PRESS
- February 1, 2022
Bob Marley: One Love Experience
Presented by Senbla, with thanks to the Marley family & in partnership with Terrapin Station Entertainment
The Marley family, in conjunction with Terrapin Station Entertainment, today announced that the Bob Marley One Love Experience will make its global debut this February at London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery for a limited ten-week exhibition before embarking on a multi-city tour. This unique experience will showcase unseen Marley photographs and memorabilia whilst immersing audiences on a journey through his lifestyle, passions, influences, and enduring legacy. Venture through the One Love Forest, visit the Soul Shakedown Studio and delve into the multi-sensory experience celebrating one of the world’s most beloved and unifying musical and cultural figures in this unique exhibition.
- January 4, 2022
AMERICA IN CRISIS
Curated by Sophie Wright, Gregory Harris from Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and LA-based photographer and academic Tara Pixley.
America in Crisis will bring together 40 leading American photographers and over 120 works exploring social change in the U.S from the 1960s till today. Organised by Saatchi Gallery, the exhibition is curated by Sophie Wright, Gregory Harris from Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and LA-based photographer and academic Tara Pixley.
America in Crisis was a ground-breaking group initiative originally conceived in 1969 to assess the state of the nation. This Magnum Photos project was led by American photographer Charles Harbutt and Lee Jones, then Magnum’s New York bureau chief.
- December 10, 2021
LG presents Light Gallery ‘Media art; reinterpreted time’
In collaboration with LG
LG presents Media art; reinterpreted time in collaboration with London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery. The free-entry exhibition showcases LG OLED Art, which reinterprets the concept of time in contemporary art through newly commissioned works by emerging artists. Each represents different core themes embedded within time; resistance, infinity, mortality and nature. The emerging artists include Luke Stephenson, JEBAAK and Ruofan Chen.
- December 10, 2021
London Grads Now. 21
Saatchi Gallery Dedicates Major Exhibition to MA Graduates from London’s Leading Art Programmes for Upcoming London Grads Now. 21 Exhibition
Following the success of London Grads Now. in 2020, Saatchi Gallery announces London Grads Now. 21 opening from November 4 through to January 16, 2022. This second edition aims to support and highlight the emerging artists of today and will feature over 200 artworks created and curated by MA graduates from seven of London’s leading art schools.
- December 8, 2021
Halo “Master Piece” unveiled in Saatchi Gallery to celebrate launch of Halo Infinite
Artwork by acclaimed artist Iva Troj and exhibited at Saatchi Gallery from December 8th - 15th
To mark the launch of Halo Infinite, the latest installment in the iconic video game franchise, an original epic, large-scale oil painting was unveiled today at Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea. Created by Iva Troj, the Brighton-based 2016 Palm Award Winner and 2019 CAF Artist Of The Year, the 6m x 3m canvas depicts in minute detail a scene inspired by Halo Infinite. The scene shows franchise protagonist, The Master Chief, locked in battle with his alien enemy: the spark of rebellion in the center of the painting ignites scores of battles nearby, as the Chief inspires the marines around him to become heroes.
- November 21, 2021
Journeys: The Healing Arts
In partnership with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CW+)
Saatchi Gallery and CW+, the charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, have partnered to present a first-of-its-kind ‘Arts in Health’ exhibition at the gallery. Journeys: The Healing Arts, is a selection of bespoke artworks from the CW+ art collection, commissioned to enhance the environment and improve patient outcomes at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. This is the first time CW+ has exhibited artworks from its collection on this scale to a wider public within a gallery setting.
- November 3, 2021
Yours to Make: Fluid Imaginarium
On 4 November, in collaboration with 50 of the UK’s most exciting creators, and HERVISIONS, Instagram will unveil a first of its kind digital portrait of British youth culture at Saatchi Gallery. It will be open to the public until 9 November 2021 and will bring to life the cultural diversity and lived-experience of British Gen Z today, as expressed on Instagram Reels.
The motion art installation, called ‘Yours to Make: Fluid Imaginarium‘, has been produced using gaming technology and is an experimental artwork reflecting the fluidity of British youth. The viewer is taken through various immersive dimensions that follow the different guises of youth self-expression.
- October 20, 2021
Silent Shout
Works by Helen Bur
Saatchi Gallery will open an exhibition of works by Helen Bur in one of its main gallery spaces on Friday 12 November 2021. The exhibition will be open to the public from 12 November to 5 December 2021 with free admission.
In this new body of works by British artist Helen Bur, painted figures are captured in moments of quiet action, self-reflection and stillness. Obscured in the pause of a gesture and imbued with a sense of the surreal, Bur sensitively depicts those around her as fragments of the bigger picture. Internal dialogues become social narratives and the personal becomes global.
- October 14, 2021
Liminal
Works by Alo
Saatchi Gallery will open an exhibition of works by ALO in one of its main gallery spaces on Wednesday 3 November 2021. The exhibition will be open to the public from 3 November to 5 December with free admission.
Liminal features over 70 works created over the past three years. Some works were created before the COVID pandemic and held back by the artist for this exhibition. Other works were created during the COVID lockdown periods. Almost all are being shown for the first time.
- October 13, 2021
The Thousand Year Kingdom
Cedar Lewisohn
Saatchi Gallery will open an exhibition of works by Cedar Lewisohn in one of its main gallery spaces on 29 October 2021. The exhibition will be open to the public from 29 October to 28 November with free admission.
The Thousand Year Kingdom features a series of large scale woodblock prints primarily made throughout 2013; a group of works that have not previously been shown together. These prints combine images relating to African and Mesopotamian objects from museum collections in the UK and Europe with recognisable details and depictions of contemporary life. The works are the antecedent to much of the visual language that Lewisohn’s current practice focuses on. The brutal yet delicate method of production plays with the idea of “primitivism” and the connotations of labelling artworks as primitive. In these works, images are repeated, and new contexts and meanings are created with the addition or subtraction of colours or abstract landscapes.