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Zabludowicz Collection A private art collection with a public ethos. Zabludowicz Collection is founded on a commitment to producing a vibrant and sustainable ecology for art.
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It achieves this through a growing archive of contemporary art and is dedicated to the conservation and production of new work by artists from the earliest stages of their careers. The Collection runs an independent UK charity and an international programme of exhibitions, events, residencies and commissions across in the UK, USA and Finland. Our exhibitions are free and open to all.

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Lucien Smith (1989 - 2026), a central figure of New York’s downtown art...
09/09/2026

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Lucien Smith (1989 - 2026), a central figure of New York’s downtown art scene with initiatives made to support artists like STP (Serve the People) and his new restaurant, FOOD, a recreation of the historic artist run restaurant.

Special memories from a studio visit in 2013.

Image 1: From Anita’s Art Diary, December 2013
“It was lovely to visit the world of Lucien Smith. Only 24 years old but with great plans to build an interesting future both as an artist and a collaborator. Here is Lucien in front of his next project; STP, which he will work on with his assistants Ben and Luke.”

Image 2: From Anita’s Art Diary, December 2013
“He very kindly took the time to show us his intense practice. We were all mesmerized and found the whole process thoroughly captivating.”

Works from the collection:

Image 3: TBT, STP, 2013
Lucien Smith on STP: “It’s a group which seeks to nourish emerging talent in art, music and film. Our goal is to provide an alternative platform for creative inquiry and experimentation. We want to help bring awareness to the unrefined, uncommercial and create a market for it as well.”

Image 4 and 5: Untitled Scrap Metal, 2013

RIP 1. Of course there has to be a Yayoi Kusama! An exemplarily sculpture “Shine of Life Kistefos 2. ON guard it would...
27/08/2026

RIP 1. Of course there has to be a Yayoi Kusama! An exemplarily sculpture “Shine of Life Kistefos 2. ON guard it would not leave Rubell Museum 3.The Yayoi Kusama work was iconic. The story goes that it was Andy Warhol who copied Kusama’s wallpaper which then became a key part of Warhol’s work Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 4 the one that got away Kusuma shoes, one of the best works of hers I had seen at Robert Miller Gallery. 5. Yayoi Kusama was unable to make it but she sent her avatar! First art Basel paris. Check out

Rest in peace, Siobhan Coen (1967–2026). Remembering her 2018 Invites exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection, “Unknown...
31/07/2026

Rest in peace, Siobhan Coen (1967–2026). Remembering her 2018 Invites exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection, “Unknown Knowns”.

Link to interview with Paul Luckraft in 2017 in bio.

Siobhan’s practice reworked the language and structures of digital communication to explore perception, unconscious influence, and the ways narratives are constructed. Drawing on Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine and cut-up techniques, she created “evidence-based fictions”—works that revealed how meaning can be shaped, manipulated, and hidden in plain sight.

“Unknown Knowns” combined the voice of Donald Rumsfeld with immersive programmed RGB light to create an environments that invited viewers to question how images, language, and authority shape the way we see the world.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦Damien Hirst (UK, b. 1965) is one of Britain’s most infamous contemporary artists and a leading figure...
23/06/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦

Damien Hirst (UK, b. 1965) is one of Britain’s most infamous contemporary artists and a leading figure of the 1990s Young British Artists (YBAs) movement. Through painting, sculpture, and large-scale installations, Hirst explores the boundaries of human belief systems—such as religion and medicine—alongside our fear and denial of death.

A central thread in his work is how chemicals, pharmacology, and narcotics regulate life. His seminal vitrine sculpture, Sometimes I Avoid People (1991), uses glass, steel, medical tubes, and gas canisters to simulate a fragile, self-regulating environment for human survival. The piece debuted at his landmark 1991 solo exhibition, Internal Affairs, at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)—the same year he unveiled his famous shark sculpture, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.

Hirst’s fixation on mortality and belief systems spans his entire career. His early masterpiece I Love You (1995) presses shimmering butterflies into a monochrome red canvas to juxtapose love and death, created just before he won the Turner Prize.

This exploration of mortality continues through major print series, such as The Last Supper (1999), a set of 13 screenprints published by The Paragon Press.

📷Damien Hirst, Sometimes I Avoid People (1991), Installation view, Systematic 2010, Zabludowicz Collection. Photo Stephen White
📷Damien Hirst, I Love You, (1995)
📷Damien Hirst, The Last Supper (1999)

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Philip Guston (b. 1913, Canada. d. 1980, USA) In the 1950s, Guston was an integral part of the New Yo...
19/06/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Philip Guston (b. 1913, Canada. d. 1980, USA)

In the 1950s, Guston was an integral part of the New York Abstract Expressionist circle. But by the 1960s, he grew sceptical of pure abstraction. In 1968, reacting to the social turmoil in the US, he made a move that shocked the art world: he renounced abstraction entirely.

Born to Jewish immigrants, Guston grew up in Los Angeles during a time of pronounced Ku Klux Klan presence. In his 1970s paintings, he addressed American racism head-on. Figures in pointed white hoods, chuffing ci**rs and driving cars, became a central motif. For Guston, these works brought together the horrifying and the banal, acting partly as self-portraits that reflected his own unease with society.

🪨 Guston’s ability to turn heavy forms into emotional symbols is showcased in ‘Rock’ (1978). Rendered in crude, painterly brushwork, the looming structure evokes a sense of confinement and the “doom of modern man” that haunted his final years.

🪞’Mirror Head’ (1977) features an oversized, detached head motif—often interpreted as his wife, poet Musa McKim, who suffered severe illness in the 1970s. The piece confronts identity, aging, and mortality with a poignant tenderness.

Though Guston spent his final decade in relative obscurity, it was his most productive era, resulting in some of the most complex, iconic post-war American art ever made.

Drop a 💬 if you’ve seen Guston’s work in person!

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Philip Guston (b. 1913, Canada. d. 1980, USA) In the 1950s, Philip Guston was and integral part of th...
16/06/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Philip Guston (b. 1913, Canada. d. 1980, USA)

In the 1950s, Philip Guston was and integral part of the New York Abstract Expressionist circle. But by the 1960s, he grew sceptical of pure abstraction. In 1968, reacting to the social turmoil in the US, he made a move that shocked the art world: he renounced abstraction entirely.

Born to Jewish immigrants, Guston grew up in Los Angeles during a time of pronounced Ku Klux Klan presence. In his 1970s paintings, he addressed American racism head-on. Figures in pointed white hoods, chuffing ci**rs and driving cars, became a central motif. For Guston, these works brought together the horrifying and the banal, acting partly as self-portraits that reflected his own unease with society.

🪨 Guston’s ability to turn heavy forms into emotional symbols is showcased in ‘Rock’ (1978). Rendered in crude, painterly brushwork, the looming structure evokes a sense of confinement and the “doom of modern man” that haunted his final years.

🪞’Mirror Head’ (1977) features an oversized, detached head motif—often interpreted as his wife, poet Musa McKim, who suffered severe illness in the 1970s. The piece confronts identity, aging, and mortality with a poignant tenderness.

Though Guston spent his final decade in relative obscurity, it was his most productive era, resulting in some of the most complex, iconic post-war American art ever made.

Drop a 💬 if you’ve seen Guston’s work in person!

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Mark Bradford b. 1961, Los AngelesBradford is best known for his large-scale abstract paintings built...
16/06/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Mark Bradford b. 1961, Los Angeles

Bradford is best known for his large-scale abstract paintings built without traditional paint, instead constructed from materials sourced directly from his environment.

His work begins with the logic that materials already carry histories, social, economic, and cultural, before they enter the studio.

Layered compositions of posters, flyers, end papers, and found ephemera are built up and then worked back through processes of sanding, tearing, and scraping, producing surfaces that feel simultaneously constructed and eroded.

Through this physical excavation, abstraction becomes a way to register underlying systems—mapping the structures that shape urban life and expose inequities affecting marginalised communities.

Alongside painting and collage, Bradford’s practice extends into video, photography, sculpture, and installation, consistently engaging questions of race, class, and gender through material form.

📸: Mark Bradford, The Paw With All It’s Claws Was Missing, 2010
📸: Mark Bradford, Farther South and Elsewhere

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Yosh*tomo Nara (b. 1959, Japan)Nara is best known for his instantly recognisable paintings, drawings,...
12/06/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Yosh*tomo Nara (b. 1959, Japan)

Nara is best known for his instantly recognisable paintings, drawings, and sculptures of children and animals rendered in a deceptively simple, manga-influenced style.

At the centre of his work are wide-eyed, often defiant figures whose expressions hover between innocence and resistance—projecting a quiet psychological intensity beneath their surface “cuteness.”

Works such as Your Dog translate this sensibility into three-dimensional form, where familiar childhood imagery becomes slightly off-balance, emotionally charged, and psychologically ambiguous.

Often associated with kawaii culture, Nara’s practice complicates cuteness—using it as a vehicle to explore boredom, solitude, vulnerability, and interior emotional states.

Drawing on influences ranging from American punk and rock music to childhood memory and drawing, his work builds a world where youth culture is both fragile and charged with latent unrest.

📸: Yosh*tomo Nara, Your Dog, 2002
📸: Yosh*tomo Nara, Crated Room No. 4, 2006

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Jakub Julian Ziółkowski b. 1980 Zamość, PolandZiolkowski’s imagery mutates, multiplies, and refuses h...
09/06/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Jakub Julian Ziółkowski b. 1980 Zamość, Poland

Ziolkowski’s imagery mutates, multiplies, and refuses hierarchy. He pulls from a dense archive of visual culture: Renaissance and Baroque painting, Bosch-like grotesqueries, Picasso, Surrealism, German Expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Francis Bacon, alongside graphic novels and street imagery.

These references don’t sit neatly—they swarm.
In paintings like The Great Battle Under the Table, imagined armies collide in unstable, theatrical spaces: part childhood game, part historical stage, part hallucinated battlefield.

Under draped surfaces and collapsing perspective, hundreds of microscopic figures move through coffins, insects, and monstrous forms—each scene shifting between humour, horror, and excess.

📸: Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Untitled (“Emperor’s Delight”), 2010-2011
📸: Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Untitled, 2006
📸: Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Bestiary, 2013
📸: Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Bestiary, installation view

🎨 ICON APPRECIATION POST ✌️On Friday we said goodbye to our curator Julia Greenway - a formidable curatorial force who h...
08/06/2026

🎨 ICON APPRECIATION POST ✌️On Friday we said goodbye to our curator Julia Greenway - a formidable curatorial force who has been with us for 5 years.

Her stewardship of every exhibition, project and residency has been a joy to be part of. We wish her all the best for her bright future and will sincerely miss her energy and expertise.

We encourage you to rewatch her excellent series of TikTok artist explainers (also on here) she’s a pro - give her a follow -

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