Specialising in artist representation, commercial partnerships, and advisory services, Goliath Art Development Group lets artists focus on being artists. Supporting their clients across all programming and business sectors, co-founders, Patrick Boateng II and Samira Amalia Ibrahim are carving a space in the industry for often overlooked stories and creative innovation. With overlapping backgrounds in art collection and dealing, Boateng’s expertise in advising and Ibrahim’s unique perspective on strategy and storytelling complement one another and create the perfect foundation for the future of artist representation.

And during the 60th anniversary of the Venice Biennale, Ibrahim showed us just what that looks like. For two days during the event series, the 14th iteration of Black Portraitures highlighted leaders from Africa and the African Diaspora who are paving the way in regards to art collection, exhibition, and education. Titled Shifting Paradigms, it included panels such as Black Realities through Digital Media, Radical Curricula, and Archives, Collections, and Curating — one of which featured Ibrahim’s expertise. Moderated by Delhi Carrington, she joined co-panelists Colleen Ndemeh of Kukily Colectivo and Freda Isingoma of KIISA ART for a discussion on art ecosystems, explaining the focus in her own words as one on “creating new and more sustainable ways of working for artists and the diaspora of professionals across the market.”

Goliath’s roster of artists is an impressive lineup spanning disciplines and approaches — from abstract brushwork (Trey Hurst) and topographic-influenced portrayals of our environment (Maxence Doré) to bold portraiture (Calvin Clausell Jr) and large scale paintings combining influences of European Renaissance compositions and 1970’s comic books and anime (Cash-Cooper). One of the most exciting artists, Dela Anyah, works across sculpture, installations, photography, painting, and film to examine the history and decomposition of discarded objects found in local vulcaniser shops in Ghana. And elsewhere, the unparalleled Langley Fox Hemingway tells photorealistic, often eerie stories through pen, pencil, and paint.

Learn more about Goliath here.