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| Richard Saltoun Gallery | |
|---|---|
| Name | Richard Saltoun Gallery |
| Established | 2011 |
| Location | London; Rome |
| Type | Commercial contemporary art gallery |
Richard Saltoun Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2011 with locations in London and Rome that focuses on rediscovering and promoting overlooked and historically significant artists, particularly women, feminist, and experimental practitioners from the 1960s to the present. The gallery curates exhibitions, publishes catalogues, and collaborates with museums, foundations, and collectors to situate artists within broader narratives linked to postwar and contemporary art movements. Its programme intersects with international art fairs, museum acquisitions, and scholarly projects involving curators, critics, and institutions across Europe and North America.
The gallery was established amid the expansion of contemporary art networks connecting London, Rome, Paris, Berlin, New York City, Los Angeles, Venice Biennale, Documenta, and institutions such as the Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum, Fondazione Prada, and MAXXI. Early exhibitions engaged with legacies tied to movements including Fluxus, Feminist art movement (1960s–1980s), Arte Povera, Conceptual art, and Performance art, dialogue informed by scholarship from figures associated with the Getty Research Institute, Courtauld Institute of Art, Frick Collection, and British Museum. The gallery’s archival emphasis has led to collaborations with estates and foundations such as the Merce Cunningham Trust, Marina Abramović Archive, Barbara Hepworth Estate, Yves Klein Foundation, and private collections linked to patrons like Peggy Guggenheim, Saatchi Gallery collectors, and European aristocratic collections.
Founded by a private dealer with ties to both the Sotheby's and Christie’s networks, the leadership maintains relationships with curators who have worked at institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, Serpentine Galleries, Whitechapel Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts, and university departments at Goldsmiths, University of London, University College London, and Columbia University. The gallery collaborates with independent curators and writers formerly affiliated with the Frieze Art Fair, ArtReview, Artforum, The Burlington Magazine, and Frick Collection catalogues. Its advisory and curatorial circles include scholars who have contributed to projects at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Phillips Collection, and university presses such as MIT Press and Yale University Press.
The gallery operates exhibition spaces in central districts of London and Rome, situating itself near cultural hubs such as the Southbank Centre, Mayfair, Soho, Trastevere, and proximity to biennials and institutional circuits like the Venice Biennale and Berlin Biennale. Its London premises have participated in gallery weekends alongside institutions like the Serpentine, while the Rome space engages with programmes connected to MAXXI and the Vittoriano. The gallery’s fair presence includes participation in major international fairs such as Frieze London, TEFAF, Art Basel, FIAC, MiArt, and satellite events during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Programming emphasizes historical reappraisal through monographic and group exhibitions that reference pivotal moments associated with artists connected to Fluxus, Minimalism, Arte Povera, Feminist art movement (1960s–1980s), and Conceptual art. The gallery has mounted shows contextualizing work alongside archival materials, artists’ books, and ephemera similar to presentations at the Documenta and thematic curations seen at the Pompidou Centre and Museum of Modern Art. Public programmes have included panel discussions with curators and critics from Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, and Serpentine Galleries, as well as collaborations with academic symposia at Courtauld Institute of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London.
The gallery represents and works with estates and living artists whose practices intersect with feminist, avant-garde, and experimental trajectories linked to figures housed in collections at the Tate, MoMA, Guggenheim, Stedelijk, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Artists associated with the programme include practitioners resonant with names from movements alongside Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Ana Mendieta, Günther Uecker, Gianni Colombo, Pino Pascali, Giorgio Morandi, Jannis Kounellis, Alighiero Boetti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Rosalind Nashashibi, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Judy Chicago, Charlotte Posenenske, Hannah Wilke, Mary Kelly, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Hélio Oiticica, Bridget Riley, Richard Long, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Cornelia Parker, Tacita Dean, Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Doris Salcedo, Kara Walker, Marina Abramović, Valie Export, Rosemarie Trockel, Francesca Woodman, Paola Pivi, Isa Genzken, Annette Messager, Martha Rosler, Charlotte Salomon.
The gallery has facilitated acquisitions and loans to museums including the Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MAXXI, Whitney Museum of American Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Fondazione Prada, and university collections at Yale University Art Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, and Smithsonian Institution. Collaborative projects have involved partnerships with foundations and estates such as the Merce Cunningham Trust, Yves Klein Foundation, Barbara Hepworth Estate, and private collectors who loan works to retrospectives at the Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Museo Nazionale Romano, and Palazzo Grassi.
Critical response in publications including Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, Apollo (magazine), ArtNews, ARTnews, Vogue, and Le Monde has noted the gallery’s role in recuperating marginalized narratives within postwar art history and amplifying women artists and experimental practitioners. Academic and curatorial feedback from institutions such as the Courtauld Institute of Art, Getty Research Institute, Tate, and Whitney situates the gallery as a conduit between collectors, museums, and scholarship, contributing to exhibitions and publications that have appeared in catalogues by MIT Press and Yale University Press and in thematic shows at the Venice Biennale and Documenta.
Category:Contemporary art galleries in London Category:Contemporary art galleries in Italy