The Saatchi Gallery is a London

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and an independent charity opened by

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in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the Damien Hirst-led Young British Artists, followed by shows purely of painting, led to Saatchi Gallery becoming a recognised authority in contemporary art globally. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the

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by the River Thames, and finally in

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, Duke of York's HQ, its current location. In 2019 Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity and begun a new chapter in its history. Recent exhibitions include the major solo exhibition of the artist JR, ''JR: Chronicles'', and ''London Grads Now'' in September 2019 lending the gallery spaces to graduates from leading fine art schools who experienced the cancellation of physical degree shows due to the pandemic. The gallery's mission is to support artists and render contemporary art accessible to all by presenting projects in physical and digital spaces that are engaging, enlightening and educational for diverse audiences. The Gallery presents curated exhibitions on themes relevant and exciting in the context of contemporary creative culture. Its educational programmes aim to reveal the possibilities of artistic expression to young minds, encourage fresh thought and stimulate innovation. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery transitioned to becoming a charitable organisation, relying upon private donations to reinvest its revenue into its core learning activities and to support access to contemporary art for all.

History

Boundary Road

Opening and US art

The Saatchi Gallery opened in 1985 in Boundary Road, St John's Wood, London in a disused paint factory of . The first exhibition was held March—October 1985 featured many works by American

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, American abstract painters

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and

Cy Twombly Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as ...

, and American pop artist

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. This was the first U.K. exhibition for Twombly and Marden. These were followed throughout December 1985 – July 1986 by an exhibition of works by American sculptor John Chamberlain, American minimalists Dan Flavin,

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, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, and

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. During September 1986 – July 1987, the gallery exhibited German artist

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and American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra. The exhibited Serra sculptures were so large that the caretaker's flat adjoining the gallery was demolished to make room for them. From September 1987 – January 1988, the Saatchi Gallery mounted two exhibitions entitled ''New York Art Now'', featuring Jeff Koons,

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, Haim Steinbach, Philip Taaffe, and Caroll Dunham. This exhibition introduced these artists to the U.K. for the first time. The blend of minimalism and pop art influenced many young artists who would later form the Young British Artists (YBA) group. April – October 1988 featured exhibited works by American figurative painter

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, German painter and photographer Sigmar Polke, and American

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painter

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. During November 1988 – April 1989 a group show featured contemporary American artists, most prominently Eric Fischl. From April – October, the gallery hosted exhibitions of American minimalist Robert Mangold and American conceptual artist

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. From November 1989 – February 1990, a series of exhibitions featured School of London artists including

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, Frank Auerbach,

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and

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. During January – July 1991, the gallery exhibited the work of American pop artist Richard Artschwager, American photographer

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, and British

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ist Richard Wilson. Wilson's piece ''20:50'', a room entirely filled with oil, became a permanent installation at the Saatchi Gallery's Boundary Road venue. September 1991 – February 1992 featured a group show, including American photographer

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Young British Artists

In an abrupt move, Saatchi sold much of his collection of US art, and invested in a new generation of British artists, exhibiting them in shows with the title ''Young British Artists.'' The core of the artists had been brought together by Damien Hirst in 1988 in a seminal show called '' Freeze''. Saatchi augmented this with his own choice of purchases from art colleges and "alternative" artist-run spaces in London. His first showing of the YBAs was in 1992, where the star exhibit was a Hirst vitrine containing a shark in formaldehyde and entitled ''

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''. This was funded by Saatchi. It has become the iconic work of 1990s British art, Brooks, Richard
"Hirst's shark is sold to America"
'' The Sunday Times'', 16 January 2005. Retrieved 14 October 2008. and the symbol of Britart worldwide.Davies, Serena
"Why painting is back in the frame"
'' The Daily Telegraph'', 8 January 2005. Retrieved 15 October 2008. More recently Saatchi said, "It's not that ''Freeze'', the 1988 exhibition that Damien Hirst organised with this fellow Goldsmiths College students, was particularly good. Much of the art was fairly so-so and Hirst himself hadn't made anything much just a cluster of small colourful cardboard boxes placed high on a wall. What really stood out was the hopeful swagger of it all." Saatchi's promotion of these artists dominated local art throughout the nineties and brought them to worldwide notice. Among the artists in the series of shows were Jenny Saville, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk,

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and Rachel Whiteread. ''Sensation'' opened in September at the Royal Academy to much controversy and showed 110 works by 42 artists from the Saatchi collection. In 1999 ''Sensation'' toured to the Nationalgalerie at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in the autumn, and then to the

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of Art, New York, creating unprecedented political and media controversy and becoming a touchstone for debate about the "morality" of contemporary art.

Neurotic Realism and philanthropy

Meanwhile, other shows with different themes were held in the gallery itself. In 1998, Saatchi launched a two part exhibition entitled ''Neurotic Realism''. Though widely attacked by critics, the exhibition included many future international stars including;

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, Noble and Webster, Dexter Dalwood, Martin Maloney, Dan Coombs, Chantal Joffe, Michael Raedecker and David Thorpe. In 2000 ''Ant Noises'' (an

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of "sensation"), also in two parts, tried surer ground with work by Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Jenny Saville, Rachel Whiteread, the Chapmans, Gavin Turk, Tracey Emin and

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. During this period the Collection was based at '30 Underwood St' an artist Collective of 50 studios and four galleries, the gallery made several large philanthropic donations including 100 artworks in 1999 to the

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Collection, which operates a "lending library" to museums and galleries around the country, with the aim of increasing awareness and promoting interest in younger artists; 40 works by young British artists through the

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, now known as the

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, to eight museum collections across Britain in 2000; and 50 artworks to the

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program which provides a lending library of over 3,000 original works of art to

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hospitals, hospices and health centers throughout England, Wales and Ireland in 2002. After the Gallery moved from Boundary Road, the site was redeveloped by the Ardmore Group for residential use, under the name 'The Collection'.

County Hall

In April 2003, the gallery moved to County Hall, the Greater London Council's former headquarters on the

, occupying of the ground floor. 1,000 guests attended the launch, which included a "nude happening" of 200 naked people staged by artist

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. The opening exhibition included a retrospective by Damien Hirst, as well as work by other YBAs, such as

and Tracey Emin alongside some longer-established artists including

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, Paula Rego and Patrick Caulfield. Damien-Hirst-1

Hirst disassociated himself from the retrospective to the extent of not including it in his CV. He was angry that a

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car that he had decorated for charity with his trademark spots was being exhibited as serious work. The show also scuppered a prospective Hirst retrospective at Tate Modern. He said Saatchi was "childish""I Knew It Was Time to Clean up My Act" Daily Telegraph, 26 July 2004
Retrieved 14 October 2008 and "I'm not Charles Saatchi's barrel-organ monkey ... He only recognises art with his wallet ... he believes he can affect art values with buying power, and he still believes he can do it." (In July 2004, Hirst said, "I respect Charles. There's not really a feud. If I see him, we speak, but we were never really drinking buddies.") On 24 May 2004, a fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroyed many works from the collection, including the Tracey Emin work '' Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–95'' ("the tent"), and Jake and Dinos Chapman's tableau ''

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''. A gallery spokesman said that Saatchi was distraught at the loss: "It is terrible. A significant part of the work in his collection has been affected." One art insurance specialist valued the lost work at £50m. In 2004, Saatchi's recent acquisitions (including

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) were featured in ''New Blood'', a show of mostly little-known artists working in a variety of media. It received a hostile critical reception, which caused Saatchi to speak out angrily against the critics. Saatchi, said that most

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s would prove "nothing but footnotes" in history, and sold works from his YBA collection, beginning in December 2004 with Hirst's iconic shark for nearly £7 millionBrooks, Richard. "Saatchi starts Britart sell-off", '' The Sunday Times'', p. 10. 28 August 2005. (he had bought it for £50,000 in 1991), followed by at least twelve other works by Hirst. Four works by

, including key works ''Pinocchio'' and ''Dead Dad'', went for an estimated £2.5 million.

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's ''Self'', bought in 1991 for a reported £13,000, sold for £1.5 million. Saatchi also sold all but one work by

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(he showed five in the ''

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'' show). The sale was compared to his sale in the 1980s of most of his postwar American art collection. David Lee said: "Charles Saatchi has all the hallmarks of being a dealer, not a collector. He first talks up the works and then sells them." In 2005, Saatchi changed direction, announcing a year-long, three-part series (subsequently extended to two years and seven parts), ''The Triumph of Painting''. The opening exhibition focused on established European painters, including Marlene Dumas, Martin Kippenberger,

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and

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, who had not previously received such significant U.K. exposure. Shows in the series were scheduled to introduce young painters from America like

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and Germans such as

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, as well as Saatchi's choice of up and coming British talent. The gallery received 800,000 visitors a year. In 2006, 1,350 schools organised group visits to the gallery. In 2006, a selection from ''The Triumph of Painting'' was exhibited in

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and ''USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' opened at the Royal Academy. This exhibition toured to The

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Museum,

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in 2007.

Court case

The gallery's tenancy of County Hall had ongoing difficulties with Makoto Okamoto, London branch manager of the owners, who Saatchi complained had kicked artworks and sealed off the disabled toilets. On 28 September 2005, the gallery announced a move to new and larger premises in the

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, Chelsea, though Saatchi said it was "tragic" to leave. On 6 October 2005, a court case began, brought by the owners and landlord of County Hall, the Shirayama Shokusan Company and Cadogan Leisure Investments, against Danovo (Saatchi was its majority shareholder), trading as the Saatchi Gallery, for alleged breach of conditions, including a two-for-one ticket offer in '' Time Out'' magazine and exhibition of work in unauthorized areas. The judgment went against the gallery; the judge, Sir Donald Ratee, and ordered the gallery off the premises because of a "deliberate disregard" of the landlords' rights. On 8 October 2006, Danovo was forced into liquidation with debts around £1.8 million, having failed to pay the court-ordered penalty.

Duke of York's HQ

The Blessing Hand by Stepan Ryabchenko in Saatchi Gallery in London

On 9 October 2008 the Gallery opened its new premises, described in '' The Observer'' as one of "the most beautiful art spaces in London", in the Duke of York's HQ on

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, London, near

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. The building was refurbished by architects Paul Davis + Partners and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. It consists of 15 equally-proportioned exhibition spaces "as light, as high, and as beautifully proportioned as any in London". The main opening exhibition was of new Chinese art, ''The Revolution Continues: New Art From China'', bringing together the work of twenty-four young Chinese artists in a survey of painting, sculpture and installation, including Zhang Huan, Li Songsong,

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, Zhang Haiying and

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ists Sun Yuan & Peng Yu. The show's focus was on political issues surrounding China's Cultural Revolution and also the contemporary political context. The decision to open with ''The Revolution Continues'' was directly influenced by global interest in China as a result of the

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. Jackie Wullschlager in the '' Financial Times'' said it was "the most persuasive showing of contemporary Chinese art yet mounted in this country", and, contrasting it with the "deadly" contemporaneous Turner Prize show, "Saatchi's collection of Chinese art is one that Tate would kill for, and could not begin to afford"; she said that it was "an example of a private museum grand and serious enough to compete with national institutions." More recent exhibitions include the London-leg of the touring show ''Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh'', the solo exhibition of the artist JR
''JR: Chronicles''
and
London Grads Now
' in September 2019 lending the gallery spaces to graduates from leading fine art schools who experienced the cancellation of a physical degree show due to the pandemic (described by critic

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in '' The Sunday Times'' as "a good idea. Saatchi Gallery deserves a slap on the back for organising this selection of work from grads shows, a highlight of every art student's education". The Gallery also hosts the annual '' Carmignac Photojournalism Award'' and various art fairs and global events including music group BICEP's live global stream of their new album in March 2021.

Philosophy

Saatchi Gallery's goal is to show contemporary work that would otherwise not be seen in London institutions such as Tate Modern. The gallery's ex head of development, Rebecca Wilson, said, "The gallery's guiding principle is to show what is being made now, the most interesting artists of today. It's about drawing people's attentions to someone who might be tomorrow's Damien Hirst." The gallery's aim is to make art more accessible to the mainstream, rather than an exclusive artworld pursuit.

Timeline

1985 – Saatchi Gallery opens at Boundary Road, London NW8, featuring works by

and

. This was the first UK exhibition for Twombly and Marden. 1986 – Exhibits

and Richard Serra. 1987 – The New York Art Now show introduces American artists including Jeff Koons,

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, Carroll Dunham and Phillip Taaffe to the UK. 1988–1991 ¬– Introduces artists including

, Phillip Guston, Sigmar Polke,

, Richard Artschwager and

to London. 1992 – Curates its first Young British Artists show Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Rachel Whiteread, Gavin Turk, Glenn Brown, Sarah Lucas, Jenny Saville and Gary Hume were all presented in these exhibitions. 1996 – Sixth Young British Artists show featuring Dan Coombs 1997 – Opens ''

: Young British Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' at the Royal Academy featuring 42 artists including The Chapman Brothers, Marcus Harvey, Damien Hirst,

, Jenny Saville, Sarah Lucas & Tracey Emin. Sensation attracted over 300,000 visitors, a record for a contemporary exhibition. 1999 – ''Sensation'' at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. 1999 – ''Sensation'' tours to

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. 1999 – Donates 100 artworks to the

Collection, which operates a ‘lending library’ to museums and galleries around Britain. 2000 – Donates 40 works through the

to eight museums across Britain. 2000 – Begins a series of one person shows of major international figures mostly new to Britain, including

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and Alex Katz. Shows entitled ''Young Americans'' and ''Eurovision'' introduce artists including

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, Charles Ray, Richard Prince,

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and

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. 2001 – ''I am a Camera'' exhibition opens at the Gallery, showing photography and other related works where traditional boundaries are blurred as photographs influence paintings, and paintings influence photographs. The show included work by many other artists new in the UK. 2002 – Donates 50 artworks to the Paintings in Hospitals program which lends over 3,000 originals to NHS hospitals, hospices and health centers throughout England, Wales and Ireland. 2003 – Moves to County Hall, the Greater London Council's former headquarters on the

, creating a exhibition space. The opening show included a Hirst retrospective as well as works by other

s such as the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin, Jenny Saville and Sarah Lucas. 2004 – A fire in the

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storage warehouse destroyed many works from the collection, including the major Tracey Emin work ''Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–95'' ("the tent"), and

's tableau ''Hell''. 2005 – Launches a year-long, three-part series exhibition, ''The Triumph of Painting''. The opening exhibition focuses on influential European painters Marlene Dumas, Martin Kippenberger,

, Jörg Immendorff, and followed with younger painters including

Albert Oehlen Albert Oehlen (born 17 September 1954) is a German artist. He lives and works in Bühler, Switzerland and Segovia, Spain.

, Wilhelm Sasnal and

Thomas Scheibitz Thomas Scheibitz (born 1968 in Radeberg, East Germany) is a German painter and sculptor. Together with Tino Sehgal he created the German pavilion on the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. He lives and works in Berlin. Life and work The son of an East ...

. 2005 – Expanded into the

building in

. This put a halt to London shows while the new premises were being prepared. 2005 – Exhibited a selection of works from ''The Triumph of Painting'' in

. 2006 – During the period between premises, the Saatchi Online website began an open-access section where artists could upload works of art and their biographies onto personal pages. The site currently has over 100,000 artist profiles and receives over 68 million hits a day, ranking at 316 in the Alexa Top 50,000 World Websites. 2006 – In association with the Guardian newspaper, opened the first ever reader-curated exhibition, showing the work of 10 artists registered on Saatchi Online. In November launched a new section within Saatchi Online exclusively for art students, called Stuart. Art students from all over the world were able to create home pages with images of their art, photos, lists of their favorite artists, books, films and television shows, and links to their friends' pages. Other sections on Saatchi Online include; chat, a daily art magazine, a forum, written and video

blogs A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order s ...

, as well as sections for street art, photography and illustration. 2006 – ''USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' opens at the Royal Academy. 2007 – Added a new online feature called "Museums around the World" hosting over 2,800 museums, showing collection highlights, exhibitions and other relevant information. 2,700 Colleges and Universities from around the world also offer their profiles, enabling potential students to examine their prospectuses. 2007 – ''USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' toured to The

Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. 2008 – Reopens on the 9 October in the entire

building on

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,Saatchi Gallery
London Venues. with ''The Revolution Continues: New Art from China''. 2014 – Saatchi Online sold to Demand Media for $17 million and rebranded as SaatchiArt.com."Demand Media buys Saatchi Art, names Sean Moriarty as CEO"
'' LA Times'', retrieved from the LA Times, 25, August 2014. 2019 – Saatchi Gallery transitioned to becoming a charitable organisation

Saatchi Online

In 2006, during the period in limbo between premises, the gallery's website began an open-access section, including Your Gallery, where artists can upload up to twenty works and a biography to a personal page. Over 100,000 artists had done so as of 2010, and the site receives an estimated 73 million hits a day. Your Gallery was later rebranded as Saatchi Online. In September 2008,

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ranked Saatchi Gallery among the leading 300 websites in the world. In March 2012 Alexa ranked Saatchi Online's position at 30,454. In November 2007 it was estimated that professional artists registered sell over $100 million of art directly from the site annually. In 2008 Saatchi Online launched a saleroom section that hosts over 84,000 entries from artists wishing to sell their work. For original work, Saatchi Online takes a 30% commission on the final sale price. If a Promotional discount code is offered, SO and Artist will split it equally. For prints, artists are entitled to 70% of the profit on each sale. Artists are also responsible for the costs of print production. In October 2006 the Saatchi Gallery in association with '' The Guardian'' newspaper opened the first ever reader-curated exhibition, showing the work of 10 Saatchi Online artists. Users may also be featured in the Saatchi Online stall at various art fairs. In November 2006 the gallery launched a new section exclusively for art students, called Stuart. Stuart also hosts an annual competition, ''4 New Sensations'', in association with

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in ...

. Other spaces on Saatchi Online including a forum, live chat,

, videos, photography and illustration. The site also publishes grant and funding opportunities. A daily magazine features 24-hour news updated every 15 minutes, as well as articles and reviews by art critics such as

Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz (born February 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for ''New York'' magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for '' The Village Voice'', he received the P ...

and

Matthew Collings Matthew Collings (born 1955) is a British art critic, writer, broadcaster, and artist. He is married to Emma Biggs, with whom he collaborates on art works. Education Born in London in 1955, Collings studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, and Gold ...

. The site recently began broadcasting an online television channel with video access to art openings, artists' studios, performances and interviews. Interactive features include the weekly Showdown competition, where users can win an exhibition spot, the Online Studio for creating art (each month a critic selects a winner in whose name a £500 donation is made to a children's charity) a Crits section in which artists can comment on each other's work, and the Street Art section for graffiti, murals, and performance art. "Museums around the World" features over 3,300 museums. These include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of th ...

, the

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, the London National Gallery, the Louvre, and the

, as well as small museums. As of July 2008, 4,300 art dealers and commercial galleries have profiles on the site. Over 2,800 universities and colleges have uploaded prospectuses and student information, including

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the worl ...

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher l ...

, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, as well as local art colleges. Over 1,500 schools have uploaded pupils’ work. Schools range from Eton College to small Primary and High schools. The Portfolio School Art Prize is open to schools with pupils between 5 and 17. A Mandarin version allows Chinese artists to upload their profiles in Chinese and translates them into English. There is also a Chinese language chatroom, forum, and blog. The site provides automated translations into many languages; Russian, Spanish and Portuguese versions of the site are planned. Saatchi Online was sold to Demand Media in August 2014, and was rebranded as SaatchiArt.com. The old Saatchi Online website now redirects there.

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is an online marketplace where artists can go to sell originals and prints of their artwork to users of the site, with the website handling the details of the transaction and taking a 30% cut.

Controversies

*Artists such as

Sandro Chia Sandro Chia (born 20 April 1946) is an Italian painter and sculptor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was, with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, a principal member of the Italian Neo-Expressionist move ...

and Sean Scully, to whom Saatchi had been a patron in the late 1970s and early 1980s, felt betrayed by him when their work was sold in bulk from his collection, and Saatchi was accused of destroying Chia's career."Art Newspaper readers' questions"
'' The Art Newspaper'', retrieved from the Saatchi Gallery, 17 October 2008. Saatchi said that the matter only became an issue because Chia "had a psychological need to be rejected in public" and is now "most famous for being dumped", but that he had only ever owned seven Chias, which he sold back to Chia's two dealers, who re-sold them easily to museums or notable collectors. Saatchi claimed that a sale of strong work can help to galvanise the market for them. Burlington House

*In 1997, in ''

'', London, Marcus Harvey's giant painting of

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made from children's hand prints was attacked by two men with ink and eggs, and picketed by the Mothers Against Murder and Aggression protest group, accompanied by Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's Moors murders victims. The work was restored and exhibited."Sensation sparks New York storm"

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, 23 September 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008. *The ''Sensation'' show in New York offended Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, because of

's painting, ''

The Holy Virgin Mary ''The Holy Virgin Mary'' is a painting created by Chris Ofili in 1996. It was one of the works included in the ''Sensation'' exhibition in London, Berlin and New York in 1997–2000. The subject of the work, and its execution, caused considera ...

'', which incorporates elephant dung. Giuliani, who had seen the work in the catalog but not in the show, called it "sick stuff" and threatened to withdraw the annual $7 million City Hall grant from the

hosting the show, because "You don't have a right to government subsidy for desecrating somebody else's religion." John O'Connor, the Cardinal of New York, said, "one must ask if it is an attack on religion itself", and the president of America's biggest group of Orthodox Jews, Mandell Ganchrow, called it "deeply offensive".Davies, Hugh; Fenton, Ben
"Whiff of sensation hits New York"
'' The Daily Telegraph'', 2 October 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008. William A Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said the work "induces revulsion". Giuliani started a lawsuit to evict the museum, and Arnold Lehman, the museum director, filed a federal lawsuit against Giuliani for breaching the First Amendment. : Hillary Clinton and the New York Civil Liberties Union spoke up for the museum. The editorial board of '' The New York Times'' said Giuliani's stance "promises to begin a new Ice Age in New York's cultural affairs."Rapp, Christopher
"Dung Deal – Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Sensation" exhibition"
'' National Review'', 25 October 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008. The paper also carried a petition in support signed by 106, including Susan Sarandon, Steve Martin,

Norman Mailer Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer ...

Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ''All My Sons'' (1947), ''Death of a Salesman'' (194 ...

, Kurt Vonnegut and

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, saying that the mayor "blatantly disregards constitutional protection for freedom of the arts." Ofili, who is Roman Catholic, said, "elephant dung in itself is quite a beautiful object." The museum produced a yellow stamp, saying the artworks on show "may cause shock, vomiting, confusion, panic, euphoria and anxiety." and Ofili's painting was shown behind a Plexiglass screen, guarded by a museum attendant and an armed police officer. Jeffrey Hogrefe, '' New York Observer'' art critic, said, "They wanted to get some publicity and they got it. I think it was pretty calculated." The editor-in-chief of the New York '' Art & Auction'' magazine, Bruce Wolmer,said: "When the row eventually fades the only smile will be on the face of Charles Saatchi, a master self-promoter." Giuliani lost his court case and was forced to restore funding.Vogel, Carol
"Australian Museum cancels controversial art show"
'' The New York Times'', 1 December 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008. *''Sensation'' was scheduled to open in June 2000 at the National Gallery of Australia, but was cancelled. Director Brian Kennedy said that, although it was due to be funded by the Australian government, it was "too close to the market", since finance for the Brooklyn exhibition included $160,000 from Saatchi, who owned the work, $50,000 from

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, who had sold work for Saatchi, and $10,000 from dealers of many of the artists. Kennedy said he was unaware of this when he accepted the show; Saatchi's contribution, the largest single one, was not disclosed by the Brooklyn Museum until it appeared in court documents. When the show opened in London at the Royal Academy, there had been criticisms that it would raise the value of the work. 2005 Saatchi Gallery demo

*In 2004, media controversy arose over two paintings by

. One was of

Princess Diana Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her ac ...

called ''Hi Paul Can You Come Over'', showing the Princess with blood dripping from her lips. The other was of drug user Rachel Whitear, whose body was being exhumed at the time; Whitear's parents and the police appealed for the painting to be withdrawn, but it was not. *In 2004, the

Stuckists Stuckism () is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art.Office of Fair Trading alleging unfair competition. The complaint was not upheld. They also picketed the opening of ''The Triumph of Painting'' claiming that Saatchi had stolen their ideas. (Vine had previously been involved with the Stuckists.) *In 2006, "USA Today" provoked controversy in the media and among some Royal Academicians who called for certain works to be installed in an 'adult-only' room. A notice advising 'parental guidance' before viewing the work of

Dash Snow Dashiell A. Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist based in New York City.Roberta Smith"Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27" ''The New York Times'', July 14, 2009. Snow's photographs included scenes of sex, drugs, viole ...

and Gerald Davis was posted by the Royal Academy, on a wall outside the room in which the controversial works were hung. These were Dash Snow's 'Fuck the Police', in which newspaper cuttings relating to police corruption are smeared with the artist's own semen, and a painting titled ''Monica'' by Gerald Davis in which a young woman engages in fellatio. *After Charles Saatchi was photographed choking his then-wife, Nigella Lawson, in 2013, a number of artworks depicting the incident appeared for sale on Saatchi Art, Saatchi's online gallery. When asked whether he would allow the works to continue to be listed on the website, Charles Saatchi responded "Would it have been a better story if I had censored artists whose work might be personally disobliging?".

Artists shown at the Saatchi Gallery

Boundary Road

1985 *

1986 *

* Robert Ryman * Frank Stella * Dan Flavin 1987 *

* Richard Serra * Jeff Koons *

* Philip Taaffe *

Carroll Dunham Carroll Dunham (born November 5, 1949) is an American painter. Working since the late 1970s, Dunham's career reached critical renown in the 1980s when he first exhibited with Baskerville + Watson, a decade during which many artists returned to p ...

1988 *

* Sigmar Polke 1989 * Robert Mangold *

1990 *

* Frank Auerbach *

1991 * Richard Artschwager * Andreas Serrano *

1992 * Damien Hirst * Rachel Whiteread 1993 * Sarah Lucas * Marc Quinn 1994 * Jenny Saville * Paula Rego 1995 * Gavin Turk * Glenn Brown * Gary Hume 1996 *

Janine Antoni Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, ...

Tony Oursler Tony may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer * Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby leag ...

* Richard Prince * Charles Ray *

Kiki Smith Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, whil ...

1997 *

* Martin Honert *

Thomas Ruff Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images". Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with fellow German ...

Thomas Schütte Thomas Schütte (born 16 November 1954) is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf. Education From 1973 to 1981 Schütte studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf al ...

1998 * David Salle *

Jessica Stockholder Jessica Stockholder (born 1959) is a Canadian-American artist known for site-specific installation art, installation works and sculptures that are often described as "paintings in space."Kino, Carol"Go Ahead, Play With (And On) the Art,"''The ...

Terry Winters Terry Winters (born 1949, Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art. His attention ...

* Tom Friedman *

Josiah McElheny Josiah McElheny (1966, Boston) is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see Glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He liv ...

* Laura Owens *

Lisa Yuskavage Lisa Yuskavage (1962) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings that challenge conventional understandings of the genre. While her painterly techniques evoke art historical precedents, her ...

1999 * Alex Katz * Martin Maloney * Dexter Dalwood *

* Noble and Webster * Michael Raedecker 2000 *

2012 * Igor Kalinauskas 2013 * Karen Heagle 2018 *

Philip Pearlstein Philip Martin Pearlstein (May 24, 1924 – December 17, 2022) was an American painter best known for Modern art, Modernist Realism (art), Realist nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival i ...

Sara Barker Dame Sara Elizabeth Barker (15 February 1904 – 19 September 1973) was a British political administrator, prominent in the Labour Party. Early life Born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Barker's father was an Independent Labour Party activist ...

* Maria Farrar * Kirstine Roepstorff *

Juno Calypso Juno Calypso (born 1989) is a British photographer. Her self-portraits are personal works about feminism, isolation, loneliness and being self-sufficient. Working alone, Calypso has made highly stylised photographs of herself whilst dressed as a f ...

* Gavin Turk *

Pussy Riot Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest and performance art group based in Moscow that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style. Founded in August 2011, it has had a membership of appr ...

Pyotr Pavlensky Pyotr (or Petr) Andreyevich Pavlensky (russian: link=no, Пётр Андреевич Павленский; born 8 March 1984) is a Russian contemporary artist. He is known for his controversial political art performances, which he calls "events of ...

* Oleg Kulik 2019 * Johnnie Cooper *

Richard Billingham Richard Billingham (born 25 September 1970) is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere. Billingham is bes ...

Aleksandra Mir Aleksandra Mir (born 1967) is a Swedish-American contemporary artist known for her collaborative installations and projects. Her work deals with travel, time, placehood, language, gender, identity, locality, nationality, globality, mobility, con ...

* Simon Bedwell *

* Michael Cline * Jessica Craig-Martin * Valerie Hegarty * John Stezaker * Marianne Vitale * Philip Colbert * Mao Jianhua *

Kate Daudy Kate Daudy (born 1970) is a British visual artist. Themes The concept of writing on objects originates in the beginning of Chinese civilization, when tortoise shells and scapulae were used to predict the future. These 'oracle bones' would go th ...

* Ibrahim El-Salahi * Nancy Cadogan * James Alec Hardy * Vinca Petersen *

Conrad Shawcross Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross (born 26 April 1977) is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. Shawcross is the youngest living member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Early life Born i ...

* Dave Swindells * Seana Gavin * Cleo Campert *

Toby Mott Toby Victor Mott (born 12 January 1964) is a British artist, designer, and sometime Punk historian known for his work with the Grey Organisation, an artists' collective that was active in the 1980s, and for his fashion brand Toby Pimlico. More ...

* Marshmallow Laser Feast 2020 * Khushna Sulaman-Butt * Jahnavi Inniss * Francesca Mollett 2021 * JR * Ben Turnbull * Dominic Beattie * Tommaso Protti * Will Cruickshank *

Alice Wilson Alice Evelyn Wilson, MBE, FRSC, FRCGS (August 26, 1881 – April 15, 1964) was Canada's first female geologist. Her scientific studies of rocks and fossils in the Ottawa region between 1913 and 1963 remain a respected source of knowledge. Earl ...

* Laura White * Neil Zakiewicz * Stella McCartney * Isabel + Helen * Sara Dare * Tim Ellis * Jo Hummel * Anna Liber Lewis * Anisa Zahedi * Dan Rawlings * Joakim Allgulander * Joakim Allgulander * Jack & Dinos Chapman * Morag Myerscough * Sara Pope * Anthony Burrill *

Chris Levine Chris Levine (born 1960) is a UK-based artist, working in the field of light art. Chris Levine is a light artist with a multi-disciplinary approach that harnesses a diverse array of technology with the intention of revealing the ways in which ...

Jess Wilson Jessica Kate Wilson is a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Kew. Prior to her candidacy, Wilson was the executive director of the Business Council of Australia. Politics Prior to her candidacy for the ...

* Ally McIntyre *

Andrew Millar Andrew Millar (17058 June 1768) was a British publisher in the eighteenth century. Biography In 1725, as a twenty-year-old bookseller apprentice, he evaded Edinburgh city printing restrictions by going to Leith to print, which was considered b ...

Dan Hays Daniel Phillip Hays (April 24, 1939) is a Canadian politician born in Calgary, Alberta. He was Speaker of the Senate of Canada from 2001 to 2006, when he became Leader of the Government (Liberal) in the Senate. Hays was the Leader of the Opp ...

* Faye Bridgwater * Heath Kane * Joanna Ham * Mimei Thompson * Realf Heygate

County Hall

*Damien Hirst *The Chapman Brothers *New Blood *Galleon & Other Stories *The Triumph of Painting

Duke of York's HQ

*The Revolution Continues: New Art From China ''forthcoming'': *Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East *The Triumph of Painting *Out Of Focus: Photography Now *The Power Of Paper *Black Mirror *Penumbra *Sweet Harmony: Rave Today *Kaleidoscope *JR: Chronicles *London Grads Now *In Bloom *RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2021 *Right Here Right Now *Carmignac Photojournalism Award *Antisocial Isolation *TUTANKHAMUN *We Live in An Ocean of Air *Johnnie Cooper: Throe on Throe *Philip Colbert: Hunt Paintings *Known Unknowns

Publications

*The Revolution Continues: New Art From China *

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, "Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s", Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 2003, . *Rita Hatton and John A. Walker, "Supercollector, a Critique of Charles Saatchi", The Institute of Artology, 3rd edition 2005, paperback, *USA Today *The Triumph Of Painting *The Triumph Of Painting, Supplementary Volume *The Triumph Of Painting, Supplementary Volume *100 The Work That Changed British Art *Hell, Jake & Dinos Chapman *Paula Rego *Young Americans *Stephan Balkenhol *Fiona Rae & Gary Hume *Duane Hanson *Shark Infested Waters, The Saatchi Collection Of British Art In The 90's *Young German Artists 2 *Sensation *Alex Katz: 25 Years Of Painting *Young Americans 2 *Neurotic Realism *Eurovision *Ant Noises 1 *Ant Noises 2 *The Arts Council Gift *I Am A Camera *New Labour *Young British Art *Saatchi Decade *Boris Mikhailov: Case History *Damien Hirst

Notes and references

External links

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Virtual tour of the gallery

BBC video coverage of ''The Revolution Continues''Video review of ''The Revolution Continues'' from The Daily Telegraph''The Revolution Continues'' in pictures, from the BBCSTUART in The Independent 30 November 2006
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