Vero · Quarterly Issue Nº 24 · Summer 2026 · Contemporary Art, Carefully
Cover essay · Issue 24

The quiet
return of the
small painting.

For most of the past two decades, the dominant scale in contemporary painting has been very large. A loose cohort of British and European painters, working at the opposite extreme, is making the case for the work that fits in two hands.

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Small painting on white gallery wall

Recent reviews.

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Gallery exhibition install
Review · Group show

A small east London show with an unreasonable ambition.

Seven painters, one rented industrial unit, no curator. The result is one of the more interesting group shows we've seen this year — and a useful argument about what a show is actually for.

Hana Sørensen · 9 minRead review
Sculpture installation
Review · Solo

A sculptor's first London show, ten years in the making.

Stone, salt, and a single year-long preparation.

Cosmin Bălan · 7 minRead review
Drawing on paper
Review · Drawing

An exhibition entirely of drawings on small paper.

No frames, no titles, no prices. The gallery's most quietly subversive show in years.

Elena Marchetti · 6 minRead review
Photography gallery
Review · Photography

Twelve photographs, one room, no captions.

The most disciplined photographic show of the season — and a quiet rebuke to the form.

Hana Sørensen · 8 minRead review

Long reads.

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Archive of slides
Essay

What the slide projector knew that we have forgotten.

A long meditation on how 35mm slides shaped the way a generation of artists looked at their own work — and what was lost when we stopped projecting.

Elena Marchetti · 14 minRead essay
Empty artist's studio
Essay

On the persistent myth of the empty studio.

Why "the studio is where the work happens" is, in 2026, less true than at any point in the past century — and what that means for how we write about practice.

Cosmin Bălan · 11 minRead essay

In conversation.

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Artist at workbench
Interview

A long conversation with a printmaker who has spent thirty years not exhibiting.

She has made nearly four thousand prints. She has shown perhaps fifty. The work, she says, was never for the room. We spent an afternoon at her workbench.

Hana Sørensen · 16 minRead interview
Gallery space
Interview · Gallerist

The gallerist who only opens by appointment.

One room, one show at a time, one visitor at a time.

Elena Marchetti · 10 minRead interview

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