Today, as an internationally represented artist with Toolip Gallery in Vienna, Austria, Martinelli stands at the forefront of a remarkable creative journey that has carried her work across Europe and the United States. With more than 45 juried exhibitions spanning Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, and the United States, a major solo exhibition in Manhattan, and works exhibited alongside some of the most celebrated names in contemporary art, her moment has unmistakably arrived.
From the shimmering landscapes of electropop to deeply personal reflections on identity, poetry, and the state of the world, Ed Harrington traces the creative journey behind Cosmic Gloss and Seismic Nought. In this first-person account, he explores the ideas, experiences, and emotions that have shaped his music and writing, offering an intimate look at the stories behind his latest releases and the artistic vision that continues to drive his work.
Art from War to War: Chasing Butterflies on the Verge of a Cliff, which opened on May 29, 2026 at Beck & Eggeling gallery, marks the first public presentation of selected works from the private collection of Kyiv-born collector Valeria Rodnianski. The exhibition features works by Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Ilya Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov, Irina Nakhova, A.R. Penck and other influential artists whose careers emerged amid the political and cultural upheavals of postwar Europe and the Soviet sphere.
What happens when a painting refuses to stay within its frame? This summer, The Merchant House transforms its historic Amsterdam canal house into a conversation between art, architecture, and domestic space. In Fragments, works by Pino Pinelli, Elsa Tomkowiak, Zhu Hong, Sylvie Bonnot, and Andrรฉ Stempfel spill across walls, challenge traditional materials, and blur the boundaries between gallery and home. From oversized painted zip bags to photographic spiders enlarged to unsettling beauty, the exhibition invites visitors to piece together their own connections across a series of striking visual encounters.
At first glance, the castle looks the sameโunchanging, simple, gray. But the longer you linger, the more unsettling it becomes. Around it, entire worlds shift: seasons decay, skies warp, landscapes dissolve into something unrecognizable. And yet the structure stands, untouched, as if refusing to acknowledge the chaos closing in. For Nicola Vacca, this is not just a visual motifโitโs a line drawn against a world he no longer trusts. His paintings arenโt merely meant to be seen; they are a blueprint for escape, a quiet but defiant declaration that somewhere beyond the noise of modern life, a different way of existing might still be built.
There is something quietly unresolved at the center of Elizabethโs workโan assurance that draws you in, paired with a sameness that holds you at armโs length. She understands how to make an audience feel, how to shape vulnerability into something legible and affecting, yet the question lingers: is she revealing a character, or reproducing a method? Across two demanding roles, the promise is unmistakable, but so is the sense of an actress still circling her own potential, hovering just short of transformation.
A provocative curatorial project unfolding in Athens is challenging one of the contemporary art worldโs most celebrated career rituals: the international residency. Titledย โฮฮฮกฮฮปฮฮฮโโa deliberate reference to Berlinโthe project is a conceptual and performative curatorial experiment created by art historian and curator Elli Leventaki. Its aim is to confront what she describes as a largely unspoken barrier in the global art ecosystem: class privilege embedded in the structure of artist residencies.
Ryabchik’s work presumes that viewers will recognize emotions signaled through gestureโemotions they know, have felt or expect to feel. Yet emotion isn’t pre-linguistic or universal; it’s culturally coded, variable, historically situated. Here the assumption of universality encounters its limit. When Ryabchik presents spontaneous hieroglyphic signs as parallels to incomprehensible psychic processes, the correspondence is conceptually neat but ultimately simplifying. It substitutes metaphorical equivalence for substantive engagement with how meaning is actually constructed and received.
The newly reopened and renovated Frick Collectionโonce the New York home of the Henry Clay Frick familyโwas celebrated, in part, through the thematic exhibition (June 18โSeptember 8) of three paintings by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Titled โVermeerโs Love Letters,โ the exhibition melds aesthetically into the buildingโs subtly retained grandeur. But not into Henry Clay Frickโs history and that of the people who once lived in the home, especially his daughter Helen, who battled with John D. Rockefeller Jr. publicly, privately, and in courts of law to preserve her fatherโs original purpose for the Collection. And the exhibition does not meld aesthetically into Johannes Vermeerโs purpose. Neither the theme of the exhibit nor the titles of the three paintings were provided by Vermeer, reflect his imperatives, or describe the paintingsโ content.
Bruton + Co is proud to present its upcoming exhibition, ZERO and Beyond, at its Mayfair showroom. The exhibition will bring together works by some of the most influential and innovative international artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries, united by their radical exploration of the lightest colour, white, through masterful use of shade, texture, emotion and surface. The show opens on the 9th October 2025 and will be on view until the end of the year.ย
