{"id":238571,"date":"2025-11-01T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238571\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:41:10","slug":"project-native-informant-gallery-in-london-closes-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238571\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Native Informant Gallery in London Closes After 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tProject Native Informant<\/a> became the latest gallery to close<\/a> when it announced plans to shutter on Friday, bringing an end to a 12-year run for one of London\u2019s most beloved commercial art spaces.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe decision to wind down did not come lightly,\u201d wrote founder Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe current global economic, political and social environment has shaped into an extremely volatile and unsustainable environment for a gallery such as ours. Moreover personal factors contributed to this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIts final show appears to have been a solo exhibition for Sean Steadman that closed over the summer.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe gallery was launched in 2013 in a garage in the city\u2019s Mayfair district and later relocated to the East End. Early in its run, Project Native Informant distinguished itself as a commercial space uniquely attuned to art that dialogued with, and even enlisted aspects of, the internet, mounting shows for artists such as Juliana Huxtable, DIS, and GCC.<\/p>\n

\n\tProject Native Informant also gave exhibitions to well-known artists such as Ned Vena, Loretta Fahrenholz, Andrew Norman Wilson, Harumi Yamaguchi, Georgie Nettell, and Shu Lea Cheang.<\/p>\n

\n\tIts closure appears to be part of a wave of shutterings that have largely afflicted New York thus far. Among the galleries to have closed in the city are Clearing<\/a>, Blum<\/a>, Tilton<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut it also has become clear that the wave of closures is extending beyond New York\u2014not just in the US, where galleries like LA Louver and San Francisco\u2019s Altman Siegel have announced plans to wind down operations, but also in Europe, where Switzerland\u2019s Galerie Francesca Pia said it would close after more than 35 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tProject Native Informant had regularly appeared in blue-chip art fairs such as editions of Art Basel and Frieze, just like many of those galleries.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are deeply proud of the entirety of our work, and hope our presence was felt,\u201d Sastrawidjaja wrote.<\/p>\n