Spring Salon: Arthouse Reframed
kó is pleased to present Spring Salon, an annual exhibition series that brings together a selection of works from the secondary market available for private sale.
This edition, Arthouse Reframed, revisits artists who were prominently featured in the Arthouse Contemporary auctions from 2008-2021, highlighting Nigeria’s leading artists whose careers blossomed over the past two decades. This presentation features Bunmi Babatunde, Jerry Buhari, Gerald Chukwuma, Victor Ekpuk, Anthea Epelle, Ablade Glover, Rom Isichei, Wiz Kudowor, Chidi Kwubiri, Gerry Nnubia, Chike Obeagu, Eva Obodo, Abiodun Olaku, Kofi Setordji, and Dominque Zinkpè.
Founded by Kavita Chellaram in 2007, Arthouse Contemporary was an international art auction house that specialized in modern and contemporary art from West Africa. It played a formative role in expanding awareness of artistic production in the region, fostering international recognition, and contributing to the development of a viable art market. As the predecessor to kó, Arthouse Contemporary held biannual auctions that helped establish a sustained secondary market in Nigeria while introducing a generation of artists whose practices have since become foundational. Its broader platform included Arthouse-The Space, which organized exhibitions; the Affordable Art Auction, which supported emerging artists; and the Arthouse Foundation, a Lagos-based residency program that hosted over thirty artists between 2015-2020.
Spanning multiple generations and mediums, Arthouse Reframed brings together a focused selection of works that reflect the breadth of artistic production in Nigeria and West Africa. Moving between figuration and abstraction, and across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition presents a cross-section of practices that have shaped the visual language of contemporary art in the region.
As a capsule of many of the leading artists working over the past two decades, the presentation underscores the range of formal approaches and material experimentation that have defined this period, while offering collectors the opportunity to engage with works that remain historically grounded and continue to have a lasting influence today.
The Private Preview is proudly sponsored by The Glenlevit.
