Purdy Hicks Gallery
25 Thurloe Street
London, SW7 2LQ
Presentation of the gallery
Purdy Hicks Gallery was established in 1995 and has supported established and emerging artists with a strong focus on painting, drawing and photography. Originally opened in East London, the gallery moved to Bankside, by Tate Modern, before relocating to South Kensington, where it has been based for the past eight years.
As well as exhibitions held in the Gallery, Purdy Hicks participates in numerous art fairs. Works by gallery artists can be found in collections worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Getty, Los Angeles.
In recent years, gallery artists have been recognised with awards and prizes. Alice Maher was awarded the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Prize for Contemporary Drawing in 2024, and multiple works of hers will be featured in the main pavilion of the 2026 Venice Biennale. Samuel Fosso received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2023, along with a retrospective of his work that began at the MEP in Paris in 2022 and toured European institutions. Takashi Arai has been shortlisted for the 2025 Prix Pictet, the award for photography and sustainability.
Présentation de l'artiste en focus
Pierre Bergian’s recent work creates a dialogue between past and present. In his interiors of historic palaces, he reveals what exists while adding a modernist, contemporary perspective. Emptying rooms of furnishings, he focuses on walls decorated with paintings by Hammershøi, Rothko, and Twombly, alongside tiles from his own collection and works by his father, an abstract painter. His 2025 exhibition at the Antiquarian Alberto Di Castro Gallery in Rome led us into Cy Twombly’s studio. For Drawing Now 2026, Bergian will present his first series of works on paper devoted to artist studios, installed as a global map of artists’ rooms. Coinciding with the fair, World of Interiors will feature publish a feature on Bergian’s own studio in Ghent.
