Phoebe Saatchi, daughter of Charles, opens gallery with husband to support young people

New venture for Saatchi, only this time it is not the brainchild of Charles, the Anglo-Iraqi entrepreneur who revolutionized the gallery world, but of his only daughter, 26-year-old Phoebe Saatchi, who together with her husband Arthur Yates has decided to open a gallery to support young artists. The gallery will be called Saatchi Yates and will open on October 15, in a nearly 1,000-square-foot space in London ’s Mayfair district (at 6 Cork Street, to be precise). It will focus on emerging artists, to whom the entire ground-floor space will be devoted, but there will also be a room, in the basement, where pieces by major artists from private collections will be displayed, according to what the couple revealed to The Art Newspaper.

The latter will include works by artists such as Robert Motherwell, Anselm Kiefer, and Yayoi Kusama, but the focus of the new gallery will be on little-known names and talent to be launched. There will not be many: a few names, but well selected, reveals Arthur Yates. The first exhibition will be a solo show by young Swiss Pascal Sender (Locarno, 1988), who has specially created nineteen paintings for the show, with costs starting at £50,000 each. Sender, who lives and works in London, studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, is a student of Peter Doig, is on his first experience and offers art that mixes landscapes and virtual reality while also making use of apps.

“We wanted to maintain Saatchi’s typical narrative of showing and buying young artists,” said Phoebe Saatchi, “but the difference is that we also want to be with them for the long term and grow their careers.” “The idea of granting artists large-scale presentations,” Yates added, “was very important; young people don’t usually have the opportunity to do exhibitions like these.”

Phoebe Saatchi and Arthur Yates are on their first experience as gallerists; in fact, until now they had worked with Charles Saatchi’s gallery but had never had spaces of their own. The two are not afraid of inexperience, nor of opening a gallery in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We can’t freeze our lives,” concluded Phoebe Saatchi. “What we’re trying to do with the gallery is to start something that can give hope and a new way of looking at things. And it’s nice to do something really positive after the strangest year we’ve ever experienced.” While waiting to see the gallery live, you can already take a tour of its website.

Pictured: Phoebe Saatchi and Arthur Yates

Phoebe Saatchi, daughter of Charles, opens gallery with husband to support young people

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