The 20 Best Art Galleries In The World / 2025 WORLD ART AWARDS Selections

The World Art Awards has selected the 20 Best International Galleries for 2025. Selections were based on years established, industry reputation, online interest, location, size, aesthetics, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs as well as represented artists.

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.”

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World Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2025:

Best in Indonesia: Baik Art is a Los Angeles, Seoul, and Jakarta based contemporary art gallery. Established in Los Angeles in 2014, BAIK ART introduces artists whose works deal with individual hybridity, globalization, and cultural diaspora.

Best in Denmark: Established in 2003 in the historical old part of Copenhagen, Galleri Christoffer Egelund is a cutting-edge art gallery focusing on high quality Scandinavian and international contemporary art. The gallery exhibits artworks with a large variety of media e.g. works on paper, photos, paintings, sculptures, performance and video. The presented artists have received great recognition from curators, collectors, museums and critics and have been displayed in important collections, Biennials, Art fairs, Art Museums and galleries around the world.

Best in Nigeria: The mission of The Thought Pyramid Art Centre is to collect, conserve and study modern and contemporary art of Africa and the African Diaspora.

Best in Sweden: Founded in 1978, Wetterling Gallery is one of the leading galleries for contemporary art in Scandinavia, exhibiting highly internationally acclaimed artists (Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Frank Stella, etc.) as well as upcoming talented Swedish artists, in around six exhibitions annually in the large Stockholm space. Wetterling also is active in international art fairs, and produce art books and catalogues.

Best in Morocco: Comptoir des Mines Galerie in Marrakech, Morocco is a modern and contemporary art space founded in 2016 to support and promote Moroccan and African artists on the emerging artistic scenes in Morocco and internationally.

Best in The Philippines: Gravity Art Space or GAS is a space for contemporary art, performances, screenings and all activities promoting artistic and cultural enrichment. The artist-run and supported venue empowers local and international art and emerging visual, sound, performing artists and storytellers.

Best in Cyprus: Held to the highest standards of curatorial excellence, Lumière Contemporary Art Gallery creates unforgettable exhibitions, events, and experiences that inspire and transform. Primarily focusing on the Cypriot art market, the gallery boosts interaction between artists, art critics, journalists, collectors, and art lovers in Cyprus and in the world. Representing a broad range of media, all the exhibited artists are widely represented in public and private collections.

Best in Myanmar: Established in the late 80s by prominent artist Min Wae Aung, New Treasure Art Gallery is one the oldest and most well known galleries in Myanmar. With over 30 years of showcasing Burmese Art and culture, the gallery continues to lead the contemporary art scene. Showcasing artworks of over 50 artist with a wide range of mediums such as acrylic, oil, and watercolor.

Best in Ukraine: Art Ukraine Gallery has become the largest contemporary art gallery in Ukraine. It was opened in the format of the first charity gallery in April 2023, during charity auctions, 3,500,000 hryvnias were collected. With these funds, three rooms were purchased and donated to the largest children’s hospital in the country — NDSL “Okhmatdyt”: a hearing diagnostics room, an ENT unit, and a post-operative rehabilitation room.

Best In USA: Florida: Four locations equaling 20,000 sq ft gives MAC ART GALLERIES the largest exhibition space in South Florida, and with close proximity to Art Basel & Art Miami, they are a vital part of today’s art culture. Maintains an in-house Multimedia Department complete with digital photography studio, state-of-the-art Gicleé printing facility — with computer-graphic/prepress. For over 20 years, owner Mary Ann Cohen has represented many of the world’s most accomplished and commercial artists: selling internationally to upscale hotels, restaurants, corporations, luxury cruise ships and museums.

Best in USA: New Mexico + Texas: With 25 years of experience in the world of fine art, Thornwood Gallery has earned a reputation for placing high-quality work by international and national artists for residences, corporate offices, and hotels. Their stunning locations in Houston’s iconic Gallery Row and Santa Fe’s famous historic Canyon Road focus on 60 of the finest artists and their work, ranging from abstract to impressionism to realism to photography to sculpture.

Best in USA: California: A Palm Desert landmark for 35 years, CODA contemporary El Paseo gallery has a vast collection of paintings, photography, sculpture, glass, and ceramic works by a wide range of established, mid-career, and emerging artists. Brimming with color and life, the art mirrors the personality of the gallery’s beloved founders Connie and David Katz, avid collectors and philanthropists.

Best In USA: Colorado: Both the booming Denver gallery, Mirada Fine Art, and owner/curator Steve Sonnen continue to be prominently featured in national and international art publications as well as appearing on numerous ‘Best Of’ lists. Lively spirited art, insightful exhibits, a Colorado vortex.

Best in Malaysia: The Gallery des Artistes / Gallery@Tropicana is a contemporary art gallery, in a large modern style building, located in Tropicana Golf and Country Resort, in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The main exhibition hall has a 120 square meter surface and a 8 meters high ceiling. The hall has a huge glass façade opening on a 600 square meter sculpture garden. The gallery is home to a vast private collection of contemporary art from around the world that can viewed through appointment.

Best in Iceland: Phenomenon Art Studios & Gallery regularly showcases Iceland’s premier artisans.

Best in Hong Kong: Pekin Fine Arts is a Beijing-based private consultancy and art gallery established in 2005 by Meg Maggio, a 20-year China resident, arts writer and curator. In addition to directing two gallery locations, one in Hong Kong, Maggio acts as advisor to leading museums. With over 600 square meters of exhibition space, Pékin Fine Arts represents innovative contemporary artists from Asia who have had exhibitions and/or works collected by Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Hayward Gallery, London, Musee Pompidou, Paris, MOMA, NYC, UCLA Hammer Museum, Seattle Art Museum, SF MOMA, De Young Museum, Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington), Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center of Photography, NYC, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Norton Museum of Art, JGS Foundation, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Williams College Art Museum, Venice Biennale, Arles International Festival Of Photography, UBS Art Collection, Switzerland, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, France.

Best in Slovenia: Visconti Fine Art was established in 1973 in Milan, Italy and expanded to Vienna, Austria. In 1991 the gallery moved Ljubljana, Slovenia, where it became one of the first privately owned galleries in the region. The family owned and run business has participated at FIAC, Art Madrid, Art Basel, The Original London Print Fair, Art Wien and Verona Art Fair. Recent exhibitions include: American Pop Art in Rovinj, Croatia; American Pop Art exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia, Cuatro Gatos (4 Cats) exhibition of 4 Spanish painters (Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Antoni Tapies and Joan Miro) in Montenegro; and many more.

Best in Zambia: 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.”

Best in Taiwan: The only gallery in Taiwan that has focused on the art of photography for over 15 years, Taipei-based 1839 Contemporary Gallery takes its name “from photography invention in 1839 to now.” With the advancement of technology, equal rights, and the era of green energy and environmental protection in the 21st century, they recently exhibited emerging photographers, modern and contemporary women, and the 10th TAIWAN PHOTO expo. They also regular feature work of high-ranking photographers from the region as well as from United States, Germany, Britain, France, Poland, Japan, South Korea and China.

Best in The Netherlands: The Arden Art Gallery in the heart of Amsterdam’s bustling shopping streets draws in tens of thousands of visitors every year. With a spacious two-floor layout, it offers Arden’s aerial photography of architectural beauty, vibrant patterns and intriguing reflections. Widely acclaimed and globally-collected, the work is regularly featured in mainstream publications like National Geographic, Forbes Travel Guide, Travel + Leisure, and Conde Nast Traveler, daily inspiring a million Instagram followers and collaborations with top-tier global brands such as Sony, Adobe, Google and Facebook.