Ames Yavuz to Open First London Gallery in 2025
Left to right: The site in Grosvenor Hill, Mayfair, London. Photo: Emma Boittiaux; Glen Ames, Ananya Mukhopadhyay, and Can Yavuz. Photo: Emma Boittiaux. Courtesy Ames Yavuz.
Ames Yavuz, the Asia Pacific gallery who represent artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Pinaree Sanpitak, and Yeo Kaa, will expand to London with a 2,600 square-foot gallery on Grosvenor Hill in Mayfair in early 2025.
Ames Yavuz London will be overseen by Ananya Mukhopadhyay, previously a director at Magnum Photos and Auction Coordinator at Gagosian. It joins the gallery’s three locations in Sydney and Singapore, where founder Can Yavuz started the business in 2010.
‘London continues to be the beating heart of the art world, and felt like a natural home for Ames Yavuz,’ said Can Yavuz. ‘Our new space on Grosvenor Hill is going to be a beautiful way to join the conversation in the city’s historical gallery quarter ... while bringing something entirely different to the city’s cultural landscape,’ Yavuz said.
In 2019, the gallery became the first commercial art gallery from Asia to establish a permanent space in Australia. Today, it represents established and emerging artists from three continents, including Brook Andrew, Stanislava Pinchuk, and Alvin Ong.
Last February, the former Yavuz Gallery was renamed Ames Yavuz to reflect the Asia-Pacific and European heritage of founder Yavuz and CEO Glen Ames, and their relationship in business and life.
The gallery will open with a solo show by Filipino husband-and-wife duo Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, known for installations addressing ‘the agrarian economies of Southeast Asia, and the politics of displacement, migration and family’.
In 2025, the location will further host solo exhibitions by Indigenous Australian painter Vincent Namatjira, Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak, and Australian sculptor Patricia Piccinini. —[O]
Main image: Left to right: The site in Grosvenor Hill, Mayfair, London. Photo: Emma Boittiaux; Glen Ames, Ananya Mukhopadhyay, and Can Yavuz. Photo: Emma Boittiaux. Courtesy Ames Yavuz.
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