London Gallery Weekend 2026 – Nuptiae Mysticae at Fitzrovia Chapel
Next, we had a “mystical wedding” to attend. For its off-site LGW presentation, Gallery Rosenfeld was staging a mock marriage between the Serbian artist Marta Jovanović and Italian curator Cristiano Leone, who heads up the Santa Maria della Scala museum in Siena. The proceedings took place in the Fitzrovia Chapel in what was a personal highlight of the weekend. Ninety-nine vows were exchanged over a two-hour period, supplemented with lots of communion wafers: “I vow to honor exile . . . I vow to remain a stranger to myself.” A select group of us were then invited to follow the happy couple (who maintained a deadpan demeanor for the entirety of the piece) through the streets of Soho and into a fourth-floor Airbnb. We then silently observed the newlyweds get a Santiago Sierra–style line tattooed across both their hands, which “recovers continuity only when the performers join hands,” as the press release explained. Neither Jovanović nor Leone so much as flinched, finally breaking character once they arrived at the gallery dinner.