14 December 2021
Photo: JD Malat Gallery DISSOLVING BODIES: Beautifully executed paintings of bodies and faces start to break apart as if dissolving into the air, or on to the surface of the painting itself. There’s a beautiful and surreal dream-like quality to Henrik Aa Uldalen’s figurative paintings. Another series has...
13 December 2021
Henrik Uldalen: Love in Exile @ JD Malat Gallery A face appears to dissolve into air in a brilliant figurative painting by Henrik Uldalen. I’ve been following his work for years and this feels like his strongest, and darkest, show to date. He’s clearly influenced by the Old Masters...
11 December 2021
Kojo Marfo, Heritage, 2021. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of JD Malat Gallery and the artist. “If I stick with what I know, I usually get the same results. I can always paint a clever picture, but that’s not my goal. I’m trying to make something with heart and...
24 November 2021
Dr Alison Smith, the Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery, in conversation with artist Henrik Uldalen. Their discussion explores the process and inspiration behind Uldalen’s current exhibition ‘Love in Exile’ (18 November 2021 – 8 January 2022). Watch our Youtube video here Read more about Dr...
15 November 2021
»Anyone can paint but it’s the stories behind the images I create that matter most to me.« Kojo Marfo is a London-based artist whose paintings tell stories that pose universal questions. He combines the Akan iconography he grew up around in Ghana with Western references from his time...
30 September 2021
Luis Olaso, Composition for Monstera and a Circle (2021). Courtesy of JD Malat. At the Artnet Gallery Network, our goal is to discover new artists each and every month. We sift through the thousands of talented artists on our site to select a few we find particularly intriguing...
28 September 2021
ha:ar, Impossible Sculptures No. 20, Computer Generated Image (CGI), 140x70cm, lightbox, 2021 How does reinterpreting the past through the lens of the present help us understand our own times? Faced with the postmodernist loss of reference points, we reconnect with our past to orientate ourselves, bridging our vision...
18 August 2021
Written by Tom Bouchier Hayes Rachel Wood, CNN The JD Malat Gallery in London’s Mayfair is everything you’d expect an exclusive art space to be. The premises are immaculate and highly ordered, the owner and staff even more so. Into this atmosphere bounces the ever-smiling and slightly chaotic looking Kojo Marfo,...
29 July 2021
In the latest episode of Africa Avant-Garde, CNN International meets some of the continent’s most experimental contemporary artists. Ghanaian artist Kojo Marfo, features alongside Nigerian artist Victor Ehikhamenor, Moroccan visual artist SafaaMazirh and South African artist Penny Siopis. Watch the video to hear Kojo Marfo’s story and learn more...
16 July 2021
Image courtesy of Galerie 10 “I know I am expressing myself when I paint but I can’t explain the source of the resulting gestures. I am not in any way suggesting that black matter is responsible for what I paint, rather I am interested in the relationship between...
28 June 2021
Kojo Marfo: Dreaming of Identity @ JD Malat Gallery Drawing inspiration from traditional Akan fertility dolls from his native Ghana, Kojo Marfo has created a series of diverse portraits based on the people he’s met. Pulling out the humanity in each sitter it’s a wonderfully positive show where the...
9 June 2021
“Dreaming of Identity” at London’s JD Malat Gallery marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.K. Kojo Marfo, Choir(2021). Courtesy of JD Malat. Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one...
6 June 2021
Kojo Marfo Pillar of Hope, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 68 7/8 x 74 3/8 in 175 x 189 cm (detail) Dreaming of Identity presents a vibrant new body of paintings by London-based Ghanaian artist Kojo Marfo, marking his debut solo show in the UK. Born in Ghana, Marfo developed...
Andrew Litten’s acid-toned, emotionally charged paintings were such a hit at JD Malat’s open call exhibition, Isolation Mastered, that the gallery in London’s Mayfair offered the self-taught artist a one-man show. Conceived as a response to the Covid-19 crisis, with the aim of providing support for emerging artists during the...
2 June 2021
JD Malat Gallery is delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting one of celebrated Turkish artist Hande Şekerciler’s sculptures in the North-East section of Grosvenor Square during the Mayfair Sculpture Trail, 2 – 27 June 2021. The Mayfair Sculpture Trail is a new addition to the annual Mayfair Art Weekend....
14 April 2021
JD Malat Gallery is re-opening with the dynamic solo exhibition A Certain Blue Enters Your Soul, by the Icelandic painter Katrin Fridriks. From 12th April until 9th May 2021, A Certain Blue Enters Your Soul will present Fridriks’ newest body of work which focuses on the centrality of blue to our universal histories....
31 March 2021
Katrin Fridriks, Cosmic Stargate – Portal Activation, 2021, Acrylics on canvas, 100 x 165 + 5 cm JD Malat Gallery is proud to re-open with the dynamic solo exhibition A Certain Blue Enters Your Soul, by the female Icelandic painter Katrin Fridriks. From 12 April until 9 May 2021,...
6 March 2021
Ed Moses in his shared studio on Sawtelle Boulevard in 1958. Courtesy of JD Malat Gallery. By Adam Hencz “I don’t express myself, I’m a mutator, I explore.” Ed Moses California stood for a long time on the fringes of the artistic events and appreciation that agitated the New York scene....
3 March 2021
We are pleased to present the solo exhibition ’ecstasy’ by leading female sculptor Hande Şekerciler. On display at the CerModern museum from 3 March until 20 April 2021, ‘ecstasy’ presents an important axis for contemplating the human ‘self’ in a contemporary age. The exhibition displays the nude form, as...
19 February 2021
The show was organized with help from the artist’s son Andy Moses. Katie White, February 18, 2021 Ed Moses, Edward #2(2008). Courtesy of JD Malat. The quintessentially Californian artist Ed Moses deemed himself “a mutator.” The moniker was intended to describe his ever-evolving style, but it also captures something of the semi-psychedelic...
16 February 2021
By Thomas Barrie16 February 2021 Ed Moses is closely associated with the sun-drenched environs of Southern California, where he was once central to the burgeoning contemporary art scene of the 1960s. Now, a new show at JD Malat Gallery recasts his work in the capital By the time he...
21 January 2021
HENRIK ULDALEN Muda, 2020 Oil on canvas 150 x 100 cm courtesy of JD Malat Gallery Wandering Intuition, a solo exhibition by leading figurative artist Henrik Aa. Uldalen. Presented on JD Malat Gallery’s virtual exhibition platform, PARALLEL, Wandering Intuition consists of Uldalen’s most experimental body of work to date. Created during the residency project Arthouse...
4 January 2021
Read Baya Simons’ article in FT How To Spend It via the link below to find out more about the new work by Conrad Jon Godly, as well as the work of Ed Moses and Kojo Marfo showing collectively at our St. Moritz pop-up! Click the link here. Click...
28 December 2020
We are pleased to announce our new pop-up space in St. Moritz is now open! Our pop-up space will bring the work of our international artists together in an effort to highlight the dynamic cross-cultural exchange between the JD Malat Gallery programme and St. Moritz. St. Moritz has been...
