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A portrait begins with a visit. We go where the work is made: a studio at the end of a farm track, a gallery on a waterfront, a festival that has run for thirty years. We film, we listen, we come back with more than we can use, and then we write. Each portrait keeps its subject's words close and follows the pace of their day. Many portraits have a film in our catalogue, and most close with a literary companion: a writer whose work sits beside the practice we have just met. The portraits from the west coast of Scotland are also gathered in the series Studios in the Landscape.
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In the late 1970s, a young German teacher arrived in Berlin and met Martin Kippenberger. Four decades later, the gallery she built from that encounter celebrates its fortieth anniversary in Naples, with a double exhibition that brings Kippenberger's Italian obsession to the city he never reached in his lifetime.
10 May 2026
25 April 2026
Founded in 1974 with a show by Dan Flavin, Studio Trisorio has spent fifty years changing the way Naples sees contemporary art. From the first photography exhibitions to the invention of Artecinema, from Villa Orlandi in Anacapri to three gallery spaces on the Chiaia waterfront, this is the story of a family, a city, and the conviction that art can reach everyone.
23 April 2026
Since 1996, Artecinema has been bringing contemporary art to the screen in Naples. Thirty editions later, the festival founded by Laura Trisorio remains one of Europe's most important programmes of film on art, and one of the most generous: admission is free.
16 April 2026
Before the music begins, there is tuning — an act of alignment between two instruments that is already part of the performance. Harkeerat Mangat and Balázs Virágh make Indian classical music with the precision of cognitive science and the playfulness of two friends who find their shared obsession "totally hilarious and absurd."
12 April 2026
In her studio on the family farm, surrounded by sheep and sea, Mogs Mellor paints what catches her eye: oystercatchers, boats, a sprat on blue plastic. She calls her best work "happy accidents." What moves her most is when a stranger walks in and says: I love this.
12 April 2026
Not all the studios we visited in Argyll were artist studios. Some were houses, some were kitchens and some were pubs. Melfort House is all of these things combined. In this beautiful house on the shores of Loch Melfort, Matthew Anderson serves breakfast, plays the guitar in the pub across the road, and sends you to a tiny island for an evening of music you would never have found alone. For him, hospitality is a creative practice. The landscape is the calm that holds it all together.
11 April 2026
In Argyll, reaching an artist's studio is already part of the work. Rory Gibson paints what he sees, travelling across islands by bicycle, choosing days of sun, finishing a canvas before the light shifts. His practice exists in the tension between the long time of the journey and the immediacy of the gesture.
8 April 2026
On the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, where the road itself feels like part of the experience, a former farm building has been transformed into a contemporary gallery of rare clarity and character. At Resipole Studios, art is encountered as a quieter act of attention: shaped by landscape, architecture and the long journey that leads you there.