With unprecedented access to a new wave of international artists, Avant Arte: A New Renaissance opens up the curtains covering the hidden scenes behind museums and Instagram algorithms. Highlighting 15 international artists in their studios, this book offers an insight into the new direction of the international art world.

Curated by online art platform Avant Arte, this limited edition photo book takes the viewer across the world into the most intimate and creative spaces inhabited by artists. Showing them in the environments where they are both at their most powerful and vulnerable, Avant Arte: New Renaissance is a voluminous glimpse into the workspace of art’s new stars.

Studio visits are accompanied by conversations between Avant Arte and three influential voices who have earned their stripes internationally in various fields. Reflecting on both the past and present, as well as the future of art and its industry, Avant Arte goes in-depth in conversations with Diane von Fürstenberg, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jefferson Hack, respectively. The studio visits and conversations are also by a foreword written by Avant Arte’s Christian Luiten, reflecting on the current state of the industry.

 Art around the world in 15 studio visits

Featuring Sanford Biggers, Cai Guo-Qiang, Simpiwe Ndzube, Claire Tabouret, Robert Nava, Raquel van Haver, Daniel Arsham, Gina Beavers, Alex Gardner, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Stickymonger, Drift, Chiharu Shiota, Adel Abdessemed, David Altmejd

Featured photographers

Andile Buka, James Chororos, Justin Chung, Niké Dolman, Sharon Jane Dompig, Liam MacRae, Sunhi Mang, Rafik Greiss