Contemporary Istanbul 2025 Highlights

Contemporary Istanbul 2025 Highlights

This year’s landmark 20th-anniversary edition of Contemporary Istanbul (September 23–28, 2025), held within the atmospheric shipyard complex of Tersane, was marked by a sustained institutional confidence and the lively cross-pollinations of an increasingly globalised market. Artvisor was proud to play an active role in this edition: our team delivered a bespoke advisory and tours programme for collectors; our founder, Piero Tomassoni, moderated a high-profile panel within the Contemporary Istanbul Foundation Dialogues; and Artvisor co-hosted an exclusive dinner with The Art Newspaper at the Mandarin Oriental Bosphorus. .    Coinciding with the Istanbul Biennial, the fair attracted an even larger and...

New York: Independent and Armory 2025 Highlights

New York: Independent and Armory 2025 Highlights

Marking the start of New York’s autumn season, The Armory Show and Independent once again positioned the city at the centre of the international art calendar. Artvisor highlights both canonical 20th-century figures with bold contemporary practices. The Armory Show Highlights  Held at the Javits Center, the show featured a broad spectrum of galleries from around the world, alongside curated sections and public programming that reflected New York’s lasting importance as an international centre for contemporary art. Named in homage to the legendary 1913 Armory Show, which first introduced European modernism to an American audience—the fair has grown into one of...

Athens: Art Athina 2025 Highlights

Athens: Art Athina 2025 Highlights

Artvisor highlights a range of art practices and shows surrounding this year’s Art Athina. Marking its 30th anniversary, the fair took place at the former Fix Factory in Athens, reaffirming its role as one of Europe’s longstanding contemporary art fairs. Bringing together leading Greek and international galleries, the fair highlighted a diverse programme of curated exhibitions, performances, and talks. This edition reflected Athens’s importance as a cultural hub in the Mediterranean, with satellite events across the city and collaborations with major institutions including the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST). The Onassis Foundation staged a dynamic presentation. Manousos Manousakis’s Cosmologies unfolded in...

Coffee with Alessandro Roma

Coffee with Alessandro Roma

Coffee with Alessandro Roma Author: Yoli Terziyska “It is impossible to know where you are here, only your direction is known” Of Walking in Ice, Wednesday 4th of December, Werner Herzog  Alessandro Roma, born in Milan in 1977, is a multi-media artist living and working between London and Milan. He studied at the Brera Art Academy [...]

Code Art Fair 2017

This year, Artvisor and a host of emerging and established galleries will be flocking to Denmark for CODE, Copenhagen’s premier art fair. As a relative newcomer to the circuit of global art fairs, Code Art Fair, which is about to launch its second edition, is already making waves in the art world. Set in the bustling [...]

Artist Spotlight: Folkert De Jong

Artist Spotlight: Folkert De Jong

Born: 1972 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands Lives and works in: Amsterdam Latest Exhibition: Weird Science, Gem Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague. Folkert De Jong creates macabre sculptures from polyutherene and styrofoam. His human sized figures are dismembered and reattached in bizarre poses. They often come dressed in theatrical clothing and splashed in [...]

Artist Spotlight: Carla Busuttil

Artist Spotlight: Carla Busuttil

Born: 1982 in Johannesburg, South Africa Lives and works in: Oxford, UK Current exhibition: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (June 13th - August 20th 2017) The South African born artist Carla Busuttil reformulates the conventions of portraiture to create grotesquely comical imagery. By parodying the faces, gestures and clothing of influential figures, she examines the [...]

Artist Spotlight: Sári Ember

Born: 1985 in São Paulo, Brazil Lives and works in: Budapest, Hungary Current exhibition: Longlife, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, open July 5th. Ember’s art deals with duality and paradoxes. A multidisciplinary artist, her works question the nature of representation through a redefinition of classical genres of still life and landscape. Her practice moves across a wide [...]

Abraham Poincheval at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Abraham Poincheval at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

On Monday at midday, the Palais de Tokyo is already bustling with movement as visitors fill in the vast repurposed 1930s building. Their first encounter in the vast entrance is a giant glass bottle, large enough for a few people to comfortably remove the giant cork and slide inside. In fact, the inside of the [...]

On Collecting Performance Art

On Collecting Performance Art

In the last few decades, contemporary art has evolved in an extraordinary number of ways. Amongst many surprising developments, Performance art has shown that its main means of expression, environments and live actions, are extraordinarily powerful and never cease to fascinate and unsettle viewers. Since their phenomenal rise in the Sixties, thanks to pioneers such as [...]