After 25 years of operating solely in London, Stuart Shave’s Modern Art gallery will open in Paris

One among London’s foremost business galleries, Trendy Artwork, will open a location in Paris subsequent month. Based in 1998 by the British seller Stuart Shave, it presently has two areas, each in London: one on Helmet Row, close to the Barbican Centre, and a smaller gallery in St James’s.

The brand new Paris area will likely be situated on the second flooring of a Hausmann-style constructing on Place de l’Alma within the metropolis’s eighth arrondissement, near the Palais de Tokyo, and close by a variety of worldwide galleries with places within the French capital, together with Gagosian, Skarstedt and the soon-to-open Hauser & Wirth. Its inaugural present (16 October-2 December) will function round 10 artists from the gallery’s 37-strong roster, together with Mohammed Sami, Sanya Kantarovsky, Pope. L and Frida Orupabo. The gallery won’t be collaborating in Paris + by Artwork Basel (18-22 October), however Shave says it’s prone to apply for future editions.

Shave intends to run the Paris gallery “in another way” to his London ones, holding solely three exhibitions there per-year and being open by appointment solely, though this would possibly change sooner or later, he says. Together with exhibition areas, the brand new location additionally has two viewing rooms that will likely be used for personal shoppers, and he anticipates “a whole lot of flexibility” as to how these are used.

The gallerist is adamant that the results of Brexit haven’t knowledgeable his determination to open throughout the channel. “Brexit was disheartening, nevertheless it has not discernibly affected gross sales in London. It’s been extra of a ache for my registrars than me. The Paris gallery will not be making an attempt to bypass crimson tape. London continues to be probably the greatest cities for modern artwork on the planet, and it stays fully central to the gallery’s programme and identification.”

Nonetheless, Shave will not be proof against the apparent attracts of Paris: “I really like town and its power. It has among the most bold personal collectors at the moment. The dimensions of what François Pinault is doing with the Bourse de Commerce is unmatched in London.” He provides that Paris’s proximity to London will permit him to go to the brand new area simply.

Above all, he says, the selection was led by the needs of his artists. “Coincidentally, not one of the artists on Trendy Artwork’s roster are represented by French galleries, so it’s an amazing alternative for me to point out them there.” He provides {that a} Paris area may additionally permit him to work with artists represented by different London galleries.

Requested whether or not he has additionally thought-about opening an area within the US, he says that a variety of Trendy Artwork’s artists are co-represented by American galleries, reminiscent of Matthew Marks, Greene Naftali and Luhring Augustine, that means that there “is not any motive” for him to take action.

In London, the gallery has not too long ago renewed a 10-year lease on its Helmet Row area, and continues to be within the first portion of its Bury Avenue lease. Shave says he has no intentions to open a 3rd location within the metropolis. In 2020 the gallery closed its two-storey area in east London’s Vyner Avenue.

“I do know it appears to be like like I am making an attempt to develop, however I am actually not all for turning Trendy Artwork right into a franchise,” Shave says. “The Paris area ought to act as a complement to the London ones. I am extra all for deepening the methods by which a gallery can signify an artist.”