Pipeline has announced its relocation to a two-floor space at 31 Windmill Street. The move marks a new phase for the gallery, which has been established in Fitzrovia for three years, strengthening its roots in the neighbourhood and providing expanded exhibition possibilities across its second and third-floor rooms.
In keeping with Pipeline’s distinctive programming, the new space will continue to host The Pipeline, a dedicated area within the gallery for presenting an introductory work by the next exhibiting artist. This defining feature is intended as a tool to encourage slower engagement with artists’ work.
To inaugurate the new gallery, Pipeline presents Strings Attached, a group exhibition in two chapters co-curated and envisioned by collector and writer Bella Kesoyan. Bringing together sixteen emerging and established artists, the project embraces the intersections of art, music, literature, poetry, and performance. Born from a salon that brought together artists, musicians, curators, and scholars to explore Kesoyan’s extensive artist’s book collection, Strings Attached is a deeply collaborative undertaking. Each participating artist has selected a book from the collection as a reference for a new work, without restrictions on medium, form, or scale. The resulting responses forge dialogue across disciplines, asking what new spaces of exchange can emerge when creative processes are set in motion.
Participating artists include Anna Perach, Radhika Khimji, Lisa-Marie Harris, Matilda Sutton, Simon Bejer, Tancredi di Carcaci, Kristy Chan, Laila Tarah H, Leon Scott-Engel, Paul Hodgson, Katy Stubbs, Nika Neelova, Gabriel Kidd, Norberto Spina, Anna Ilsley, and Sophie Seita. Musician and composer Isabella Summers will also present a sound and spoken-word performance responding to one of the selected books.
Kesoyan’s book collection, assembled over years of academic and artistic research into the medium, spans more than 500 book objects and over a century of creative history. Many are rarely seen works, including a signed edition of Andy Warhol’s Wild Raspberries, Joan Miró’s Courtisan Grotesque with Iliazd, Leonor Fini’s visual interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe, and Henri Matisse’s illustrated Pasiphaé. A curated selection from this collection will be on view alongside the artists’ responses.
Each chapter of Strings Attached will unfold across the gallery, with intimate groupings of four artists per floor, fostering close dialogue between works. Chapter One includes explorations of tactility, the female body, and gestures of weaving and stitching, as well as new perspectives on abstraction and materiality. Chapter Two initiates conceptual debates on time, form, and the book as a collaborative and poetic object.
In weaving past and present, image and word, Strings Attached reactivates the artist’s book as a living, generative form. The exhibition also marks a new era for Pipeline, one defined by an enduring commitment to fostering collaboration and exchange.
Strings Attached, Chapter 1, 30th September – 1st November 2025- Chapter 2, 20th November – 20th December 2025 Pipeline
New Address: 31 Windmill Street, London
About
Bella Kesoyan is a London-based art historian, writer, and curator. Her doctoral research at the Courtauld Institute of Art examines the influence of mid-twentieth-century French publishing houses on contemporary American artists’ books. Bella collaborates with artists, galleries, and art advisors, providing historical context for exhibitions and collections, with recent projects at Sir John Soane’s Museum and the Design Museum.
She edited and co-authored Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (2024), a limited-edition catalogue exploring Wilde’s legacy for contemporary artists, and her first publication, The Sublime in Nature, won Best Book at the Digital Printer Awards 2021. A collector of ceramics, drawings, and artists’ books, Bella emphasises tactility and materiality in her collection. She holds an MA from the University of Manchester, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and MSc degrees from London Business School and Bayes Business School. Born in Yerevan, Armenia, she actively supports London art institutions and artist residencies
