MAH

The Museum of Art and History

The Museum of Art and History (MAH) in Geneva has begun a radical process of transformation towards a forward-looking museum model. First opened in 1910, the Swiss museum currently spans 7,000 sqm over five stories, housing an impressive collection of some 650,000 items ranging from archaeological artefacts to Byzantine art and Classical antiquities to modern paintings. Now, under the helm of its recently appointed Director Marc-Olivier Wahler, the historical institution is launching a new programming strategy aiming at critically re-contextualising and showcasing its collection. To mark this significant milestone, MAH has unveiled a new visual identity and announced expansion plans, leading on a major urban development project which will materialise as an inclusive and integrated museum campus at the heart of Geneva.

January 10, 2021

Past Projects

Alserkal Initiatives

In collaboration with Cité internationale des arts, Alserkal Initiatives presented the When Solidarity Is Not a Metaphor exhibition during the opening week of the 60th International Venice Biennale. Featuring a diverse line-up of artists and contributors, including Majd Abdel Hamid, Adelita Husni-Bey, Rehaf Al Batniji, Shada Safadi, and many more, each artist brought their unique perspective on solidarity, spanning geographical, cultural, and socio-political contexts.

Through a series of participatory convenings, performances, and experiential installations, the exhibition provided visitors with immersive opportunities to explore the multifaceted nature of solidarity in our contemporary world.

By transcending theoretical boundaries and offering tangible experiences, the exhibition aimed to redefine the very essence of solidarity, inviting participants to engage deeply with its complexities and possibilities.

21 April, 2024

Gazelli Art House

Founded in 2010 by Mila Askarova, Gazelli Art House brings a fresh perspective to Mayfair. The gallery champions artists from across the globe with a focus on those at the height of their practice, presenting and contextualising their work to new audiences. 

With galleries in London and Baku, Gazelli Art House has a specialist focus in promoting art from Azerbaijan and neighbouring countries to further a greater understanding of the rich linguistic, religious, and historic ties that connect the region. 

Since 2015, the gallery has expanded to support artists working in the realm of digital art through its online platform Gazell.io. In 2020, it established the Gazell.io Project Space and VR library, the first permanent home dedicated to digital art in Mayfair. 

15 August, 2021

Hope Sculpture - COP26

To mark the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Glasgow – the event’s host city – commissioned public art installation by British designer Steuart Padwick. Reflecting on the imperatives of the ongoing climate crisis, Padwick’s designs are the result of conversations and collaborative efforts between engineers, environmentalists, writers, the construction industry, historians, scientists, mental health professionals, local community groups, urban planners, and filmmakers.

The central piece – ‘The Hope Sculpture’ – is a 23.5m-high structure towering over Clyde Gateway’s woodland park at Cuningar Loop. The monumental sculpture’s high slender columns take their form from the brick chimney stalks that once littered the East End of Glasgow. Unlike its predecessors, however, these are made from a new low-carbon and 100% cement-free concrete incorporating locally sourced aggregates and recycled crushed glass from Scotland. It is topped by a sculpture of a universal child with its arms reaching out to a hopeful future.

August 2021

Daata

Founded in 2015 by David Gryn, Daata is the leading platform for digital artworks. Daata commissions original, digital artworks by established and emerging artists, allowing you to stream or download high-quality digital artworks on any device. Through Daata Artist Commissions, Galleries at Daata and Daata Fair, Daata offers hundreds of artworks by an ever-growing portfolio of contemporary artists.

Daata Fair is the first international online art fair dedicated to artist video. Launched in October 2020, it is a concise fair, hosting a limited number of galleries in order to afford the presented artworks the intimate attention they deserve.

February 25, 2021

Albion Fields

Albion Fields is a sculpture park set within 50 acres of Oxfordshire countryside, parts of which have been rewilded - restored to their natural, uncultivated state. The grounds provide unique installation sites for artworks, spanning from open vistas to secluded woodland areas and positions beside a natural lake.

In July 2021, Albion Barn unveils its inaugural Albion Fields exhibition in collaboration with Goodman, Marian Goodman, König and Lisson Gallery, presenting works by twenty-six major international artists including contemporary artists including Ai Weiwei, Adel Abdessemed, Vito Acconci, Ghada Amer, Kader Attia, David Adjaye, James Capper, Claudia Comte, Wim Delvoye, Ryan Gander, Douglas Gordon, Jeppe Hein, Bernar Venet, Alicja Kwade, Ghada Amer, Richard Long, John Pawson, Sarah Peters, James Turrell, Cristina Iglesias, Daniel Burren, Joana Vasconcelos, Xavier Veilhan, Eva Rothschild, Richard Woods, Erwin Wurm and Rachel Whiteread.

June 3, 2021

Gate 27

Gate 27 is an international residency program that aims to facilitate the research and production processes of different practices and to provide a platform for interdisciplinary interaction. Established in 2019, Gate 27 organizes public programs and events that develop communication among local and international artists, academics and cultural actors in order to enable new collaborations. Treating art as a research method, the organisation invites residents to partake in discourses in relation to ecology, sustainability, accessibility and local creative networks.

15 January, 2021

Frieze

Social Work was an invitational section of Frieze London 2018 which featured eight monographic presentations by women artists whose work emerged in response to the global social and political schisms of the 1980s and ’90s. Social Work paid homage to a selection of artists who challenged the status quo and explored the possibilities of political activism in their art making.  Including both established and lesser-known feminist artists the section highlighted the role that galleries have played in their support of women artists whose work may not have been easily assimilated into the mainstream. 

June 5, 2018

Stephen Friedman Gallery

Curated by the pioneering British artist Yinka Shonibore MBE, presented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, Talisman in the Age of Difference  explored the ideas of magic and subversive beauty in works by forty six artists of African origin and across the diaspora and artists who empathise with the spirit of African resistance and representation. Presenting an eclectic and surprising range of works, the exhibition included painting, sculpture, drawing and other objects from the early twentieth century to the present day. As with his own practice, Shonibare selected artists who make provocative work that consciously belies a subversive and political message and does not necessarily conform to a western vision of art. 

May 4, 2018

DAU

Initially planned as a feature film, DAU began shooting in April 2007 and soon turned into a unique, epic, multidisciplinary, and ever-changing project created by Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky along with Sergei Adonyev. The project combines film, science, performance, spirituality, social and artistic experimentation, literature and architecture. Part of Dau himself was played by the eminent musician Teodor Currentzis. In January 2019, in Paris, the DAU project was presented at the Théâtre de la Ville and the  Théâtre du Châtelet. Visitors were only granted entry after they  had requested and had obtained a visa, and had left their mobiles and connections to the outside world at the cloakroom. At the Centre Pompidou, a Soviet apartment was recreated, where scientists from the Institute would live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the duration of the installation. 

November 2018

Galerist

Established in 2001, Galerist is one of the leading contemporary art galleries in Istanbul. With exhibitions by well-known names from Turkey and abroad, the gallery has established a reputation for nurturing the careers of outstanding Turkish contemporary artists and introducing their work to a global audience while simultaneously bringing some of the best international contemporary art to Istanbul. 

The gallery continues to pursue a creative direction that balances the emerging and the established and national and international artists – with the constant aim of presenting and supporting outstanding contemporary visual art practices.

September 2019