Good news for shark fans.
With less than a month until Damien Hirst's much-publicised survey exhibition opens at Tate Modern, the artist has announced that he's planning to open his own gallery in south London in 2014. The as-yet-unnamed Vauxhall gallery is being designed by Caruso St John – the art world's architects of choice – in order to house Hirst's massive personal art collection, which contains some 2,000 works.
"It's my Saatchi gallery, basically," Hirst told the Observer, and is likely to be “about as big as the Whitechapel”. That means no less than six galleries as well as a café and a shop. As well as Hirst's own work, the gallery will also house five paintings by Francis Bacon and works by the likes of Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas and Banksy. "It feels bad having it all in crates,” Hirst commented.
The news comes after Hirst's proposal to open the gallery in a former munitions depot in Kensington Gardens was rejected last year in favour of a second space for the Serpentine, originally scheduled to open this summer as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. Kensington's loss, then, is Vauxhall's gain...
Damien Hirst is at Tate Modern from 4th April to 9th September 2012.
Read Museum Quality, our thoughts on the art world's convergence of public and private.
Image credit: Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved. DACS 2011. Photo: Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates
Click here to see all London exhibitions.
Return to Spoonfed's London Art homepage.
.jpg)
Add an event
Review: Byzantium
20 years after Interview with a Vampire, director Neil Jordan cooks up the theme on a ...