Build Your Own Art World
Conference 2025, Hosted at The Warburg Institute
The third edition of AWITA’s conference brought together 100 art professionals to explore different leadership styles. We broke down taboos around money, and showed how AI can support a more efficient working life.
“To learn, in today's world, may be one of the most radical acts of all. What I invite us to practice above all is generosity-of attention, of interpretation, of response.” - Fatoş Üstek, Conference Moderator
Anne Barlow, Director at Tate St Ives
Anastasia Bukhman, Philanthropist
Dahlia Dana, Funds analyst
Stefanie De Regel, Chief Development Officer at TAEX
Lubaina Himid CBE, Turner Prize-winning artist
Roksanda Ilinčić MBE, Fashion designer
Hilary Knight, Director of Change&
Helen Nisbet, Independent curator
Inspired by the Warburg Institute’s historic Coade Stone frieze of the Nine Muses - goddesses of the arts, sciences, and memory - AWITA honoured nine cultural leaders as Future Muses. Selected by independent curator and AWITA Honorary Fellow 2025, Helen Nisbet.
Future Muses: Amrita Dhallu, Marina Doritis, Sarah Hamed, Nabihah Iqbal, Juliet Jacques, Kelly Tsipni Kolaza, Dr Maggie Matić, Philippine Nguyen, Kat Watson
Speakers
Partners & Special Thanks
Studio Charlotte Colbert
Margarita Gluzberg
Dr Adele Patrick, Founder of Glasgow Women’s Library
Melanie Pocock, Artistic Director at Ikon Gallery
Leslie Ramos, Philanthropy and strategy advisor
Magda Stawarska, Sound and visual artist
Martina Batovic, Art historian and advisor
Fatoş Üstek, Curator and writer (moderator)
Katy Wickremesinghe, Founder of The Wick
Venue Partner
