Lorenzo Fiaschi co-founded Galleria Continua with Mario Cristiani and Maurizio Rigillo in San Gimignano in 1990, aiming to showcase contemporary art in rural areas. Galleria Continua was the first foreign gallery with an international program to open in Beijing in 2004 and launched Les Moulins in the Parisian countryside in 2007. In 2015, Lorenzo and the other founders opened a space in La Habana, Cuba. For the gallery’s 30th anniversary in 2020, new spaces were opened in Rome at St. Regis Rome and in São Paulo, Brazil. In January 2021, a new exhibition space was inaugurated in Paris, and a gallery opened inside the Burj Al Arab in Dubai.
Lorenzo has overseen the gallery’s projects, participated in art fair commissions, and contributed to publishing books and catalogues. He co-organized the Arte all’Arte festival (1996-2005), enabling 80 international artists to create in situ works in Tuscany. Today, Lorenzo is the president of ITALICS, a consortium of over sixty influential Italian galleries, founded with Pepi Marchetti Franchi in spring 2020.

Simrin Mehra Agarwal is a multidisciplinary artist based in Abu Dhabi. Her work questions our understanding of nature in the context of histories of war, neglect and climate change. She holds an MFA and BFA Degree with Distinction winning the Gold Medal from the University of Delhi and studying further at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Simrin’s work was the Finalist for the prestigious Louvre Abu Dhabi Richard Mille Art Prize 2022 and was exhibited at Art Here: Icon.Iconic at the Louvre (2022-2023). Her institutional projects include the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, In the Studio 2021 and the CAD 10.0 x Dubai Public Art Programme 2023 organized by Art Dubai and Dubai Culture. She was the Winner of the Ras-Al-Khaimah Fine Arts Festival Award 2023 in the Fine Art Category and was the Finalist for the ADNOC Art Awards 2021 awarded for Public Art.  Former resident artist at Manarat Al Saadiyat’s Artist Fellowship 2021 and Cultural Foundation Art Residency 2020-21, Abu Dhabi, Simrin received the Golden Visa for specialized talent, and has exhibited in solo shows at Sharjah Art Museum; Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea and Studio Medico Boscovich, Milan selected by (AMACI) Association of Italian Museums of Contemporary Art.; Artspace, Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation; 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai and Abu Dhabi Art. She was awarded the French Government Scholarship and Residency in Paris; the National Winner of Nokia Arts Award Asia Pacific, Seoul and the Winner of the Sailoz Award, Delhi. Her group shows and projects have been held transnationally at the Tate Modern, London; Sharjah Art Museum; One Minute Foundation, Amsterdam; Palais Bruener, Vienna; Luxe Museum, Singapore; Today Art Museum, Beijing; National Gallery of Modern Art and Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; Hongkong Visual Art Center; Insa Art Center, Seoul and Design and Craft Center, Johannesberg. She has participated in the Asia Triennial, Manchester; collateral exhibitions of Kochi Muziris Biennial and in art fairs including Art Dubai, Art Bahrain, Abu Dhabi Art, India Art Fair and Art Melbourne. Her works have been showcased in Rossi and Rossi, London; The Guild, New York; Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin; Lukas-Feitchner Gallerie, Vienna; Museum Gallery, Mumbai and H Gallery Bangkok. Simrin’s works are in many private and public collections in the UAE and abroad, notably the Abu Dhabi Executive Office.

Visual artist who works primarily with printed and woven textiles. Her work constructs narratives of place, identity and connections to lost bodies, through mark-making, photography and material studies, that manifest as textiles and works on paper.

 

Her commission builds on an ongoing body of work, a  ceaseless search for a place of rootedness, healing, and rebuilding of aspects of memory and home. The work gestures toward personal and national narratives through metaphor, drawing on nature to explore the complexities of human emotions and politics.

Fatma Al  Ali (b.1994, UAE) is a multidisciplinary artist whose diverse practice encompasses drawing, printmaking, video, sculpture, and installation. Inspired by an inquisitorial and academic archival approach, she delves into the realms of history, and cultural gulf sociology to inform her work. Al Ali's work is a reflection of her deep exploration of perception, materiality, collective memory and oral histories , all while challenging conventional notions of art-making.

Al  Ali earned a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Sharjah in 2018 and is an alumna of the Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship (SEAF) program in 2019, a collaboration with Rhode Island School of Design.

Her work has been showcased in several group exhibitions, including The Nest Festival, Alriwaq gallery, Bahrain, 2024; Ephemeral structures, Nika Project space, Dubai, 2023; Unwritten, Unspoken and told, Dubai calligraphy biennial, the Foundry, Dubai, 2023; Getting over the color green at Al Serkal Avenue, a collaboration with Engage101, 2023; Community and Critique at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi in 2020; and others.

Al  Ali currently lives and works in Sharjah.