Formed by four friends outside the traditional art system, Underdog Collection champions emerging artists through slow looking, studio visits, and personal dialogue. Collecting instinctively and independently, they build meaningful, long-term relationships and acquisitions that resist hype and prioritize lasting resonance.
Through mentorship, international networks, and her members’ platform StudioToGallery, curator and advisor Sonia BB London is creating a fairer infrastructure for emerging artists — replacing gatekeeping with guidance and access with education.
New Zealand–born, UK-based artist Cas Campbell works across ceramics, handmade paper, sculpture, and installation to explore humanity’s deep connection to nature. Drawing on evolutionary history, queer identity, motherhood, neurodivergence, and overlooked lives, Campbell’s practice weaves the personal with the historical. Their recent ceramic works construct alternative icons inspired by boundary-breaking female and queer figures, reframing ideas of gender, care, and permanence. In this in-depth interview, Campbell reflects on their journey from painting and installation to clay, the impact of becoming a young parent, and the slow development of a research-driven studio practice. The conversation offers an intimate insight into an emerging artist reshaping contemporary ceramics through tenderness, and resilience.
At Carl Freedman Gallery, Crossing Into Darkness sees Dame Tracey Emin step into the role of curator with striking emotional authority, assembling a multigenerational constellation of artists — from Goya, Munch, Bourgeois and Kiefer to Danielle McKinney, Lindsey Mendick and Celia Hempton — to explore vulnerability, mortality and psychological depth. Through restrained lighting, careful spatial choreography and an instinctive pairing of historic and contemporary voices, Emin transforms darkness into a space of reflection rather than despair.
Tate Modern’s Frida: The Making of an Icon (25 June 2026 – 3 January 2027) explores how Frida Kahlo evolved from painter to global cultural icon. Developed with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the exhibition traces her lasting influence across art, feminism and popular culture, positioning Kahlo as a figure continually reinterpreted by new generations.
OBTUSE (°): , the inaugural exhibition of Obtuse Archive at Galleria Objets, brings together thirteen artists and three performers across sculpture, installation, sound, and performance. Decentering painting and privileging material experimentation, the show explores spatial tension, encounter, and the productive unresolved, positioning Obtuse Archive as a cultural platform in motion.