
We are pleased to present A Place to Look Again, a dynamic group exhibition conceived as a continuously evolving series of installations by gallery artists. Shaped by intuition, responsiveness, and curatorial spontaneity, the exhibition unfolds over time rather than arriving as a fixed statement.
Bringing together key positions from the gallery programme, the presentation operates simultaneously as a reflective pause and a forward glance. Recent exhibitions are revisited, recontextualised, and placed in dialogue with selected previews of forthcoming presentations planned for 2026. The result is a fluid constellation of works that foregrounds many of the core concerns that define the gallery’s practice, including material intelligence, seriality, abstraction, and the poetics of process.
The title subtly acknowledges a long-standing affinity with the thinking of the Swiss conceptual artist and painter Rémy Zaugg, in particular his seminal text The Art Museum of My Dreams, or A Place for the Work and the Human Being. Zaugg’s insistence on the exhibition space as an active site of encounter between artwork and viewer underpins many of the curatorial decisions made here. The gallery is understood not as a neutral container, but as a place that asks to be revisited, reconsidered, and re-read over time.
The exhibition is also informed by broader questions surrounding the role, value, and responsibility of the exhibition space at a moment of continued realignment within the contemporary art market. Rather than asserting a singular narrative, A Place to Look Again embraces change as a condition, allowing meaning to emerge through proximity, contrast, and duration.
This evolving presentation will remain on view until 28 February, with installations shifting throughout its run. Visitors are encouraged to return and experience the exhibition as a living structure rather than a static display.


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.

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