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As the waves of economic, environmental, Against this back drop, and ongoing from Frieze cultural, political and social change have week, we’ve been happy to host commercially intensified, the Art world has had to accelerate successful shows from select galleries; the thinking about how creative ideas can be Sadie Coles HQ, , Frieze Live, properly represented and effectively exhibited. Stephen Friedman and Studio Voltaire. 02

Perhaps more so than any other major market, With a consistent and continued focus to create London has come together to address the the best street for modern and 04 challenge and Cork Street Galleries has readily in the world, we have recently strengthened the engaged with this collaborative approach. a-class community here by adding 3 major names Offering the benefits of built-for-purpose spaces, to the cohort and committing to leases on a 01 a credible central location and an unrivalled further 20,000 sq ft. heritage for supporting dynamic thought, we welcome any discussions on how best to create Opportunities to take shorter or longer term sustainable and resilient gallery models. leases in Cork Street remain and we very much 01 © Martine Syms, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ , London. 03 look forward to answering any questions you Photo: Robert Glowacki 02 Yinka Shonibare CBE, ‘Justice for All’, may have. Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 03 Installation view of Horizon at Lisson Gallery, London, 6– 31 October 2020 © Lisson Gallery, Photography by Jack Hems 04 Neo Naturists, Sellotape Dresses, Andrew Logans exhibition at The Book Show, Cylinder Gallery, London 16 Nov 1984. Courtesy of the Neo Naturists Archive 05 05 David Goldblatt, Portrait photographer and client, Braamfontein, 1955, courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery. 6 CORK STREET 7 Mapping sourced from Ordnance Survey. THE CENTRE OF LONDON'S ART MARKET Copyright and confidentiality Experian, 2015. © Crown copyright and database. 20

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36 The Pollen Estate is the primary owner on GALLERIES AUCTION HOUSES 1 David Zwirner Cork Street and is committed to restoring its 24 Bonhams 2 Eskenazi 25 Christie’s 27 10 5 innovative reputation to create the most 3 Gagosian 26 Phillips 12 prestigious and dedicated street for art in 4 Goodman Gallery 27 Sotheby’s 5 Hauser & Wirth the world. 6 Helly Nahmad RESTAURANTS 3 7 Lévy Gorvy 28 34 2 18 15 8 Luxembourg & Dayan 29 Le Caprice 26 8 9 Nahmad Projects 30 Cecconi’s 9 4 28 14 10 Ordovas 22 31 Scott’s 37 17 30 11 Pace Gallery 32 The Arts Club 31 12 Richard Green 33 The Colony Grill 13 1 at the Beaumont Hotel 7 14 Saatchi Yates 34 The Wolseley 35 15 Sadie Coles 16 Skarstedt HOTELS 17 Sprueth Magers 35 Brown’s Hotel 13 18 Stephen Friedman 36 Claridge’s 20 32 19 St James’s Art Cluster 37 The Connaught 6 20 Thaddaeus Ropac 38 The Ritz 21 Victoria Miro 22 Waddington Custot 23 34 23 19 16 38 29 25 8 CORK STREET 9 Mapping sourced from Ordnance Survey. THE CENTRE OF LONDON'S ART MARKET Copyright and confidentiality Experian, 2015. © Crown copyright and database.

During 2016–2019, 60% of the street’s overall This has been accompanied by a new frontage has been redeveloped, creating around streetscape to ensure that Cork Street regains 44,000 sq ft of dedicated, flexible gallery space. its importance at the centre of the world art market. The new developments significantly increase the 2 amount of floorspace in Cork Street, replacing 1 5 —9 Cork Street 1,931 sq m (20,800 sq ft) with 4,069 sq m 1 (40,500 sq ft) of large volume, purpose built, 2 22—27 Cork Street flexible art gallery space – an increase of 100%. 10 CORK STREET 11 The Royal Academy’s north-facing THE CENTRE OF ART CULTURE entrance,

Britain’s most important art institution Designs by leading international architect The Royal Academy of Arts has also undergone Sir David Chipperfield include the creation of a substantial transformation in celebration of a new public thoroughfare between its 250th year in 2018. and Mayfair, a new lecture theatre and new galleries linking the buildings to The project to join on temporary exhibitions. Piccadilly with 16 Burlington Gardens, unites these two magnificent buildings and creates a new front door facing Burlington Gardens and Cork Street, reinforcing the importance of this destination as the heart of London’s art scene. 12 CORK STREET 13 STREETSCAPE

As well as the major redevelopments there have A series of buildings on Cork Street have been been transformational improvements to the refurbished, extended and rebuilt behind retained streetscape of Cork Street. facades to provide new gallery and office space, as well as improved public realm to greatly enhance This has been delivered by new, high quality the presentation and vitality of Cork Street. finishes to carriageways and pavements, and improvements to lighting and wayfinding Gallery Area: 17,765 sq ft / 1,650.4 sq m resulting in a new, more integrated, public environment which enables the street to host functions and events to complement the activities hosted by resident galleries. CO RK STREET WEST

5-6 & 9 CORK STREET 16 5 CORK STREET 6A CORK STREET 9 CORK STREET 5-9 CORK STREET 17 6 CORK STREET 9A CORK STREET 5-9 CORK STREET Ground 53 sq m 570 sq ft Ground 43 sq m 468 sq ft Ground 148 sq m 1,590 sq ft Lower Ground 594 sq m 6,397 sq ft Lower Ground +vaults 180 sq m 1,941 sq ft Ceiling Height 3.8 m 12’5” Ceiling Height 3.8 m 12’5” Ceiling Height 3.8 m 12’6” Ceiling Height 2.7 – 8 m 8.10 – 26’3” Ceiling Height 2.9 m 9’6”

First 254 sq m 2,734 sq ft Flexible approach to volume possible to create spaces 6 CORK STREET 9A CORK STREET Ceiling Height 3.1 m 10’2” of varying height – up to 8m. Glazed elevation and Ground 360 sq m 3,871 sq ft Ground 18 sq m 194 sq ft courtyard to the rear. Ceiling Height 2.7 – 8 m 8.10 – 26’3” Ceiling Height 3.8 m 12’6”

Flexible approach to volume possible to create spaces of varying height – up to 8m. Glazed elevation and courtyard to the rear.

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22-27 CORK STREET AND 30 OLD BURLINGTON STREET 24 22-27 CORK STREET AND 25 30 OLD BURLINGTON STREET

Quintessentially British but finished to the “The gallery spaces at Burlington Gate are not a highest of international standards, this Lord series of hermetically-sealed cells....today’s galleries Rogers designed building features exceptional and museums are defined by their encouraging, detailing and innovative styling. Inspired by the inclusive spirit – whatever their scale” neighbourhood’s rich cultural heritage, the design GRAHAM STIRK, SENIOR PARTNER explores the concept of living in an art space and ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS has been beautifully crafted with all the grace, elegance and light of the most inspiring gallery.

Gallery Area: 22,681 sq ft / 2,107.1 sq m 26 22 CORK STREET 26 CORK STREET 22-27 CORK STREET AND 27 22 CORK STREET 26 CORK STREET 22-27 CORK STREET AND Ground 207.8 sq m 2,237 sq ft Ground 132.4 sq m 1,425 sq ft 30 OLD BURLINGTON STREET Lower Ground 215.8 sq m 2,323 sq ft Lower Ground 392.1 sq m 4,221 sq ft 30 OLD BURLINGTON STREET First 131.0 sq m 1,410 sq ft GROUND FLOOR & FIRST FLOOR LOWER GROUND FLOOR 27 CORK STREET 24 CORK STREET 27 CORK STREET 24 CORK STREET Ground 140.6 sq m 1,513 sq ft Lower Ground 101.6 sq m 1,094 sq ft Lower Ground 213.7 sq m 2,300 sq ft Ground 101.2 sq m 1,089 sq ft First 108.3 sq m 1,166 sq ft 30 OLD BURLINGTON STREET 30 OLD BURLINGTON STREET Lower Ground 136.9 sq m 1,474 sq ft Ground 225.7 sq m 2,429 sq ft

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22 CORK STREET 554.6 sq m 5,970 sq ft 24 CORK STREET 202.8 sq m 2,183 sq ft 26 CORK STREET 524.6 sq m 5,646 sq ft GROUND FIRST Ceiling Height: 13’9” / 4.2m Ceiling Height: 13’2” / 4m Ceiling Height: 9’2” / 2.8m Indicative Sub Division 27 CORK STREET 475.4 sq m 5,117 sq ft 30 OLD BURLINGTON ST 349.8 sq m 3,765 sq ft 28 22-27 CORK STREET 29 22-27 CORK STREET BASEMENT

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Installation view: Denzil Forrester, ‘Denzil Forrester in Rome’, solo exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2020). Copyright Denzil Forrester. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Mark Blower. 30 22-27 CORK STREET 31 22-27 CORK STREET

Installation view of Horizon at Lisson Gallery, London, 6– 31 October 2020 © Lisson Gallery, photography by Jack Hems Installation view, Martine Syms, Ugly Plymouths, Sadie Coles HQ, offsite at 24 Cork Street, London, 06 – 31 October 2020. Credit: © Martine Syms, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Robert Glowacki. 32 CONVERSATIONS FROM THE VIEWING ROOM 33

Director, Liza Essers explains the reasoning behind the recent locating of the Goodman Gallery to Cork St.

02 Had you been looking long for a suitable space in London? What part did the history of Cork Street play in your decision? It has been my dream to have a space in London since I became Absolutely. This historic street brought exhibitions by Miro, owner and director of Goodman Gallery in 2008. We started Bacon and Kandinsky to London for the first time. It is a looking a couple years ago and saw a great range of spaces around thrilling responsibility to be expanding on, but also challenging, Mayfair. This is a rare find. A purpose-built gallery with street this history by bringing new perspectives from Africa and ‘London is a vital centre in the level accessibility, high ceilings and a modern design suitable beyond. I hope that Cork Street will also become known to host international art world.’ for exhibiting the full range of contemporary art forms. the first London exhibitions for Candice Breitz, Grada Kilomba LIZA ESSERS and Kudzanai Chiurai, among others. We value the Pollen Why did you choose to open in London, particularly? Estate’s initiative to revive the street’s historic legacy by London is a vital centre in the international art world. approaching discerning world-class galleries with a record We had maintained a presence here through participation in of introducing some of the art world’s most exciting and 01 Frieze and various gallery artist activities. A permanent location important contemporary artists to international audiences. will only serve to amplify and extend Goodman Gallery’s influence, bringing the gallery closer to those UK and European-based 03 institutions, who continue to address imbalances in 01 Liza Essers Portrait, Photo: Anthea Pokroy 02 Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Creon Act I, Grada Kilomba, 2020. Ink on cotton paper. programming and collections. 03 Unpublished work, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami 34 CONVERSATIONS FROM THE VIEWING ROOM 35

‘We are now tasked to evolve within the shifting cultural landscapes and to further embrace working outside of traditional models.’

LIZA ESSERS

How has the nature and role of the Gallery/Gallerist changed Does your space at 26 Cork Street space offer particular flexibility? over the past 10 years? Very much so: it is street-level so accessible to all, it is large, Galleries form the backbone of the art world by continuing across two floors and has high ceilings. By moving into the shell to serve as the primary and consistent source of support and of the space, we have had the flexibility to work with architects incubation for contemporary artists. We are now tasked to evolve Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to determine the final interior within the shifting cultural landscapes and to further embrace to best meet the needs of our artists. 03 working outside of traditional models. This means increasing emphasis on gallery collaborations, enabling exhibitions and How important is the adjacency of other galleries to you? events and on digital realms such as social media platforms. Collaboration is a big part of Goodman Gallery’s programming. We are excited by the prospect of being in close proximity to What are the key elements you look for in a space? like-minded galleries, bringing back the sense of community It is important to me that the gallery exists within the heart and productive dialogue that Cork Street once nurtured. 01 of London, accessible to all and modern in design – a space Goodman Gallery will enliven Cork Street with its roster of unencumbered by colonial-era architecture. 26 Cork Street has international artists engaged in a commitment to social change been expertly designed to accommodate all manner of mediums, and unseating entrenched power structures. We hope to from vast video and installation pieces to dynamic performance attract other international contemporary art galleries to the works as well as more traditional mediums on canvas and paper. development on the street to collectively continue the street’s The four metre ceiling height is a brilliant asset for the gallery’s legacy of forging art history. 01 Acra Magenta, , 2019 02 Lift Going Up, Lift Going Down, David Annesley, 2019 artists working in analogue and digital formats. It is rare to 03 Neo Naturists, Neo Naturist Cheer Leaders with Leigh Bowery and Michael Clark, Royal Opera House, London, 09 Feb 1986. find such a fresh, dynamic and well-located space in London. Courtesy of the Neo Naturists Archive. 02 36 22-27 CORK STREET 37 22-27 CORK STREET 38 CONVERSATIONS WITH LOUISE HAYWARD 39

These were also the first of many UK time. There is always a long-term strategy alongside the launch of a major publication debuts for major American Minimal and and plan. It’s about a place of extraordinary surveying all historic 500 exhibitions. Louise Hayward on Cork Street, curating Conceptual artists. This continued into cultural legacy and production into the and Lisson Gallery’s esteemed history the 70s, when Nicholas Logsdail invited future. We need to keep holding onto art In the same year, Alex Logsdail spearheaded 20 artists (featuring many the gallery still as being the remarkable cultural bearer the gallery’s New York opening, under the works with, such as and that it is.” High Line, designed by Studio MDA and Richard Wentworth) to pick a blank wall in Studio Christian Wassmann. the gallery and realise a new, experimental, “Lisson has always been a gallery about “It’s impossible to quantify how art has artist afterwards, saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got great to work with emerging artists. So, when I site-specific work. innovation, working with artists in all “We’ve complemented this space by opening enriched my life,” declares Louise Hayward, news, this museum is going to buy your closed my gallery Store in 2008, it was quite different types of media, from sculpture a new gallery right next door [508 West Senior Director at Lisson Gallery. “I’ve work,’ is the best phone call in the world.” a natural move to go and work for him.” Today Lisson continues its support of to performance to film to painting. There 24th Street] to expand our programming worked closely with for almost younger names through , has always been that diversity within the abilities,” Hayward continues. “These 20 years and he is someone who sees the Hayward’s relationship with Lisson Gallery While Nicholas has stepped back, today Haroon Mirza and Cory Arcangel. It has gallery programme, and that continues. openings are both examples of intrepid world in such a lateral way. Spending time goes back eleven years – as she says “for a his son Alex, who has worked all his life added too the estates of those passed: I think that is something very inspirational moments in the gallery's history, where huge with him or John Akomfrah or Marina very good reason.” in galleries, carries on the family line as Hélio Oiticica and Leon Polk Smith. As within the gallery itself, for those who change was initiated during unpredictable Abramović has opened up a world of Executive Director. time moves on, the gallery underscores work with the artists and also for our times – from construction on the new thinking to me – they can’t help but “It’s an incredible, very global, gallery an artist-led stance. audiences and collectors.” New York space following the 2008 crisis, change the way you view the world and to work at and there is a great sense of Founded in London, 1967, in a derelict, to the commissioning of the Tony Fretton- your place within it.” camaraderie [here], with such close-knit triple-floor space on Bell Street, Lisson “Every gallery has its identity and I think Pressed for highlights – there are many designed Lisson Street when the UK was relationships across the team.” Gallery was an important supporter Lisson’s founding principles still hold – Lisson's 50th anniversary in 2017 shines recovering from a major recession. Amongst “There is nothing better than having a great of minimal and . very true,” proclaims Hayward. “Our as a beacon, presenting an off-site group all the challenges of 2020, we have also conversation, whether it’s with a museum “Nicholas Logsdail, the founder of Lisson Early exhibitions showed artists including commitment is very much to the artist, exhibition ‘EVERYTHING AT ONCE’ opened at Cork Street in Mayfair and East or a collector, about an artist’s work and Gallery, had always been a bit of a mentor Derek Jarman, , Sol LeWitt and and we will work in whatever way is most at the Store Studios on London’s Strand. Hampton, alongside launching our online seeing the transference of the idea and the to me as a young gallerist. He was very Dom Sylvester Houédard, defining the successful to nurture that artist’s career The event served as a journey through initiatives, from an exhibition platform to excitement into someone else. Calling the supportive and incredibly insightful in how spirit and ethos that still remains today. and support them over a long period of the gallery’s past, present and future, an alternate reality app.” 40 CONVERSATIONS WITH LOUISE HAYWARD 41

Lisson arrived at 22 Cork Street for and downloadable as a ROM file from the Street’s history is second to none. It has October’s successful Frieze week. Furthering artist’s website and Github account. an art identity in the same way that Savile a subliminal message of London’s relevance, Row has a tailoring identity, and there the gallery now has as many outposts in “I’m currently working with Ekow Eshun on are wonderful galleries such as Goodman, the capital as it does internationally. The a group show for 2021,” Hayward reveals, “as with an exceptional programme, and Cork Street space allows Lisson to pursue well as a solo exhibition by John Akomfrah Waddington. It will be interesting what a more instinctive and reactive programme, at our Tony Fretton building [67 Lisson happens over the next couple of years – working on a shorter turnaround. It’s Street]. It seems very relevant and it’s a street that culminates in the Royal 01 perfectly suited to today’s climate. interesting to create a dialogue with that Academy. We’ve seen people enjoy grabbing exhibition, using one of John’s early works, a coffee from the coffee cart, notice our 03 “I think what adds extra excitement about ‘Signs of Empire’ from 1983; having that as gallery and think, ‘Wonderful, I’ll come in.’” London is the addition of the auction a starting point for a larger conversation houses having major sales here,” Louise amongst a group of UK-based artists, elaborates. “It contributes to the city’s looking at notions of the imperialistic perception worldwide as a centre for monument, and the dismantling of that contemporary art.” over the last 40 years. Younger generations are seeing that they have the collective While we speak, Cory Arcangel’s ‘Totally will to pull down monuments and there Fucked’, a historic work on a hacked has been a shift, placing a different Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge, understanding of authority within a is showing at Cork Street. In the work, the younger demographic. Which is very, very iconic Super Mario character finds himself interesting. It has a lot to do with social 02 frustrated and destined to fail, stuck on media; the individual becoming collective.” 01 Installation view of Horizon at Lisson Gallery, London, 6 – 31 October 2020. Courtesy Lisson Gallery 02 Louise Hayward Portrait 04 a block and surrounded by a sea of blue 03 John Akomfrah, Peripeteia, 2012, Single channel HD colour video, 5.1 sound, 17 minutes 28 seconds © Smoking Dogs Films, courtesy Lisson Gallery pixels. The work is viewable from the street Louise states that, in terms of profile, “Cork 04 Ryan Gander, The thermals made me lazy, or The squatters (Smoky meet Monk’s Deflated Sculpture II (2009)), 2020, © Ryan Gander, courtesy Lisson Gallery 42 CONTACT

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