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Meet the Collector: Yasmine Berrada Wants to Change the Way the World Sees Moroccan Art

"You have to believe in the artists," she tells Observer. "You have to have conviction. If we do not put that energy into artists, no one else will."

02.04.2026 6

Observer

Naima Morelli

1-54 Marrakech Turned a Boutique Fair into a Citywide Moment

As the global art world splintered across multiple destinations in early February, Marrakech and 1-54 quietly asserted their relevance.

09.02.2026 3

Observer

Naima Morelli

S.E.A. Focus Gets a Boost from Art SG, But Questions About Identity Remain

By sharing infrastructure and audiences, the two fairs could reshape how Southeast Asian art is encountered by collectors from in and outside the...

27.01.2026 4

Observer

Naima Morelli

Oslo Museums Face the Contradictions in their Collections

Curating should be an adaptive process rather than a thesis to prove, Solveig Øvstebø, director of the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, tells...

22.12.2025 5

Observer

Naima Morelli

Nika Neelova On “UMBRA” and the Death of Linear Time

Her exhibition at NIKA Project Space in Paris turns impermanence into an act of creation and disappearance into a quiet form of resistance.

06.11.2025 10

Observer

Naima Morelli

Contemporary Artists in the Baltics Fight Instability with Connection

With Russian MiG-31 fighters encroaching on Estonian airspace and drones penetrating Polish skies, political unrest is increasingly shaping the way...

10.10.2025 10

Observer

Naima Morelli

Could Almaty’s Contemporary Art Museum Mark a New Era for Kazakhstan?

“This is not about ticking boxes with blue-chip names. Every work here is chosen for its relation to Kazakhstan," founder Nurlan Smagulov told...

03.10.2025 6

Observer

Naima Morelli

Emerging Art Scenes in Chios and Leros Offer a More Relaxed Definition of Art World Success

Perhaps the most radical gesture in art today is conceiving an exhibiton as a moment of beauty, care of place and respect.

19.08.2025 9

Observer

Naima Morelli

The Slow Biennial: Helsinki’s Gentle Vision for Environmental Art

Titled "Shelter: Below and Beyond, Becoming and Belonging," the Helsinki Biennial's third edition has an urgent message that risks being lost in its...

26.06.2025 10

Observer

Naima Morelli

VIMA Art Fair and the Quiet Politics of a Nascent Regional Scene

“We need a space of connection between the market and the galleries,” fair cofounder Edgar Gadzhiev told Observer.

21.05.2025 10

Observer

Naima Morelli