About – antesala.art

ANTESALA is a commercial gallery and advisory platform with a focus on art and artists from Latin America. We organise our exhibitions and events in collaboration with galleries, artists, estates, collections, publications, and nonprofits across the Americas and beyond.

ANTESALA is based in an industrial mid-century building in the central London neighborhood of Fitzrovia, acquired by founder Flavia Nespatti to be a long-term hub for exhibiting, discussing, and collecting contemporary art.

FOUNDER

FLAVIA
NESPATTI

Flavia Nespatti is an art historian, patron, and collector with a professional background in financial markets. With a patronage focus on living Latin American artists, she has supported exhibitions at the Barbican Centre, Nottingham Contemporary, the De La Warr Pavilion, the Whitechapel Gallery, and Modern Art Oxford, among other UK institutions. She is the chair of the Latin American Patrons Group at the Delfina Foundation and volunteers as a Senior Mentor for the artist support charity Brave Projects.

Prior to founding ANTESALA, Flavia co-founded Anteroom in 2023, a separate nomadic curatorial platform presenting annual exhibitions by emerging UK and Europe-based artists in found spaces across London.

Flavia was born in Brazil, and grew up between Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. She was educated in the United States, and she moved to London with her now husband in 1995. In 2022 Flavia received her master’s degree in art history from The Courtauld Institute. She has witnessed first-hand the growing presence and appetite for Latin American culture in the city. She founded ANTESALA to channel sustained energy and support towards Latin American artists, offering London’s art audience regular and dynamic exchange with diverse voices from the region.

SENIOR DIRECTOR

LAURA
GONZÁLEZ

Laura González is an art historian and advisor based in London, originally from Puerto Rico. In 2011 she co-founded the Latin American Art auctions at Phillips New York, where she was the department head as well as a specialist in the Contemporary Art team. In 2015 she began working for the advisory firm Sokoloff + Associates, LLC., and has since advised collections on curatorial strategies, acquisitions, deaccessions, and philanthropic direction. She develops collaborations between museums, artists, collections, and galleries, and has advised the latter on special projects and restructurings. In 2023 Laura and Ana Sokoloff co-founded the artist-made design platform THEMUST.CO, featuring works by artists from over a dozen countries, with pop-up exhibitions in London, Paris, Aspen, and Bogotá.

Laura has curated exhibitions and written texts for various galleries, and has written reviews for art publications such as the Art History Journal. She is a patron and council member at the Chisenhale Gallery and the South London Gallery, and a Senior Mentor for the artist support charity Brave Projects. She has degrees in art history from Yale University (BA) and The Courtauld Institute (MA).

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