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Hélène Nguyen-Ban, the brilliant founder of DOCENT, the Spotify of Art, managed to secure an unusual venue for the dinner she gave on the first night of ArtBasel week (1) Vincent Lo Brutto and Pablo Stahl the founders of Lo Brutto Stahl who were the cohosts of the dinner and curated the contemporary art exhibition hung across all over the premises of Dassault Aviation Business Services Basel (2) I was at least as fascinated by the flying works of art than the ones hung on the walls (3/4/7/8) Mag Chamoun (5) Rafik Greiss in front of one of his works (6) Judith Benhamou (9) Judith Benhamou, Hélène Nguyen-Ban and Pat Wang Maugüé (14) Angeliki Kim Perfetti (16) #helenenguyenban #docent #vincentlobrutto #pablostahl #lobruttostahl #dassault #dassaultaviation #judithbenhamou #judithbenhamouhuetreports #angelikikimperfetti #artbasel #basel #patwangmaugue @docent_art @helene.nguyen_ban @lobruttostahl @dassaultaviation @dynamisk @___mag___c @artbasel @londonpatita taken in Basel, Switzerland by @docent_art

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Highlights from our @friezeofficial #FriezeLondon and @artbasel #ArtBaselParis weeks:
1_Vanity Fair: “Art Basel Paris: 20 Key Figures Shaping the Future of the Art Market”
2_Galerie Magazine: “Meet 6 Visionary Women Shaping the Art World in 2024“
3_Whitewall: “6 London Collectors to Know”
4_Luning: “How One Visionary Collector Transformed Her Passion into a Lifelong Pursuit of Art”
5_GQ: “Our Favorite Business Angel: Raphaël Varane on His Support for Docent”
6_ Designboom: “Historic Féau Boiseries as a Canvas for Modern Elegance”
7_The Knockturnal: “Docent and Invisible Collection Unveil Groundbreaking Project at the Intersection of Art & Design”

Endless thanks to our amazing partners and the Docent Community! 💫
@raphaelvarane @artbasel @friezeofficial @fluxus_art_projects @theinvisiblecollection @feauboiseries
Stay tuned for our next milestones and announcements. Download the Docent app now.
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@ojwilliams4 & images ©️Courtesy of @rodrigorize for @theinvisiblecollection by @docent_art

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A glimpse of our @FriezeOfficial #FriezeLondon & @Art Basel #ParisPlus

1_“Art collector and app creator Helene Nguyen-Ban’s favourite things”, The Financial Times, October 6, 2023.
2_“What I Buy and Why: Art Entrepreneur Helene Nguyen-Ban on Her Original ‘Art Crush’ and Owning a Half-Ton Book by Anselm Kiefer”, Artnet, October 16, 2023.
3_“Meet the collectors: Helene Nguyen-Ban”, Art Basel, October 16, 2023.
4_“Helene Nguyen-Ban: Collector, patron, innovator”, The Art of Luxury, October 15, 2023.
5_“Art Collector Helene Nguyen-Ban Shares How Tech Has Changed her Approach”, Cultured, October 19, 2023.
6_“Why AI will change the way we buy art”, The Times, October 15, 2023.
7_“Collectionner est une forme de thérapie”, The Art Newspaper France, October 19, 2023
8_“Josèfa Ntjam Wins Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art and Fluxus Prize at Frieze London”, Frieze Magazine, October 14, 2023.
9_ “YourArt et Docent, l’art pour tous?“, Connaissance des Arts, October 2023.
10_“10 bons conseils pour acheter de l’art (sans être millionnaire)“, Beaux Arts on October 17, 2023.
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#FinancialTimes #Artnet #ArtBasel #TheArtofLuxury #Cultured #SundayTimes #ConnaissancedesArts #TheArtNewspaperFrance #fluxus #Comitedesgaleriesdart #Frieze #BeauxArts by @docent_art

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Alongside the opening of her new exhibition Composite Bodies at Antenna Space (@antenna_space) in Shanghai, Guan Xiao (@guanxiaostudio) extends her practice into a new dialogue with Alaïa (@maisonalaia), curated by Docent.

Continuing the Maison’s longstanding connection with the arts, Guan Xiao unveils Things I Couldn’t Forget – Nose Ornament, Quimbaya, Colombia (2019) at Alaïa Shanghai.

The work combines dyed fiberglass, spiral wire, stainless steel tubing, and industrial components, creating a sculptural composition that brings together contrasting materials, forms, and references.

On view at Alaïa Shanghai.

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#Alaia #MaisonAlaia #GuanXiao #DocentArt #AlaiaShanghai

Video: @anthonyreedphoto by @docent_art

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sous ultra-vide
A solo exhibition by Elise Nguyen Quoc (@elise.nguyenquoc) is on view at Herald St (@herald_st), London — until 7 November 2026.

Marking Nguyen Quoc’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, sous ultra-vide brings together new works incorporating acrylic, paper, pigment, ballpoint pen, graphite, dry pigment, and resin on wood and wood panel.

Blurring the boundaries between painting and drawing, the exhibition begins from what the artist describes as “remnants”: traces of visual and physical encounters found in daily life, photographed, and then reworked through different techniques.

The title refers to a state of ultra-high vacuum, a condition of extreme emptiness created for precise observation. For Nguyen Quoc, this becomes a way of thinking about absence not as void, but as a charged space where traces, encounters, and new realities can emerge.

Discover a selection of works presented in the exhibition.

1. Elise Nguyen Quoc, Ralentissement du chant des oiseaux, 2026

2. ⁠Elise Nguyen Quoc, Absolument pas, 2026

3. ⁠Elise Nguyen Quoc, Holes are powerful attractors, 2026

4. ⁠Elise Nguyen Quoc, Sous Ultra-vide, 2026

5. ⁠Elise Nguyen Quoc, Pas le mot juste, 2026

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#Docent #DocentArt #EliseNguyenQuoc #SousUltraVide #HeraldSt

Images ©️ Elise Nguyen Quoc. Courtesy the artist and Herald St, London. by @docent_art

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3 days ago

A Moonless Plateau
A solo exhibition by Gökhun Baltacı (@gokhunbaltaci) is on view at kaufmann repetto (@kaufmannrepetto), New York — until 31 October 2026.

Marking Baltacı’s first solo exhibition in the United States, A Moonless Plateau brings together a new body of oil pastel works on paper.

Across the exhibition, enclosed rooms, loose threads, windows, screens, and fragments of furniture form a landscape without clear distance or direction. Human presence appears only intermittently, through a seated self-portrait or a face reflected against a dusty surface.

Working through layers of blue, violet, green, and grey, Baltacı creates interiors that feel at once recognizable and unsettled — spaces where objects remain familiar, yet seem detached from ordinary use or explanation.

Discover a selection of works presented in the exhibition.

1. Gökhun Baltacı, Untitled, 2026.

2. Gökhun Baltacı, Untitled, 2026.

3. Gökhun Baltacı, Untitled, 2026.

4. Gökhun Baltacı, Untitled, 2026.

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#Docent #DocentArt #GokhunBaltaci #AMoonlessPlateau #KaufmannRepetto

Images ©️ Gökhun Baltacı. Courtesy the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York. by @docent_art

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7 days ago

One day, out of the blue, I fell in love with you
A solo exhibition by Ruth Beraha (@ruthberaha) is on view at Alice Amati (@_aliceamati), London — until 10 October 2026.

Marking Beraha’s first solo exhibition in London, One day, out of the blue, I fell in love with you presents a new body of work developed through months of research into UK football culture.

For Beraha, the stadium becomes a symbolic space where individual identities are affirmed and dissolved into a collective voice — shaped by devotion, solidarity, rivalry, pride, and hostility.

Moving across sculpture, drawing, sound, and performance, the exhibition continues the artist’s investigation into the relationship between the individual and the collective, and the ways belonging is constructed, performed, and contested.

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#Docent #DocentArt #RuthBeraha #OnedayOutoftheblueIfellinlovewithyou #AliceAmati

Images ©️ Ruth Beraha / Tom Carter. Courtesy the artist and Alice Amati, London. by @docent_art

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9 days ago

Albert’s Paintings, Rachel’s Dress
A solo exhibition by Narcissister (@therealnarcissister) is on view at Margot Samel (@margotsamel.nyc), New York — until 10 October 2026.

Continuing her work across performance, sculpture, collage, film, and video, Narcissister fills the gallery with a new chain-reaction machine, activated through solo performance interventions.

Embedded within the installation are seascape paintings by Abraham “Albert” Benzaquen, the artist’s late uncle, an immigrant from Morocco who sold his works on the Sheepshead Bay waterfront in Brooklyn.

Through this encounter, Albert’s Paintings, Rachel’s Dress approaches the family archive not as a fixed record, but as something that can be reactivated, transformed, and made to speak differently in the present.

Discover a selection of works presented in the exhibition.

1. Narcissister, Untitled 2026 Collage Series, PVC (after A Young Lady aka Lady with a Parrot by Edouard Manet, 1866), 2026.

2. ⁠Narcissister, Albert’s Paintings, Rachel’s Dress, 2026.

3. ⁠Narcissister, Untitled 2026 Collage Series, Finger Heart (after The Musicians’ Quarrel, aka Beggars’ Brawl, by Georges de La Tour, 1620s), 2026.

4. ⁠Narcissister, Untitled 2026 Collage Series, Nap on the Grass (after Croquet Players by Winslow Homer, 1865), 2026.

5. ⁠Narcissister, Untitled 2026 Collage Series, Interracial Couple (after Héraðsdalur 21 by John Zurier, 2014), 2026.

6. ⁠Narcissister, Untitled 2026 Collage Series, Night Owls (after Fishermen at Sea by J.M.W. Turner, 1796), 2026.

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#Docent #DocentArt #Narcissister #AlbertsPaintingsRachelsDress #MargotSamel

Images ©️ Courtesy of the artists and Margot Samel, New York. by @docent_art

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12 days ago

An Accounting
A solo exhibition by Maria Thereza Alves is on view at Martins&Montero (@martinsemontero), Brussels — until 24 October 2026.

Marking Alves’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in Brussels, An Accounting continues the artist’s long-standing engagement with memory, ecology, colonial histories, and the politics of place.

The exhibition brings two archives into relation: one popular and communal, shaped by those who inherited the weight of exploitation; the other aristocratic and institutional, formed through the wealth generated by that same history.

Through this encounter, Alves shifts the idea of accounting away from possession and property, towards memory, permanence, and the voices of those who were historically counted, but rarely heard.

Discover a selection of works presented in the exhibition.

1. Maria Thereza Alves, Mexico/15,155 pesos (rent from houses and plazas), 2023.

2. ⁠Maria Thereza Alves, Cuyoacan/3377 (tributaries), 2023.

3. ⁠Maria Thereza Alves, Charo/416 (tributaries), 2023.

4. ⁠Maria Thereza Alves, Knickknacks at the Villa, 2023.

5. ⁠Maria Thereza Alves, Cuernavaca/6872 1⁄2 (tributaries), 2023.

6. ⁠Maria Thereza Alves, Atlacomulco/ 2000 pesos (tribute), 2023.

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#Docent #DocentArt #MariaTherezaAlves #AnAccounting #MartinsMontero

Images ©️ Maria Thereza Alves. Courtesy the artist and Martins&Montero. by @docent_art

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17 days ago

Bonheur du jour
Ciaccia Levi (@ciaccialeviparistorino) opens its new Turin space with Bonheur du jour, on view at via Gaudenzio Ferrari 11 — until 24 October 2026.

Set within a private apartment overlooking the Mole Antonelliana, the new space is conceived as a casa-galleria: an intimate environment where artworks enter into dialogue with the rhythms, rooms, and gestures of domestic life.

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#Docent #DocentArt #CiacciaLevi #BonheurDuJour #Turin

Images ©️ Courtesy of the artists and Ciaccia Levi. by @docent_art

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19 days ago

Sugarshack
A solo exhibition by Salim Green is on view at Société (@societeberlin), Berlin — until 24 October 2026.

Marking Green’s first solo exhibition at Société, Sugarshack takes its title from a term used by the artist’s father to describe abandoned or deteriorating buildings in his hometown of Waterloo, Iowa.

At the centre of the exhibition is the fellowship hall of Payne Memorial AME, a historically Black church on Waterloo’s east side. Recreated and reimagined within the gallery, the space becomes a way of thinking about how rooms register use, absence, gathering, and memory.

Across video, works on paper, and cast aluminium sculptures, Green moves between lived experience and invented narrative. Super-8 footage from Waterloo appears alongside CGI sequences featuring “Shifty,” a recurring surrogate figure who moves through different registers of space, history, and time.

Discover a selection of works presented in the exhibition.

1. Salim Green, Sugarshack, 2026.

2. ⁠Salim Green, Uncle Luther (skinny), 2026.

3. ⁠Salim Green, Untitled, 2026.

4. ⁠Salim Green, Untitled, 2026.

5. ⁠Salim Green, Untitled, 2026.

6. ⁠Salim Green, Bottles (Plant), 2026.

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#Docent #DocentArt #SalimGreen #Sugarshack #Societe

Images ©️ Courtesy of the artist and Société, Berlin. by @docent_art

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22 days ago

On the eve
A solo exhibition by Ejoo Seo (@ejooseo) is on view at Lo Brutto Stahl (@lobruttostahl), Paris — until 26 September 2026.

Marking Seo’s first solo exhibition, On the eve brings together a series of recent works made with pencil and gesso on canvas, presented in artist-made wooden frames.

Across the exhibition, Seo’s works appear as studies for something still forming: phrases, surfaces, and gestures held in a state of quiet suspension. What emerges is a language of restraint, where drawing becomes a way of approaching image, thought, and material presence without fixing them completely.

Discover a selection of works presented in the exhibition.

1. Ejoo Seo, Untitled (Study for a phrase 2026/05/19), 2026

2. ⁠Ejoo Seo, Untitled (Study for a phrase 2025/10/11), 2025

3. ⁠Ejoo Seo, Untitled (Study for a phrase 2025/10/29), 2025

4. ⁠Ejoo Seo, Untitled (Study for a phrase 2026/05/19), 2026

5. ⁠Ejoo Seo, Untitled (Study for a phrase 2026/08/08), 2026

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#Docent #DocentArt #EjooSeo #OntheEve #LoBruttoStahl

Images ©️ Courtesy of the artist and Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris and Basel. by @docent_art

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24 days ago