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Elisa Carollo

Arts Reporter

Elisa Carollo is an art writer, art advisor and curator with a focus on contemporary and ultra-contemporary art. With over a decade in the art business at different levels between secondary and primary market, as well as engaging institutions and Biennales, she covers the latest from the Art World and Art Market for Obsever.

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A small orange abstract painting hangs beside a window overlooking Central Park and a tall beige tower in the distance.

The Top Collections Leading the May Marquee Auctions

By Elisa Carollo
A painting shows several figures on a ship deck looking out at the sea through windows, including a child and a woman holding a glass, suggesting a moment during a journey.

Archie Rand On the Irreducibility of Painting in a Digital Age

By Elisa Carollo
An installation view of Giuseppe Penone’s exhibition featuring a monumental wall covered in bark-like brown panels punctuated by turquoise sculptural forms, with a tree-like bronze sculpture suspended over a stone base in the center of the gallery.

10 Ambitious Gallery Shows to See During Frieze New York

By Elisa Carollo
Paintings and sculptural busts by Edouard Duval-Carrié are displayed against vivid blue walls in an installation exploring Haitian vodou cosmologies and colonial history at the Venice Biennale.

Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Looks to Ancient Wisdom to Mend a Fractured Present

By Elisa Carollo
A group of tall clay and organic sculptures resembling human figures stand in a dimly lit formation inside Chiara Camoni’s Italian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

The Venice Biennale’s Most Powerful Pavilions Tune into Shared Consciousness

By Elisa Carollo
A close-up of a widescreen monitor embedded in gray panels shows a black-and-white image of a hand, with a small metal cart positioned to the left against the installation.

The Philippines Pavilion Turns the Country’s Maritime History into an Archive of Universal Longing

By Elisa Carollo

LAS Art Foundation Pushes Quantum Art Forward in a New Venice Commission

By Elisa Carollo
A mixed-media wall piece combines painted panels of a night sky with a crescent moon and stars, alongside a vertical element with embedded fragments resembling broken ceramic or metal.

Dabin Ahn’s “Nocturne” and the Slow Meditative Work of Grief

By Elisa Carollo
A large red sign reading “FRIEZE NEW YORK” rises above shelves of plants illuminated by purple grow lights inside a fair setting.

How Frieze New York Is Doubling Down On Engagement and Institutional Reach

By Elisa Carollo

In the Polish Pavilion, “Liquid Tongues” Rewrites Our Hierarchy of the Senses

By Elisa Carollo
A large abstract painting with sweeping, ribbon-like strokes of red, blue, yellow, and gray flowing across a pale background, creating an energetic, loosely intertwined composition.

Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy and Amalia Dayan Want to Bring Auction Urgency to Private Secondary Market Sales

By Elisa Carollo
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