Blue: Art for the Ocean

A philanthropic initiative to support Blue Marine Foundation

  • Event date October 2024
  • Event location London

Christie’s and Blue Marine Foundation unite in a charitable initiative offering works from more than 20 world leading artists to benefit the future of the ocean. Coinciding with Frieze London, the artist-donated works will be offered during Christie’s 20th and 21st Century art sales with proceeds benefitting Blue Marine’s projects that protect our ocean.

One of the highlights of the Blue: Art for the Ocean charity initiative is a photograph captured during a unique performance by Marina Abramović in May 2024. Filmed on Fire Island in New York, Performance for the Oceans (2024) depicts the Serbian conceptual and performance artist giving her unconditional love and energy to our oceans, stressing the urgent need for their preservation. Other internationally renowned artists involved in this initiative include Edmund de Waal, Ai Weiwei, Lydia Blakeley and Jonas Burgert, among others.

Join us in supporting this important cause. Together, we can make a lasting impact and difference in ensuring the health of our ocean for future generations. More information about the initiative and participating artists will be released soon.

I am standing in front of the ocean. Giving unconditional love. As a way to heal. To bring awareness to the world. About our dying oceans.
—Marina Abramović

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Annabelle Scholar

Annabelle Scholar

Associate Director, Chairman's Office and Client Advisory

Client Advisory

Annabelle Scholar is a Client Advisor and Associate Director in the UK Chairman's Office at Christie's. Prior to joining Christie’s in 2016, Annabelle spent four years working in Design at both a world renowned gallery in Paris and, with another auction house. Annabelle advises several international private collectors and advisors across categories while nurturing new buyers and cultural partnerships. During her time at Christie's to date, she has notably placed artworks by Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin, Jean Dubuffet, Vincent van Gogh and Joan Miro among others into private collections. Annabelle has been instrumental in engaging with the next generation of collectors, including being part of the team who launched and delivered the Christie’s Lates' platform which attracted over 1000 visitors each month, and which still runs today. In 2022, Annabelle co-curated a cross-category exhibition, The Art of Literature, which brought together three millennia of artworks, objects and manuscripts exploring how they inspired and informed one another and in partnership with Molly Goddard. To coincide with this exhibition, Annabelle organised and hosted a dinner bringing together young patron groups from across London’s most important museums and institutions in a celebration of London as a cultural hub. As well as advising clients, Annabelle has worked on a number of meaningful charitable auctions at Christie’s including Rays of Sunshine which raised £2.2m for children who are terminally ill or have life limiting diseases and, Studio Voltaire’s 30th Anniversary ‘XXX’ auction and dinner. She has also been on the committee for the Serpentine Future Contemporaries since 2021.
Victoria Gramm

Victoria Gramm

Specialist, Director

Post-War & Contemporary Art

Victoria Gramm is a Specialist in the Post-War and Contemporary department in London. Initially based in Amsterdam, Victoria has a passion for continental European Post-War art, including Kinetic and Op Art, and Minimal and Conceptual Art. Having headed both First Open and the Day sale in London, Victoria has a breadth of knowledge of the art market. Victoria holds a first-class honours degree in History of Art from the University of Cambridge. Raised between Israel and the UK, Victoria is fluent in English and Russian, and regularly works with Russian clients.

About Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation is a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by creating marine reserves and addressing overfishing, one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. Its mission is to see 30% of the world’s ocean under effective protection by 2030 and the other 70% responsibly managed.



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Credit: Photo credit Marco Anelli Striped Marlin hunting sardines, Baja California, Mexico (c) Rory Moore. 100% of the hammer price for all lots will be paid to Blue Marine Foundation, a UK registered charity (charity number 1137209).