NıCOLETTı is delighted to present a joint stand in the Galeries section of Art Basel Paris 2025, with works by Abbas Zahedi and Josèfa Ntjam (presented by NıCOLETTı); Patrick Goddard and Justin Fitzpatrick (presented by seventeen, London).

Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK) is an artist with a background in medicine from University College London and an MA in Contemporary Photography and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins. His practice engages with systems of care, thresholds of experience, and the creation of communal spaces for dialogue. In 2025, Zahedi is the subject of a solo exhibition at Tate Modern, London. In 2022, he won the Frieze Artist Award.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Begin Again, Tate Modern (2025–26); Holding a Heart in Artifice, Nottingham Contemporary (2023); torre W11, Mahler-Lewitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy (2023); Loading Loading, CAPC, Bordeaux, France (2022); Metatopia 10013, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2022); and How To Make A How From A Why, South London Gallery (2020).

Zahedi’s work and performances have been shown in international museums and exhibitions, including CAPC, Bordeaux, FR (2024–25); Public Gallery, London, UK (2025); Phillida Reid, London, UK (2025); Chisenhale, London, UK (2024); Woonhuis, Netherlands (2024); Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, USA (2024); KW, Berlin, DE (2023); Bold Tendencies, London, UK (2023); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, AT (2023); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022); Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2022); Studio Voltaire, London, UK (2022); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2022); FUTURA, Prague, CZ (2021); Tate Britain, London, UK (2021)

Recent awards include the Stanley Picker Fellowship (2024), Artangel: Making Time (2023), Frieze Artist Award (2022), Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2021), and the Khadijah Saye Memorial Scholarship (2017). He is Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and has taught widely in the UK and internationally.

Zahedi’s work is part of the permenant collections of The Royal College of Art and Tate.

Josèfa Ntjam was born in 1992 in Metz, France, and currently lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France. She studied in Amiens, France, Dakar, Senegal (Cheikh Anta Diop University) and graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Bourges, France (2015), and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Paris-Cergy, France (2017).

In 2025, Ntjam is participating in the 36th São Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil (06.09.25 – 11.01.26), as well as MOMENTA Biennial of contemporary art, Montreal, Canada (10.09 – 01.11.25). Her largest exhibition to date, INTRICATIONS, will also be on view at The Institut d’art contemporain – IAC Villeurbanne, FR (03.10.25 – 11.01.26).

Solo exhibitions include swell of spæc(i)es, official collateral event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, commissioned by LAS Foundation, Berlin, Accademia di Belli Arti di Venezia and Palazzina Canonica, Venice, IT (2024); Une cosmogonies des océans, LVMH Métiers d’Art, Paris, FR (2024); Futuristic Ancestry, Fotografiska, New York, USA; Berlin, DE; and Stockholm, SE (2024–25); matter gone wild, Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Paris, FR (2023–24); Limestone Memories – un maquis sous les étoiles, NıCOLETTı, London (2023); Underground Resistance – Living Memories, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (2022); When the Moon Dreamed of the Ocean, FACT, Liverpool, UK (2022); and we’ll kill them with love, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, FR (2022); Molecular Genealogies, NıCOLETTı, London, UK (2021); and Allegoria, duo show with Kaeto Sweeney, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, NO (2019).

Ntjam’s work and performances have been shown in international museums and exhibitions, including Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK; TBA21, Madrid, ES; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR; LUMA, Arles, FR; Centre Pompidou, Metz, FR; MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, FR; Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, USA; Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, PT; Radius CCA, Delft, NL; Mucem, Marseille, FR; Africamuseum, Tervuren, BE; MuCAT – Musée des Cultures Contemporaines Adama Toungara, Abidjan, IC; WIELS, Brussels, BE; MAMA, Rotterdam, NE; and the 15th Biennale de Lyon, MAC Lyon, Lyon, FR.

Ntjam’s work is part of the permanent collections of LVMH, Paris, FR; TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection), Madrid, ES; Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, MA; MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, FR; Institut d’Art Contemporain – IAC, Villeurbanne, FR; Fondation H, Montanarivo, MG; Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris, FR; Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, FR; Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, FR; FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, FR; FRAC MECA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FR; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR; FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, FR; EIB Institute, Luxemburg; and Artothèque de Strasbourg, FR.