Best Gallery In Zambia: Zeela Art Gallery & Homestay / 2025 WORLD ART AWARDS

4 min readApr 9, 2025

The World Art Awards has announced the 20 Best International Galleries for the year 2025, with Zeela Art Gallery & Homestay receiving the award for the Best Gallery in Zambia. Selections are based on years established, industry reputation, location, size, aesthetics, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, online presence, represented artists — and references from artists, clients, and visitors.

World Art Awards: “Zeela Art Gallery & Homestay is co-owned by a Zambian family, Bedah and Charity Salasini and their children Yongo, Tusankine, Taizya and Michael. The gallery exhibits over 400 paintings and sculptures by Zambian artists. The family believes, “Art, besides it’s aesthetic appeal, is an expression of our thoughts, beliefs, emotions and desires. Art therefore can be a powerful medium for imparting and communicating values.”

Website: https://zeelart.com/

Zeela Art Gallery & Homestay
Farm 487A off Leopards Hill Road

New Kasama, Lusaka, Zambia

World Art Awards: “This year we awarded art establishments with buildings hundreds of years old, presenting endless inventories of Old Master originals, placing works in top collections across the globe. We also selected new boundary-pushing art facilities with influential international presences in Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Santa Fe, Amsterdam, Seoul, Jakarta, Morocco, Philippines and Scandinavia.

“We opted for many high-rated private galleries in diverse countries and cultures representing important young work, from painting to digital to photography to sculpture. Most of these focus on advancing their regional artists.

“Our diversified roster this year includes a renovated Ukraine establishment, a center in Nigeria and family-owned venues in Slovenia and Zambia.

“We chose collector and tourist hotspots in Palm Springs, Denver, Myanmar, Cyprus and Hong Kong.

“We also selected the only gallery in Taiwan that has focused on the art of photography for over 15 years with high-ranking photographers from the region as well as from Germany, Britain, France, Poland, Japan, South Korea, USA and China.”