With a high-profile Ritz Paris collaboration and a bold relocation to Las Vegas, the Core Art Gallery is charting a new path for contemporary art.
The landscape of art collecting is constantly shifting, with today’s collectors craving not only works they connect with but experiences that feel immersive and unforgettable. The Core Art Gallery has stepped squarely into that space, pioneering inventive ways to present art and spotlight artists while reshaping the role a gallery can play.
Fusing tradition with innovation, the gallery represents a roster that spans emerging voices and international heavyweights, including pop provocateur Mr. Brainwash, fashion-world photographer Markus Klinko, and calligraphic street-art star RETNA. Rejecting the white cube model, the Core favors unconventional sites and bold staging to bring art into unexpected conversations.
Examples of this can be seen in their 2024 “Discovering Mr. Brainwash” exhibition, staged at the Jonathan Club in Downtown Los Angeles, or “‘SOS’ Sequence of Sentences” timed to Frieze week in Los Angeles earlier this year at the Gravitas Club in Beverly Hills, which was the first RETNA solo exhibition in roughly 10 years.
On the heels of RETNA’s Beverly Hills show, the gallery collaborated with the artist to create Script of the Flame, a documentary that explored the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires. Several works by RETNA were destroyed by the fires, and over the course of the artist’s investigations he created new works generated by themes of loss and closure.
And for the Core Art Gallery itself, a new partnership with the Ritz Pariswas recently announced, which will see an evolving selection of work go on view in the hotel’s gallery vitrines. Inspired by the hotel’s history, new works by RETNA like Coco (2025), an homage to Gabrielle Chanel who lived there for more than two decades, and Vendôme (2025), a reference to the iconic Place Vendôme on which the hotel sits, offer new dialogues between history and the contemporary.
And the Core Art Gallery hasn’t stopped there. At the end of this month, the gallery will up stakes and relocate to Las Vegas, taking on yet another major art scene.
“After spending over a decade in New York and five years in Los Angeles, the decision to relocate to Las Vegas came from the desire to place the Core at the intersection of culture, design, and hospitality,” said Founder and Curator Marion Doyen. “Las Vegas is an everchanging and always evolving destination not only for entertainment but also for art and high-end experiences. We see a unique opportunity to bring contemporary art into this dynamic environment and to connect with a global audience of visitors.”
From landmark collaborations in Paris to a bold leap into Nevada’s neon capital, the Core Art Gallery is proving itself agile and adventurous—carving out new ground for artists like Mr. Brainwash, Markus Klinko, and RETNA, and showing what it means to reimagine the role of the contemporary gallery today.
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