About us
The name has two roots. In geology, an arête is the ridge where two glaciers meet — a high point where you can see clearly in all directions. In Greek, arete means living up to your fullest potential. Both feel right for what we’re trying to do.
About us
We started with a question: can art help us imagine something that does not yet exist, and can those imaginations lead to action? It’s still the question we’re asking — in the rooms we create, the artists we work with, the projects we fund, and the books we publish.
Our core team is deliberately small. The community that is connected around it doesn’t have a limit. We connect contemporary African artists whose work engages with nature and biodiversity with each other and with collectors and people who understand what the work is actually doing.
We put money directly into grassroots projects across Africa — the kind of work that doesn’t may not make it onto gallery walls but matters enormously to the diverse ecosystems it touches and the impressions it leaves in communities.
The sculptor and the soil scientist end up at the same dinner table. Neither of them leaves unchanged.
