Art + Being is a contemporary art gallery exploring the space in between.

ABOUT Art + Being

Art + Being is a contemporary art gallery rooted in Kuala Lumpur and extending beyond borders. Conceived as a platform for artistic inquiry, the gallery brings together artists and collaborators whose work engages the dialogue between matter and meaning, form and formlessness, chaos and stillness.

At its core, Art + Being is dedicated to art — painting, sculpture, installation, and expanded contemporary practices. Through exhibitions and artist residencies, the gallery presents work that explores materiality, perception, and lived experience.

Alongside its exhibition programme, Art + Being invites carefully framed encounters that support how art is perceived and experienced — including sound, embodied reflection, and other practices that heighten attention and awareness.

Through these encounters, Art + Being recognises art as a powerful inner connector — supporting reflection, integration, and meaning-making across ages and experiences, including work informed by art-based and neuroscientific perspectives.

Inspired by Khôra — the philosophical “space in between” — the gallery invites encounters with art that is felt before it is understood, giving rise to inspiration, recognition, and connection.

FOUNDER’S STORY

This is my story.
I was seven.
Sitting on a bus, wide-eyed, watching people.

My mum elbowed me — “Don’t stare.”
She thought I was judging.
But I wasn’t.

I was fascinated.
Two people standing side by side —
one watching children laugh and play,
the other watching dogs fight.

Same bus. Same direction.
But completely different realities.

And I remember thinking:
How can we all be in the same place… and see the world so differently?

That moment never left me.
It became the lens through which I see everything —
Art. People. Places.
Noticing what others are looking at.
Listening for the stories inside.

And when I’m truly seeing — time stands still.
That stillness, that space between — is where Art + Being was born.

Where art meets presence — beauty, stillness, play — and the frequency in between.

A homage to Khôra — the space in between.

Art + Being TEAM

Zora Gabrovsek

Zora Gabrovsek

Slovenian-born and raised in Germany, Zora began her adult life in Asia. She holds Swiss and Slovenian passports, with Malaysian and UK residency, and lives between Kuala Lumpur and the UK.

For over 35 years, she has produced global campaigns for brands such as Nestlé, Ferrero, Honda, Sony, Beats, and Coca-Cola — working with world-class directors and celebrities, always treating everyone as human.

Founder | Creative Director

  • Alongside her corporate career, Zora has dedicated herself to practices that ground her. She is a certified Hatha yoga teacher, trained in mindfulness, and holds Reiki I & II. She has spent over 25 years traveling through healing spaces and ashrams — from Osho India to breathwork, vipassana, dynamic meditation, week-long fasting retreats, including a ten-day water fast, and dance workshops worldwide.

    For her, meditation is her true medication — a daily, non-negotiable practice that sustains clarity and balance while navigating a high-pressure global world.

    Personally, while working and traveling the world, Zora raised her two sons single-handedly — both now grown, successful, and sane. Today she lives between Kuala Lumpur and the UK with her two beloved ‘furry’ companions, Raven and Tito.

    Known for seeing what others overlook, she recognizes the essence in people and spaces and translates it into creativity and connection. This vision drives Art & Being, rooted in Khôra — the space in between where art and presence meet, and where healing begins.

Sabrina Hani Shaiful

Sabrina Hani Shaiful

A Fine Arts graduate from the United Kingdom, Sabrina is an artist with a head for structure and a heart attuned to space.

Her practice explores the quiet relationship between form, emotion, and environment — an interest that naturally led her toward the field of spatial psychology, which studies how the spaces we inhabit shape our inner worlds.

Gallery Assistant | Community

  • At Art + Being, she supports founder Zora Gabrovšek in bringing this vision to life — where art, presence, and healing converge into a living experience.

    With her sensitivity to both aesthetics and flow, Sabrina ensures that every exhibition, workshop, and encounter within the house feels coherent, grounded, and alive.

    For her, Art + Being is more than a gallery — it is a continuum between art and atmosphere, a practice of being within space itself.