Lyra

LYRA Art Foundation is a force for supporting artists and realising their greatest ideas.

We champion visionary artists and pioneers in their field, who break new ground and forge fresh paths across artistic disciplines. We invest in artists and ideas that shift perception and illuminate new ways of seeing, as we believe that those who question and challenge are catalysts for cultural transformation.

Collaborating with both emerging and established artists, LYRA Foundation cultivates space for ambitious ideas to take shape, resisting the gravity of convention and removing the barriers artists face, by bridging disparate fields, fostering partnerships, and encouraging creativity in all forms.

Through LYRA’s Grant, curatorial endorsements, institutional collaborations and innovative programming; LYRA promotes critical inquiry, artistic innovation, and paradigm-shifting perspectives.

The collection itself is a constellation of curiosity, openness, and pioneering ideas. It reflects LYRA’s belief that as entrepreneurs shape the world through technological innovation, artists expand the horizons of understanding, casting light upon new dimensions of culture, meaning and possibility.

Language in Motion: Kenturah Davis

At the intersection of language and figuration, Kenturah Davis works with and through plurality that resists singular definition. Layering text, image, and material to capture and translate movement, the artist shows how human perception is formed, felt, and is always in flux.

Language in Motion: Kenturah Davis

You Are Not Yourself: Barbara Kruger and the Power of Words

An American conceptual multi-media artist and feminist, Barbara Kruger harnesses the power of visual and textual language to expose the systems of power that shape everyday life. Disrupting representations of hierarchy within the societal constructs of identity, gender, control, and truth, Kruger’s criticality reframes ideology through the very words and pictures that both construct and contain us.

Undoing the History of Beauty Through the Gaze of LYRA Artists

Once considered the very purpose of art, beauty has long been entangled with power, idealisation, and the female body. Today, artists, many of whom are shaping LYRA’s collection, challenge these historical paradigms, reclaiming and reimagining what beauty is and what it can mean.