Eleven Artists, Eleven Balls, Eleven Homes — A World Cup Auction for Quito
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Location: The Atelier at Ideal Glass Studios, New York
Date: Opens June 24, 2026
Project: Chapter One, the launch show of the new IMAZ Foundation, curated by Javier Martin
Why it Matters: Eleven artists turn the soccer ball into art, and the auction funds eleven homes for single mothers in Quito
A new nonprofit called IMAZ opens its first show in New York this month, timed to the World Cup. Eleven contemporary artists were each asked to remake the same object, the soccer ball, in their own way. The works go to a silent auction, and the money builds homes for single mothers and their children in Quito, Ecuador, with a local organisation called CAEMBA.
The lineup is real. Dustin Yellin, Lucia Hierro, Sebastian Errazuriz, Jamel Robinson, Ryan Schneider, Soraya Abu Naba'a, Vincent Beaurin, Wes Aderhold, Jose Duran, Maya Makino and Diana Rowe. The show is curated by Javier Martin, the Spanish artist behind the 404 Art Collection, and staged somewhere between a gallery and a stadium.
IMAZ calls the soccer ball its first chapter. The plan is to keep going through other subjects, music, food, fashion, craft, with a different set of artists and a different cause each time. Stripped of the foundation language, the pitch is simple: buy the art, fund the house, and you can see exactly where the money went.
More info: imazfoundation.org
