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Siegfried Contemporary, 16 Bassett Road, London (2026)

27/05/2026

Congrats to for his latest solo presentation with .curated in South Korea. I have discovered Weon's unique work through the art and craft price where he was nominated in 2024. His work is unique in the way it's constructed. His PRIMITIVE STRUCTURES series of side tables delve into the cultural, historical, and societal landscapes of his upbringing, drawing inspiration from South Korean dolmen - supposed prehistoric burial sites built from stone, usually shaped like a table. They embody the essence of landscape, preserving cultural and natural narratives. This is also innate to the material he uses: PSL (Parallel Strand Lumber), engineered wood from waste material created by compressing wood strands, a process similar to the formation of sedimentary layers. Holes that remain in between the layers are filled with more wood, a meticulous process creating a dense, unique material that bears witness to the process of its creation and evokes images of geology and botany. It's have shown his work at my space in Saanen Switzerland in winter 2025. He will be showcased at opening in Venice in September. Go and see the show it's always a treat !

11/05/2026

Erwin Wurm is showing a major monographic exhibition titled “Dreamers” hosted at the Museo Fortuny, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale. The exhibition features new and celebrated sculptures, including “Substitutes” and “One Minute Sculptures,” exploring themes of body, identity, and consumerism.

In this presentation, Wurm continues to rethink the concept of sculpture itself. Humour opens into philosophical and social questions as Wurm stages the tensions of contemporary society, criticising the pressures of capitalism and externally imposed identity constructions.

For more information on works available by Erwin Wurm, please get in touch with the gallery directly.

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Erwin Wurm
DREAMERS
Venezia, Museo Fortuny
May 6 - November 22, 2026

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Photo Credit: Designboom

10/05/2026

RIP Bruno Bischofberger! You were a key figure in my professional life!
The time working with you set the fundament to my career in the art world. I learnt so much from you. Your incredible knowledge and insights within that world and beyond were unparalleled . I am very grateful to have known you and that I can the share your legacy and passion with your siblings Lea, Cora and Nina and many friends that knew and admired you . I am sure you will keep on doing collaborations in heaven ! 💔🙏

06/05/2026

Action shots of last night’s opening for Paola Petrobelli’s ‘Glas, Plexi’ in Venice. Thank you to Casa Yali () for such a nice evening - and of course all attendees who showed up.

The exhibition brings together a new series in handblown glass including the unconventional combination of acrylic and glass. The materials engage in a subtle dialogue, creating compositions that explore form, colour, spatial relationships, and light as an active, constitutive element of the work. In fact light goes through the pieces, shaping their perception and allowing the glass to exist as a self-sustaining, autonomous form, independent from external lighting or context conditions.

Born in Padua and based in London, Petrobelli returns to Venice presenting a new body of work. The exhibition brings together a new series in handblown glass including the unconventional combination of acrylic and glass. The materials engage in a subtle dialogue, creating compositions that explore form, colour, spatial relationships, and light as an active, constitutive element of the work. In fact light goes through the pieces, shaping their perception and allowing the glass to exist as a self-sustaining, autonomous form, independent from external lighting or context conditions.

For all enquiries, please get in touch.

Glas, Plexi
CASA YALI
San Marco 3208, Salizzada Malipiero, Venice.

04/05/2026

OPENING TOMORROW IN VENICE: ‘Glas, Plexi’ by Paola Petrobelli (), held in collaboration with Casa Yali ().

The exhibition brings together a new series in handblown glass including the unconventional combination of acrylic and glass. The materials engage in a subtle dialogue, creating compositions that explore form, colour, spatial relationships, and light as an active, constitutive element of the work. In fact light goes through the pieces, shaping their perception and allowing the glass to exist as a self-sustaining, autonomous form, independent from external lighting or context conditions.

*Opening details below*

Some of you may be familiar with Petrobelli’s work, however in this exhibition we see emphasised intersections of multiple lineages: connected to the materially grounded, anti-rhetorical approach of Carlo Scarpa — and to the experimental legacy of Ettore Sottsass. Her early training in molecular biology further informs her approach to colour and form, where variation, repetition and modulation become operative tools towards formal harmony and balance. Petrobelli constructs systems in continuous evolution, where modular elements can be interchanged as both a formal strategy and a conceptual framework — questioning creativity and authorship while inviting viewers to playfully explore their inﬁnite living potential.

Born in Padua and based in London, Petrobelli returns to Venice presenting a new body of work. The exhibition brings together a new series in handblown glass including the unconventional combination of acrylic and glass. The materials engage in a subtle dialogue, creating compositions that explore form, colour, spatial relationships, and light as an active, constitutive element of the work. In fact light goes through the pieces, shaping their perception and allowing the glass to exist as a self-sustaining, autonomous form, independent from external lighting or context conditions.

Congratulations Paola - so happy to see you showing during the 61st Venice Biennale.

Tuesday May 5
6-8pm
CASA YALI
San Marco 3208, Salizzada Malipiero, Venice.

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03/05/2026

Venice will turn into capital of light this week, coincidentally we open Paola Petrobelli's latest exhibition this Tuesday ! All lights are set! Come and discover Petrobelli's magic murano glass creations ! From may 5 to September 20, San Marco 3079, Ramo Malipiero, 30124 Venice

27/04/2026

Carmine Ashes by Ann Iren Buan, shown at Siegfried Contemporary London.

Ann Iren Buan’s framed works initially present themselves as drawings, yet quickly assert a sculptural presence. In the red compositions, dry pastel is built up into dense, almost fleshy accumulations that rupture the surface of the paper. Pigment shifts between smooth, atmospheric fields and thick, crumpled protrusions, evoking something at once bodily and geological.

The framing contains the works but also intensifies their internal tension. Rather than stabilising the image, it heightens the sense that the material is pressing outward, as if on the verge of exceeding its own limits.

For all enquiries, please get in touch with Siegfried Contemporary directly.

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Ann Iren Buan
CARMINE ASHES
Siegfried Contemporary
16 April - 18 July 2026

16 Bassett Road, London.

24/04/2026

In love with this sculpture by current exhibiting artist Ann Iren Buan (b.1984 Oslo). These details of Phantom I (2026) show up close how their use of materiality suspends drawing into physical sculpture.

By translating the intimate, meditative gestures of drawing into large-scale, spatial forms, Buan challenges the conventional boundaries of the medium. Her works retain the sensitivity and immediacy of the drawn mark while asserting a physical presence that engages the viewer’s sense of touch as much as sight. This expansion of drawing into space allows material, colour and gesture to operate simultaneously, transforming what is traditionally understood as a two-dimensional practice into something immersive, tactile and unstable, often appearing on the verge of collapse yet held together through careful balance.

Ann Iren Buan
Phantom I, 2026
Acrylic one, pigment, steel chain
150 x 19 x 19 cm

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Ann Iren Buan
CARMINE ASHES
16 April - 18 July 2026
16 Bassett Road, London

24/04/2026

In love with this sculptural drawing by Ann Iren Buan. Translating intimate, meditative gestures of drawing into large-scale, spatial forms, I feel this work challenges conventional boundaries of the medium. I’m sure you’ll agree the works retain the sensitivity and immediacy of the drawn mark while asserting a physical presence.

This expansion of drawing into space allows material, colour and gesture to operate simultaneously, transforming what is traditionally understood as a two-dimensional practice into something immersive, tactile and unstable, often appearing on the verge of collapse yet held together through careful balance.

This work is in show in our latest exhibition Carmine Ashes, running until 18 July 2026 at Siegfried Contemporary, London.

Ann Iren Buan
Phantom I, 2026
Acrylic one, pigment, steel chain
150 x 19 x 19 cm

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Ann Iren Buan
CARMINE ASHES
16 April - 18 July 2026
16 Bassett Road, London

23/04/2026

At the centre of Carmine Ashes is a monumental triptych of the same title, rendered in carmine, a pigment the artist has long been interested in for both its material and historical weight. Derived from crushed cochineal insects, carmine carries a layered cultural history, associated across time with value, secrecy and bodily reference. As Buan notes, the colour is “often connected to blood, overwhelming emotions and desire,” yet here it is approached as a muted, sensuous red, both restrained and saturated.

It is made out of dried and crushed bodies of the female cochineal insect, and was used as early as 700 BC by indigenous tribes. It is still today mostly made the same way. To touch into its history shortly (there is a lot more to be said), it was for example in Europe in the 17th century more valuable than sugar and gold, as the recipe for making the color was held a secret by the Spanish crown. Today it is used a lot in cosmetics, natural food coloring and in the textile industry.

In literature the use of the word carmine is often in connection with blood, overwhelming emotions and desire.

The triptych asserts a strong physical presence within the gallery’s intimate architecture. Rather than conforming to the scale of the room, it presses against it, creating a condition in which the viewer becomes acutely aware of their own body in relation to the work. Buan describes the intention to create “a bold and sensual work, and at the same time fragile and tactile,” a form that both dominates and envelops. The surface oscillates between soft atmospheric passages and dense, almost fleshy protrusions, as if the image were emerging from within the material itself.

Carmine Ashes runs until 18 July 2026 at Siegfried Contemporary, London.

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Ann Iren Buan
CARMINE ASHES
16 April - 18 July 2026
16 Bassett Road, London

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