Louise Alexander Gallery

Contemporary Art gallery founded in 2007 by @fred_dot_jpg
Located in Porto Cervo, Italy, and Los Angeles.

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

SUMMER 2026

After a week at @ArtBasel, I wanted to recap all the moving parts for my work this summer. Feeling blessed with work being shown at:

-San Diego Museum of Art
-Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
-Art Collection Deutsche Börse
-Patricia Conde Galería, CDMX
-Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
-Louise Alexander Gallery, Port Cervo, Italy

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15 Years of Landmark Acquisitions
San Diego Museum of Art
Until September 7th

Work exhibited: Car Poolers #21

This exhibition marks the centennial of The San Diego Museum of Art, celebrating a select few of the many thousands of important works of art added to the collection in its recent history.

Since the Museum first opened its doors to the public in 1926 as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, it has become home to significant holdings of old masters as well as Modern and contemporary art. More recently, the Museum has made great strides to augment its core collections of art from East Asia, South Asia, the Islamic world, Europe, the United States, and Latin America. In many cases, this has led to commissions of works by contemporary artists, bridging the historic with the art of our times. The merger with the Museum of Photographic Arts in 2023 greatly enhanced the collection of photography.

As the Museum currently embarks on an important endeavor to expand the building’s west wing, doubling its display space with an extension designed by Foster + Partners, other gifts have entered the collection, including the formidable Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern collection of Toni Bloomberg. Today The San Diego Museum of Art’s collection boasts over 35,000 works of art. The astounding quality of the additions to the collection, especially in its recent history, are testament not only to the Museum’s directorial and curatorial vision, but moreover to the many generous individuals who have gifted art to share with this city and its many diverse communities. Highlights include works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Jusepe de Ribera, John Singer Sergeant, Louise Nevelson, Alfredo Jaar, Nick Cave, Gabriele Münter, David Hockney, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Hugo Crosthwaite, Albrecht Dürer, Ala Ebtakar, Lalla Essaydi, Utagawa Hiroshige, Wifredo Lam, Berenice Abbott, Pan Gongkai, Sergio Hernandez, and many more. It is a collection created by and for the people of San Diego and is shared internationally through publications, loans to other museums, and with touring exhibitions worldwide.

[Louise Alexander Gallery @lag_gallery]

Marco Tirelli / Porto Cervo / Summer 26

[alain servais @aservais1]

At Basel Social Club, the Office Becomes a Playground of Anti-Productivity. With works by Jeremy Deller, Alejandro Cartagena, Sahej Rahal &others, this fair offers a critique of systems that make true leisure feel almost utopian. By Elisa Carollo #ArtBasel https://t.co/1hAXwYIUnc

[Fred A @fred_dot_jpg]

@lag_gallery participated in this year’s Basel Social Club, presenting Alejandro Cartagena (@halecar2).
Set inside a disused Diener & Diener office tower near Basel SBB and built around the 2026 theme Office, the fair reframed the workplace not as a site of production but of critical reflection, examining labour, time, and rest in an age of remote work, digitalisation, and AI.

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

gm☀️🇲🇽⚙️🪜

[john gerrard @john__gerrard]

Tomorrow is #EARTHDAY and to acknowledge join to hear artist john gerrard, introduced by Nicky Wilson, Director of Jupiter Artland present an artist Talk: Simulation, Infrastructure, Invisibility. Wednesday 22 April, 6:30–7:30pm GMT, 45mins + 10min Q&A, via Zoom. REGISTER HERE :
https://t.co/yzTpjAMiJx

'The industrial present and recent past intertwine on-site at Jupiter through Extraction: North Sea oil infrastructure, data centres, the hidden systems that power contemporary life. john gerrard's work makes visible what we prefer not to see. This artist talk marks the start of our public programme for Extraction, an exhibition exploring the cultural, psychological and environmental legacies of energy systems. The programme continues through to July, with online talks, curator tours and artist workshops.

[Fellowship @fellowshiptrust]

Fellowship x @artxcode_io at @ArtBasel: RECURSIONS 遞迴 by @sougwen

This year at Art Basel Hong Kong, we are presenting RECURSIONS 遞迴, a new live work by London-based artist Sougwen Chung, as part of Zero 10, the fair’s platform dedicated to new media and digital art. The presentation reflects our ongoing commitment to artists working at the intersection of advanced technologies, embodied practice, and contemporary image-making.

↓ Here’s a short introduction to what you’ll see at the fair

[Louise Alexander Gallery @lag_gallery]

Self driving cars
https://t.co/Avt0A9gCy5

@halecar2 @elonmusk

[Fred A @fred_dot_jpg]

Coming soon.
@sougwen Recursions at @ArtBasel HK 2026

Curated by @eli_schein

https://t.co/CennP0ggia

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

Death Ride. Started doing some experiments with the carpoolers arcade with the magic coding of @fred_dot_jpg. Here is a little @XCOPYART style experiment ☠️

Play the version of the game in the next tweet ⬇️⬇️

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

"X-Minting?" At @fellowshiptrust we are experimenting with ways to direct minting on X. Here is the work of Japanese artist @taketomuroi. Let us know what you think ❤️‍🔥

"I'm working to establish, as a visual experience, the boundary between the visible and the invisible: that moment of cognitive dissonance when, despite being visually complete, the brain judges something as “non-existent." Taketo Muroi

https://t.co/GVWs1RzF10

[OpenSea @opensea]

Interactive art you can actually play with scores recorded onchain.

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

carpooling at night to get workers through the city. play the game on your NFT, or other players' tokens on @opensea, and record your score on-chain.

https://t.co/PfM3UHVcHl

[𝕭𝖏ø𝖗𝖓 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖆𝖑 @_nonfigurativ_]

What the hell? It seems you can now post interactive webgl stuff directly on X. Click the play button, wait until the intro animation is done and move your cursor around

https://t.co/KhvqKe8Miw

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

First free mint claim on X ??? take them while they last 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜

https://t.co/rVnSRFRcDe

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

do some playing.

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

First Game on X ? Now competition is open for the highest score, currently sitting at 12k+ (only highest scores are stored on-chain)...time to "innovate 🙀" with the help of @fellowshiptrust / my gallery @lag_gallery and Fred and Neil😜😝😛

https://t.co/iX8NHa3Ugh

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

“You do art because you have to, because nothing else makes sense. But you also do it to connect, to share, to be with friends, and to find new friends...” @nikitadiakur

[Fellowship @fellowshiptrust]

✨ The second phase of CTRL_ABSENCE by @skygolpe is now live.
The first auctions are ending soon today at 13:00 EST.

After presenting the first phase in London this week, the exhibition now continues online.

↓ Here’s a look back at the launch and what’s unfolding now. 🫴

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

gm from @SFMOMA!

Ground Rules
My mid-career retrospective is now open to the public.