Kovet.Art is delighted to announce the launch of our launch of The Art Vault with New Futures Digital! Join an enlightening panel discussion with five ambitious curators: Mazzy-Mae Greens and Greta Voeller from Central Saint Martins, Victoria Cantons from the Slade School of Fine Art, and Xu Yang and Junyao Chen from the Royal College of Arts. Arts Writer Amah-Rose Abrams will moderate and guide discussions on curatorial visions and experiences curating an online show. Our guest curators will introduce New Futures Digital, the first exhibition to feature on our new concept, The Art Vault!

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The Art Vault is a digitally accessible space in which collectors, interior designers and art advisors can browse a wide variety of high calibre emerging art. Launching on December 9th, The Art Vault will bring New Futures Digital to the public; a virtual exhibition aiming to bring artwork by recently graduated artists and curated by emerging curators to the international stage.

The Art Vault is a new dedicated digital exhibition space globally accessible on Kovet.Art’s website, curated by exciting emerging and guest curators showcasing some of the most exciting collectible, emerging art. By collaborating with the best fine art institutions in the UK and guest curators, Kovet.Art wishes to solidify The Art Vault as a foundation for an ecosystem of collectors, art advisors, interior designers and art lovers to source exquisite art, discover their next investment and be inspired. The Art Vault is fully accessible via Kovet.Art website but you can also sign up for an art consultation with a team of experts.

New Futures Digital brings the voices of emerging artists and graduate curators to an international stage.

CSM Focus is followed by UCL Slade School of Fine Art curated by Victoria Cantons on 20 January 2021 and Royal College of Art curated by Junyao Chen and Xu Yang on 3 March 2021. Each part of the series of the exhibition will focus on one university per month, exclusively available for sale on the website via Kovet.Art’s Art Vault curatorial archive. The artworks will be available for sale on Kovet.Art website for a period of five months per university.

We look forward to seeing you there at the launch!

Amah-Rose Abrams is a London-based journalist covering arts and culture stories for The New York Times, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Wallpaper* and The Quietus amongst others. She also hosts Roaring 20s Radio at Soho Radio.

Mazzy-Mae Green is a London-based curator and editor specialising in contemporary conceptual art and culture. This year, she co-curated London Grads Now at Saatchi Gallery, as well as an online, 3D-modelled exhibition of works by the artist Vivien Rothwell. Through her practice, she seeks to engage with emerging artists and the work of her contemporaries. She is a member of the gallery advocacy project Credit, and has been editor of Modern Matter magazine for three years. She has recently completed an MA in Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins.

Greta Voeller is a writer, editor and curator with a professional background in audience engagement, design, digital strategy and print media. Greta has been editor of publications including Purple (Paris) and NGV Magazine (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne), and her work and writing have been published in AnyoneGirl, NGV Magazine, Purple and Frieze Magazine, among others. She has co-curated several exhibitions, starting from Triennial Voices (NGV Triennial, 2017) at the National Gallery of Victoria and more recently London Grads Now at Saatchi Gallery in 2020, focussing on emerging and contemporary artists. Her current research concerns are directed towards establishing critical frameworks of curatorial practice, amalgamating an audience centered and editorial methodology, and enabling all of these aspects to coexist within the same spheres of cultural production.

Victoria Cantons is a BA Painting graduate of Wimbledon College of Arts (2017) and Turps Art School (2018). Due to coronavirus related interruptions, completing her MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art has been delayed to 2021. She received the Felix Slade Scholarship in 2018. Cantons studied Drama for The Stage and Screen at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA South) (1995-1997). Most recently she initiated and curated the Slade Masters Showcase at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2020) and went on to curate MA/MFA Slade graduates in London Grads Now. at Saatchi Gallery (2020).

Junyao Chen is a curator and producer with a background in digital media. His previous practice covers curatorial and artistic commission projects, mass media and cultural exchanges in the context of new media, and creative digital content production. In 2018, he graduated from the Department of Digital Media Art of Beijing Normal University, and in 2020, he graduated from the Royal College of Art with a master's degree in Curating Contemporary Art. In his current curatorial practice, he focuses on the digital human landscape in the public environment and the social cultural production in the context of new media.

Xu Yang has exhibited her artwork extensively across the UK, Asia and Europe. This year her work was featured in the London Grads Now. exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, which elicited affirmative conversation from the public, and consequent coverage in The Sunday Times and Fad Magazine. The artist believes collaborative relations to be of high importance – she has contributed to an ‘Imaging Technologies’ project with the Wimbledon College of Art Painting Research at Tate Modern in 2017, and Monster Chetwynd’s ‘Here she Comes’ at the Royal Festival Hall in 2016. Xu graduated with a 1st Class Honours in BA Painting from Wimbledon College of Art and recently completed her Masters Painting at the Royal College of Art, London.