Gallery Collaborations

Standing Pine was founded in 2009 in Nagoya, Japan. It mainly supports emerging Japanese artists and focuses on promoting an emerging value of various media including kinetic, textile, video, photography, installation and so on. Through curated exhibitions, international art fairs and various projects, it has been devoted to promoting innovative and talented artists to the wide audience in the global art scene. It also aims to contribute to build a bridge for cultural exchange of east and west by introducing international artists to the art scene in Asia. The gallery always looks at the diversity of global art scene and recently focuses on African art as well and showing the activity of internationally renowned artists, who have not been introduced in Japan yet.

2004 the gallery opened a new space in Beijing inside the prosperous 798 Art Factory Area, followed in 2007 by the opening of a new venue in Milan designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Claudio Silvestrin. In September 2018 a second gallery venue has been opened in Lugano, Switzerland.
From the very beginning Primo Marella Gallery have been committed to the promotion and documentation of emerging artists and movements coming from different areas outside and inside Europe, both through the organization of shows and the publication of books and catalogues, with the help and collaboration of local curators and critics.
Starting with China in the late Nineties, the focus of the gallery’s programs has touched different emerging areas, from Russia to India and from South East Asia to, more recently, Africa, always with the precise goal to pioneer in the presentation of such complex and constantly evolving artistic scenes and to gain the attention of museums, institutions and collectors."