In the Studio Tschabalala Self, New York

By combining paint, recycled materials, collage, and textiles, Tschabalala Self creates a world that is both sensuous and political. In her powerful images of black bodies, mostly women, she centres pleasure, relaxation, and self-possession, while working against the histories of racism and sexism that have shaped how these bodies are seen.

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In the Studio Soufiane Ababri, Paris

Leaving the past behind is not a choice for the artist Soufiane Ababri. After moving from Morocco to France at 18, he began creating a personal visual archive of queer life in the Arab world and of gay immigrants in the West — one that weaves together autobiography, political awareness, and homoeroticism.

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In the Studio Dala Nasser, Beirut

Working across painting and sound, the Lebanese artist imprints landscapes marked by occupation, extraction, and erasure, approaching them not as backdrops but as active sites of memory. Throughout her work, myth appears as a framework for thinking about the present rather than escaping it.

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Collector Stories Birgit Vollmeier and Yudi Warsosumarto of PEACH, Vienna

For more than seventeen years, Birgit Vollmeier and Yudi Warsosumarto, under the agency label PEACH, have worked strategically and creatively within the gallery scene. Passion for art is not solely defined through the agency’s services. For some time now, PEACH has run an “art window” in a vitrine in a store in Vienna’s sixth district and has become something of an institution in Vienna’s art and cultural scene. We spoke with Birgit and Yudi about the beginnings of this unusual agency and the deep connection of both founders with the art and cultural scene.

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