From September 02 – 05 2026 Marta hosted a dual presentation of functional-sculptural works by Korean-born, US-based artist and designer Minjae Kim and paintings by Korean artist Myoung-Ae Lee at Frieze Seoul—the gallery's inaugural participation in the Fair. As a Material Practice exhibitor—a new section of the Fair dedicated to works at the intersection of contemporary art and design—the gallery’s booth offered a new venue for the artists’ work to dialogue, continuing a lineage of co-presentations between mother and son that began in 2022. The first show of their work together in Korea, the exhibition considered Kim and Lee’s shared visual language in their respective explorations of heritage and the role of iconography in shaping, and extending, cultural identity. Learn more about the presentation and the component works HERE.

On an early evening in late July, the gallery had the pleasure of hosting its first Artist Talk, given by artist, writer, and photographer Erik Benjamins. A long-time collaborator with the gallery—from exhibiting artist, to exhibition photographer, to one of the newest entrants into Marta Editions’ print program with his ongoing Butts of Florence series—Benjamins discussed his multifaceted practice and relationship to the gallery and its programming.

Marta's directors, Benjamin Critton & Heidi Korsavong, were honored to be included in Wallpaper*'s US400: The People Shaping Creative America in 2026, alongside three of the gallery’s regular collaborators: Minjae Kim, Isabel Rower, and Dominik Tarabański. See the full list HERE.

Knife, Fork, Spoon 3.0 was featured in the June 2026 issue of Architectural Digest's print edition, highlighting a dozen 3D-printed, sintered steel cutlery sets realized by several of today’s leading artists, designers, and architects. The full-spread feature landed in the lead-up to KFS 3.0, curated by Dung Ngo and presented by Marta at Ark Journal’s Design / Dialogue as part of this year’s 3 Days of Design, June 10–12 in Copenhagen. Read the article HERE. Learn more about the presentation HERE.

From May 07 – 10 2026 Marta's L.A. Artbook Fair presentation occupied the courtyard outside ArtCenter’s Mullin Transportation Design Center, a former supersonic wind tunnel, drawing together a constellation of hand-shaped stools by Claremont-based artist and designer Vince Skelly, the volumes of which housed some of his most treasured and impactful wood-related tomes. Read more about the weekend-long outing in Pasadena HERE.

From April 24 - May 08 2026 Marta was pleased to host The Mechanics of Scent, a traveling exhibition from multi-disciplinary Danish brand Frama. The second stop on its journey—following its first presentation at Matter & Shape in Paris—the exhibition landed in the gallery's Anteroom as a comprehensive olfactory experience featuring Frama’s iconic Apothecary scent; next door at Building Block Etc. a selection of the brand’s Fragrances and Self Care were on offer; and in the 3021 Courtyard, an arrangement of the company’s outdoor furniture still prompts a convivial, café-like gathering space.

From February 26 – 28 2026 Marta presented Do Snakes Go to Heaven When They Die?—the gallery’s inaugural participation in Post–Fair—with an exhibition of work by Pasadena-based master ceramicist George Sherman and Fair furniture from Cologne-based artist and designer Carsten in der Elst. Located in the iconic Santa Monica Post Office, the gallery seeded a section of the Art Deco building with a forest of Sherman’s floor works, their slender forms bound to industry—to the architecture and instruments used to channel heat in order to preserve, protect, and transform its material concerns. View the presentation and its component works HERE.

Marta is proud to make available works from Marta Editions’ second release: A pair of photogravure prints by L.A.-based conceptual artist and photographer Erik Benjamins, from his Butts of Florence series of images. Eros and Perseus (both 2025) have been expertly printed in the intaglio tradition by the Nice-born, Los Angeles-based master printer Pascal Giraudon. Beyond their joyous and apparent subject matter, the prints speak to themes of history, wanderlust, classicism, mythology, and the figure. Available now, signed and numbered, in an edition of 50.

From January 10 – 31 2026 the gallery was honored to host From the Upper Valley in the Foothills, a group exhibition featuring participants from in and around greater Los Angeles that honored sacrifice, celebrated resilience, and looked to the capacity of artists and designers to examine the regenerative potential of a single, fundamental material: Wood. On the year anniversary of the Eaton and Palisades Fires, this presentation manifested as an effort to continue an active engagement with these monumental events and their ongoing effects on both land and community, rather than relegate them to the static memory of history. View the full exhibition page HERE.

From January 21 – 25 2026 the gallery celebrated its inaugural participation at FOG Design + Art in San Francisco with a presentation of work by New York-based artists Minjae Kim and Dominik Tarabański. Located within Pier 2 of the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, FOG Focus Booth 507, this coexistence of work, drawn together as compositions of lighting, seating, tabling, and photography, considered the artists’ shared gestures within disparate mediums—of the balancing act performed by the twin actors of material tension and formal calculation. Further documentation of the booth and its component works is available HERE.