FIRE HORSE - THE DECISIVE MOMENT
赤马之决定性瞬间
BLUE HORSE SERIES
蓝马系列
AN EXHIBITION WITH MA DONGMIN 马东民
Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 June, 2026 10AM - 5PM*
Leica Store South Beach Quarter, Singapore
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Offering a tax-free, bonded storage solution at Le Freeport Singapore and other locations, with sole segregated vaulting and zero third party liabilities.
Our Philosophy
Where Institutional Rigor Meets Artistic Vision
Art Vault Asia operates at the intersection of blue-chip finance and contemporary art, providing high-net-worth individuals with access to museum-quality works that represent both cultural significance and compelling investment potential.
Our acquisition strategy mirrors the discipline of private banking – rigorous due diligence, long-term value preservation, and absolute discretion; while maintaining the discerning eye of seasoned gallery professionals.
We believe exceptional art transcends with generations and current market trends. Each piece we advise on carries provenance, market resilience and the potential to anchor a collection for generations.
Curatorial Excellence
Every artwork and artist represented is vetted by international art market specialists.
Absolute Discretion
Private bank-level confidentiality for all transactions.
OUR Services
Comprehensive Art Advisory for Sophisticated Collectors
White-glove service combining gallery expertise, institutional research and private banking discretion. Services available by invitation and referral only.
Art Acquisition Advisory
Sourcing investment-grade contemporary art direct from the artist and primary galleries, ensuring impeccable provenance for every work advised.
Portfolio Strategy & Curation
Building coherent collections aligned with your aesthetic preferences, investment objectives and legacy goals - curated with the same rigour as institutional portfolios.
Market Intelligence & Valuation
Proprietary analysis of artist markets, auction performance and gallery positioning. Our artist research matches the rigour of equity research applied to fine art.
Authentication & Due Diligence
Comprehensive provenance research, condition reporting and third-party authentication. We eliminate acquisition risk through institutional-grade verification and by dealing directly with the artist.
Estate Planning & Legacy
Strategic guidance on collection structuring, charitable donations and intergenerational transfer. Discretionary services for HNW families.
Private Sales & Deaccession
Confidential sales through our network of international collectors, family offices and institutions - maximum value realisation with complete discretion.
Secure Bonded Storage
Art Vault Asia recommends a tax-free, bonded storage solution at Le Freeport Singapore and other facilities, with sole segregated vaulting and zero third-party liability.
Bespoke Service Model
The exclusive artists we represent do not offer catalogues of available works. Art Vault Asia periodically receives limited allocations of new works. Each engagement is tailored to the client's specific collecting objectives, from acquiring single pieces of art to building diversified institutional collections.
Access to Art Vault Asia services requires formal introduction or referral from existing clients, partner institutions, or recognized art market professionals.
Our Process
A Systematic Approach to Building Legacy Collections
From initial private consultation to long-term stewardship and advisory, we apply institutional discipline to every stage of the collecting and investment journey.
01
Confidential Consultation
Conduct a private meeting to understand your collecting objectives, aesthetic preferences, portfolio goals, and budget parameters. Discussions can be protected by NDA, upon request.
02
Market Research & Sourcing
Our team conducts comprehensive market analysis, identifies target artists and works, and builds acquisition recommendations aligned to your strategy.
03
Due Diligence & Authentication
Rigorous provenance verification, condition assessment, and third-party authentication and valuation. Strict due diligence applied to every acquisition.
04
Negotiation & Acquisition
We negotiate terms, manage all transaction logistics from the artist's studio to the bonded storage facility and ensure seamless acquisition. Complete discretion maintained throughout the process.
05
Collection Management
Ongoing portfolio monitoring, insurance coordination, storage solutions and strategic guidance for collection development and eventual divestment.
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Ongoing Partnership
Your dedicated fine-art advisor remains your single point of contact for all art-related matters, market updates and strategic opportunities.
Typical engagement timeline: Initial consultation to first acquisition and delivery ranges from 4-12 weeks depending on market conditions and allocations from artists. Major collection builds are multi-year strategic partnerships.
ARTISTS REPRESENTATIONS
Exclusive Artist Representation
These are globally and well-established contemporary artists with strong institutional validation, successful auction records and robust secondary markets.
Lincoln Townley
British, b. 1972, London
Lincoln Townley is one of the most institutionally validated self-taught artists working in Britain today. Almost entirely untrained, he has over fifteen years built a career anchored by four consecutive appearances at Palazzo Bembo during La Biennale di Venezia, successful auctions at both Sotheby’s London and New York, a five-year Artist in Residence at BAFTA Los Angeles, and exhibitions at the National Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Saatchi Gallery, London. He is represented by De Buck Gallery, New York and Klein Gallery, London.
His defining body of work, the Bankers Collection, now in its twelfth year of continuous development, presents anonymous, be-suited financiers with viscerally rendered faces: portraits without names, because the individuals who inhabit high finance share a collective psychology that transcends any single identity. Where Francis Bacon documented post-war existential dread, Townley anatomises 21st-century capitalism, its hunger, its anonymity, its beautiful corruption. Sotheby’s London has formally assessed the works as evoking the existential turmoil of the Twenty-First Century moment, akin to Bacon’s radical distortions of the human figure.
Recognition and Auction Results
- Auction record: US$378,000, Dance with the Devil, Sotheby’s New York (2022)
- Icons Collection headline sales: Princess Diana £1,000,000, Muhammad Ali £510,000, Prince £300,000
- Saatchi Gallery Retrospective sold out in three hours (2015)
- London Art Fair sold out, all originals and prints (2025)
- Collectors include Sir Michael Caine, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Jackie Chan, Queen Elizabeth II, Ronaldo, Messi and Pelé
- Commissions: Mastercard (UEFA Champions League Final), BAFTA Los Angeles (Britannia Awards), Lionsgate Films, Warner Bros
Primary Market
- Primary market pricing: S$150,000 – S$180,000 (40cm × 50cm, bonded, excluding GST).
- Singapore primary market price appreciation 2018–2026: S$56,000 to S$155,000.
- Bankers Collection has sold out at every Venice Biennale appearance (2019, 2022, 2024) and he returns to Palazzo Bembo for the 61st edition in 2026.
Acquisition & Access
Art Vault Asia holds the exclusive advisory mandate for Townley’s primary market works across ASEAN and APAC. Works are offered by allocation to qualified clients only, following formal engagement. All enquiries are treated with absolute discretion.
"I have always looked at greed as a very positive energy. My collectors see themselves in my work. There is glory in ambition, and glory can only be acquired through risk."
Specific works, pricing and availability disclosed only to qualified clients. Images shown are representative of the artist's recent work.
Danny Minnick
American, b. 1973, Seattle
Danny Minnick is the most culturally embedded emerging name in American Neo-Expressionism today. A professional skateboarder for two decades, Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio, and fine artist since 2011, his biography is not a marketing narrative, it is a lived reality that saturates every canvas. Represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery across Los Angeles, London, Paris and New York, his work is permanently installed at the Barbican Centre London, Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, and Wynwood Walls Miami: a footprint across three continents that is exceptionally rare for any living artist under 60.
His signature figure, ‘Character’, a skeletal human form with a plus sign at the torso, rendered in instinctive, large-format strokes, has become one of the most recognisable marks in contemporary street-rooted fine art. Interview Magazine identified formal echoes of De Kooning’s brushwork, Pollock’s drips, Haring’s cartoon imagery and Basquiat’s colour in Minnick’s work. The synthesis is not derivation; it is genuine lineage, absorbed through the culture that shaped him: skate, hip-hop, street art and the energy of American urban life.
Recognition
- Represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery (LA, London, Paris, New York)
- Permanent installation, Barbican Centre, London
- Permanent mural, Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
- Wynwood Walls, Miami
- Co-curator, Turning Tricks with Michele Lamy, Carpenters Workshop Gallery (2022)
- Commission: AGBO Studios (Russo Brothers, Marvel Avengers directors), Hollywood (2024)
- Singapore debut 18 Workz × Lamborghini sold out entirely (2023)
- Collectors include Robert Downey Jr., LeBron James, Lionel Richie, Jessica Alba, Jason Momoa, Gus Van Sant and Michele Lamy.
Market Position
- Primary market entry: S$30,000 – S$260,000 across formats (bonded, excluding GST).
- Singapore primary market price appreciation 2019–2026: S$30,000 to S$63,500 for a 162 cm × 162 cm canvas.
- Secondary market discovery pending — current pricing represents pre-auction-discovery entry into the most cited Neo-Expressionist lineage in the contemporary market.
Acquisition & Access
Art Vault Asia holds the exclusive advisory mandate for Minnick’s primary market works across ASEAN and APAC. Works are offered by allocation to qualified clients only, following formal engagement. All enquiries are treated with absolute discretion.
Ma Dongmin 马东民
Chinese, b. 1968, Beijing
Ma Dongmin is among the most rigorously credentialed contemporary artists operating in Asia today. A 1990 graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the institution that shaped Zeng Fanzhi, Xu Bing and Liu Xiaodong, he has spent more than three decades developing a singular artistic language that bridges Eastern philosophical depth with Western expressionist rigour.
His Blue Horse series, launched in 2011, has become one of the most recognisable bodies of work in the contemporary Chinese market. Rendered in luminous cerulean blues and dissolving at their edges into atmospheric mist, the horses occupy a liminal space between the figurative and the ethereal, meditations on loyalty, impermanence and the human spirit. Ma’s practice begins with photographing horses in their natural environment before translating those observed moments onto canvas: a method that gives his work both documentary precision and painterly transcendence.
Recognition
- Gold Award, 58th Venice Biennale (2019)
- Jury Grand Prize (Painting), 60th Venice Biennale, Omaggiamo: Dialogues with China (2024)
- Invited to exhibit, 61st Venice Biennale (2026)
- Golden Horse Award, Saudi International Contemporary Art Exhibition (2024)
- China Brand Ambassador, Audi A7 national launch campaign (2016)
- Works held in the Steven C. Rockefeller Jr. / Rockefeller Foundation Collection
Secondary Market
- Six confirmed auction results across Beijing Huachen, Beijing Hanhai, Beijing Council and Poly International.
- The 2021 Beijing Huachen result of US$534,626 was achieved 92% above the high estimate.
- September 2025 American Queen’s Auctions confirmed continued collector demand, with two Blue Horse lots selling at US$533,520 and US$365,040.
- Every major auction since 2019 has met or substantially exceeded pre-sale estimates.
Market range: US$333,000 – US$535,000 across confirmed auction results.
Acquisition & Access
Ma Dongmin does not release Blue Horse Series works on the primary market in China. Art Vault Asia holds the exclusive advisory mandate for Singapore and the broader ASEAN and APAC region. Works are made available to qualified clients by private appointment only.
Client Testimonials
Trusted by Leading Collectors Across Asia
"Art Vault Asia brought the same level of rigor to our art acquisitions that we expect from our private banking relationships. Their market intelligence and discretion are unparalleled."
Private Family Office
Singapore
"We engaged Art Vault Asia to build a contemporary art collection from the ground up. Five years later, our portfolio has not only appreciated significantly but has become a defining aspect of our corporate identity."
Technology CEO
Hong Kong
"The focused list of mid-career artists, with a strong auction track record of appreciation and scarcity, was the defining choice for us. The due diligence process further built our trust; every provenance detail verified, every market comp analyzed. This is art advisory for serious investors."
Real Estate Principal
Singapore
Client names withheld per standard confidentiality protocols.
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