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MB Art Advisory is an international art consultancy based in London, Istanbul, and Dubai, offering expert guidance in sourcing, collection management, and curated art experiences. With a global reach, we provide strategic advice on acquiring, managing, and engaging with art, helping clients make informed decisions with clarity and confidence.

La Biennale di Venezia 2026
14/05/2026

La Biennale di Venezia 2026

Rose Wylie back at the Royal Academy. The first woman to have a solo show here, and still doing things completely her ow...
12/04/2026

Rose Wylie back at the Royal Academy. The first woman to have a solo show here, and still doing things completely her own way.

Just her way of seeing. Loose, funny, slightly off, and you leave smiling.

Some details I caught along the way.

A woman holding life inside her.Leonor Fini had little interest in painting women as muses. In her world they are the so...
15/03/2026

A woman holding life inside her.

Leonor Fini had little interest in painting women as muses. In her world they are the source of life itself. Here the body opens like a flame, and inside it an entire group of figures appears: part birth, part myth, part dream…

Seen last October at Lévy Gorvy Dayan’s Ménage à Trois exhibition. Today it felt like the right one to share.

Happy Mother’s Day.

“I always knew what kind of artist I wanted to be, now I’m just beginning.” — Tracey EminTwo weeks late mentioning this ...
09/03/2026

“I always knew what kind of artist I wanted to be, now I’m just beginning.” — Tracey Emin

Two weeks late mentioning this one, but the opening of Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern felt like one of those nights everyone in the art world showed up for.

Listening to Tracey speak that evening made the title make complete sense. Her life now as before cancer and after cancer… Surviving it changed everything and this show sits right in that space between the two.

Walking through the exhibition you see the whole arc. The early works where she first started putting everything out in the open. My Bed still sitting there with the same uncomfortable honesty. The neons, the embroidery, the confessions that once shocked people but now feel strangely necessary.

Among the embroideries, one stood out that once belonged to George Michael’s collection. Another had a nice story too- it was lent by a private collector, and Tracey herself mentioned she had completely forgotten about that piece until it resurfaced for the exhibition.

Near the end of the show there’s a bronze death mask of Emin’s own face , resting quietly in a glass case. After everything that comes before it in the exhibition, it lands with a different weight.

Whatever people think of Tracey Emin, she
made something very clear a long time ago: nothing in life is off limits as material.

It really did feel like the beginning of another life.

Among rows of dukes and ladies sitting politely for history, suddenly you’re in Constantinople.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...
20/01/2026

Among rows of dukes and ladies sitting politely for history, suddenly you’re in Constantinople.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, painted while she was actually living there. Dressed in Turkish clothes, her son beside her, one attendant playing a tambur, another stepping in with a letter. Handwoven rugs underfoot, the city stretching out behind them. It feels like a moment she’s in.

And knowing who she was makes it even better... A traveller, a writer, and the woman who brought smallpox inoculation back to Britain after seeing it practiced in Istanbul.

📍 Room 9, Floor 3, NPG

Just a pause for a few London exhibitions that really got it right.Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy- Room after...
16/01/2026

Just a pause for a few London exhibitions that really got it right.

Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy- Room after room of painting… I went three times, and that first visit turned into nearly two hours of slow looking with the podcast on.

Peter Doig at the Serpentine- One of those shows you didn’t just walk through. Music playing, people sitting, Doig often there himself. It felt lived in, not staged.

Anselm Kiefer and Van Gogh in London- The RA show paired perfectly with White Cube Mason’s Yard just across St James’s. You step out of the museum and straight into Kiefer’s sunflowers. Same obsession, different way of seeing…

The Siena exhibition at the National Gallery- Finally seeing these biblical scenes reunited, works usually spread across different countries, made it feel like the story was unfolding properly for once.

Jenny Saville at the National Gallery- Huge paintings that you don’t just look at, you stand in front of and kind of have to deal with.

And Goya to Impressionism at the Courtauld- A beautifully focused selection from the Oskar Reinhart Collection.

London, more of this energy in 2026, please!

Now that we’re officially in 2026, these were a few art moments that really landed for me.Seeing Ein unvergessener Tag (...
02/01/2026

Now that we’re officially in 2026, these were a few art moments that really landed for me.

Seeing Ein unvergessener Tag (A Unforgettable Day) by Georg Baselitz up close at Phillips in March.

Coming across Inka Essenhigh’s Subway from 2005 at Frieze New York, at Victoria Miro Gallery’s booth. A painting from twenty years ago.

Seeing Maman back at Tate Modern. Familiar, sure, but standing underneath it again reminded me why it never really stops working.

Being at the Yosh*tomo Nara opening while he was quietly there himself, almost anonymous.

Seeing Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) reach $54 million at auction. A market headline, but also a moment that felt long overdue.

Watching Malo Chapuy’s booth with Mor Charpentier sell out within the first few hours at Frieze NY.

Seeing Rubens casually show up at Art Basel Paris at Gagosian’s booth. An early Rubens, sitting there next to contemporary works.

Standing again in front of Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.

To the artists, galleries, collectors and friends who made 2025 memorable, thank you! 2026, let’s go.

I saw this at Management Gallery’s booth during NADA Miami and couldn’t quite shake it.Vladislav Markov basically builds...
29/12/2025

I saw this at Management Gallery’s booth during NADA Miami and couldn’t quite shake it.

Vladislav Markov basically builds a strip club inside the gallery. The pole, the bar, the sofas, the animal print floor, all there. One way mirrors too, so you’re watching without being seen. Inside, two performers just move around, killing time, doing things that feel slightly off.

What makes it sharper is how the work exists as painting as well as performance. Markov 3D scans the whole space, breaks it into panels, transfers the image onto canvas, then scrubs the image back into the surface. It’s not a clean transfer… it’s rough, layered, almost damaged. You can feel the performance, the space, and the tech all collapsed into one image

The story behind it is strong, but the technique is what makes it land. It’s unusual, ambitious, and actually pushes painting somewhere new without shouting about it.

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