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Michael Alexander Campbell, Portfolio of 2 works, 2025
Asset value
24.850,00 €
Earning potential
30.9%
Splints left
0/497
Investment horizon in years
3-5
Return-to-Risk Assessment
8/10
Performance since release
+0.0%
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Main reasons to invest
Return potential: An investment of €500 could reach an estimated value of €1,925 in 5 years.
Cost-to-return ratio: After deducting 3.0% in annual total costs, your net return could reach 30.9% per year.
Highest Quality Art Mentorship and Ecosystem 🎨: Mentored by Julian Schnabel, one of the most influential painters of our time, Campbell benefits from world-class guidance early in his career. While Schnabel’s influence is subtly present, Campbell is quickly developing his own visual and conceptual language. This rare combination of mentorship and originality positions him well for long-term market growth.
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Investment Thesis:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Investment Horizon | 3–5 Years |
| Balanced CAGR | 30.9% p.a. after fees |
| Optimistic CAGR | 40.6% p.a. after fees |
| Entry Basis | 0% vs. primary-market gallery price |
| Sharpe Ratio | 0.81 (vs. SMI: 0.61) |
| Value at Risk (VaR) | 86.4% chance to exceed €24,850 after 5 years |
| Standard Deviation | 39.8% |
| Risk Rating | B (7.2/10 - Moderate Risk) |
- 3–5 year horizon: Anchored by artist’s rising institutional momentum and confirmed exhibition schedule.
- 30.9% net ROI p.a. (balanced): Based on a 70% probability of repeating the CAGR observed in artists like Móyòsoré Martins (2019–2025).
- 40.6% CAGR (optimistic): Based on a 90% probability of repeating the CAGR observed in artists like Móyòsoré Martins (2019–2025).
- 0% entry premium: Total cost of €24,850 matches consistent primary-market price across two recent sales points.
- Sharpe ratio 0.81: Balanced risk-adjusted return relative to the SMI’s five-year Sharpe ratio of 0.61.
- 39.8% standard deviation: Risk derived from more liquid comps; reflects typical volatility of emerging art markets.
- 86.4% VaR probability: Likelihood that asset exceeds €24,850 in value after 5 years.
- Risk rating B: Moderate volatility balanced by favorable entry price and sales track record.
Why Invest in This Category?
Contemporary art has shown consistent long-term appreciation driven by cultural relevance, growing global collector bases, and strong institutional demand. When an artist gains museum recognition and upper-tier gallery representation, early works often experience accelerated value growth. High-quality unique paintings by rising contemporary artists offer a blend of scarcity, narrative depth, and market momentum – especially when pricing sits below current gallery benchmarks.
Contemporary art has shown consistent long-term appreciation driven by cultural relevance, growing global collector bases, and strong institutional demand. When an artist gains museum recognition and upper-tier gallery representation, early works often experience accelerated value growth. High-quality unique paintings by rising contemporary artists offer a blend of scarcity, narrative depth, and market momentum – especially when pricing sits below current gallery benchmarks.
Why Invest in This Asset? At just 26 years old, Michael Alexander Campbell is rapidly emerging as one of the most compelling young painters of his generation—an artist whose work has already captured the attention of collectors, curators, and critics. Born in the United Kingdom in 1999 and raised in Switzerland, Campbell’s perspective reflects a synthesis of European sensitivity and New York vitality, merging disciplined and traditional technique with conceptual depth. After earning his BA in Fine Arts with honors from Lancaster University in England, he completed a year-long apprenticeship in New York under Julian Schnabel—one of the most influential painters of the modern era. Campbell has since remained in New York, continuing to work part-time in Schnabel’s West Village studio. This close creative exchange has profoundly shaped Campbell’s understanding of scale, materiality, and the painter’s role as narrator and philosopher.
His inaugural solo exhibition, Sovereign Lapse, held at Casa Del Popolo inside Schnabel’s famed Palazzo Chupi, marked a breakthrough moment in his career. The show earned a coveted review in The Brooklyn Rail, firmly positioning Campbell as a distinctive new voice in contemporary painting. His subsequent solo exhibition, Hansel, Gretel, and Barbie on a Bike, at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, Campbell’s solo exhibition drawn significant collector attention, with numerous works sold early in the exhibition. Campbell’s work has also been featured at major international fairs, including Artissima—Italy’s leading contemporary art fair—and Untitled Art during Miami Art Basel week, and he recently completed two artist residencies: the Edelman Glion Summer Residence Program in Switzerland and another residency in Florence, Italy. Although he has been exhibiting for less than a year, his work has already been shown internationally, with a rapidly growing global audience.
Working primarily in large-scale oil on canvas, Campbell explores the threshold between abstraction and signification, distorting figurative elements until they no longer fulfill their traditional representational function. What remains—vibrant, psychedelic traces of color— forms a metamorphic structure through which viewers navigate the interplay between the artwork’s title, color, form, and meaning. Campbell approaches abstraction in two ways: he either takes an image, a photographic source, or an impression and turns it into abstraction, or he first creates an abstract work and gradually detects glimpses of figuration that lead to subtle signification.
The two paintings we are offering form a conceptual pair. Bacchus—the Roman god of wine and counterpart to the Greek Dionysus—symbolizes not only wine itself but also euphoric states of consciousness and ecstatic modes of celebration. The Bacchanalia, ancient Roman rites held in his honor, were literally wine gatherings in which intoxication, masked as spiritual rite, would lead to liberation as much as distortion of modesty and morals.
In Bacchus, one can distinguish limbs of what seems to be a human figure, beige tones reminding of skin complexion, and the red background symbolizing red wine. The blurriness imitates the wine’s influence on its consumers, covering the senses with a veil of obscurity.
Journey Through the Wine World similarly hints at a bodily form, surrounded by indeterminate shadows whose origins remain elusive. The scene’s uncanny atmosphere and lack of any stable visual anchor generate a surreal space—one in which a mythological journey through the symbolism of wine can unfold.
His inaugural solo exhibition, Sovereign Lapse, held at Casa Del Popolo inside Schnabel’s famed Palazzo Chupi, marked a breakthrough moment in his career. The show earned a coveted review in The Brooklyn Rail, firmly positioning Campbell as a distinctive new voice in contemporary painting. His subsequent solo exhibition, Hansel, Gretel, and Barbie on a Bike, at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, Campbell’s solo exhibition drawn significant collector attention, with numerous works sold early in the exhibition. Campbell’s work has also been featured at major international fairs, including Artissima—Italy’s leading contemporary art fair—and Untitled Art during Miami Art Basel week, and he recently completed two artist residencies: the Edelman Glion Summer Residence Program in Switzerland and another residency in Florence, Italy. Although he has been exhibiting for less than a year, his work has already been shown internationally, with a rapidly growing global audience.
Working primarily in large-scale oil on canvas, Campbell explores the threshold between abstraction and signification, distorting figurative elements until they no longer fulfill their traditional representational function. What remains—vibrant, psychedelic traces of color— forms a metamorphic structure through which viewers navigate the interplay between the artwork’s title, color, form, and meaning. Campbell approaches abstraction in two ways: he either takes an image, a photographic source, or an impression and turns it into abstraction, or he first creates an abstract work and gradually detects glimpses of figuration that lead to subtle signification.
- Upcoming
- Solo show in discussion, London, United Kingdom (2026, not yet confirmed)
- Solo show, Villa Magdalena, Madrid, Spain – Opening January 15, 2026
- 2025
- Untitled Art, Luce Gallery, Miami, United States – Art Fair (December 2–7, 2025)
- Artissima, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy – Art Fair (October 31–November 2, 2025)
- Hansel, Gretel, and Barbie on a Bike, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy – Solo Show (October 14–November 13, 2025)
- Roses of Heliogabalus, Mriya Gallery, New York, United States – Group Show (May 31–June 30, 2025)
- Sovereign Lapse, Casa del Popolo at Palazzo Chupi, New York, United States – Solo Show (March 13–26, 2025)
The two paintings we are offering form a conceptual pair. Bacchus—the Roman god of wine and counterpart to the Greek Dionysus—symbolizes not only wine itself but also euphoric states of consciousness and ecstatic modes of celebration. The Bacchanalia, ancient Roman rites held in his honor, were literally wine gatherings in which intoxication, masked as spiritual rite, would lead to liberation as much as distortion of modesty and morals.
In Bacchus, one can distinguish limbs of what seems to be a human figure, beige tones reminding of skin complexion, and the red background symbolizing red wine. The blurriness imitates the wine’s influence on its consumers, covering the senses with a veil of obscurity.
Journey Through the Wine World similarly hints at a bodily form, surrounded by indeterminate shadows whose origins remain elusive. The scene’s uncanny atmosphere and lack of any stable visual anchor generate a surreal space—one in which a mythological journey through the symbolism of wine can unfold.
Conclusion
With a fair entry point, strong early market traction, and institutional momentum, this offering presents a compelling opportunity in emerging contemporary art. Michael Alexander Campbell’s unique trajectory and growing collector base support confident exposure over a 3–5 year horizon, with strong return potential and moderated, data-backed risk.
With a fair entry point, strong early market traction, and institutional momentum, this offering presents a compelling opportunity in emerging contemporary art. Michael Alexander Campbell’s unique trajectory and growing collector base support confident exposure over a 3–5 year horizon, with strong return potential and moderated, data-backed risk.
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Additional details
Asset ID
187d1c69-5041-4fdd-9a4e-4cc42d9e8838
Name
Bacchus & Journey Through the Wine World
Artist
Michael Alexander Campbell
Publication year
2025
Size
both 190 x 160 cm
Number of editions
Einzigartig
Material
Oil on canvas
