Author: Lizzy Vartanian Collier

Lizzy Vartanian Collier is a London-based writer and curator. She is the founder of Gallery Girl - a London-based curatorial platform and website dedicated to modern and contemporary art from across the globe. Her work is primarily focused on supporting emerging female artists from the Middle East and the Caucasus. She has written for Canvas Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Ibraaz, Jdeed Magazine, Suitcase and Vice Arabia among other publications. Her exhibitions in London and Armenia have been featured in Vogue Arabia, The Art Newspaper, The Art Gorgeous and numerous other news outlets. Gallery Girl has also spoken in the UK, UAE and Belgium about the contemporary art scene in the MENA region, and is planning further events in London and Amman.

Gallery Girl meets Mariana Guber-Gogova

August 21, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

Mariana Guber-Gogova founded Artwin Gallery in 2012, with the aim of promoting Russian artists in Russia and abroad. In 2016, she also founded the Gogova Foundation, a non-profit organisation for the support of contemporary art and culture. Having hosted artist residencies in Russia and Azerbaijan, while also exhibiting artists at The Armory Show, Art Dubai […]

EXT. / INT. INT. / EXT. @ Nouvelle Vague Marbella

August 14, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

In a new exhibition at Nouvelle Vague in Marbella, a group of artists question the symbiotic relationship between the interior and the exterior.

Afterimage: Dangdai Yishu @ Lisson

August 7, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Here in the West, we all have our own ideas about contemporary art from China. An image of an art scene that has been orientalised, fed to us through exhibitions that pop up from time-to-time, conflated with ideas about a booming Chinese art market, and that conform to a very narrow stereotype about life and […]

Gallery Girl Meets Fatima Ronquillo

July 30, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Fatima Ronquillo’s paintings look like they were painted hundreds of years ago. Classical in style, and full of cherub-faced characters adorned in lace masks, flowers, animals and lovers eyes – a Georgian motif made popular in the late eighteenth century – it is hard to believe that Ronquillo’s paintings are being made in Santa Fe, […]

bahith @ Gazelli Art House

July 24, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

In Akka Artwork (Naqsh Collective, 2019), a large-scale piece made of natural stone marble and brass, a number of figures line up to jump off of a tall cliff into a calm sea down below. As they leap from their highly intricate surface, they wave their hands in the air and look down below expectantly, […]

Gray Wielebinski @ SEAGER Gallery

July 17, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

A sphinx-scorpion hybrid lies trapped inside a white cube. With its tail pushed against one wall, with two arms struggling to escape from another, its cramped positioning illustrates the animal’s attempts to leave the barren wasteland it has been caged into. Spread out across the floor, it appears like it has accepted its fate, resting […]

Gallery Girl meets Neda Tavallaee

July 10, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

“We are taught how to love as women by our mothers and grandmothers…there is beauty in listening to how each woman yearned and tried, succeeded or failed but still did not give up on love, enough to pass on her story.” – Neda Tavallaee Iranian artist Neda Tavallaee is predominantly concerned with women. Working across […]