Soft Opening

Celebrating new galleries and voices at the forefront of the global art scene, this year’s Focus explores desire, memory, environment, power and colonial history

Originating in a London Underground station, Soft Opening is at the forefront of the emerging art scene. Its founder Antonia Marsh gives a gallerist's eye view of the capital

At Soft Opening, London, Hendrickje Schimmel challenges linear constructs of creation and usage by manipulating end-of-life materials

We talk to the artist, who is showing in the Focus section at Frieze London 2022, about her works that deal with the experiences of the Caribbean diaspora

From Rhea Dillon’s reverential found objects at Soft Opening, London, to Douglas Gordon’s rumination on ancestral trauma at Dundee Contemporary Arts