East, London
ATHR
Condo London 2026
Union PacificUnion Pacific hosting ATHR presenting Basmah Falemban and Union Pacific presenting Jamiu Agboke, Soumya Netrabile and Jason Thompson. For Condo London 2026, Union Pacific hosts ATHR Gallery (Jeddah / Riyadh / Alula). Union Pacific is presenting works by Jamiu Agboke, Soumya Netrabile and Jason Thompson. ATHR present works by Basmah Falemban. Together, these artists create a dialogue shaped by movement, geography, and cultural vitality. Jamiu Agboke’s (b. 1989, Lagos, Nigeria) paintings are made with oil on metal supports, working between aluminium and copper to produce surfaces that shift subtly with light and viewing distance. Fields of Prussian and teal blue are interrupted by restrained gestures of white, ochre and crimson, forming unstable horizons in which vessels, glacial forms, and atmospheric masses appear without settling into fixed perspective. Influenced by Yoruba thought, particularly Ifá’s emphasis on alignment and relational emergence, Agboke treats painting as an act of listening. Forms appear only when conditions permit them, briefly holding before dissolving back into atmosphere. Recent solo exhibitions include: Dark Waters, VIN VIN, Napoli, Italy (2023) and recent group exhibitions include A New Sensation, Galerie Marguo, Paris (2023), France In the Shadow, White Cube, online (2023), Oh, What a World, Jack Barret, New York, USA (2023), Kane le Bain, Project Space, London, UK (2023), Out of November, Soho Review, London, UK (2022), Second Expression, The Split Gallery, London, UK (2022), Contrapunto, Vin Vin, Vienna, Austria (2022), and The BitterSweet Review, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2022). Soumya Netrabile (b. 1966, Bangalore, India) does not think of herself as a landscape painter, nor of what she paints as landscapes. Instead, her works though occasionally revealing glimpses of swirling, golden foliage, or the jewel-like offerings of a misty sea – take on the notes of lyrical abstraction, forged through a ritualistic and intuitive approach to artmaking. Netrabile’s practice is one of interconnectedness: borne from the natural world, channelled through the body, and returned to the perceiving soul. In this sense, the artist is a poet of the canvas: each of her brushstrokes is a suggestion of something expansive and deeply personal, drawn from the crunch of a twig or the ostensibly impenetrable surface of a stone in the pocket. Recent solo exhibitions include: Holding Current, Rachel Uffner, New York (2024), mono no aware, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2024), Soft Fascination, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea (2023), Between past and present/Between appearance and memory, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (2023), and Searching for Stars, Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA (2022). Recent group exhibitions include: In Conversation with Salvo, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2025), Consider the Oyster, Anthony Meier, Mill Vallery, CA (2025), Global Muses, Curated by Laura Day Webb, Presented by Vortic Art (2024), The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY (2024), and NOW, Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2023). Positioned between the sacred and the profane, Jason Thompson (b. 1970, Liverpool, UK)’s paintings on panel have been described as hovering between the religious icon and the shed door. For a long time the artist has used found wood and a patchwork process of assemblage to create worn surfaces that feel as if they have been touched by a thousand hands. The artist favours an approach to composition akin to evolution. Individual gestures within Thompson’s paintings either survive and multiply to produce a final image, or disappear and are replaced by other species of marks through a series of spontaneous interventions. Negative space is repainted, panels are sawn in half, layers of paint are sanded away to reveal solidified patches of colour beneath. This organic and highly physical approach to abstraction has a philosophical underpinning. Namely, that for an artwork to attain a sense of depth, it must undergo significant and unexpected change – weathering the process to be transformed by the experience. Recent solo exhibitions include: More On More (continued), Nidi Gallery at Kousagisha Gallery, Kyoto (2025), More On More, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo (2025), Secret Structure, WSJ Gallery, London (2023), Instead of Magic, WSJ Gallery, London & Bruton (2022), and I-am-jason- thompson, Wilson Stephens & Jones, London (2018). Recent group exhibitions include: One Between Two, OTPCopenhagen, Copenhagen (2025), MPM/IRL, MePaintsMe, New York (2025), Refractive Pool, Contemporary Painting in Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2022), Public Intimacy, Confer-Karnac Art Space, London (2021), and antonym, Wilson Stephens & Jones, London (2020). Basmah Felemban (b. 1993, Saudi Arabia) is an emerging artist whose skills as a self-taught graphic designer invest her practice with a distinctly contemporary digital edge. Felemban’s artworks range in medium from drawing, sculpture, digital animation and coding. Within her practice Felemban creates wildly imaginative cosmological works in game form. Felemban is a builder of worlds, contrivedof characters and environments that wittily combine diverse inspirations, including impossible mathematical forms and game theory. The artist’s practice, while seemingly chiefly concerned with the technologies of the present and their innovative possibilities, is simultaneously anchored in the traditions of previous artistic forms making hers a uniquely dynamic and positively challenging opus. Selected exhibitions of Felemban include her first solo exhibition with ATHR gallery, Consecrated Networks (2024), Jeddah, KSA. Selected group exhibitions include First Islamic Arts Biennale (2023), Diriyah Biennale Foundation, Jeddah, KSA; So It Appears (2023), Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Common Wealth University, Virginia, USA; Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age (2022), Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany ; The Secrets of Alidades (2021), 21’39 Saudi Arts Council, Jeddah, KSA; Desert to Delta (2017), AMUM, Memphis, USA; Prince’s School of Tradition Art Master of Arts Graduation Show (2017), PSTA, London, UK; Parallel Kingdom (2016), Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas, USA; Rhizoma, Edge of Arabia, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2013) and Journey To The Heart of Islam: Hajj Exhibition (2012), British Museum, London. Condo London 2026 is a collaborative exhibition involving 50 galleries across 23 London spaces.