DES BAINS

DES BAINS is a contemporary art gallery based in London. Founded and directed by Maria Valeria Biondo, the gallery works closely with artists, writers, and researchers whose practices probe the frictions between personal experience and collective conditions. Its programme centres on emerging positions and underrepresented methodologies, often operating at the edges of established art ecologies.

Exhibitions trace lines through psychogeography, movement, borders, and belonging, proposing new spatial and narrative arrangements. The gallery’s approach is deliberately spare - an environment designed to heighten attention and sustain long looking. This clarity sets the stage for encounters in which audience and artwork negotiate meaning together.

DES BAINS contributes to international fairs and collaborative projects, extending its artists’ work into broader contexts. The gallery supports material experimentation and process-led practices, fostering discursive space for questioning form, authorship, and the infrastructures that shape contemporary art.