Otobong Nkanga
Nigerian-Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga returns to the fair with new textile works, renewing her yearly appointment with our gallery. Her multidisciplinary practice examines the complex relationships between bodies, territories, and the exploitation of natural resources — making metaphorical links between the landscape and the traumatized human body. Skin, soil, leaves, and organs become letters from the same alphabet, woven together to make us reflect on the silent violence wrought upon the defenceless.
Monali Meher
Indian artist Monali Meher presents Freeing the Land (2025), a new series of mixed media drawings created on digital images of her live performance, first manifested in Venice and later displayed as a volumetric video accessible via augmented reality. In the performance, she carries soil in her pockets and in the folds of her costume, distributing it across different locations to create temporary landscapes and rituals with incense sticks as offerings to passersby. Through these gestures, Meher reflects on the notion of movement and migration, tracing the intertwined experiences of borders, loss, memory, and reconciliation.
Thierry Oussou
Following his recent nomination for the Prix de Rome, Beninese conceptual artist Thierry Oussou presents large-scale works on black paper that are entirely devoted to the betterment of society. His practice focuses on professions that are often marginalised — including cotton plantation workers — exploring the conditions under which they labour and highlighting their significance to society. In his new body of work, Oussou reflects on the transatlantic triangle of trade that arose between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, connecting the history of colonial exploitation to the present day.
Atousa Bandeh
Iranian artist Atousa Bandeh presents works from her latest solo show at the gallery, drawing directly from the recent tragic developments in Iran. Driven by a fascination with demolished buildings and abandoned landscapes, her practice raises poetic yet firm reflections on our present — bridging tangible representations of events with internal, subjective interpretations. These works speak of a sun setting on ruins, of a beauty that quietly emerges from adversity.