"The Cape Town-founded gallery Southern Guild is making a state-side splash this week, showing at Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time and plotting a move from Los Angeles to New York. The gallery will close the West Coast space it inaugurated in February 2024 and open in Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood in March 2026. "California gave us the space to listen, to gather and to understand how Southern Guild's South African foundation could meaningfully enter the American cultural landscape."
""We see Southern Guild not only as a gallery, but as a cultural anchor in a global ecosystem-a platform where artists pass on knowledge systems, sustain their practices on their own terms and join together to articulate a movement," Trevyn McGowan, who co-founded Southern Guild with her husband Julian, said in a statement. "Our new Tribeca space is a physical affirmation of that mission, reinforcing that what we build must be reciprocal, respectful and rooted in the long game.""
Southern Guild, founded in Cape Town, is showing at Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time and plans to relocate from Los Angeles to New York. The Los Angeles space, opened in February 2024, will close ahead of a March 2026 opening in Manhattan's Tribeca at 75 Leonard Street. The new 4,000 sq. ft. venue will include two public exhibition spaces, offices and a viewing room. The exit from Los Angeles coincides with a wave of commercial gallery closures. Leadership emphasizes the gallery’s role as a cultural anchor sustaining artists and knowledge systems.
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