Minor Attractions opened on Tuesday, gathering over 70 galleries under one roof. We’ve rounded up five presentations that stood out.
LUmkA– New York/ London – 20/21 near The Greenhouse 1st Floor
LUmkA is a nomadic gallery – new to London having arrived from New York at Minor they are showing gallery artists Ruby Chen and Miles Scharff. Chen stages a split scene: a lone figure facing a riderless motorcycle. The image captures the drift of agency from body to machine, asking whether technology still extends the human form or now acts on its own desires. Scharff, working between sound and physics, turns invisible force into image. UFO footage plays as steel dust—moved by magnetism—traces its flight, revealing how vision depends on what it cannot see. The steel dust is super cute.
Together, they blur the line between human and machine, where perception and power shift in continuous exchange. @l_u_m_k_a
Fabian Lang – Room 01 – Terrace
Fabian Lang is a Zurich based gallery at Minor Attractions they probably have the most complete room/stand in teh fair they are showing – Becky Tucker, Christin Khaukha, Elena Alonso, Isabelle Young, Johnny Izatt-Lowry, Lisa Ivory, Mark Wallinger, Sarah Dwyer, Victor Seaward, Werner Frei, Xiao Guo Hui.
As in many of the presentations, the work shown in the bathroom stood out in Lang’s booth — a piece by Victor Seaward. More info HERE
Santi- Room 11 -1st Floor
Santi is a nomadic gallery currently resting on the Lower Ground Floor of season4 episode 6 for Minor they are shhowing a solo presentation from Edoardo Rito.
In his new Untitled series, Rito works with salvaged wood, its surface burnished with steel wool and vinegar to produce shifting patinas of corrosion and renewal. Small metal spheres punctuate the panels—discreet yet tactile, like door handles or cabinet pulls—markers of the body’s trace within the mechanical.
With the Cabinets, Rito turns this material curiosity toward structure. Built from reclaimed wood, the upright forms hover between sculpture and furniture, intimacy and refusal. A book sits upside down, its contents hidden; a narrow opening laced shut hints at access denied. Where the Untitled works invited touch, the Cabinets choreograph it—gestures of opening and closing held in suspension, domestic, deliberate, and unresolved. @santi_gallery
Kogo Gallery – Room 20 – 1st Floor
Kogo is a contemporary art gallery that opened in Apaaraditehas in Tartu Estonia in the spring of 2018, and is aimed at improving the international visibility of artists and introducing their art practice more broadly.
At Minor Attractions, Kogo are presenting works by Estonian artist Kristina Õllek, including inkjet prints cultivated with Camargue sea salt, an aluminium print, and a site-specific salt installation made in situ. First shown in Dryads of Cosquer (La Traverse, Marseille, 2024), the works echo the pink algal blooms of Salin-de-Giraud’s salt marshes, layered with references to the Cosquer Cave and its prehistoric pigments. Õllek’s practice merges earth and water, reimagining them as active agents through an ecological, hydrofeminist lens. @kogogallery
CON_ -Room 17 – 1st Floor
CON_ opened its doors in April 2022 on the East side of Tokyo, Japan. With a focus on visuality and concept, the gallery’s program crosses various expressive cultures, including contemporary art. For Minor Attractions it is presenting a dual presentation by Taiki Yokote @ykttik and BIEN @bien_jp.
BIEN with Box for the Egg Shell Universe, Box for the Dice Universe crafts precision boxes for everyday relics — an eggshell from his kitchen, a dice from a corner shop — each fitted so exactly that what lies within becomes unknowable. Drawing from old magic props, these containers turn concealment into revelation: their surfaces unfold vintage architectural interiors, as if the hidden worlds inside had been turned outward. Inspired by Genpei Akasegawa’s Canned Universe, the work reflects on the quiet mystery of objects — how even the smallest carry entire histories within them.
Taiki’s ongoing installation (Floating Rubble (when the cat’s away, the mice will play) transforms fragments of his demolished studio into a constellation of floating debris. Once structural, now untethered, the rubble drifts between ruin and renewal—alive with memory and quiet presence. Each piece, affectionately named (“Po,” “Ten”), becomes a companion rather than waste, animating what remains with a sense of care and continuity. @con_tokyo_
Minor Attractions, 15th– 18th October 2025 Mandrake Hotel
12PM – 8PM: Galleries Open
