Maxwell Stevens is a New York City based artist renowned for his layered paintings and drawings which combine photorealistic imagery with vivid, energetic abstractions. In his recent exhibition Surfside, New Paintings at Onetwentyeight in New York, the beach is more than a place of leisure, it becomes a space where intimacy is revealed, even as physical proximity conceals emotional distance. It is also a site for fleeting memories and leisurely moments that disappear and ye

On painting, embodied perception and the spaces we hold within Brea Freeburn (b. 2000, Newry, Northern Ireland) is a painter based in the UK. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2026, having previously completed a First-Class Honours degree in Fine Art Painting at Ulster University. Her practice explores embodied perception, refuge and quiet presence, working with paint, relief and layered surface to create forms that hold emotional and physical trace. Through a pr

Madeleine Skrzynecka is a Polish painter based in Madrid, Spain. Through painting, she has gradually built an imagined world of her own, inhabited by recurring figures, elaborate costumes, intimate interiors, and landscapes that seem to exist somewhere between memory and imagination. Her paintings are guided by an interest in intimacy, femininity, and the emotional traces left by people, places, and fleeting moments. Rather than depicting specific stories, she creates scenes

"I am a Czech artist and a teacher of music and art based in the Czech Republic. I experience synesthesia, which allows me to perceive music not only through sound, but also through colour, shape, and visual structures. This way of experiencing music forms the foundation of my artistic practice. For several years, my work has explored the relationship between visual art and music. By combining my synesthetic perception with an analytical understanding of musical structure, I

Biography Tom Pike (b.1978) is a British Artist currently based in London and the Peak District (UK). He started his practice in 2019, at the age of 41, whilst living and working in Germany. Tom graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003 with a masters degree in menswear fashion design. Since then, he has spent over 20 years working at companies such as Levi’s, Adidas and Fila and has lectured on the Fashion, Print and Textiles courses at the Royal College of Art and Lon

Chas Pulido is a self-taught artist specializing in abstract acrylic action painting. He lives in San Francisco, California, where his studio is located in the Dogpatch neighborhood. From an early age, he demonstrated a strong passion for the visual arts. His early works were already distinguished by their boldness, use of color, and sense of movement, characteristics that helped him develop a distinctive artistic voice and gain international recognition with a Mobius Award.

ARTIST STATEMENT For years, my artistic practice has operated as an ongoing, evolutionary laboratory dedicated to the visualization of sound. Rather than viewing art as a series of finished products, I approach my studio as a research lab where acoustic frequencies, continuous movement, and auditory spaces are translated into visual and material forms. At the core of this investigation is geometric abstraction—specifically the circle and the matrix. For me, these forms act as

Biography Lavi Li is a classical figurative oil painter, ethnographic researcher, and lecturer. Born and raised in Saint Petersburg, she received her foundational studio preparation in academic studio traditions and under master painters. Over years of extensive international travel and field research, the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) emerged as her central area of study, where she has spent the past seven years immersing herself in its cultural heritage, tradit

Artist Statement I make finely crafted still lifes that reenact the ordinary — consumer goods, cardboard boxes, junk food, objects of amusement, rendered in porcelain. My work speaks to the fleeting nature of desire, consumption, and the ambivalent pleasures of capitalism. My objects operate as tableaux and catalogs: witnesses to celebrations already past. The narrative itself reveals fears, joy, insecurities, and the small rituals that stitch ordinary life together. I often

From leading international galleries to emerging artistic voices, Frieze London returns with an ambitious programme exploring the future of contemporary art, new collecting perspectives and the cultural forces shaping our time. London is once again at the centre of the international art world. From 14 to 18 October 2026, Frieze London returns to Regent’s Park for its twenty fourth edition, bringing together 176 galleries from 43 countries and regions. Running alongside Frieze

The New Collectors is pleased to announce an upcoming interview with Didi Gstrein, an art collector and entrepreneur whose vision places contemporary art at the centre of new cultural experiences. Through his collecting practice and his ambitious project at Hotel Mazaggs, he is exploring new ways to bring art into dialogue with architecture, history and hospitality. In our forthcoming conversation, Gstrein will share insights into his collecting philosophy, his relationship w

Petra von Kazinyan's works oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Her practice explores themes of identity, perception, modern communication and the human condition within a world of hyperconnectivity, driven by technology. Even in her early works, the cloud as a manifesto of the ephemeral was a recurring notif that the artist and philosophy graduate filled with emotion. Petra's lyrical. enigmatic "Cloud Paintings" are based on today's outsourcing of human privacy: our

Studio portrait: Callum Crawford Anna Lugovska is a visual artist based between Basel and London. Her practice explores the fragile intersections between individual and collective memory, examining how historical contexts, cross-cultural encounters and global influences shape contemporary identity. Working primarily with oil on canvas and wood, she investigates time, visibility and physical presence as shifting and unstable conditions. Observing anonymous crowds, particularly

BIOGRAPHY Born in Africa, the family is originally from Portugal, from an aristocratic background in Braga, northern Portugal. In the early 1970s, the Family moved back to Portugal from Angola, settling in Estoril and Cascais, near Lisbon. Pedro lived, studied, and was raised by his Grandmother, a Portuguese-born Lady from an aristocratic background who gave him an extremely rigorous religious private education. Pedro went to Madrid in 1989 to work as a model and study art. H

From October 23 to 25, 2026, with Preview Days on October 21 and 22, Art Basel Paris will return to the Grand Palais for its fifth edition, bringing together 211 galleries from 41 countries and territories. The 2026 edition marks the first under the direction of Karim Crippa and arrives at a particularly significant moment for Paris, a city whose position within the international art market has continued to strengthen while its institutional and gallery landscape becomes incr

@All images courtesy of Leonard Koningswijk.

For Annieo Klaas, sunlight is a form of painting in its own right. Passing through windows, curtains, and foliage, light transforms everyday spaces into ephemeral compositions, continually redefining the relationships between surfaces, shadows, and depth. These images, destined to disappear as the light changes, form the starting point of a painterly investigation into the transient nature of perception and the poetic dimension of familiar environments. Raised in Dakar, Seneg

Merritt Spangler is a multidisciplinary artist. Driven by an insatiable need for a life filled with adventure, Spangler prioritizes immersion in world culture over mere invention within the confines of the studio. Her practice uses art as a platform for questioning authority and is often rich in allegory, with recurring themes of love, death, and the complexity of perception. @All images courtesy of Merritt Spangler.