Better together? New Forms of Gallery Collaboration

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Conversations | Better together? New Forms of Gallery Collaboration How are galleries navigating the economic uncertainty resulting from the pandemic, the widening gap between gallery tiers, and the volatile speculation in the art market? Increasingly, by coming together. Representatives from South South, the International Galleries Alliance, and the Gallery Climate Coalition discuss how they are collaborating to support new talent across the globe, addressing urgent questions such as representation and climate change while assuring the network’s financial stability.Shireen Gandhy, Owner and Director, Chemould Prescott Road and co-founder, South South Kate MacGarry, Director, Kate MacGarry Aleya Hamza, Founder and director of Gypsum Moderator: Tim Schneider, Artnet News Shireen Gandhy is the director of Chemould Prescott Road, a gallery based in Bombay, India. She was born into a family of prominent art gallerist parents, Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy who started Gallery Chemould in 1963. Having been brought up in the company of art and artists, her life has been surrounded with conversations, paintings and dialogues around art. Shireen joined her parents in 1988 adding a new dynamism to its programme by spearheading a particular focus on young emerging artists with an experimental and interdisciplinary approach to practice and media. The artists represented within the stable of the gallery represent the very contemporary nature of the nation as it stands today. Shireen has launched several artists who are now prominent around the world – nurturing and creating a platform for them.Kate MacGarry founded her gallery in east London in 2002 and represents 23 international artists including Goshka Macuga, Francis Upritchard, who had their first commercial exhibitions at the gallery. In 2022, the twentieth year of the gallery, Samson Kambalu’s sculpture Antelope will presented on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and Marcus Coates will realise a large-scale commission with Art Angel in London. Kate is a founding member and Trustee of the Gallery Climate Coalition Aleya Hamza is the founder and Director of Gypsum, a Cairo-based contemporary art gallery representing a growing roster of Egyptian and international artists. She has worked as a curator at various non-profit art spaces in Cairo, including Townhouse and the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), and has written and lectured on contemporary art. Her projects and exhibitions have featured at institutions throughout the Middle East, Europe, and the US. She holds an MA in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London. Tim Schneider is the Art Business Editor for Artnet News, co-producer of the Artnet News podcast The Art Angle, and writer behind the Gray Market, the conversation-starting industry-analysis column. His work draws from a nearly decade-long career in the gallery sector and research into economics, technology, data analysis, and related subjects. He has lectured or participated in panel discussions in Art Basel’s Conversations series, the Talking Galleries symposium, the Art Business Conference, and respected U.S. arts nonprofits and universities. In 2017 he released his first book, The Great Reframing: How Technology Will&mdash;and Won’t&mdash;Change the Gallery System Forever. He is based in New York.&nbsp; The Art Basel 2022 Conversations program is curated by Emily Butler.