#gallery-expansion

#gallery-expansion

The Gulf has become an art market hot spot, but insiders say the biggest challenge facing its newest arrivals isn't how to tap the region's wealth, it's how to unlearn assumptions that they may bring with them, particularly concerning the area's money, power, and cultural depth. With Art Basel Qatar debuting next week, the region is no longer a peripheral scene but a new axis of influence for the trade.

"The neo-Gothic palace has a storied history, having served as a venue for the Manifesta 12 biennial, which was held in Palermo in 2018. It was once home to Galleria Mediterranea, the city's first private art gallery, from 1937 to 1940. In 2020, major parts of the building were put up for sale. The gallery began investigating the site in 2023 and closed on the deal in November."

Everything I do tends to be instinctive rather than calculated, but I've been looking for a different kind of space with a different kind of tone for quite a long time because both Kingly Street and my former gallery at Davies Street were both quite brutal spaces. I wanted to offer something else to the artists, and I've never had a townhouse gallery in London. So, it just seemed like something I hadn't done before.