Influenced by the background of Marcio Souza from Brazil and Rasmus Vasli from Norway having both studied fine art photography at the University of the Arts London. The 120m2 gallery started in an old hat factory building at Gustav Adolfs Torg, in the city center of Malmö, Sweden. Since 2018 the gallery has been run by Rasmus Vasli and has recently moved to
a new exhibition space at Damplassen in Oslo, Norway. Opened December 2019. Vasli Souza’s aim is to represent and promote up and coming, young, contemporary artist from a diverse background at a national and international level. With a special interest in projects showing an uncanny or humorous approach. The gallery participates in international art fairs and produces between seven and eight exhibitions each year. Since opening in 2013, names of artist exhibited includes Ren Hang (CH), Zanele Muholi (ZA), Sami Parkkinen (FI), Pixy Liao (CH), Silin Liu (CH), Izumi Miyazaki (JP) AdeY (UK/SE) and Nelli Palomäki (FI).
