Artists · Critics · Curators

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An essential index of the people featured by Acquistare Arte. Each profile offers a concise critical reading and connects our editorial feature to an official or authoritative source.

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Australian artist · born 2007

Aelita Andre

Painting, objects, installations and Soundpaintings form an archive begun in childhood. Published small paintings provide an entry point below €5,000.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei collaborations ranged from about €410 to €8,250. Coloured Vase Green was €1,300: edition-based access to a museum artist, materially and economically different from a unique sculpture.

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Artist · Exhibition notice

Alberto D'Amico

In Rome from 15 to 31 October 2026: a group exhibition curated by Andrea Iezzi and conceived by Alberto D’Amico, Paolo Bielli and Stefania Fabrizi.

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Established artist · €20,000 guide

Alberto Timossi

Documented projects include Alberto Timossi’s Fata Morgana at Lake Col d’Olen; Massimo Scognamiglio’s The Magnificent Seven and Punk Aristocracy in Rome; Lulù Nuti’s System at the Roman Houses of the Celio; Timossi’s Illusion at Cave Michelangelo in Carrara; Marco Milia’s The Eighth Day; Francesco Fei’s Lightness; Giancarlo Neri’s Latinorum; Milia’s In aere in aquis; Onepieceart’s The Truth is Naked; I Love Music at Room26; Opera Unica; the first 24x24 group show; and Domenico Ventura da Altamura’s 2013 solo project.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Alicja Kwade

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Andrea Santarlasci

The historical list includes Claudio Abate, Irma Alonzo, Sergio Angeli, Rino Barillari, Gerald Bruneau, Fabrizio Buratta, Giuliano Cardella, Angelo Cricchi, Giovanni Cozzi, Baldo Diodato, Giovanni De Angelis, Patrizia Dottori, Thalassini Douma, Rodolfo Fiorenza, Pasquale Nero Galante, Dino Ignani, Irina Ionesco, Emanuela Lena, Lucideddu, Mauro Magni, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Mulas Debois, Lulù Nuti, Claudio Orlandi, Claudio Palmieri, Roberto Precioso, Alessandro Procaccioli, Andrea Santarlasci, Massimo Scognamiglio and Stefano Carsetti Esposito.

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American artist · born 2011

Andres Valencia

Fragmented portraits and saturated colour engage Cubism and art history. The documented sub-€5,000 entry point is a signed edition rather than a unique canvas.

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Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Anna Ridler

This does not condemn the medium. Rhea Myers, Anna Ridler, Harm van den Dorpel, Pak and others treat blockchain, data and ownership as real artistic questions. A token is not an ontological shortcut to art.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Anna Uddenberg

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

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Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Bade Fuwa

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

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Art critic, curator and author

Barbara Martusciello

Criticism becomes sustained attention and relationship rather than promotional noise. Editorial work preserves the memory and complexity of the present.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Beatričė Mockevičiūtė

Beatričė Mockevičiūtė and Gerda Paliušytė work across light, space and photography; Gozié Ojini turns instruments and mechanical fragments into sculpture. Liste’s strength is the chance to read a project beyond the single saleable object.

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Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Beeple

Kevin McCoy’s Quantum, registered in 2014, is often called the first artwork-linked NFT. CryptoPunks arrived in 2017. In March 2021 Christie’s sold Beeple’s Everydays for $69.346 million, turning a niche into a global phenomenon.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Behshad Arjomandi

Behshad Arjomandi showed a broad catalogue with examples from roughly $986 to above $3,200; Fantasy was near £1,029. A large archive reveals series and variation, but also asks the buyer to choose the strongest work, not the deepest discount.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Benni Bosetto

Emma Masut works with painting and devices that measure environments; Benni Bosetto extends drawing and sculpture through space; Dominique White creates fragile presences tied to sea, diaspora and memory. Their distance from one another shows the fair’s range.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Bettina Pousttchi

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Carlos Enfedaque

Samantha Torrisi, Laura Fridman and Carlos Enfedaque offer three paths through ArteriA’s programme. The aim is not a ranking, but an understanding of how painting, image and installation change inside a small organisation or curatorial collaboration.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Caroline Walker

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

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Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Casey Reas

Computational art predates NFTs by decades: Harold Cohen developed AARON from 1972; Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake explored algorithmic rules; 1990s net art treated the browser as cultural space; Casey Reas made code a visual practice through Processing.

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Performance artist · Dossier

Cassils

Cassils is a Canadian transmasculine artist based in Los Angeles. Their official site states that their body is the “material and protagonist” of the performances. Training, endurance, light, sound and controlled risk become sculptural tools for making erased identities and violence visible.

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Curator

Cecilia Alemani

Through High Line Plinth and Simone Leigh’s Brick House, she showed how a public commission builds space, duration and audiences around a work.

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Editor of Exibart 222 · 2026

Cesare Biasini Selvaggi

He edited the fifth edition of Exibart’s almanac of 222 emerging artists active in Italy, including works, statements, contacts and price ranges.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Chiharu Shiota

Idris Khan layers writing, music and images; Chiharu Shiota builds installations and drawings around memory; Otobong Nkanga joins matter, ecology and history; Julie Cockburn transforms found photographs with embroidery and paint. Ask for the entry level without confusing it with an installation.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Christina Quarles

Christina Quarles. Ambiguous bodies and unstable spaces turn figuration into a perceptual and social problem. Her official website records projects and exhibitions. Compare canvases from similar periods and sizes rather than treating demand as a guarantee.

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Blue-chip artist · 2026 guide

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman. Her photography constructs characters and tests the politics of representation. MoMA holds the complete Untitled Film Stills, made from 1977 to 1980. Edition number, format, print date, signature, provenance and the difference between vintage and later prints all require checking.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Claire Tabouret

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Claudia Comte

Claudia Comte listed Morphing Waves with Fire Corals at €1,350. With a multiple derived from an installation practice, ask how the image translates the research and what role the publisher played.

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Established artist · €20,000 guide

Claudio Abate

The historical list includes Claudio Abate, Irma Alonzo, Sergio Angeli, Rino Barillari, Gerald Bruneau, Fabrizio Buratta, Giuliano Cardella, Angelo Cricchi, Giovanni Cozzi, Baldo Diodato, Giovanni De Angelis, Patrizia Dottori, Thalassini Douma, Rodolfo Fiorenza, Pasquale Nero Galante, Dino Ignani, Irina Ionesco, Emanuela Lena, Lucideddu, Mauro Magni, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Mulas Debois, Lulù Nuti, Claudio Orlandi, Claudio Palmieri, Roberto Precioso, Alessandro Procaccioli, Andrea Santarlasci, Massimo Scognamiglio and Stefano Carsetti Esposito.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Claudio Orlandi

The historical list includes Claudio Abate, Irma Alonzo, Sergio Angeli, Rino Barillari, Gerald Bruneau, Fabrizio Buratta, Giuliano Cardella, Angelo Cricchi, Giovanni Cozzi, Baldo Diodato, Giovanni De Angelis, Patrizia Dottori, Thalassini Douma, Rodolfo Fiorenza, Pasquale Nero Galante, Dino Ignani, Irina Ionesco, Emanuela Lena, Lucideddu, Mauro Magni, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Mulas Debois, Lulù Nuti, Claudio Orlandi, Claudio Palmieri, Roberto Precioso, Alessandro Procaccioli, Andrea Santarlasci, Massimo Scognamiglio and Stefano Carsetti Esposito.

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Documentary and conceptual photographer

Cristina de Middel

Reconstruction, fiction and document question the visual formulas through which photography claims to describe reality.

42

Blue-chip artist · 2026 guide

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst. Formaldehyde animals, vitrines, Spot Paintings, Spin Paintings, butterfly works and prints have different supply chains and availability. The official page for The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living shows how conservation, material replacement and object history can become part of valuation.

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Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Damola Adepoju

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

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Tre artisti · 02

Daniel González

The Buenos Aires-born artist turns celebration into a shared space through reflective materials, performance and temporary structures.

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Artist · Exhibition notice

Daniele Sigismondo

The project brings together eleven artists: Goffredo Adinolfi, Paolo Bielli, Alberto D’Amico, David Fagioli, Lino Frongia, Stefania Fabrizi, Gisella Penazzi, Piero Pompili, Massimo Ruiu, Daniele Sigismondo and Massimo Scognamiglio.

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Artist · Exhibition notice

David Fagioli

The project brings together eleven artists: Goffredo Adinolfi, Paolo Bielli, Alberto D’Amico, David Fagioli, Lino Frongia, Stefania Fabrizi, Gisella Penazzi, Piero Pompili, Massimo Ruiu, Daniele Sigismondo and Massimo Scognamiglio.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

David Fredrik Moussallem

David Fredrik Moussallem builds collage and mixed media from advertising, text and urban culture. Public examples ranged from a sold photograph near $940 to The Compassionate Millennial at $3,890 and We Used to Be So Cool at $8,400.

48

British visual artist

David Shrigley

Drawing, language and humour turn apparently simple phrases into unstable images. His numbered screenprints make the difference between an edition, a poster and merchandise especially clear.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Dino Ignani

The historical list includes Claudio Abate, Irma Alonzo, Sergio Angeli, Rino Barillari, Gerald Bruneau, Fabrizio Buratta, Giuliano Cardella, Angelo Cricchi, Giovanni Cozzi, Baldo Diodato, Giovanni De Angelis, Patrizia Dottori, Thalassini Douma, Rodolfo Fiorenza, Pasquale Nero Galante, Dino Ignani, Irina Ionesco, Emanuela Lena, Lucideddu, Mauro Magni, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Mulas Debois, Lulù Nuti, Claudio Orlandi, Claudio Palmieri, Roberto Precioso, Alessandro Procaccioli, Andrea Santarlasci, Massimo Scognamiglio and Stefano Carsetti Esposito.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Dominique White

Emma Masut works with painting and devices that measure environments; Benni Bosetto extends drawing and sculpture through space; Dominique White creates fragile presences tied to sea, diaspora and memory. Their distance from one another shows the fair’s range.

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Established artist · €20,000 guide

El Anatsui

Enwezor refused to reduce El Anatsui to the brilliance of his best-known works. The exhibition traced a sustained inquiry into African sculpture, colonialism, commodity circulation and mutable matter.

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Multidisciplinary artist

Elena Ketra

Body, self-determination and stereotypes become direct visual devices. A practice that is accessible in its pop language and rigorous in its politics.

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Established artist · €20,000 guide

Elisa Montessori

The historical list includes Claudio Abate, Irma Alonzo, Sergio Angeli, Rino Barillari, Gerald Bruneau, Fabrizio Buratta, Giuliano Cardella, Angelo Cricchi, Giovanni Cozzi, Baldo Diodato, Giovanni De Angelis, Patrizia Dottori, Thalassini Douma, Rodolfo Fiorenza, Pasquale Nero Galante, Dino Ignani, Irina Ionesco, Emanuela Lena, Lucideddu, Mauro Magni, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Mulas Debois, Lulù Nuti, Claudio Orlandi, Claudio Palmieri, Roberto Precioso, Alessandro Procaccioli, Andrea Santarlasci, Massimo Scognamiglio and Stefano Carsetti Esposito.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Emma Masut

Emma Masut works with painting and devices that measure environments; Benni Bosetto extends drawing and sculpture through space; Dominique White creates fragile presences tied to sea, diaspora and memory. Their distance from one another shows the fair’s range.

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Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Emmanuel Chidube

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Estefania Puerta

Samuel Nnorom works with textiles and cellular forms; Layo Bright uses glass and the body to address identity and migration; Estefania Puerta builds sculpture and environments around metamorphosis and language. Treat them as starting points to verify through their presenting galleries.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Eva Jospin

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez. Painting joins body, diaspora, cartography and rewritten history. Hauser & Wirth documents works, exhibitions and texts. Study her ability to combine monumental scale with political density.

65

Cultural journalist, artist and curator

Francesco Arena

Through Other Identity, he turns the interview into a continuing curatorial device. Photography, video and performance form an archive of contemporary public identities.

66

Artist, philosopher and writer

Francesco D’Isa

Generative error and latent space question the author as absolute origin. Artificial intelligence becomes a philosophical problem before it becomes a style.

67

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Frieder Nake

Computational art predates NFTs by decades: Harold Cohen developed AARON from 1972; Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake explored algorithmic rules; 1990s net art treated the browser as cultural space; Casey Reas made code a visual practice through Processing.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Gennady Vylusk

Gennady Vylusk listed atmospheric landscapes such as Silence and Space near £570 and Between Worlds near £850. At this level, dimensions, support and image quality are decisive because a miniature and a large canvas are not equivalent.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Gerda Paliušytė

Beatričė Mockevičiūtė and Gerda Paliušytė work across light, space and photography; Gozié Ojini turns instruments and mechanical fragments into sculpture. Liste’s strength is the chance to read a project beyond the single saleable object.

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Blue-chip artist · 2026 guide

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter. His market includes photo-paintings, abstractions, works on paper, overpainted photographs and editions. The official catalogue raisonné records catalogue number, date, medium, history and bibliography. Period and series matter as much as the signature.

72

Critic and curator

Germano Celant

His Venice retrospective of Jannis Kounellis reconstructed more than half a century of work through objects, architecture and archival documents.

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Established artist · €20,000 guide

Giancarlo Neri

Documented projects include Alberto Timossi’s Fata Morgana at Lake Col d’Olen; Massimo Scognamiglio’s The Magnificent Seven and Punk Aristocracy in Rome; Lulù Nuti’s System at the Roman Houses of the Celio; Timossi’s Illusion at Cave Michelangelo in Carrara; Marco Milia’s The Eighth Day; Francesco Fei’s Lightness; Giancarlo Neri’s Latinorum; Milia’s In aere in aquis; Onepieceart’s The Truth is Naked; I Love Music at Room26; Opera Unica; the first 24x24 group show; and Domenico Ventura da Altamura’s 2013 solo project.

75

British collaborative artists

Gilbert & George

Since 1967 they have joined art and life through performance, self-portraiture, photography, grids and urban visual culture. Art for All makes the poster a coherent point of access when it is clearly distinguished from a numbered edition.

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Artist · Exhibition notice

Gisella Penazzi

The project brings together eleven artists: Goffredo Adinolfi, Paolo Bielli, Alberto D’Amico, David Fagioli, Lino Frongia, Stefania Fabrizi, Gisella Penazzi, Piero Pompili, Massimo Ruiu, Daniele Sigismondo and Massimo Scognamiglio.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Godwin Champs Namuyimba

Samuel Nnorom turns wax fabrics into organic sculpture; Kelechi Nwaneri builds figures dense with symbols; Godwin Champs Namuyimba connects portraiture, interiors and daily life. They help compare material, narrative and recognition without confusing fair visibility with a stable market.

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Artist · Exhibition notice

Goffredo Adinolfi

The project brings together eleven artists: Goffredo Adinolfi, Paolo Bielli, Alberto D’Amico, David Fagioli, Lino Frongia, Stefania Fabrizi, Gisella Penazzi, Piero Pompili, Massimo Ruiu, Daniele Sigismondo and Massimo Scognamiglio.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Goshka Macuga

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

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Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Gozié Ojini

Beatričė Mockevičiūtė and Gerda Paliušytė work across light, space and photography; Gozié Ojini turns instruments and mechanical fragments into sculpture. Liste’s strength is the chance to read a project beyond the single saleable object.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Ha Hoang

Ha Hoang shows the platform’s range: small works on paper may begin in the hundreds of dollars, while canvases such as The Harlequin’s Carnival were listed near $4,170. Format, medium and series matter more than the name alone.

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Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Harm van den Dorpel

This does not condemn the medium. Rhea Myers, Anna Ridler, Harm van den Dorpel, Pak and others treat blockchain, data and ownership as real artistic questions. A token is not an ontological shortcut to art.

89

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Harold Cohen

Computational art predates NFTs by decades: Harold Cohen developed AARON from 1972; Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake explored algorithmic rules; 1990s net art treated the browser as cultural space; Casey Reas made code a visual practice through Processing.

90

Curator and writer

Helen Molesworth

In Mastry she co-organised thirty-five years of Kerry James Marshall’s painting as a history of Black representation and the museum canon.

91

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Helen Vogelsang

Rosalie Becher and Helen Vogelsang received the Fine Art Academy Award; Luca Di-Febo is among the Perspectives Award winners. Awards are attention signals, not certificates of future growth, and must be read with curriculum, work and continuity.

92

Artist · Online platforms dossier

Hiroshi Miyamoto

Hiroshi Miyamoto appeared in a viewing room with works around $676–$1,047; Flame Shape was listed near $966. Connect the accessible price to materials, dimensions and transport.

93

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Holly Herndon

Art Basel reported renewed attention: 51% of surveyed HNW collectors had bought digital art in 2025, while its share of collections rose from 3% to 13%. Refik Anadol, Sougwen Chung, Anna Ridler, Holly Herndon and Trevor Paglen point in very different directions.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Hom Nguyen

Hom Nguyen listed Human Blue near €1,800 in a stated edition of fifty. Its 231,280 stitches are an interesting technical fact, while value and conservation also depend on support and mounting.

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Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Huang Zhe

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

96

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Idris Khan

Idris Khan layers writing, music and images; Chiharu Shiota builds installations and drawings around memory; Otobong Nkanga joins matter, ecology and history; Julie Cockburn transforms found photographs with embroidery and paint. Ask for the entry level without confusing it with an installation.

98

Established artist · €20,000 guide

Irina Ionesco

The historical list includes Claudio Abate, Irma Alonzo, Sergio Angeli, Rino Barillari, Gerald Bruneau, Fabrizio Buratta, Giuliano Cardella, Angelo Cricchi, Giovanni Cozzi, Baldo Diodato, Giovanni De Angelis, Patrizia Dottori, Thalassini Douma, Rodolfo Fiorenza, Pasquale Nero Galante, Dino Ignani, Irina Ionesco, Emanuela Lena, Lucideddu, Mauro Magni, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Mulas Debois, Lulù Nuti, Claudio Orlandi, Claudio Palmieri, Roberto Precioso, Alessandro Procaccioli, Andrea Santarlasci, Massimo Scognamiglio and Stefano Carsetti Esposito.

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Established artist · €20,000 guide

Jannis Kounellis

In 2019 Germano Celant curated the first extensive Jannis Kounellis retrospective after the artist’s death. Developed with Archivio Kounellis, it brought together more than sixty works from 1959 to 2015.

100

Artist · Online platforms dossier

Jason Lincoln Jeffers

Jason Lincoln Jeffers appeared with Palenque 5 near $595 and Twin Souls 17 near $1,150. Small formats can be sensible entry points when year, support and continuity of the series are compared.

102

Blue-chip artist · 2026 guide

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons. Monumental Celebration sculptures, unique works, authorised multiples and editioned objects differ in material, scarcity and market. Koons’s official editions archive records the 2021 porcelain Balloon Dog (Blue) in an edition of 799 plus 50 artist’s proofs. An iconic image may therefore exist in radically different economic categories.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Jenny Brosinski

Jenny Brosinski offered Untitled 1, a unique work on paper, at €2,250. Uniqueness makes comparison harder, placing greater weight on medium, year, size and position in the artist’s practice.

105

Artist · Online platforms dossier

JR

JR listed Private Island near €720, with other editions observed around €950–2,390. An iconic photograph is not enough: format, printing process, copy number and signature must be legible.

108

British artist

Julie Cockburn

Found photographs and existing images are transformed through embroidery, painting and handwork, bringing the relationship between reproduction and unique object into focus.

109

Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Juwon Aderemi

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

110

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Kapwani Kiwanga

Start with the Contact page, CV or gallery named by the artist. Rana Begum publishes a studio channel; Shilpa Gupta uses an official form; Kapwani Kiwanga enquiries go through Goodman Gallery. The routes differ but can be verified.

111

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Katja Novitskova

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

112

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Kelechi Nwaneri

Samuel Nnorom turns wax fabrics into organic sculpture; Kelechi Nwaneri builds figures dense with symbols; Godwin Champs Namuyimba connects portraiture, interiors and daily life. They help compare material, narrative and recognition without confusing fair visibility with a stable market.

113

Established artist · €20,000 guide

Kerry James Marshall

Mastry framed thirty-five years of painting as a history of Black representation without separating visual pleasure from political responsibility.

114

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Kevin McCoy

Kevin McCoy’s Quantum, registered in 2014, is often called the first artwork-linked NFT. CryptoPunks arrived in 2017. In March 2021 Christie’s sold Beeple’s Everydays for $69.346 million, turning a niche into a global phenomenon.

115

Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Kwamé Gomez

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

116

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Laura Fridman

Samantha Torrisi, Laura Fridman and Carlos Enfedaque offer three paths through ArteriA’s programme. The aim is not a ranking, but an understanding of how painting, image and installation change inside a small organisation or curatorial collaboration.

120

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Layo Bright

Samuel Nnorom works with textiles and cellular forms; Layo Bright uses glass and the body to address identity and migration; Estefania Puerta builds sculpture and environments around metamorphosis and language. Treat them as starting points to verify through their presenting galleries.

121

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

LIA

The longer history runs through Harold Cohen, Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake to Casey Reas and LIA. Sougwen Chung draws with robots trained on her gestures; Sofia Crespo imagines synthetic biology; Mario Klingemann questions generated portraiture; Refik Anadol builds data environments; Holly Herndon works on voice and shared identity; Trevor Paglen exposes AI infrastructures. Their incompatibility proves digital art is neither a style nor an investment class.

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Artist · Online platforms dossier

Lilia Orlova-Holmes

Lilia Orlova-Holmes showed how physical scale changes the budget: a 160 × 180 cm painting was marked at £14,000. Transport, stretcher, access to the home and available wall become part of the purchase.

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Artist · Exhibition notice

Lino Frongia

The project brings together eleven artists: Goffredo Adinolfi, Paolo Bielli, Alberto D’Amico, David Fagioli, Lino Frongia, Stefania Fabrizi, Gisella Penazzi, Piero Pompili, Massimo Ruiu, Daniele Sigismondo and Massimo Scognamiglio.

125

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Luca Di-Febo

Rosalie Becher and Helen Vogelsang received the Fine Art Academy Award; Luca Di-Febo is among the Perspectives Award winners. Awards are attention signals, not certificates of future growth, and must be read with curriculum, work and continuity.

126

Artist

Luciano Civettini

Autobiographical memory, art history and resin-sealed books create layered narrative environments. Melancholy becomes material rather than atmosphere.

127

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Lulù Nuti

Documented projects include Alberto Timossi’s Fata Morgana at Lake Col d’Olen; Massimo Scognamiglio’s The Magnificent Seven and Punk Aristocracy in Rome; Lulù Nuti’s System at the Roman Houses of the Celio; Timossi’s Illusion at Cave Michelangelo in Carrara; Marco Milia’s The Eighth Day; Francesco Fei’s Lightness; Giancarlo Neri’s Latinorum; Milia’s In aere in aquis; Onepieceart’s The Truth is Naked; I Love Music at Room26; Opera Unica; the first 24x24 group show; and Domenico Ventura da Altamura’s 2013 solo project.

128

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Mara Faúndez

Marco Réa brings stencil and line into the urban portrait; Patrick Alston works on paper and canvas with an abstract gesture; Mara Faúndez builds intimate, material scenes. Massimo Scognamiglio has worked since 1998 across painting, photography and digital image; his biography and press page document the practice. Ask the studio for a complete quote rather than inferring a price from an online image.

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Artist and founder of Arte da Rubare

Marco Cantarelli · Canz52

A work left in the street is completed when someone carries it away. Author, passer-by and place share the performance.

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Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Marco Milia

Documented projects include Alberto Timossi’s Fata Morgana at Lake Col d’Olen; Massimo Scognamiglio’s The Magnificent Seven and Punk Aristocracy in Rome; Lulù Nuti’s System at the Roman Houses of the Celio; Timossi’s Illusion at Cave Michelangelo in Carrara; Marco Milia’s The Eighth Day; Francesco Fei’s Lightness; Giancarlo Neri’s Latinorum; Milia’s In aere in aquis; Onepieceart’s The Truth is Naked; I Love Music at Room26; Opera Unica; the first 24x24 group show; and Domenico Ventura da Altamura’s 2013 solo project.

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Artist

Marco Réa

Stencil, line and altered advertising surfaces remove the face from seduction. The figure remains recognisable while becoming psychologically unstable.

134

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Marinella Senatore

Rana Begum works between light, colour and relief; Shilpa Gupta moves through drawing, photography, sound and installation; Kapwani Kiwanga develops sculpture and textiles around history and power; Marinella Senatore opens art to participation. Ask for works on paper, editions and available formats; prices change by series and gallery.

135

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Mario Klingemann

The longer history runs through Harold Cohen, Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake to Casey Reas and LIA. Sougwen Chung draws with robots trained on her gestures; Sofia Crespo imagines synthetic biology; Mario Klingemann questions generated portraiture; Refik Anadol builds data environments; Holly Herndon works on voice and shared identity; Trevor Paglen exposes AI infrastructures. Their incompatibility proves digital art is neither a style nor an investment class.

136

German artist and photographer

Martin Bertelmann

Photography, sculpture and installation examine landscape, human traces and the physical image in digital circulation.

137

Artist · Online platforms dossier

Maryse Pique

Maryse Pique listed Les Fragments du Feu at €1,830. For textured works, request close details, weight and conservation guidance because the physical surface cannot be inferred from a frontal image alone.

138

Curator and artistic director

Massimiliano Gioni

With Margot Norton he built Au Naturel from more than 150 works by Sarah Lucas in an installation about body, gender, desire and power.

139

Artist · Exhibition notice

Massimo Ruiu

The project brings together eleven artists: Goffredo Adinolfi, Paolo Bielli, Alberto D’Amico, David Fagioli, Lino Frongia, Stefania Fabrizi, Gisella Penazzi, Piero Pompili, Massimo Ruiu, Daniele Sigismondo and Massimo Scognamiglio.

140

Artist and photographer

Massimo Scognamiglio

Painting and photography question portraiture, fashion and public identity. Polished images are crossed by matter, montage and tearing.

141

Europe · art under $50,000

Massimo Scognamiglio · Europe · art under $50,000

Massimo Scognamiglio: a Roman visual artist with a documented career from 1998, from Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Centro Pecci to the LÌMEN collection, MACRO Asilo and The Gold Standard.

142

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Matteo Basilè

Matteo Basilè non incontra l’intelligenza artificiale come una scorciatoia recente. Nato nel 1974 e attivo a Roma, lavora dalla metà degli anni Novanta sul rapporto fra fotografia, manipolazione digitale, identità e costruzione scenica. L’AI entra quindi in una grammatica già formata: non inventa il suo mondo, ne altera le possibilità.

143

Blue-chip artist · 2026 guide

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan. Value rests on the idea, exhibition history and exact identification of the work, rather than the amount of material used. The Guggenheim artist record provides verifiable titles, dates, materials and dimensions. For conceptual installations, clarify the certificate, installation instructions, replaceable components and rights of reconstruction.

144

German artist · born 2012

Mikail Akar

Abstraction, crowned figures and hand-overpainted editions circulate internationally. Published official editions begin at €2,000.

146

Artist · Online platforms dossier

Mister Artsy

Mister Artsy listed Flower Still Life no 5 at €1,500. Compare dimensions, material, series and career before responding to its decorative immediacy and colour.

147

Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Nandini Bagla Chirimar

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

153

Curator and critic

Okwui Enwezor

With Chika Okeke-Agulu he curated Triumphant Scale, reading fifty years of El Anatsui through material, scale and postcolonial history.

154

Tre artisti · 03

Olimpia Zagnoli

The Milan-based artist moves from editorial illustration to kinetic sculpture, ceramics, books and the official Milano Cortina 2026 poster.

156

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Otobong Nkanga

Idris Khan layers writing, music and images; Chiharu Shiota builds installations and drawings around memory; Otobong Nkanga joins matter, ecology and history; Julie Cockburn transforms found photographs with embroidery and paint. Ask for the entry level without confusing it with an installation.

157

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Pak

This does not condemn the medium. Rhea Myers, Anna Ridler, Harm van den Dorpel, Pak and others treat blockchain, data and ownership as real artistic questions. A token is not an ontological shortcut to art.

159

Artist · Exhibition notice

Paolo Bielli

Primo Round opens at 6 pm on Thursday 15 October 2026 at Studio Campo Boario in Rome. Curated by Andrea Iezzi and conceived by Alberto D’Amico, Paolo Bielli and Stefania Fabrizi, it runs until 31 October and is part of the official Rome Art Week 2026 programme.

160

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Patrick Alston

Marco Réa brings stencil and line into the urban portrait; Patrick Alston works on paper and canvas with an abstract gesture; Mara Faúndez builds intimate, material scenes. Massimo Scognamiglio has worked since 1998 across painting, photography and digital image; his biography and press page document the practice. Ask the studio for a complete quote rather than inferring a price from an online image.

161

Artist · Online platforms dossier

Patrick Martinez

Patrick Martinez editions such as Buy Now! Cry Later appeared around $600. The purchase is not a unique neon; its position depends on original versus multiple, publisher, edition size and signature.

163

Artist · Exhibition notice

Piero Pompili

The project brings together eleven artists: Goffredo Adinolfi, Paolo Bielli, Alberto D’Amico, David Fagioli, Lino Frongia, Stefania Fabrizi, Gisella Penazzi, Piero Pompili, Massimo Ruiu, Daniele Sigismondo and Massimo Scognamiglio.

165

Performance artist · Dossier

Ragnar Kjartansson

Born in Reykjavík in 1976, Ragnar Kjartansson works across performance, music, video, painting and theatre. A song, romantic pose or phrase repeats until irony and melancholy become inseparable. The Met describes his work as rethinking the possibilities of performance and video.

166

Emerging artist · €20,000 guide

Raina Lee

A research list includes Mara Faúndez, Huang Zhe, Patrick Alston, Nandini Bagla Chirimar, Bade Fuwa, Juwon Aderemi, Damola Adepoju, Emmanuel Chidube, Kwamé Gomez and Raina Lee. “Emerging” describes a professional phase, not age or a guarantee.

167

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Rana Begum

Start with the Contact page, CV or gallery named by the artist. Rana Begum publishes a studio channel; Shilpa Gupta uses an official form; Kapwani Kiwanga enquiries go through Goodman Gallery. The routes differ but can be verified.

168

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Refik Anadol

Art Basel reported renewed attention: 51% of surveyed HNW collectors had bought digital art in 2025, while its share of collections rose from 3% to 13%. Refik Anadol, Sougwen Chung, Anna Ridler, Holly Herndon and Trevor Paglen point in very different directions.

169

Performance artist · Dossier

Regina José Galindo

Born in Guatemala City in 1974, Regina José Galindo is a visual artist and poet who uses her body to expose state violence, inequality, racism and gender violence. She received the Golden Lion for best young artist at the 2005 Venice Biennale; her official biography records documenta 14 and collections including MoMA, Tate, Centre Pompidou and Guggenheim.

170

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Rhea Myers

This does not condemn the medium. Rhea Myers, Anna Ridler, Harm van den Dorpel, Pak and others treat blockchain, data and ownership as real artistic questions. A token is not an ontological shortcut to art.

171

Established artist · €20,000 guide

Rino Barillari

The historical list includes Claudio Abate, Irma Alonzo, Sergio Angeli, Rino Barillari, Gerald Bruneau, Fabrizio Buratta, Giuliano Cardella, Angelo Cricchi, Giovanni Cozzi, Baldo Diodato, Giovanni De Angelis, Patrizia Dottori, Thalassini Douma, Rodolfo Fiorenza, Pasquale Nero Galante, Dino Ignani, Irina Ionesco, Emanuela Lena, Lucideddu, Mauro Magni, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Mulas Debois, Lulù Nuti, Claudio Orlandi, Claudio Palmieri, Roberto Precioso, Alessandro Procaccioli, Andrea Santarlasci, Massimo Scognamiglio and Stefano Carsetti Esposito.

172

Multidisciplinary artist and performer

Robert Gligorov

Body, self-portraiture and technology shape a practice that refuses a fixed signature. Identity becomes performance, fiction and self-analysis.

173

Artist · Online platforms dossier

Roberto Buccilli

Roberto Buccilli listed Anatomia del gesto at €830, a possible entry into an original without exhausting the budget. Compare it with other works from the same cycle rather than the whole platform.

174

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Rosalie Becher

Rosalie Becher and Helen Vogelsang received the Fine Art Academy Award; Luca Di-Febo is among the Perspectives Award winners. Awards are attention signals, not certificates of future growth, and must be read with curriculum, work and continuity.

175

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Samantha Torrisi

Samantha Torrisi, Laura Fridman and Carlos Enfedaque offer three paths through ArteriA’s programme. The aim is not a ranking, but an understanding of how painting, image and installation change inside a small organisation or curatorial collaboration.

176

Emerging artist · 2026 fair guide

Samuel Nnorom

Samuel Nnorom turns wax fabrics into organic sculpture; Kelechi Nwaneri builds figures dense with symbols; Godwin Champs Namuyimba connects portraiture, interiors and daily life. They help compare material, narrative and recognition without confusing fair visibility with a stable market.

177

Established artist · €20,000 guide

Sarah Lucas

In 2018 the New Museum presented Au Naturel, Sarah Lucas’s first major US survey. Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton assembled more than 150 works from the late 1980s to new commissions across three main floors.

178

American artist and graphic designer

Shepard Fairey

Public graphics and print culture run through artworks, posters and campaigns. His archive offers a direct lesson in the difference between limited and open editions.

179

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Shilpa Gupta

Start with the Contact page, CV or gallery named by the artist. Rana Begum publishes a studio channel; Shilpa Gupta uses an official form; Kapwani Kiwanga enquiries go through Goodman Gallery. The routes differ but can be verified.

181

Established artist · €20,000 guide

Simone Leigh

Cecilia Alemani directed High Line Art from 2011 and launched High Line Plinth, inaugurated in 2019 with Simone Leigh’s Brick House. Curating here means choosing a work able to confront the skyline, traffic and everyday passage.

182

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Sofia Crespo

The longer history runs through Harold Cohen, Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake to Casey Reas and LIA. Sougwen Chung draws with robots trained on her gestures; Sofia Crespo imagines synthetic biology; Mario Klingemann questions generated portraiture; Refik Anadol builds data environments; Holly Herndon works on voice and shared identity; Trevor Paglen exposes AI infrastructures. Their incompatibility proves digital art is neither a style nor an investment class.

183

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Sougwen Chung

Art Basel reported renewed attention: 51% of surveyed HNW collectors had bought digital art in 2025, while its share of collections rose from 3% to 13%. Refik Anadol, Sougwen Chung, Anna Ridler, Holly Herndon and Trevor Paglen point in very different directions.

184

Artist · Exhibition notice

Stefania Fabrizi

Primo Round opens at 6 pm on Thursday 15 October 2026 at Studio Campo Boario in Rome. Curated by Andrea Iezzi and conceived by Alberto D’Amico, Paolo Bielli and Stefania Fabrizi, it runs until 31 October and is part of the official Rome Art Week 2026 programme.

185

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Stefano Carsetti Esposito

Takeawaygallery began in late 2009 from the project of Roman photographer Stefano Carsetti Esposito (Rome, 1959), becoming a cultural association in 2012. His idea of a gallery starts with photography but does not stop at the medium: it connects artists, critics, institutions, administrations and citizens, often outside canonical art venues.

186

Photographer and gallerist

Stefano Esposito

Photographic practice meets the independent mediation of Takeawaygallery, extending the author’s gaze to relationships between works, artists and audiences.

187

Photographer

Stefano Gervasoni

Portraiture emerges inside kinky culture with subjects who share the creative process. Mask and symbol help reveal rather than conceal identity.

190

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Tala Madani

Tala Madani. Painting, animation and satire stage power, shame and collective behaviour. 303 Gallery documents the continuity of the practice. Her work can face the figurative tradition without imitating it.

191

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Teresa Solar Abboud

Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.

192

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Tomás Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno. Suspended structures and environmental projects connect art, architecture and science. The artist’s studio explains this complex international practice. Editions, technology, maintenance and reinstallation rights require precise documentation.

194

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Trevor Paglen

Art Basel reported renewed attention: 51% of surveyed HNW collectors had bought digital art in 2025, while its share of collections rose from 3% to 13%. Refik Anadol, Sougwen Chung, Anna Ridler, Holly Herndon and Trevor Paglen point in very different directions.

195

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Tschabalala Self

Tschabalala Self. Painting, sewing, print and fabric construct bodies concerned with identity, desire and representation. Her official website shows the range of the practice. Material construction is central to condition assessment.

196

Artist · Digital art and NFTs

Vera Molnár

Computational art predates NFTs by decades: Harold Cohen developed AARON from 1972; Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake explored algorithmic rules; 1990s net art treated the browser as cultural space; Casey Reas made code a visual practice through Processing.

201

Mid-career artist · 2026 guide

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu. Collage, sculpture, film and installation build hybrid figures around diaspora, body, myth and future. The MoMA profile offers a verifiable institutional reference. Each market segment still needs separate analysis.

202

Established artist · €20,000 guide

William Kentridge

€15,000 will not normally buy an iconic unique work by Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama or Takashi Murakami. It can open research into editions, photographs, works on paper and multiples by Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Tracey Emin, William Kentridge and David Shrigley. Edition, publisher, signature, format, date and condition define the category.

206

Blue-chip artist · 2026 guide

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Nets, pumpkins, sculpture, mirror rooms and prints are not interchangeable. The Yayoi Kusama Museum traces Infinity Nets from the 1950s and New York. Collectors must separate historic bodies of work, later variants, fine-art editions and licensed products.