Colnaghi and BANDA GALLERY are proud to present HELD IN SPACE: Celebrating Women-led Art and Design, a poetic installation reimagining Colnaghi as a living, breathing home in which the art and residents connect, forming a dialogue in a setting of intimacy, memory, and conversation. HELD IN SPACE marks the beginning of an innovative partnership with BANDA Gallery, merging Colnaghi's historic tradition of sourcing the finest masterpieces with BANDA’s acclaimed vision for luxury interior design.
Central to the exhibition are over twenty works by women artists, assembled in conjunction with Women Artists Art Week. From the candid tranquillity of Gwen John (1876—1939), through the effervescent surreal ink drawings of Leonor Fini (1907—1996), to the spirited compositions of Françoise Gilot (1921—2023) and Lotte Laserstein (1898—1993), each piece reveals the intimate and enduring presence of the female voice in art and its indelible mark on visual culture.
BANDA Gallery's curated furnishings are woven into these rooms as complementary storytellers. Works by pioneering women designers, including Charlotte Perriand, Lina Bo Bardi, and Grace Prince, appear throughout, many partially veiled in soft cloth as though unearthed from forgotten estates. This act of wrapping and revealing recalls objects in transit, protected through time—an echo of how history is often preserved in fragments and glimpsed through fabric and memory.
HELD IN SPACE is an exhibition where legacy and modernity coexist in a dreamlike space. It is both a celebration and a meditation: on women's creative legacies, the tactile intimacy of home, and the enduring resonance of artworks shaped by human hands.