Artist Taloi Havini and Ruth McDougall, curator of Pacific art at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, discuss Havini's first Australian solo exhibition, Reclamation .

After structural issues forced The Armory Show into last-minute relocation pirouettes last year, the fair returns between 5 and 8 March 2020 with a flourishing programme, complemented by stand-out shows across New York City.

About Bartha Contemporary

Established at the turn of the century by Niklas and Daniela von Bartha, the London-based gallery, Bartha Contemporary, places a strong emphasis on non-figurative and conceptual works by mostly established American and European contemporary artists. Hailing from the second generation of the art-dealing von Bartha family, Niklas, along with his wife Daniela, maintains a retrospective look at underappreciated modernising movements of the past in the gallery programme, whilst championing the latest works of contemporary artists.

Beginning in a small space on Lancaster Road in Notting Hill, the gallery’s early mainstays were Beat Zoderer, Winston Roeth, Frank Gerritz, and Jill Baroff. Outgrowing the Lancaster Road space, the gallery moved to central London’s Fitzrovia art district. In 2019 the gallery relocated again to its current space in an ornate Georgian mansion on Bury Street near St James Palace.

Bartha Contemporary Artists

Showcasing a range of artists, mostly from Britain, Europe, and the United States, the gallery, on the one hand, presents seminal artists and works from lesser-known 20th-century art movements while on the other also focusing on contemporary art.

Bartha Contemporary represents 24 varied, established international artists. Included within its roster are Zoderer, Roeth, and Gerritz along with Clay Ketter, Hartmut Böhm, Julia Mangold , Mike Meiré , Stefana McClure, Alan Johnston, Phil Sims and James Howell. They are joined by mid-Career artists such as Allyson Strafella and Giulia Ricci. Other ‘non-stable’ artists invited to exhibit include English glass artist Anna Dickinson, American painter Kate Shepherd, prominent Argentinian sculptor Enio Iommi and Japanese multi-media artist Takashi Suzuki.

Bartha Contemporary Exhibitions and Art Fairs

On the international art scene, Bartha Contemporary participates in major art fairs such as ESTE ART, artgenève, Art Düsseldorf, and ART COLOGNE. Working collaboratively, the gallery’s artists have also exhibited in European art institutions and galleries including Berlin’s Mies van der Rohe Haus, the von Bartha Collection, in Basel, the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, the Musée Tavet-Delacour in Pontoise, France, the Kunstmuseum Ahlen and the Wilhelm Morgner Museum in Soest. In addition to advising several private German museums, Niklas sits on the board of the Conceptual Art Foundation (SKK) Soest and is an advisor to the board of The James Howell Foundation in New York.

Image courtesy Bartha Contemporary.

Frank Gerritz is a sculptor, but this isn’t immediately apparent from a cursory glance at his most recent work. The artist’s current exhibition at Bartha Contemporary in London, MDF (13 May – 2 July) includes pencil drawings on MDF alongside recent drawings on paper. A concurrent and related exhibition at the...