Janet Rady Fine Art

We’re proud to present Pantea Mahrou at VOLTA Art Fairs Basel 2026, from 17–21 June.

Pantea Mahrou (Iran, b. 1990) is an artist who moves between painting and sculpture to draw from the mythic world of Amlash, weaving together ancient symbols, spiritual traditions, and imagined narratives.

Within ‘UNTRANSLATED’, her works reflect on belonging, cultural continuity, and the ways memory persists through symbolism, atmosphere, and embodied presence.

📅 17–21 June, 2026
📍 Stand D4 | Hall 4.U, Congress Center, Messeplatz 21, Basel, Switzerland

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I recently visited Shifting Crossroads. Beirut Contemporary at Saikalis Bay Foundation in Milan, and it was one of those exhibitions that stays with you long after leaving. I was also lucky enough to receive a guided tour, which made the experience even more moving.

The exhibition brings together works by ten contemporary artists, including Mona Hatoum, Simone Fattal, Omar Mismar, Soraya Salwan Hammoud, Akram Zaatari, Lamia Joreige and others, exploring Beirut as a place of memory, rupture, transformation and constant reinvention. Through archival material, photography, video, sculpture and research-based practices, the show reflects on Lebanon’s layered history, from ancient trade routes and colonial borders to civil war, protest, destruction and rebirth.

The exhibition is presented by Saikalis Bay Foundation, founded by Nicole Saikalis and Matteo Bay, with the aim of supporting emerging and established artists and creating dialogue between people, places and stories across borders.

I would really recommend visiting,especially with the chance to slow down and understand the stories behind the works. Shifting Crossroads. Beirut Contemporary is on view until 3 July 2026.⭐️⭐️⭐️

Janet Rady Fine Art is pleased to present The Human Presence: Narratives in Figure and Form, an online exhibition opening today, Friday 1 May 2026, and running until Friday 29 May 2026 on our website and Artsy platform.🌸

Bringing together thirty artists from across the globe, the exhibition explores the enduring power of the human figure as a site of narrative and critical reflection. Spanning painting, photography, collage, printmaking, watercolour and mixed media, the works consider the body not merely as subject, but as a vessel through which personal histories, cultural identities and collective experiences are articulated.

Drawn from a significant private Lebanese collection, the exhibition offers a diverse perspective on contemporary figuration, where the self appears constantly renegotiated.

Pictured above is:
Lorena Torres
Secretos Cerca a Los Palos de Mango, 2022
Oil on canvas
81.3 x 91.4 cm (32 x 36 in.)

The exhibition is now live. View the full presentation via the link in bio.⭐️⭐️⭐️

Inside the studio of Shooq AlShawi — one of the two artists currently featured in our exhibition Where We Meet, now live via Artsy and our website.

Following the opening of the exhibition, this Saturday’s open studio offers a more intimate way to encounter the work: within a space where it is conceived, built, and continuously evolving. It is an opportunity to move beyond the gallery setting and engage more closely with the artist’s process, materials, and environment.

We are delighted to welcome visitors into AlShawi’s studio for a rare, in situ experience — a chance to spend time with the works at their point of origin, and to gain a deeper sense of the rhythm and scale that underpin her practice.

Saturday 18 April, 11am–4pm
📍 10 South End, London E8 5BU
RSVP: [email protected]