Osart Gallery

Osart Gallery Founded in 2008 in Milan. Contemporary African Art - Sixties and Seventies Conceptual & Minimal Art. Osart Gallery was founded in 2008 by Andrea Sirio Ortolani.
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Since its debut, Osart Gallery has focused on the Sixties and Seventies, exploring the most influential and innovative experiences belonging to this period. The gallery focused on the leading figures of Conceptual Art, Body Art, Kinetic Art, and photography, such as Dennis Oppenheim, Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Gina Pane, Emilio Prini, Piero Fogliati, Minor White, Aldo Tagliaferro, Magdalo Mus

sio, and Amelia Etlinger, recently rediscovered by critics. Osart made significant insights on painting in the second half of the XXI century, thanks to the solo show dedicated to Claudio Olivieri (2017-2018) and the group show with Phil Sims, Ruth Ann Fredenthal, and Winston Roeth in 2017. During the years, the gallery has built significant connections with several artists in Italy and abroad. Represented artists include Vincenzo Agnetti, Amelia Etlinger, Piero Fogliati, Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Claudio Olivieri, Winston Roeth, and Phil Sims. The gallery collaborates with public institutions and museums in the promotion of the represented artists. Since the very first years, Osart had an eye on the contemporary art scene: was able to understand ahead of time the quality of artists like Titus Kaphar (to whom the gallery dedicated a solo show in 2009), Lynette Yadom-Boakye, and Hayv Kahraman, whose works were exhibited at Osart in 2010. The Gallery is currently exploring new horizons with a special eye on African emerging artists. The latest group shows include African Textures (2019-2020 with works by Marlene Steyn, Jeanne Gaigher, and Kresiah Mukwazhi), and African Characters (2020, with works by Kate Gottgens, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Neo Matloga, Richard Mudariki, and Gareth Nyandoro). During the years the gallery collaborated with many art critics: among all Daniela Palazzoli, Alberto Zanchetta, Nicolas Ballario, Valerio Dehò, Giorgio Verzotti, and Bruno Corà.

  has opened earlier today: 150 works of ancient, modern and contemporary art in dialogue with the most charming and une...
04/09/2024

has opened earlier today: 150 works of ancient, modern and contemporary art in dialogue with the most charming and unexpected corners of Monferrato. Discover the exhibition in the 16 locations of Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno and Castagnole until Sunday 8 September 2024.

Free entry to all venues. The exhibition map and the events calendar is available for download on www.italics.art

In collaboration with
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PANORAMA MONFERRATO
Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno and Castagnole
September 4 – 8, 2024
Curated by Carlo Falciani
Main Partner:
Pictures by Cosmo Laera and Louis De Belle

🎨✨ We are happy to announce our gallery reopening! ✨🎨We remind you that Dan Halter's exhibition   is extended through Se...
02/09/2024

🎨✨ We are happy to announce our gallery reopening! ✨🎨

We remind you that Dan Halter's exhibition is extended through September 27th. We look forward to seeing you!

📅 Closing date: 27/09/2024
📍 Location: C.so Plebisciti 12 - Milano

📸 Prini Emilio, Untitled (Self Portrait), 1970 ca, photographic print, 30 x 21 cmPrini ha sempre concepito l’arte come u...
27/08/2024

📸 Prini Emilio, Untitled (Self Portrait), 1970 ca, photographic print, 30 x 21 cm

Prini ha sempre concepito l’arte come un processo costante di riscrittura; ha prodotto poche idee e opere su cui ha continuato a intervenire nel tempo, lasciandole così in una perenne condizione di “non finito”. Spesso l’ha fatto attraverso gesti minimi, come cambiare il titolo, isolare un dettaglio dell’immagine o modificare la data. A differenza di molti altri suoi colleghi, egli dimostra di non volersi identificare con un’arte riconoscibile, dando vita ad opere che, se osservate singolarmente, sembrerebbero create da un artista sempre diverso.

📷👀 Ikeorah Chisom Chi-FADA, Of All the Things My Hands Have Held, 2023 - 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 127 x 101,5 cm📍Miart 2...
23/08/2024

📷👀 Ikeorah Chisom Chi-FADA, Of All the Things My Hands Have Held, 2023 - 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 127 x 101,5 cm

📍Miart 2024

Chi-FADA notes: “There’s drama happening in the painting that I want you to witness and be a part of. I believe a successful story is one that engages you and tricks you to believe something deeply and leaves you hanging with questions leading to more questions. I don’t have all the answers, as the storyteller, I suffer the same fate as you, the listener”

   👀 Teresa Kutala Firmino, Vissaquelo (The Undoing), 2022, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 163.3 x 149.5Teresa Kutala Fi...
20/08/2024

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Teresa Kutala Firmino, Vissaquelo (The Undoing), 2022, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 163.3 x 149.5

Teresa Kutala Firmino is a multimedia artist, now based in Johannesburg, working with paint, photography, and performance. She is part of a collective called Kutala Chopeto, which started as an investigation into their shared history which is linked to the 32 Battalion, the soldiers who were settled in Pomfret after the Border War.

🎨✨ Happy Ferragosto from the Osart Gallery team! ✨🎨Vi salutiamo con questa immagina tratta dala mostra "Amelia Etlinger:...
15/08/2024

🎨✨ Happy Ferragosto from the Osart Gallery team! ✨🎨

Vi salutiamo con questa immagina tratta dala mostra "Amelia Etlinger: An American Original” 2019. A noi ispira molto relax e a voi?

📷  Feni Chulumanco, Untitled 2a, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 100 x 80All of Chulumanco's subjects are faceless. This featur...
13/08/2024

📷 Feni Chulumanco, Untitled 2a, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 100 x 80

All of Chulumanco's subjects are faceless. This feature is sometimes very ironically counterbalanced by the presence of a smiling self-portrait hanging on the wall of the rooms where the scenes are set. The lack of facial features are both a reference of the style of West African masks, but also a representation of the artist's lonesome, a lifelong companion embodied by the “glass womb” that rocks and protects like a motherly presence, but also nortures and empowers its creatures.

📷 Sethembile Msezane, Children of the Sky, 2024, Wood, triplex, Fabriano paper, gold leafing pen, 119 x 84 cm (detail)✨M...
09/08/2024

📷 Sethembile Msezane, Children of the Sky, 2024, Wood, triplex, Fabriano paper, gold leafing pen, 119 x 84 cm (detail)

✨Msezane’s work has been widely exhibited across South Africa and internationally and was included in various exhibitions and museums that include the 14th Dak’art Biennale, Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town), as well as that of the Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town), The Royal Ontario Museum (Canada), Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Brazil) and more.

She also performed at dOCUMENTA 14 in 2017 in both Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany, as part of iQhiya Collective. She has participated in residencies including the Sylt Foundation, Emerging Artist Residency, Sylt and Künstlerhuser Worpswede, Germany (2017), and the Situate Arts Lab Residency, Hobart, Australia (2016).

Osart Gallery is closing for summer Holidays from the 5th of August!Wishing everyone a great summer with an inspiring ar...
02/08/2024

Osart Gallery is closing for summer Holidays from the 5th of August!

Wishing everyone a great summer with an inspiring artwork by CHI-FADA Ikeorah Chisom, looking forward to see you in our gallery from the 2nd of September!

⛱ See you soon! 👋

📷 Ikeorah Chisom Chi-FADA, Besides the Still Waters, 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 140 x 180 cm.

The core focus of Mulanga’s art is to challenge the representation of Black female subjects by investigating the individ...
26/07/2024

The core focus of Mulanga’s art is to challenge the representation of Black female subjects by investigating the individual’s relationship with space. It is in these liminal moments that Cinthia Sifa Mulanga highlights the nuances and complexities of a Black woman's identity in today’s world.

📷Cinthia Sifa Mulanga, Preference Until Proven Standard II , 2022, Mixed media on canvas, 91 x 91 cm

👀 https://www.artsy.net/artwork/cinthia-sifa-mulanga-preference-until-proven-standard-ii-1

  Franklyn Dzingai work is focused on the art of printmaking and the use of collage. These media allows him to narrate a...
17/07/2024



Franklyn Dzingai work is focused on the art of printmaking and the use of collage. These media allows him to narrate a collective story, drawing his inspiration from his personal archive and inner circle.

📸Franklyn Dzingai, 'Netsai', 2023, cardprint, collage and plastic on canvas (detail)

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  Abongile Sidzumo (1996) completed his degree in Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2019. Sidzumo works ...
09/07/2024


Abongile Sidzumo (1996) completed his degree in Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2019. Sidzumo works with leather offcuts and repurposed materials to create works that reflect and interrogate humanity, the way we co-exist, and our relationship with nature; he revisits memories and connects them to spaces he has lived in as well as the everyday life of marginalized communities.

Leather is often associated with luxury, wealth, and power. Through his process of re-stitching and weaving this precious material, Sidzumo is proposing that we start thinking about repurposed materials, connecting it and his process of stitching to notions of healing trauma that has been inflicted on black communities during apartheid, in a sense, his practice also functions as a manner of interrogating the continuous healing of black communities in post-apartheid South Africa.

📸Abongile Sidzumo
Land Owner, 2023 - 2024
Leather and thread on canvas ( 118 x 110 cm )

In  words: "In the lockdown I also learnt about DNA while researching the genetic sequence of the coronavirus. DNA is re...
02/07/2024

In words: "In the lockdown I also learnt about DNA while researching the genetic sequence of the coronavirus. DNA is represented by the letters a,c,g and t. The strands of these letters form the blueprint of life. By highlighting these letters in a body of text such as The Prince by Machiavelli, I am in a way ‘revealing its DNA’. Both Laurie Anderson and William S Burroughs have pointed out that language is a virus and by extension so are ideas."

Come discover this and other new works by Dan Halter in the current exhibition until August 2nd

📸Dan Halter, "Machiavellian DNA", 2024 (detail), Hand-woven archival ink-jet prints and fishing hook, cm. 160 x 70

  Carl Sagan’s 1994 book 'Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space' was inspired by the photograph 'Pale Blu...
20/06/2024



Carl Sagan’s 1994 book 'Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space' was inspired by the photograph 'Pale Blue Dot'. It was taken on the Feb. 14th, 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe from approximately 6 billion kilometres away. Never have we seen the Earth from further away.

Once the Voyager has fulfilled its scientific tasks Carl Sagan got permission from NASA to turn its camera around and take this image with no scientific purpose. He writes poetically about this piece of art in his book with the same title.

This image has fascinated Dan Halter as maps do and represents the ultimate zooming out for perspective on just how small and insignificant we are in the greater scheme of things. It shows us from another alien viewpoint.

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📸'Pale Blue Dot', 2023, hand-woven archival ink-jet prints, 225 x 167 cm

We are proud to announce our participation in the upcoming edition of Panorama Monferrato, a region-wide exhibition cura...
10/06/2024

We are proud to announce our participation in the upcoming edition of Panorama Monferrato, a region-wide exhibition curated by Carlo Falciani, with our represented artist Vincenzo Agnetti.

Inspired by the principles of 'La Civil conversazione [The Civil Conversation]', a work written by Stefano Guazzo and published in 1574, the exhibition is structured as a route divided into stages that wind through four Monferrato villages - Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno and Castagnole - to be traveled slowly as a metaphor for the contemporary visitor’s path of meditation.

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Panorama Monferrato
curated by Carlo Falciani

Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno and Castagnole
4 - 8 September 2024
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✨We are thrilled to announce the opening of the new solo show of ! 'The Map is not the Territory' marks the return of th...
04/06/2024

✨We are thrilled to announce the opening of the new solo show of !
'The Map is not the Territory' marks the return of the Zimbabwe born multidisciplinary artist in the premises of Osart Gallery.

📍SAVE THE DATE: June 12th, 2024 from 6:30pm

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'She lays awake, poked by the thorns under her marital bedHe wakes up, leaves and for a brief momentShe is alone and the...
20/05/2024

'She lays awake, poked by the thorns under her marital bed

He wakes up, leaves and for a brief moment
She is alone and the thorns allow her tears to water them.

Her knees are raw from the prayers she delivers on her bedside
When she has exhausted all the candles in the house
Again, the bed envelopes her while she mourns

When the prayers with white lit candles have been exhausted
Again, the bed envelopes her while she mourns
Her mother did the same but they never spoke of it
Her aunt told her that her story is not unique
Matrimonial tears never hurt anybody.'

ON VIEW: Where Thou Art - That - is Home. April 3rd - June1st, 2024

📸Sethembile Msezane, On Her Bed She Wept, 2020, antique wooden footed, candle wax, hair pieces, cm. 104 x 130 x 5

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Come visit the group show Where Thou Art - That - is Home with works by  , .0, ,  and  Mon - Fri: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, 2:...
16/05/2024

Come visit the group show Where Thou Art - That - is Home with works by , .0, , and

Mon - Fri: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, 2:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Saturday by appointment only

📷Installation View: Where Thou Art - That - is Home. Apr 3rd - June 1st, 2024. Photo credit Bruno Bani
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✨New opening hours!✨Starting from this week, Osart Gallery will change its business hours, opening from Monday to Friday...
19/04/2024

✨New opening hours!✨

Starting from this week, Osart Gallery will change its business hours, opening from Monday to Friday, Saturday by appointment only. The exhibition can be visited during opening times, from 10am - 1pm, and from 2:30pm - 7pm
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  Last day to visit our booth at 📍Established | Hall 3 | Booth A12-A14__ .0
14/04/2024


Last day to visit our booth at

📍Established | Hall 3 | Booth A12-A14
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 Osart Gallery at 📍Established | Hall 3 | Booth A12-A14Allianz MiCo, Hall 3, Viale Scarampo, Milan Friday, Apr 12th - Su...
11/04/2024


Osart Gallery at

📍Established | Hall 3 | Booth A12-A14
Allianz MiCo, Hall 3, Viale Scarampo, Milan
Friday, Apr 12th - Sunday, Apr 14th

Featuring: Feni Chulumanco, Franklyn Dzingai, Sethembile Msezane, Katlego Tlabela, Ikeorah Chisom Chi-FADA
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 Osart Gallery announces its participation in miart 2024 with a project aimed at creating a multidisciplinary dialogue b...
05/04/2024


Osart Gallery announces its participation in miart 2024 with a project aimed at creating a multidisciplinary dialogue between the artistic production of African artists and interior design.
Exhibited artists:

Feni Chulumanco (South Africa, 1994)
Franklyn Dzingai (Zimbabwe, 1988)
Sethembile Msezane (South Africa, 1991)
Katlego Tlabela (South Africa, 1993)

⚡Katlego Tlabela, C.R.E.A.M III, 2022, acrylic, ink, foam board and collage on stretched canvas, cm. 76 x 76 (edited image)
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  Opening day: April 2nd, 2024, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmApril 3rd, 2024 - June 1st, 2024, Osart GalleryOsart Gallery is pleased...
22/03/2024


Opening day: April 2nd, 2024, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
April 3rd, 2024 - June 1st, 2024, Osart Gallery

Osart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Where Thou Art - That - is Home”, a group show featuring works by Ikeorah Chisom Chi-FADA, Franklyn Dzingai, Feni Chulumanco, Sethembile Msezane, and Katlego Tlabela. They all turn the domestic space into actual subject exactly like the human presence, sparking neorealistic, metaphysical and conceptual narratives. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by

✨Feni Chulumanco, Untitled, 2023 (edited image)
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 Osart Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the eighth edition of Milano , supported by the Milan Municip...
26/02/2024


Osart Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the eighth edition of Milano , supported by the Milan Municipality in collaboration with Associazione MuseoCity ETS.

The gallery works together with the by hosting the artwork “Ritratto di ignoto”. This collaboration stands within the project “Musei in Galleria” to create a cultural exchange and strengthen the concept of widespread museum.

During the event, on Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd, Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th, the gallery will be open from 10:30 am to 7:00 pm, non-stop.

⚡Installation View: CrossWords. Works from the Panza Collection. Photo credit
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 Osart Gallery announces its participation in Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024 with a selection of new works that stand ...
09/02/2024


Osart Gallery announces its participation in Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024 with a selection of new works that stand for and look into the many facets of the African continent. Exhibited artists:

Feni Chulumanco (South Africa, 1994)
Franklyn Dzingai (Zimbabwe, 1988)
Wilfred Timire (Zimbabwe, 1989)
Sethembile Msezane (South Africa, 1991)
Katharien de Villiers (South Africa, 1991)
Jeanne Gaigher (South Africa, 1990)
Ikeorah Chisom Chi-FADA (Nigeria, 2000)

✨Sethembile Msezane, Khuluma Nam’ Ngimamele I, 2024 (edited image)
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 Last hours to visit our booth at  📍Hall 25 | Booth B56__ .0
04/02/2024


Last hours to visit our booth at

📍Hall 25 | Booth B56
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03/02/2024

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Osart Gallery nasce nei primi mesi del 2008 da un'idea di Andrea Sirio Ortolani. La Galleria propone un lavoro di ricerca sull'arte concettuale degli anni 60-70. Essa, attraverso un'accurata selezione trasversale, sia a livello italiano che internazionale, ha cominciato un lavoro di riscoperta e di valorizzazione di artisti che hanno segnato la storia dell'arte attraverso la proposizione di tematiche e linguaggi innovativi. L'Osart Gallery ha avuto la possibilità in questo breve arco temporale di presentare opere storiche tra le più significative di artisti quali: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Shusaku Arakawa, Antonio Dias, Ketty La Rocca, Duane Michals, Claudio Parmiggiani, Aldo Tagliaferro, Franco Vaccari, Michele Zaza. D'altra parte si impegna nella selezione di giovani artisti, attraverso un continuo studio del panorama internazionale. La volontà della Galleria è infatti quella di ricercare ed introdurre in Italia artisti di qualità attraverso la realizzazione di progetti seri e selezionati. Osart Gallery, anche grazie alla collaborazione di critici di fama internazionale, ha scelto di sviluppare annualmente un numero molto limitato di mostre di arte contemporanea così da poter proporre le migliori novità agli appassionati.


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