From November 07 2025 – January 17 2026, Tiwani Contemporary and Marta Los Angeles presented Material Affirmations: Oríkì Acts I–III, the first solo show in Lagos of internationally-renowned designer and artist Nifemi Marcus-Bello. The exhibition was a contemplative revelry on material identity and evolution with consideration of craftsmanship and handwork by Nifemi and various craftsmen. The oríkì, the Yoruba multi-generational practice of praise poetry and spoken affirmation, atmospherically held the exhibition together, with a soundscape that featured the voice of Folake Marcus-Bello, the artist's mother, delivering her personalized oríkì to her son. Each Oríkì Act prompted our attention and awareness to historical, geopolitical, and consumer material culture: Act I Fridge Ridge focused on bronze, Act II Tales By Moonlight centered on aluminum, and Act III Whispers of a Trail engaged with a copper alloy.

View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

From September 06 – October 17 2025 hosted A Garden of… an exhibition of new and recent work by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of the New York-based architecture and design studio MOS. Anchored by the first instance of self-enclosed architecture to be hosted in the gallery, the presentation positioned itself as a broad examination of the relationship between curation and collaboration, integration and aggregation—of the sites we can, and must!, create to strengthen and celebrate the individual and collective needs on which all societies are predicated. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

From September 06 – October 17 2025 Marta presented In the Style of..., an exhibition of new sculptural-functional works by Los Angeles-based artist and designer Doug McCollough. Hosted in the gallery’s Anteroom, one of the more intimate spaces conceived within Marta’s architecture, In the Style of... positioned the principles of domesticity against the expectations of historicity, articulating a sacred dialogue between memory and culture that defines, without exception, the essence of home. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

Marta is pleased to share the release of Oríkì: Material Affirmations in Three Acts, the inaugural monograph of Nifemi Marcus-Bello’s oeuvre, out now via Apartamento. Bringing together imagery and writings associated with Act I: Friction Ridge, Act II: Tales by Moonlight, and Act III: Whispers of a Trail, the book includes a foreword by Eames Demetrios and essays by Irene Sunwoo, Glenn Adamson, and Rita Ouédraogo, as well as an exclusive interview with Camille Okhio; and photographs by Erik Benjamins, Erik Petschek, and the artist himself.

From July 12 – August 31 2025 Marta and Antica Terra co-hosted Slip Condition, a site-specific installation of new sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Lily Clark. A collaborative presentation held at Maggie Harrison’s otherworldly winery in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the exhibition explored the nature of fluid phenomena and its relationship to material surfaces that dissolve the boundary between the natural and the human-made, creating spaces where water can exist in and explore its own archetypal forms. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

From April 19 – June 28 2025 the gallery held the long-awaited second solo presentation of work by Korean-born, New York-based artist Minjae Kim. Named for P-22, the mountain lion who famously resided in Griffith Park from 2012 until his death in 2022, the exhibition’s title made reference to the spectres of the city—to the passage of creatures, ideas, and topographies that define Los Angeles as it continues its constant shift between fantasy and reality, eternal within that splendid rift. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

From April 19 – June 28 2025 the gallery had the pleasure of hosting The Great Outdoors, an exhibition of new work by Romanian-born, Paris-based artist Serban Ionescu. Presented in three sites among the gallery’s Anteroom, the complex’s landscaped courtyard, and the building’s corrugated façade, this presentation of painting and sculpture—many works a cross-pollination of the two—paid homage to the Frame (as it relates to film, painting, and myriad other mediums) and the visions and illusions that it contains, structures, and supports. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

From May 07 – 11 2025 the gallery presented new and recent works from A History of Frogs, the joint studio practice of Los Angeles-based artists Antonia Pinter & Chase Biado, at NADA New York. Hosted across plinth and wall, Marta’s Project Booth (C105) exhibited a series of lighted sculptures, vessels, and wall-hanging works, all rendered in aluminum, that articulate new geometries within the duo’s universe of fictional pasts and fabricated relics, continuing their interrogation of our relationship to the concept of antiquity and the potentialities of culture. View the presentation and its works HERE.

Marta is pleased to present Marta Editions, an autonomous program that highlights the work of 6–12 artists per year in the form of limited edition prints. Available now, the inaugural Release includes five total Editions from three international artists, with works by MOS Architects (US), Rie Koizumi (JP), and Ruth van Beek (NL). Information about the process and results of bringing these prints to life can be found on each Editions page, as well as on the Marta Editions’ Instagram.

In the third installment of the gallery’s new Podcast, Motion in Field, New York-based artists Kristen Wentrcek & Andrew Zebulon reflect on Quaternion (2024), the duo’s site-responsive installation of sculptural furniture works commissioned by the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Motion in Field, presented by Marta and writer Christopher Schreck, is the sibling to the gallery’s ongoing Mezzanine program. The interview-based Podcast is a deep-dive into the extracurricular output of contemporary artists and designers. Listen to—or read an illustrated transcript of—Episode 003 HERE, or subscribe free via Apple, Spotify, or the podcast provider of your choice HERE.