Do artists need a gallerist to make a living from their work?
Performance
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, ARCO Contemporary Art Fair. 45th edition. Madrid, Spain. Artists: Violeta Andreu and Soniya Amritlal Patel. Duration: Opening day of the fair.
Violeta Andreu and Soniya Amrital Patel: DO ARTISTS NEED A GALLERIST
TO MAKE A LIVING FROM THEIR WORK? (performance, 2026). (Photography:
Mercedes Melero)Violeta Andreu and Soniya Amrital Patel: DO ARTISTS NEED A GALLERIST TO
MAKE A LIVING FROM THEIR WORK? (performance, 2026). (Photography:
Mercedes Melero)Violeta Andreu next to the performance piece We Are Not Yet Rubble by
Regina José Galindo, from 2016 (Photo: Mercedes Melero)Violeta Andreu with Tela Habitada de 1976, by Helena Almeida during
DO ARTISTS NEED A GALLERIST TO MAKE A LIVING FROM THEIR WORK?
(Photography: Mercedes Melero)Violeta Andreu and Soniya Amrital with Serie 300 Mentira nº 5 de 2009,
by Pilar Albarracín during DO ARTISTS NEED A GALLERIST TO MAKE A LIVING
FROM THEIR WORK? (Photography: Mercedes Melero)Screenshots of the article in VANITATIS titled DO ARTISTS NEED A
GALLERIST TO MAKE A LIVING ROOM FROM THEIR WORK? (Source: Violeta
Andreu)VANITATIS magazine article “All the works of art that have moved us and
all those that haven't”, and DO ARTISTS NEED A GALLERIST TO MAKE A
LIVING ROOM FROM THEIR WORK? photography (Source: Lluci Juan)
