ART021 SHANGHAI 2025

Highlights from the booth include new works by London-based artists Gabriella Boyd (b. 1988, Glasgow, UK) and Francesca Mollett (b. 1991, Bristol, UK). Boyd explores the space between abstraction and figuration, using representative motifs and gestural mark-making between layers of vibrant oil paint. She envisions embodied experiences, speculative and dream-like forms that appear both abstract and anatomical simultaneously. Boyd will have an upcoming solo exhibition at GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), opening this December. Francesca Mollett will present a new large-scale painting, which, in keeping with her body of work, anchors itself in the physical negotiation of making, with compositions evolving through reflections of light and surface, impasto gestures, and the smearing of paint across the canvas, building towards the sensation of an encounter.

Also concerned with elements of light and surface, Danish artist Anders Davidsen (b.1987, Mariagerfjord, DK) will exhibit two new paintings. Built up in thin, layered applications, the paintings convey atmospheres of muted luminosity. Davidsen will have a solo exhibition at the New York gallery, opening in November.

The booth will also feature new works by Czech artist Anna Ruth (b. 1994, Melník, CZ), who recently made her debut at Frieze London in October. Ruth’s paintings often root themselves in emotion and transformation, exploring the human condition through dreamlike symbolic imagery and hauntingly sensorial environments.

Works on paper by Manchester-based artist Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London, UK) will also feature on this year’s booth. Giovanelli’s major touring institutional solo exhibition, A Song of Ascents, which opened at The Hepworth Wakefield (UK) and travelled to HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (AT) earlier this year, is now on view at Museum Villa Stuck in Munich (DE). Her vision continues to encompass and weave a chorus of visual narratives extracted from photographs, film stills, and architectural details into luminous and theatrical visual compositions. Presented alongside Giovanelli, will be a painting by Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989, For Myers, FL US), whose vibrant figurative oil paintings also take inspiration from historical archives, film stills and hagiographic icons, weaving autobiographical narratives that explore queer identity, isolation and tenderness.

New works by Norfolk-based artist Jonathan Wateridge (b. 1972, Lusaka, ZM), who had his first solo exhibition with GRIMM, London (UK) earlier this year, will also be presented. Wateridge’s distinctive vision combines high-modern formalism with echoes of cinematic, evoking feelings of disquiet and uncertainty. Exploring similar powerful relational dynamics between nature, humanity and spatial forms, Dutch artist Michael Raedecker (b. 1963, Amsterdam, NL) draws attention to process and proximity in his paintings. Scaled landscapes are woven with rigorous embroidery, unfolding nocturnal and, sometimes, haunting scenes of a parallel urban world.

Additional works include a painting by Angela Heisch (b. 1989, Auckland, NZ), leading up to her solo exhibition at Yi Space, Hangzhou (CN) in 2026; a new work by London-based artist Hettie Inniss (b. 1999, London, UK), in tandem with her solo exhibition The Waiting Room at GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); works by Dutch artist Tjebbe Beekman (b. 1972, Leiden, NL) and a large canvas by German artist Matthias Franz (b. 1984, Ilmenau, DE).

This selection emphasises the gallery’s commitment to promoting the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists across its programme. Highlighting its expansion beyond its Dutch foundations to represent a mix of artists working across the UK, US and Europe. This year, GRIMM celebrates the opening of a new gallery space in London at 43a Duke Street, St James’s, with a presentation by German artist Matthias Weischer (b. 1973, Elte, DE).