Collecting Abstraction in 2025: Why It Matters
Learn why collectors are turning to contemporary abstraction in 2025, with artists like Ritu Raj leading the way.
Why collect abstract art in 2025? For many, abstraction remains one of the most powerful ways to engage with the present while also connecting to art history. Collectors and gallerists alike are seeking works that resonate not just aesthetically but conceptually—and abstraction offers both.
My own practice as an abstract artist reflects this duality. Influenced by modernists like Picasso, Souza, and Rothko, I explore timeless questions of identity, transformation, and meaning. Yet I also push abstraction forward through unusual techniques: string as brush, CNC-sculpted surfaces, and cross-pollination with photography.
For collectors, abstraction’s strength lies in its universality. It transcends culture, language, and geography. A collector in New York, Berlin, or Mumbai can connect with a painting that doesn’t represent a specific subject but evokes something beyond words. Abstraction also holds a long track record of value in the market—from Pollock and Newman to Richter and Basquiat—making it a category with historical credibility.
But in 2025, collecting abstraction is about more than investment. It is about participating in a movement that is reinventing itself for a new era. As our world grows more fragmented, abstraction offers a language of connection—fields of color, fractured forms, layered surfaces that invite contemplation.
For gallerists, this is an opportunity to guide collectors toward works that both honor history and break it open. For collectors, it is a chance to acquire not just art but a piece of a dialogue that stretches from mid-century studios to today’s experimental practices.
In other words: collecting abstraction in 2025 means collecting the future of painting itself.
