Marta is pleased to host The Mechanics of Scent at 3021 Rowena Avenue. The second stop on the traveling exhibition’s journey—following its first presentation at Matter & Shape in Paris—lands 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 will be on offer; and in the 3021 Courtyard, an arrangement of the company’s outdoor furniture prompts a convivial, café-like gathering space. Join us for the Opening reception on Friday, April 24 and visit during the run-of-show, through Friday, May 08.

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.

From November 07 2025 – January 17 2026, Tiwani Contemporary and Marta Los Angeles presented Material Affirmations: Oríkì Acts I–III, the first solo show in Lagos of internationally-renowned designer and artist Nifemi Marcus-Bello. The exhibition was a contemplative revelry on material identity and evolution with consideration of craftsmanship and handwork by Nifemi and various craftsmen. The oríkì, the Yoruba multi-generational practice of praise poetry and spoken affirmation, atmospherically held the exhibition together, with a soundscape that featured the voice of Folake Marcus-Bello, the artist's mother, delivering her personalized oríkì to her son. Each Oríkì Act prompted our attention and awareness to historical, geopolitical, and consumer material culture: Act I Fridge Ridge focused on bronze, Act II Tales By Moonlight centered on aluminum, and Act III Whispers of a Trail engaged with a copper alloy. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

From November 15 – December 20 2025 the gallery hosted Elf Houses, a joint exhibition of drawings by Chase Biado and lighting works by Antonia Pinter—the artistic duo that at times comprise the Los Angeles-based morphology A History of Frogs—alongside a selection of historic furniture works. The presentation, spanning floor, wall, and suspended space, offered a scenography of the domestic; a portrait of the interior evoked by representations of the exterior, envisaged in the realm of those fair and primordial creatures—the elves. Further information on the exhibition is available HERE.

From September 06 – October 17 2025 the gallery hosted A Garden of… an exhibition of new and recent work by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of the New York-based architecture and design studio MOS. Anchored by the first instance of self-enclosed architecture to be hosted in the gallery, the presentation positioned itself as a broad examination of the relationship between curation and collaboration, integration and aggregation—of the sites we can, and must!, create to strengthen and celebrate the individual and collective needs on which all societies are predicated. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

From September 06 – October 17 2025 Marta presented In the Style of..., an exhibition of new sculptural-functional works by Los Angeles-based artist and designer Doug McCollough. Hosted in the gallery’s Anteroom, one of the more intimate spaces conceived within Marta’s architecture, In the Style of... positioned the principles of domesticity against the expectations of historicity, articulating a sacred dialogue between memory and culture that defines, without exception, the essence of home. View the exhibition and its component works HERE.

Marta is pleased to share the release of Oríkì: Material Affirmations in Three Acts, the inaugural monograph of Nifemi Marcus-Bello’s oeuvre, out now via Apartamento. Bringing together imagery and writings associated with Act I: Friction Ridge, Act II: Tales by Moonlight, and Act III: Whispers of a Trail, the book includes a foreword by Eames Demetrios and essays by Irene Sunwoo, Glenn Adamson, and Rita Ouédraogo, as well as an exclusive interview with Camille Okhio; and photographs by Erik Benjamins, Erik Petschek, and the artist himself.

Marta is pleased to present Marta Editions, an autonomous program that highlights the work of 6–12 artists per year in the form of limited edition prints. Available now, the inaugural Release includes five total Editions from three international artists, with works by MOS Architects (US), Rie Koizumi (JP), and Ruth van Beek (NL). Information about the process and results of bringing these prints to life can be found on each Editions page, as well as on the Marta Editions’ Instagram.

In the third installment of the gallery’s new Podcast, Motion in Field, New York-based artists Kristen Wentrcek & Andrew Zebulon reflect on Quaternion (2024), the duo’s site-responsive installation of sculptural furniture works commissioned by the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Motion in Field, presented by Marta and writer Christopher Schreck, is the sibling to the gallery’s ongoing Mezzanine program. The interview-based Podcast is a deep-dive into the extracurricular output of contemporary artists and designers. Listen to—or read an illustrated transcript of—Episode 003 HERE, or subscribe free via Apple, Spotify, or the podcast provider of your choice HERE.