About Chase Culture
Contemporary art, exhibitions and cultural programming
Our Story
Art, collaboration and human connection
Founded by curator and art dealer Chelsey Chase, Chase Culture grows from a background spanning contemporary art, music and cultural programming. At its heart is a belief that close collaboration with artists creates meaningful connections between artworks, ideas and audiences.
Working from Essex and London, Chase Culture develops exhibitions and projects exploring memory, transformation and human experience. Its purpose is to support artists in presenting their work with care and context, while helping collectors discover and acquire works they connect with.
Sound and live performance form a considered part of this approach, extending the conversation around the art.
Founder & Curator
Meet Chelsey Chase
Chelsey Chase is a British independent curator, art dealer and cultural producer. Her background in music and live events informs her interest in how people experience art, both individually and together.
As co-founder of Cole-Levi Klimt, she developed an exhibition programme encompassing Extensions of the Soul at Copeland Gallery, Ephemeral Imprints and Renewal at London Art Fair, and No Life Without Death at The Lightbox. These projects brought together artists working across painting, sculpture, cyanotype and installation, exploring the relationships between memory, loss and renewal.
Chase Culture builds on this experience, with artist collaboration and thoughtful exhibition-making at the centre of her practice.
Selected Previous Projects
Exhibitions developed through Chelsey Chase’s curatorial and exhibition-making practice prior to founding Chase Culture. These projects were presented by Cole-Levi Klimt, with individual curatorial credits below.
No Life Without Death
An exploration of grief, mortality and the ways loss shapes our experience of living. Bringing together painting, sculpture, photography, installation and cyanotype, the exhibition considered how facing life’s fragility can deepen our capacity for connection, tenderness and renewal.
Curated by Chelsey Chase. Presented by Cole-Levi Klimt.
Guest artists: Charlotte Worthington, Orly Kritzman and Ana Luiza Rodrigues. Ana Luiza Rodrigues is represented by Ricardo Fernandes Gallery.
Renewal
An exploration of rebirth, endurance and transformation through material, memory and inherited histories. Centuries-old devotional objects and their traces became starting points for contemporary works, considering how what survives can be reconstructed and reinterpreted to carry new meaning.
Curated by Chelsey Chase. Presented by Cole-Levi Klimt.
Ephemeral Imprints
Inspired by Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s poem Early Spring, the exhibition explored the fleeting nature of existence. Bringing together works concerned with memory, emotion and transformation, it considered how art preserves passing experiences and gives lasting form to moments of change.
Curated by Chelsey Chase. Presented by Cole-Levi Klimt.
Extensions of the Soul
An exploration of the relationship between our inner lives and the world around us. Through personal and collective narratives, the exhibition brought themes of psychological turmoil, chaos and uncertainty into conversation with hope, healing and the resilience of creative expression.
Curated by Chelsey Chase. Co-curator: Pia MYrvoLD. Presented by Cole-Levi Klimt.
Why Chase Culture
A collaborative approach
Close collaboration with artists
Chase Culture works closely with artists, developing exhibitions and projects through shared ideas and an understanding of each artist’s practice.
Curated by Chelsey Chase
Founder Chelsey Chase brings a personal curatorial approach, working with artists from the first conversation through to the final presentation.
Connected through ideas
Memory, transformation and human experience connect the programme, creating conversations between artworks, artists and audiences.
Work with Chase Culture
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