We stand for revolt, we want the Teké

Teké Gallery is located in the historic center of Carrara, Tuscany, Italy.
The gallery is regarded as a kind of short-circuit among galleries thanks to the relationships it manages to establish with artists.
The gallery’s main areas of interest are illustration, street art, comic art, and sculpture, all closely connected to underground culture.
The leading artists represented by Teké Gallery include Gianluca Lerici aka Professor Bad Trip, Igor Hofbauer, Jesse Jacobs, and Marco Filicio Marinangeli.

The Teké was a place of ambiguous nature and purpose: a tavern counter, two or three bottles of colorful liquors, and half-closed shutters. A place where people met to smoke hookah, chat, find paid love, and while away time with friends. A small, dark, smoky space where illegality mixed with entertainment; the bourgeoisie with the underworld. A way to spend evenings imported to Greece by immigrants expelled from Turkey after the 1922 catastrophe: a crossroads between East and West.

In our Teké, we invite you to rediscover the slow rhythms of life and the pleasure of listening together to songs of cursed love stories, ports, and suburban outskirts; of prisons, gypsies, passion for music, wine, and hookah, where rhythms of joy alternate with melodic tunes, and where it is possible to calmly and attentively observe works by the best talents of the international underground scene.