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A studio portrait shows a woman with long dark hair wearing a sleeveless denim top, sitting with her arms crossed and looking directly at the camera.

Loft Gallery director has spent nearly two decades building one of the country’s most important contemporary art spaces, while quietly assembling a collection guided entirely by instinct and love.

I have interviewed her for Observer.

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A visitor wearing a headscarf stands in a gallery space with bright blue walls, looking at two large abstract paintings framed in light wood, one composed of organic pastel shapes and the other of interlocking geometric forms.

The 2026 edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Marrakech is smaller than in previous years. The number of galleries has been reduced, the fair occupies a tighter footprint and the broader media conversation has largely shifted further east.

The city itself, however, tells a different story. This year, the boutique fair operated in dialogue with exhibitions spread across the city, keeping visitors constantly engaged—if not by the energy of Marrakech itself, then by a program that extends far beyond the walls of La Mamounia, the state-of-the-art hotel where the fair takes place.

I reported from the fair for Observer.

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An outdoor sculpture by Gunzi Holmström shows a mushroom-shaped form with a dome-like cap painted with orange geometric patterns and four curved tentacle-like legs, installed on a grassy clearing among trees at the 2025 Helsinki Biennial on Vallisaari Island.

The 2025 Helsinki Biennial delivers in the sense that it unfolds in the moment and strives for harmony, but do we really want art to affect us so imperceptibly that it’s ultimately like nothing ever happened?

I wrote my review of the Biennial for the Observer.

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A crowd of visitors walks through a large industrial exhibition hall with stone walls and exposed beams, viewing booths from galleries including ΓΚΑΡΑΖ art space and Alpha C.K. Art Gallery at the VIMA Art Fair.

Beyond its commercial ambitions, the inaugural edition of VIMA art fair carved out space to consider Cyprus’ complex geopolitical position. I wrote a report on the fair for the Observer.

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