Abri Mars

Since opening in September 2024, ABRI MARS has promoted early-career and underrecognized artists whose practices are informed by international and polycultural backgrounds. Emphasizing deeply intimate, conceptually rigorous disciplines, the gallery centers these perspectives through focused exhibitions, diverse programming, and cross-cultural exchange. Located in New York’s Lower East Side, the gallery’s intimate space provides a site for somatic presence.

ABRI MARS was conceived as a counterpoint to the emergence of an increasingly immaterial existence and the belief that art remains our most enduring source of empathy and truth. Translating from French as “March Refuge,” the name ABRI MARS honors the founder’s Belgian grandmother, mother, aunt, and uncle—whose foundational influence drew him to the arts, and whose shared birth month is March.