Your Art,
More Eyeballs.
12 Brass Street is a gateway for African art and enterprise into global markets — an art consultancy, a market-entry agency, and a foundation, built on one belief: cultural capital drives both economic growth and social impact.
Three integrated pillars.
One platform, three arms — each doing distinct work, all pointed at the same outcome: African creativity and enterprise reaching the world on its own terms.
Art Consultancy
Outcome-driven marketing for African artists and galleries. We only get paid when art sells.
Agency Arm
Market entry for African-founded businesses — one partner from strategy to setup to execution.
XIIB Foundation
Art as a tool for education and social impact in African primary schools.
We only get paid
when art sells.
Our consultancy runs on success-based compensation. Low upfront cost for artists and galleries, aligned incentives across the table — when the work moves, everyone wins. When it doesn't, we haven't earned our fee.
- Artist branding & positioning — sharpening the story before it goes to market.
- Marketing & audience development — building the collectors, not just the impressions.
- Sales enablement — physical and digital, from studio to checkout.
- Event curation & experiential showcases — the rooms where the work is actually seen.
Progress Jesutomiwa Giwa
Selected from a field of countless entries, Jesutomiwa Giwa's "Progress" took the 2024 ArtStar Prize — a vibrant reminder that art is not going out of style in Nigeria. From Lagos to the world, a new generation of artists is proving the scene is only getting bolder, louder and more essential.
The programs that carry the name.
ArtStar
Our annual prize for a rising African artist — a cash award, a spotlight, and a real step into the market.
Meet the 2024 winnerKite Festival
A nostalgic, inclusive cultural experience using art to drive environmental awareness — with events showcased in Atlanta, Lagos and Port Harcourt.
Curated Art Showcases
A new format of curated showings connecting African artists directly with international collectors. Details soon.
A day in Italy with Bruno Donzelli.
12 Brass Street travelled to Italy to spend an afternoon inside the studio of Bruno Donzelli — the Naples-born master whose ironic, pop-inflected canvases have shaped Italian contemporary art for over six decades.
Who is Bruno Donzelli?
Born in Naples on 12 April 1941, Bruno Donzelli is one of Italy's most distinctive contemporary voices — a painter who reads the history of modern art the way a jazz musician reads a standard: with reverence, irony and improvisation. His first solo show opened at the Galleria del Fiorino in Florence in 1962, and by the mid-sixties his work was being exhibited across Bologna, Palermo, Rome, Paris and Barcelona.
Rooted in Pop Art and Expressionism, Donzelli's paintings quote Picasso, Matisse, Rauschenberg, Basquiat and the Italian avant-garde — but never as pastiche. Handwritten names, comic-book gestures and jubilant colour turn the canvas into a running conversation with the masters.
Coming Soon.
A curated roster of contemporary artists we champion across exhibitions, acquisitions and editorial features is on its way. Check back shortly, or subscribe to be the first to see it.
Selected works.
Each piece selected for its beauty and the tale it tells.
Molecular Gossip
André Jamal Walker
Reactive Memory
André Jamal Walker
Ooni Ife
David Obi
Ofo na Ogu
David Obi
Stay With Me
Ari Rosario
Picassquiat
Ari Rosario
Closing the gap — commercially and culturally.
African creativity is globally competitive but structurally under-supported. Small businesses across the continent lack market-entry expertise and execution support. Great artists lack the systems that turn talent into sustainable income.
12 Brass Street exists to close that gap. One platform, three arms, one belief: cultural capital drives both economic growth and social impact — and both deserve serious infrastructure.
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