Must-See: New galleries at our Hamburg Fair
Explore six new galleries introducing cutting-edge artists that should head straight to the top of your must-see list.
Hannah Weber-Heidenfels
Monday 15 September, 2025
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg returns 13 – 16 November 2025, showcasing contemporary art from Hamburg and beyond. Among the highlights are 25 new galleries making their debut this year and bringing some freshness to the fair.
Review the full list of the 85 galleries joining us this year and make a visit to our newbies.
Check out a selection of the debuts below!
Galerie von Wegen | Hamburg
Founded in 2023, Hamburg-based Galerie von Wegen, located in Levantehaus, represents a broad spectrum of artistic positions, focusing on abstract and figurative works in painting, object art, and photography. Working in a close relationship with their representing artists, the team is always on the hunt for new Emerging Artists to develop together with.
Jakob Schöning, Malwin Faber and Susanne Bonowicz are just a few of the talented artists whose work will be exhibited on Galerie von Wegen’s stand during the fair in November, as well as Jakob Scheidt, a Hamburg-based artist who’s style is characterized by expression and figurative clarity. With his impressive, mostly large-format works and his first awards, the 21-year-old is considered an exceptional young talent.
Jakob Scheidt opens hidden portals to surreal worlds that we usually only enter in our thoughts or dreams – far removed from reality – where longings and fading memories mingle in fascinating ways. These are those wondrous places, deeply anchored in our emotional perception, that offer us refuge when the reality around us becomes too loud and everyday life constrains us.
His style is characterized by gestural-expressive structures in which fragmentary indecision contrasts with the figurative clarity of individual objects. Like a sensual dance, they mutually emerge in the process of decoding. Shadowy figures, fused bodies, and forms that seem to move, as if traveling through unreal spheres – floating, falling, or lost in a state between dream and reality.
BBA Gallery | Berlin
BBA Gallery in Berlin was founded in 2017 and represents emerging and mid-career artists from around the world. The gallery is committed to discovering and supporting strong contemporary voices across various media. After participating with us for the first time at Affordable Art Fair Berlin this year, we’re very happy that we now can also welcome BBA Gallery to our Hamburg Fair!
Alongside the artists Renata Kudlacek, Beate Köhne and Giulietta Coates, you’ll be able to discover the ‘Anonymous Women’ series by photographer Patty Caroll, who has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970s. She creates a dark and humorous game of hide-and-seek between her viewers and the Anonymous Woman.
The woman becomes a victim of her obsessions, activities, and circumstances as well as the invisible creator of such; at once satisfying and problematic, pathetic and humorous. Carroll delves into the intricate relationship between a woman’s identity and her domestic space. Each image in the series reimagines interior settings filled with an overwhelming array of decor and objects, often engulfing a solitary female figure.
Hidden within her environment, the figure represents both the victim and the creator of her own domestic identity, exploring themes of societal expectation, obsession, and artifice. Carroll’s imagery is inspired by her upbringing in suburban Chicago and influenced by sources ranging from traditional still-life paintings to classic films of the 1950s and 60s. Through elaborately constructed scenes, Carroll sheds light on the unseen labor of homemakers, while offering a satirical critique of the ideal of domestic perfection.
Heart & Cherry | Budapest
Since its foundation in 2020, Heart & Cherry has been organizing contemporary art programmes, exhibitions, pop-up events, and art collaborations. The gallery focuses on showcasing and representing emerging artists whose work combines a respect for traditional art genres and art historical trends.
Alongside the artists Csató József, Dóra Ádám and Josef Kristofoletti, you can get to know the works of István Dukai at booth E6. His works are linked to geometrical art, but also minimal art, often with the aesthetics of brutalist architecture.
Don’t miss the ‘Anthropomorphism of a body’ series by artist Bence Magyarlaki, which invites us on a self-interpretation of the body, stripping away the constructed layers of socio-political body boundaries to reveal a more vulnerable inner core of body image: the intimate ‘self’ from which we can all draw meaningful knowledge.
MLVA Art Gallery | Brussels
MLVA Art Gallery in Ghent, Belgium, is a platform created in 2023 for young, emerging artists from all over the world, where their unique visions and talents are shared with an international audience. The gallery is known for curating exhibitions that spotlight figurative and colourful art. Each of the selected artists is a personal favourite of the founder Marie-Luca Van Assche.
Alongside the artists Femke Vindevogel, Eveline Ester and Emilie Marc, you’ll be able to immerse yourself in Anne de Groot’s, aka Degann, paintings and watercolours. She explains: “Painting with Indian ink is a search for light, or rather, it’s all about preserving the light. I build the image with black ink on white paper, painting the shadows and depth while leaving the light untouched. It’s a fine balance between creating enough depth, but not doing too much. With the light simply being the naked paper in its natural white colour, there is no room for correction. Once the light is lost, it cannot be brought back.”
Another artist you’ll be invited to discover is Claire Aguilar who states: “The contours of my practice move between abstraction and realism. I look for otherness and the points of connection between these two languages. The line of sight always moves toward this ‘in-finitude’, a word that contracts an oxymoron within itself. I paint absence. What missing part leaves room for an existing story?”
Systema Gallery | Japan
Systema Gallery aims to be a bridge between talented Japanese artists and the
global art market. The main gallery is located in Osaka, Japan and they also have s a gallery space in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Hisako Ohkochi, one of the artists represented by Systema Gallery at booth G3, expresses the power and inherent possibilities of the materials used rather than focussing on simply
skill and techniques. Its raw strength and sheer vitality that has enabled it to survive the ages is an encounter she always looks forward to.
Wood, as a material, is deeply familiar to daily life in Japan. Just as the cultural differences between the West and the East can be likened to stone culture versus wood culture, in Japan especially, everything from the sacred objects in shrines and temples, to Buddhist statues, to architecture itself, has been passed down through generations using wood. Wood, which resonates with the Japanese spirit, is also associated with the belief that gods dwell within the wood itself.
Emigre Collection | Japan
Emigre Collection has been founded in Tokyo in 2007 and is specializing in Emerging Artists and in further-developing their potential. Beside gallery exhibitions on a regular basis, the gallery as well participates in international art fairs, to bring their artists to a wider audience.
Beside the artist Kazuki Umigishi, Nobuko Shimizu, Satoshi Hoshi, Naoko Geirin and Kiriku, you will as well find Ryoto Akaike (b. 1986, Tokyo) at booth B4 of Emigre Collection. Ryoto Akaike is a painter and filmmaker. He holds a B.F.A. from Kyoto University of Art and an M.F.A. from Tama Art University. His painting practice centers on the method of “Edit”—selecting and arranging fragments to visualize a sense of “emptiness.” His current series floatin’ explores presences in transformation and being-with.
Other new galleries to our Hamburg Fair include ar-gallery (Hamburg, DE), Arte Giani (Frankfurt, DE), Art Unity (Brussels, BE), Brussels Art Factory (Brussels, BE), BUNKER Gallery (Gooik, BE), Capitis Gallery (Hamburg, DE), De Galerie Den Haag (Den Hague, DE), Galleria Immaginaria (Florence, IT), Galleria Sachiko Natsume (Toyama, JP), Gedok Galerie (Hamburg, DE), KunstApart Galerie (Deventer, NL), New & Abstract (Berlin, DE), Newhouse Gallery (Amsterdam, NL), The Lane Art (Cranbrook, UK), WeArt Gallery (Bern, CH) and Galerie1565 (Hamburg, DE). If you’re on the hunt for new artwork, then head to these fantastic newcomers at our fair in November 2025. It’s a great opportunity to grow your collection and find new favorite artists.
Overall, we’ll have 85 German and international galleries to explore at Hamburg Messe, alongside a packed program. Check them out!
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