousands of years of art history, including collectable objects, artefacts from antiquity, old masters paintings and works up to the late 20th century. More than 130 international galleries participated in the 2024 edition.

The next edition will take place between 15 - 19 October 2025 at The Regent’s Park, London.

Georg Wilson joins Pilar Corrias

March 21, 2025

A spirit of place informs Georg Wilson’s practice. Drawing inspiration from ancient English folklore, poetry and painting, the artist depicts bountiful landscapes that exceed the natural; devoid of human presence, they are instead inhabited by wildling creatures that live harmoniously with the land. Wilson’s world-building is enriched by her unique approach to texture and mark-making that unifies all surfaces, forms and beings.

Painting with the seasons, Wilson’s work captures the cyclical rhythm of our existence, where birth meets growth, growth meets death and death awaits resurrection. Vibrant reds and bright greens shift to vivid yellows and deep browns as the seasons turn, and the land that was once overflowing with abundance is ready to lie dormant as the year comes to an end.

“Georg’s practice is deeply rooted in exploring the politics of ecology and history, translated through folklore and her personal experience. Her magical paintings offer a vision of the English countryside that transcends our everyday existence. We look forward to working with Georg at this exciting moment in her career.” - Pilar Corrias

Wilson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, The Last Oozings, opened at Pilar Corrias Conduit Street on 31 January 2025 and runs until 22 March.

photo: Nick Whitworth

Timothy Taylor announces representation of Marina Adams

March 19, 2025

A new painting by Adams will be included in the forthcoming Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, which will be the artist’s debut presentation with Timothy Taylor, and a solo exhibition of her work is planned in the gallery’s New York space in September 2025.

Adams paints kinetic abstractions that explore the power of pattern. In her vibrant canvases, shapes engage energetically. Brimming with intense colour, her paintings are at times muscular and sculptural, at others sinuous and ethereal. Each distills the artist’s physical energy as she works—at once steady and responsive. Working between New York and Parma, Italy, Adams also paints small format gouache works on paper in the hills of Italy that inform the work she makes in her studio in New York. She modulates her hues with varied modes of paint application and layers of translucent pigment. Comingling and juxtaposing unlikely combinations of colour, she creates chromatic relationships that lend an uncanny luminosity to the paintings. Adams draws inspiration from commonalities, rhythms, and resonances across historically and geographically diverse cultural materials. In addition to her dialogue with her predecessors, Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Alma Thomas, Willem de Kooning, and Hilma af Klint, she returns to the designs of Moorish mosaics, Indigenous American Southwest pottery, and Uzbek textiles, among other artistic traditions. Within these sources, she finds patterns that emerge from the foundational aspects of the natural world. With titles that reference the artist’s deep investment in poetry and music, these paintings welcome the engagement of other senses and of the viewer’s interpretive powers. Adams works with the belief that painting can open up context for reflection and transformation.

“What we call abstract painting is about creating a space for thought, a way to open the mind up and allow space for the other senses… When you look at them, you absorb an experience” - Adams

“We are delighted to be working with Marina Adams. I have long admired her distinctive approach to form and colour and the energy of her vibrant paintings. I look forward to presenting Marina’s work for the first time in Hong Kong next week and then later this fall at our first exhibition together in New York” - Tim Taylor

Adams will continue to be represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin and von Bartha in Basel and Copenhagen.

photo: Jason Schmidt

Lee Bul joins Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth has announced representation of acclaimed Korean artist Lee Bul, in collaboration with Seoul-based gallery BB&M.

Known for a pioneering interdisciplinary approach honed over the course of four decades, Lee has created a body of work spanning sculpture, installation, performance and painting. She first gained international recognition in the 1990s for a provocative, genre-defying art that interrogates themes of utopian ideals, technological transformation and the fragility of human ambition. For early performances and soft sculptures that challenged societal norms, she often incorporated cyborg imagery to explore posthumanism and gender politics.

Over time, Lee’s practice has expanded to encompass large-scale immersive installations utilizing mirrored surfaces, organic-mechanical hybrids and architectural structures to engage viewers in a multi-sensory experience of space and perception. Deeply influenced by philosophy, literature and experimental architecture, her oeuvre examines the intersections of technology, history and speculative futures. Concepts of freedom and liberation are deeply embedded in Lee’s work, both thematically and formally.

In 2024, Lee was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to create sculptures for the niches of its landmark Fifth Avenue facade. ‘The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo’ opened on 12 September 2024 and remains on view until 10 June 2025.

The artist’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth will take place in New York in 2026.

photo: Yoon Hyung-moon

Katy Moran joins Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

March 5, 2025

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce representation of British artist Katy Moran, whose first solo exhibition with the gallery, Let’s get some AIR, will open on 2 May 2025. The exhibition represents a shift in Moran’s practice, which has undergone striking developments in scale and technique since her last solo presentation in London.

Known for her compelling abstractions that explore form, colour and surface, Moran enlists a spectrum of mark-making in the expression of different atmospheres. While some of her paintings suggest traditional land or seascapes and conjure figurative associations, they are essentially records of the intangible and are deliberately engaged in sensation, as opposed to representation. Much of Moran’s inspiration comes from her transcendental meditation practice and ideas for paintings are incubated during these sessions.This connection with her unconscious allows for an intuitive approach that prioritises the autonomy of paint as medium. The incident of coincidence in dialogue with the artist’s hand guides the development of each of Moran’s paintings, which employ experimental methods in their facture, from drips and pours to body painting. By allowing the nature of paint to inform the painting process, Moran is antithetically liberated from the bonds of materiality.

Katy Moran (b. 1975, Manchester) lives and works in Hertfordshire. She completed an MA Fine Art in painting at the Royal College of Art, London in 2005.

photo: John Shard

South London Gallery receives a major new grant from The Bukhman Foundation to fund Art Block

March 4, 2025

The South London Gallery (SLG) is delighted to have received a major new grant from The Bukhman Foundation. The grant will secure the future of Art Block, the SLG’s innovative free creative space for local children and families on its neighbouring housing estate, for a two-year period, providing the necessary funding for staff costs and artists fees, materials, activities and events.

Art Block is a purpose designed, inclusive space on Sceaux Gardens estate located directly behind the SLG. It is a place for local children and young people to make, play and be creative. It opened in 2017 and was built on the SLG’s long-term work with residents of Sceaux Gardens and other neighbouring housing estates. Sceaux Gardens Estate is within the 20% most disadvantaged areas nationally. Many children live in areas with limited access to spaces to play and ongoing issues of anti-social behaviour, with 71% of children living in the immediate vicinity of the SLG eligible for free school meals, over double the Southwark average.

The Bukhman Foundation was established by Anastasia and Igor Bukhman to support breakthroughs in medical research for Type 1 Diabetes, as well as celebrate the arts and culture, and access to education. The foundation’s work within arts and culture is centred on broadening and improving access to creativity and arts education through the support of pioneering institutions, complex and ambitious artistic projects, and ground-breaking young and emerging artists.

Margot Heller, Director, South London Gallery said: “We are immensely grateful to The Bukhman Foundation for their generous support to enable us to continue our work at Art Block. We very much look forward to this new chapter in the history of Art Block and to seeing its continued positive social impact and the creativity it will nurture.”

Palmer Gallery launches The Door, marking the gallery’s first anniversary

February 28, 2025

To celebrate the first anniversary of the gallery, Palmer Gallery is launching The Door, a new programme hosted in the annexed space at the back of the gallery. Functioning as a pseudo-project space, The Door is dedicated to supporting artists who work in less commercially-driven practices, offering them a platform to create immersive, experimental, and conceptual environments. This new initiative will feature a series of solo exhibitions running alongside the main gallery programme but with a sharper focus on experimentation, worldbuilding, and sensory engagement.

Each presentation will showcase artists whose practices emphasize multi-sensory installations, site-specific work, and the transformation of space into immersive and thought-provoking environments. The name The Door is drawn from a poem by the Czech modernist Miroslav Holub. The poem is about stimulating intellectual curiosity through endeavour, while feeling and responding to reality through an appreciation of the present. It encourages readers to embrace change and uncertainty by stepping into the unknown, suggesting that even the act of opening a door can lead to discovery, renewal, and possibility. The name also highlights the physical partition between the main gallery and The Door space, serving as a gateway into the artist’s world - a portal that can be shaped and reimagined with each new presentation.

The programme launches on 6 March with a solo presentation by Daria Blum, a performance artist and Royal Academy Schools alumna.

Dr Flavia Frigeri appointed new Curatorial and Collections Director at National Portrait Gallery, London

February 26, 2025

Dr Flavia Frigeri has been appointed Curatorial and Collections Director at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Dr Frigeri will take up this new role in April 2025, following the departure of Dr Alison Smith, who until June 2024 served as the National Portrait Gallery’s Chief Curator. As Curatorial and Collections Director, Dr Frigeri will oversee the Curatorial, Collections Management, Archive and Library departments, leading on acquisitions and commissions, Gallery displays and interpretation of the Collection from the Tudors to the present day.

Dr Frigeri is currently the CHANEL Curator for the Collection at the National Portrait Gallery, leading a major partnership project, supported by the CHANEL Culture Fund, aimed at redressing the gender imbalance within the NPG’s Collection through acquisitions, research and site-specific commissions. As part of Reframing Narratives: Women in Portraiture, Dr Frigeri was instrumental in doubling the number of portraits of women on the walls of the NPG’s post-1900 galleries ahead of its reopening in June 2023.

Dr Frigeri’s previous roles have included Curator of International Art at Tate Modern and Lecturer on modern and contemporary art at UCL, London. She has recently guest curated the group exhibition Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 (2024) at Turner Contemporary in Margate and All Our Todays (2025), a survey of international contemporary art at MARe in Bucharest, Romania. Dr Frigeri is a widely published author, most recently she co-edited Women at Work: 1900 to Now (National Portrait Gallery, 2023) and a volume of collected essays New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms (Routledge, 2021).

Dr Frigeri studied art history at the University of Chicago and John Cabot University, Rome and the holds a PhD in art history from UCL. She held the Hilla Rebay International Fellowship at the Guggenheim museums in New York, Bilbao and Venice and is a trustee for the Association for Art History (AAH).

“I am delighted to appoint Dr Flavia Frigeri as Curatorial and Collections Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Flavia has already made such a significant impact on our Collection, and her ideas, passion and expertise will be vital in shaping our work and our impact in the years ahead. I am looking forward to working closely with Flavia in this new capacity as we develop our plans for the future.” - Victoria Siddall, Director, National Portrait Gallery

photo: © David Parry

Alison Jacques now represents Maeve Gilmore

Alison Jacques announces representation of the Estate of British artist Maeve Gilmore.

Maeve Gilmore (b.1917, London; d.1983, London) carefully constructed an interior world, replete with Surrealist imagery and centred on portraits of family, placing domestic scenes centre-stage. ‘I always seem to have been able to paint when there is intense life surrounding me,’ Gilmore wrote in 1968. ‘Despite the eternal meals, the fights of one’s children, and the constant demands of domesticity.’ Her paintings ‘made alone and imperatively,’ are a reflection of a romantic life, punctuated by war and illness and equally devoted to art-making as it was home-making and motherhood.

Gilmore’s paintings and writings reflect the selfless care and love with which she lived her life. Though she is now considered one of the twentieth century’s ‘known unknowns’, for her, there never was a contradiction between womanly domesticity and a lifelong commitment to the arts. ‘I have never been able to divorce myself aesthetically, to decide between life and painting,’ Gilmore wrote. ‘My mainspring has always been the heart and not the head’.

Following Gilmore’s first institutional show at Studio Voltaire, London in 2022, Alison Jacques will present a solo exhibition of the artist’s work from 21 March until 3 May 2025, spanning 42 years of Gilmore’s practice.

photo: Maeve Gilmore, Child with Model Bird, c.1950 © Estate of Maeve Gilmore

Michelangelo Pistoletto nominated for 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Michelangelo Pistoletto’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize recognises his lifelong commitment to championing art as a tool for significant social and environmental awareness and change.

Born in in 1933, Pistoletto has for six decades forged a career that defies categorization. In his work across mediums, he mobilizes and explores the dynamics between self and community, space and duration, and reality and representation. He first presented his foundational Quadri specchianti (Mirror Paintings) in 1963 at Turin’s Galleria Galatea; these paintings include the viewer and their surroundings in the pictorial space of the work, melding the definite and the infinite. The series brought Pistoletto international recognition and led to his inclusion in major exhibitions of Pop art and Nouveau Réalisme. In the mid 1960s, he responded to the socio-political turmoil in Italy by harnessing quotidian and ephemeral materials in his sculpture series Gli oggetti in meno (The Minus Objects, 1965–66), which is considered integral to the emergence of Arte Povera. In the ’90s, he placed social change at the heart of his practice. His most recent artistic phase, Terzo Paradiso (Third Paradise), is dedicated to encouraging artifice—science, technology, art, culture, and politics—to reinvest in nature.

In response to the nomination, Pistoletto stated: "I do not see my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize as a personal recognition for what I have done so far, but as a commitment to future work."

Michelangelo Pistoletto: To Step Beyond, an exhibition of new painting and sculpture organised in collaboration with Galleria Continua, is on view at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York, until Saturday 29 March.

photo: Pier Luigi Di Pietro

Frieze New York announces exhibitors for 2025 edition

February 19, 2025

Frieze New York returns to The Shed from May 7 - 11 with more than 65 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries and the acclaimed Focus section led by Lumi Tan.

The 2025 edition brings together some of the most renowned names in the global art world, presenting a wide array of artistic practices. Among the participating galleries are A Gentil Carioca, Carlos/Ishikawa, Esther Schipper, Emalin, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Gallery Hyundai, Goodman Gallery, Kukje Gallery, kurimanzutto, Victoria Miro, The Modern Institute, mor charpentier, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Perrotin, Mendes Wood DM and White Cube.

These leading international galleries will stand alongside key figures from New York’s vibrant art scene. Showcasing the breadth and depth of the city’s creative landscape, the fair will welcome Miguel Abreu Gallery, Canada, Chapter NY, James Cohan, Tina Kim Gallery, Gagosian, Alexander Gray Associates, Hauser & Wirth, Casey Kaplan, Karma, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Ortuzar, Pace Gallery, and David Zwirner. These will be joined by spaces from across the US including Gray, François Ghebaly, Night Gallery and Matthew Brown.

Frieze’s celebrated section for young galleries, Focus, features 12 exhibitors each showing solo presentations by emerging or under-appreciated artists. Overseen for a second year by curator and writer Lumi Tan, the section sees an increased international presence while maintaining a spotlight on New York’s vibrant young spaces. Seven new galleries – Champ Lacombe, G Gallery, King’s Leap, Management, Public, Voloshyn Gallery, Yeo Workshop – join Central Galeria, Company Gallery, Gordon Robichaux, Madragoa and Mitre Galeria.

photo: Casey Kelbaugh, courtesy of Frieze and CKA

Alison Jacques announces representation of Emma Amos

February 11, 2025

Emma Amos (b.1937, Atlanta, Georgia; d.2020, Bedford, New Hampshire) was an American artist, educator and activist whose paintings and prints interrogated gender and racial inequity in the art world and in the United States more broadly. Amos’s works often included Black bodies—men’s, women’s, her own—to make a statement about the way people of colour are considered and consumed in American society. Amos was deeply concerned with memory; she used her own likeness to communicate an anxiety about the erasure of Black female artists in the art historical canon, while taking a defiant stance against this structure. ‘It’s always been my contention,’ Amos once said, ‘that for me, a Black woman artist, to walk into the studio is a political act.’

The artist's inaugural exhibition at Alison Jacques will open on 11 July, and continue until 13 September 2025.

photo: Emma Amos, London Bridge is Falling Down, 1991 © Emma Amos

Gabriel Orozco awarded Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

January 24, 2025

Galerie Chantal Crousel has announced that Gabriel Orozco has been elevated to the rank of Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Ministry of Culture. This prestigious award celebrates his entire career.

Orozco’s work has been exhibited at Galerie Chantal Crousel since 1993, when he created La DS, to his recent project Diario de plantas in 2022. The gallery will host his new exhibition in October 2025.

In conjunction with this honor, the exhibition Politécnico Nacional at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City will open on 1 February 2025.

photo: Ana Hop