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Celebrating four decades of ground-breaking contemporary art, The Long Now is an expansive group show presenting new works by iconic artists closely associated with the Gallery’s dynamic history, alongside fresh voices from a new generation.

Spanning two floors and nine major exhibition spaces, the exhibition features special commissions, installations, painting and sculpture, and culminates with Richard Wilson’s iconic 20:50. A landmark in Saatchi Gallery’s history, 20:50 has been shown at each of the Gallery’s past locations and now, for the first time, is presented on the top floor.

Filling the space with recycled engine oil, it creates a mirrored environment that both disorients and captivates. In the context of today’s climate crisis, the work takes on renewed resonance, inviting reflection on the fragility of our surroundings, community, and environmental uncertainty.

The Long Now takes its name from a concept of fostering long-term thinking and challenging throwaway culture. Newly created works appear alongside historic pieces that remain impactful and relevant, continuing Saatchi Gallery’s tradition of showing art of the present while giving artists the space to realise ambitious ideas.

The exhibition opens with works exploring process and mark-making – a fundamental human gesture reimagined by Alice Anderson, Rannva Kunoy and Carolina Mazzolari. This spirit of experimentation runs through works by Tim Noble, André Butzer, Dan Colen, Jake Chapman and Polly Morgan, who push subject, style and scale.

At the centre stands Jenny Saville’s monumental Passage (2004). Combining strength and beauty, it exemplifies her ambition to “be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies.” The work anchors the exhibition’s energy, inviting a powerful and intimate encounter with the human form.

Painting, a constant in Saatchi Gallery’s programme, is further represented by Alex Katz, Michael Raedecker, Ansel Krut, Martine Poppe and Jo Dennis, alongside new and emerging voices who continue to expand the medium’s possibilities.

Immersive installations shift the focus from viewing to participation. Allan Kaprow’s YARD, with its chaotic arrangement of tyres, encourages movement and play, while Conrad Shawcross’s suspended Golden Lotus (Inverted) transforms a vintage car into a kinetic sculpture, prompting reflection on transformation, agency and the role of the viewer.

The exhibition raises questions of technology and the future, with Chino Moya, Mat Collishaw and Tom Hunter reflecting on surveillance, automation and AI – considering how the digital world permeates contemporary life.

Themes of fragility and climate change weave throughout. Gavin Turk’s fractured Bardo suggests cultural decay and the precarious balance between permanence and collapse, while works by Olafur Eliasson, Chris Levine and Frankie Boyle use light to create moments of contemplation. Environmental concerns are explored by Edward Burtynsky, Steven Parrino, Peter Buggenhout, Ibrahim Mahama, Ximena Garrido Lecca and Christopher Le Brun, who address extraction, waste and renewal.

Curated by Philippa Adams (Senior Director, Saatchi Gallery 1999- 2020).

Featured artists: Alice Anderson, Olivia Bax, Frankie Boyle, Edward Burtynsky, Peter Buggenhout, André Butzer, Jake Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Dan Colen, John Currin, Jo Dennis, Zhivago Duncan, Olafur Eliasson, Rafael Gómezbarros, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Damien Hirst, Tom Hunter, Henry Hudson, Alex Katz, Allan Kaprow, Maria Kreyn, Ansel Krut, Rannva Kunoy, Christopher Le Brun, Chris Levine, Ibrahim Mahama, Carolina Mazzolari, Jeff McMillan, Misha Milovanovich, Polly Morgan, Ryan Mosley, Chino Moya, Tim Noble, Alejandro Ospina, Steven Parrino, Martine Poppe, Michael Raedecker, Sterling Ruby, Jenny Saville, Petroc Sesti, Conrad Shawcross, Soheila Sokhanvari, John Squire, Dima Srouji, Gavin Turk, Richard Wilson, Alexi Williams Wynn.

This exhibition contains depictions of nudity and mature themes. Viewer/parental discretion is advised.

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With thanks to our collaborators: Artvisor, Morra Foundation and MONA Tasmania, EFG Private Bank Ltd, Sweet Harmony, Cauldwell Collection and the Fine Art Group.

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants II: A Unique Dialogue Between Past and Present is a collaboration between artist-curator Louise te Poele, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Saatchi Gallery. The V&A has granted access to its historic collection of works by female creators, which has inspired a new body of work by contemporary artists.

Following the success of the first edition, this exhibition explores the historical and ongoing invisibility of female artists. Ten Dutch female artists have created new works in direct response to pieces by women in the V&A’s collection — works that have served as essential sources of inspiration. The result is a powerful visual dialogue spanning generations.

Why do we so often recall only male names when we think of great artists? This exhibition challenges that imbalance by bringing visibility to both contemporary Dutch female artists and their often-overlooked historical counterparts. Through this unique partnership between leading cultural institutions, the project creates space, recognition, and momentum — by and for women.

Participating artists: Lily de Bont, Margriet van Breevoort, Bobbi Essers, Larissa Esvelt, Anya Janssen, Audrey Large, Femmy Otten, Louise te Poele, Saar Scheerlings, Bregje Slipenbeek

We’d like to thank The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Sorba for their ongoing support of this project. 

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The Artist of the Future Prize 2025 launches its inaugural edition with an exhibition showcasing digital art by 10 artists from across the UK and Europe shortlisted for the prize. Celebrating innovation, the winner of the Artist of the Future Prize 2025 will be revealed on Friday 21 November 2025.

Launched as part of Peugeot’s Principal Patronage of Saatchi Gallery, the Prize showcases shortlisted works chosen by a distinguished panel of judges and culminates in the announcement of the overall winner, who receives the accolade of Artist of the Future 2025 and a prize worth £10,000 (£5,000 in money and a media package valued at a further £5,000).

With Innovation as its theme, this first edition highlights artists who push the possibilities of digital art, challenge convention, and invite audiences to see creativity through fresh perspectives. For Peugeot, innovation defines its commitment to pioneering electric mobility and visionary design, while for Saatchi Gallery it underpins a mission to support artists who spark dialogue and expand how we think about art and society.

The work has been selected by a judging panel spanning the worlds of art, culture, and design, including Matthias Hossann (Design Director, Peugeot), Dominic Harris (British artist exploring humanity’s relationship with nature), Darren Styles OBE (Publisher of Attitude Magazine and Rolling Stone UK), Paul Foster (Director, Saatchi Gallery) and Katherine Benson (Exhibition Programming Manager, Saatchi Gallery). 

The Shortlisted Artists
Edd Carr
Filip Haglund
Sally Smoker
Lenar Singatullov
Patchworks Collective – Charlotte Foster, Rehan Moazzam Khan, Yujia Cai, Karstin Naes Hoydal & Matthew Chan
AMIANGELIKA
James David Freeman
Isolda Milenkovic
DYSPLA
Lucy Ellis

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Co-curated with Saatchi Gallery, the Bagri Foundation presents Myths, Dreams and New Realities. The exhibition spotlights 13 emerging artists from across the Asian diaspora, who each reimagine cultural identity through personal mythologies and visionary material practices.

Dreamlike visuals unfurl as the artists investigate the entangled relationship between identity, history, and mythology. Lulu Wang and Sato Sugamoto’s larger-than-life anthropomorphic shapes and tangled wires greet us at one end of the gallery, while Wink King Moe’s cotton candy coloured landscapes and Marcos Kueh’s detailed tapestries draw inventively from the folklore, symbolism and myth of Malaysian culture. 

Throughout the exhibition, human and non-human landscapes are revealed through painting and sculpture. Artists reimagine their relationship with land and body, drawing inspiration from craft traditions and ancestral memory. Whether working with natural pigments, found materials or industrial processes, each artist builds a unique reality, some built on myths or dreams whilst others on our own bodies, offering not just new ways of seeing, but exploring new ways of being. 

Chelsea Pettitt, Director of the Bagri Foundation and exhibition curator, will conduct two drop-in walkthroughs on the dates below. Pre-booking is not required. 

• 12pm, Sunday 26 October with artist Hemaseh Manawi Rad
• 12pm, Saturday 29 November with artist Woo Jin Joo and Varshga Premarasa

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FUTURESPECTIVE is an initiative by Vogue Ukraine in partnership with PhotoVogue, aimed to support and promote Ukrainian photographers on the international scene. The debut exhibition features works by 34 talents across genres and formats — from documentary and fine-art photography to still life, landscapes, and collage. 

The exhibition explores themes of adolescence, life and hope in times of war, identity, and memory.  These photographic studies address deeply intimate subjects — family, self-exploration, emotions — and become part of the existential dialogue about the meaning of life and the experience of war. Together, the images create a striking visual portrait of a generation that speaks to viewers with remarkable sensitivity and strength. 

Saatchi Store will have Vogue Ukraine book editions, T-shirts, and postcards featuring selected works by Ukrainian photographers for sale. 

Featured artists: Vladyslav Andrievsky, Vic Bakin, Lesha Berezovskiy, Mishka Bochkaryov, Ania Brudna, Alex Blanco, Nazar Furyk, Egor Guschin, Artem Humilevskyi, Vadym Ivchenko, Yourko Kalichack, Ksenia Kargina, Daniil Kotliar, Sasha Kurmaz, Ira Lupu, Dom Marker, Mykola Maychyk, Yegor Parker, Anatoliy Petchenko, Kristina Podobed, Oleksiy Ponomaryov, Alina Prisich, Julie Poly, Viacheslav Poliakov, Irina Shkoda, Elena Subach, Synchrodogs, Daria Svertilova, Anya Tsaruk, Daniel Vaysberg, Vasylyna Vrublevska, Yan Wasiuchnik, Stephan Lisowski, Volodymyr Kaminetsky. 

Project team: Marta Bertman (Curator), ФОРМА (Exhibition architecture), Sergii Kovalyov (Art director), Nataliia Tiulienieva (Graphic design), PhotoVision and FormaEsthetica (Artwork printing and custom framing), Olga Basovska (Public communications), Venya Brykalin and Kateryna Svitlychna (Text editing). 

This project was made possible with support from the Embassy of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, PhotoVogue, Kernel, and LEX by Nemiroff. 

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In Exhale, Kat Kristof explores the boundaries of inner and outer space through richly layered, psychologically charged works. Trained in architecture and painting, Kristof constructs immersive compositions that navigate identity, memory, and perception. Her figures—neither strictly figurative nor fully abstract—exist in architectonic dreamscapes that oscillate between fullness and emptiness, surface and depth.

Recurring motifs, such as water and the pool, suggest both containment and release. These are meditative spaces, where colour and form evoke a quiet, reverberating energy. Kristof’s visual language is rooted in emotion rather than realism, offering a poetics of identity that resists fixed interpretation.

Kristof demonstrates remarkable command over composition, structure, and psychological tone. Her work references both art history and the subconscious, inviting comparisons to the metaphysical worlds of de Chirico or the emotive stillness of Rothko. Yet, Kristof’s vision is distinctly her own: fluid, introspective, and rigorously constructed.

Born in Hungary and now based in Folkestone, Kristof invites viewers to submerge themselves—to trust in the work’s ability to hold contradiction and complexity. Exhale is an invitation to navigate the mind’s layered architecture and re-emerge with new ways of seeing.

Presented by BEERS gallery. 

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Jealous partners once again with Saatchi Gallery for a brand new exhibition of works, On Repeat. On show will be a carefully curated selection of pre-framed editions from the Jealous archives. Exhibiting artists include Jealous favourites such as David Shrigley, Charming Baker, Stanley Donwood and Jess Wilson, amongst many others. 

And the best bit? For the 2-week duration of the show, ALL the framed works will be available to buy at the unframed price! 

At the end of the exhibition, art lovers can take home their favourite framed works for instant gratification and easy installation. 

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HSBC, in partnership with Abu Dhabi Art, invite you to experience two unique exhibitions in London for the first time:

Different Perspectives: Embark on a journey of reflection as we present a selection of artworks from nine contemporary artists in HSBC’s century-spanning collection. Through their own distinct voices, each artist explores the complexities of the human experience and our surrounding world, challenging us to consider our existing perspectives. The show is part of HSBC’s ‘Different Perspectives’ series, which provides a platform to celebrate diverse viewpoints whilst also inspiring viewers to see the world in new and unexpected ways.

Featured artists: Alvaro Barrington, Mohammed Kazem, Vivien Zhang, Xiao Wang, Jin Han Lee, Phoebe Unwin, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Emmanuel Awuni, Alya Hatta.

Beyond Emerging Artists: An annual initiative by Abu Dhabi Art that empowers emerging UAE-based talent through mentorship, curatorial support, and international exposure. Curated by Lorenzo Fiaschi (GALLERIA CONTINUA), this exhibition features work by Fatma Al Ali, Dina Nazmi Khorchid, and Simrin Mehra Agarwal – whose practices span sculpture, sound, and textiles. Their work delves into themes of transformation, memory, and the emotional connection between people and place, offering UK audiences a unique glimpse into contemporary artistic practices emerging from the UAE. 

Abu Dhabi Art is organised by the UAE Department of Culture and Tourism. Beyond Emerging Artists is presented with the support of Abu Dhabi Art’s global partner, HSBC. 

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