The Art Berries is a London-based editorial platform with a distinct critical perspective on contemporary art. Founded in 2018, it has evolved from a personal blog into a bilingual (English and Spanish) space for critical inquiry, cultural analysis and strategic observation.
We believe art can broaden our understanding of the world and reveal different ways of inhabiting it, opening up space for dialogue and exchange. Thoughtful writing and cultural context can make our encounters with art more meaningful and enriching.
We do not view exhibitions as isolated events, but as signals within a wider cultural landscape, shaped by institutional decisions, audience behaviour and the forces that influence how artistic ideas travel across geographies and communities. We explore what exhibitions reveal about the world around us and why they matter.
Our work operates across three areas:
Critical Writing: Our Reviews are grounded in direct encounters, situating individual shows within their broader historical, social, and institutional contexts.
Visual Documentation: Through our Encounters series, we capture the physical reality of exhibitions, focusing on scale, atmosphere, and audience interaction.
Global Pattern Recognition: Through our Context section, we track recurring themes, institutional shifts, and emerging patterns across the international exhibition landscape.
This editorial and analytical work also informs our consulting practice, where we work with galleries, institutions, and artists on international visibility, audience development, and cultural positioning.
About the team
Eva-Maria Sanchez | Founder & Editorial Director
Eva M. Sanchez is the founder and Editorial Director of The Art Berries. Bringing fifteen years of experience in digital marketing strategy, audience intelligence, and specialist publishing, she applies rigorous analytical depth to the contemporary art sector.
Her work drives the intersection of editorial judgement and cultural strategy. Through The Art Berries, she has built a bilingual critical voice tracking how artistic ideas circulate across institutions, geographies, and audiences. By leveraging a deep understanding of commercial brand strategy and market dynamics, her editorial direction provides galleries, institutions, and artists with the precise cultural positioning required for international visibility.
Teresa Wu | Art Director
Teresa is an artist and Artistic Director at The Art Berries, contributing to the Encounters series since the platform’s early development.
Trained in fine art in China and the United Kingdom, she brings a painter’s sensitivity to image-making and spatial interaction, supporting the aesthetic of the Encounters archive through considered, context-aware visual narratives. Working from Eva’s exhibition photography, Teresa carries out the final edit of each encounter, ensuring the documentation of artworks remains attentive, embodied and faithful to the viewer’s experience.
Family presence
From time to time, our children appear in selected photographs within our Encounters documentation, reflecting an early and intuitive way of engaging with art and reinforcing our belief that art is a shared experience across generations.
Collaborators & Contributors
The Art Berries collaborates with a network of photographers, curators, and creatives whose perspectives enrich the platform.
Regular photographic contributions to Encounters include Ottavia Castellina, Chicho Puig, and Helen Zhang Hailun.