START Art Fair, presented by Prudential, returns to the Saatchi Gallery from 10 – 13 September 2015

Delivering a high profile platform for emerging artists and new art scenes from around the world,  is a new annual art fair that takes place across all three floors of the Saatchi Gallery in London. By providing an elegant environment with museum-quality spaces, START aims to shine a spotlight on emerging artists and new art scenes, creating a program that enables collectors, curators and the greater public to discover new artistic talent.

The ground and first floors at Saatchi Gallery will host 38 galleries from across the globe – with representation from cities that range from Seoul to New York, Cape Town to Riga – all of whom will showcase the best of their gallery rosters with an emphasis on artists who are new to London.

Namsa Leuba, ‘Untitled I’, 2011, from the “Cocktail” series, archival pigment print, 43.81 x 60 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Art Twenty One, Lagos.

The 2015 edition of START Projects takes over the whole of the second floor at Saatchi Gallery with curator-lead solo presentations and group exhibitions; including a fully immersive digital art presentation by Japanese ultra-technologists teamLab, the debut UK solo show of Prudential Eye Award winners Chim?Pom and a curated section of solo presentations called ‘This Is Tomorrow.’

‘This Is Tomorrow’ is a series of solo artist presentations selected by START’s Fair Director, Niru Ratnam. The section focuses on artists whose work is rooted in the contemporary either through the way they work, their subject matter or the context in which they work.

The full list of presentations : Hannah Quinlan Anderson and Rosie Hastings (Arcadia Missa, London), Farhad Gavzan (Dastan’s Basement, Tehran), Jonny Green (CARTER presents), Rae Hicks (CANAL, London), Vay Hy (Christine Park Gallery, London), Kim In Kyum (Gallery SoSo, Seoul), Liane Lang, (LOEWE Contemporary), Namsa Leuba, Art Twenty One (Lagos), Myungil Lee (Gallery H.A.N., Seoul), Nomusa Makhubu (Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town), Pala Pathupitiye (Hempel Galleries, Colombo), Aida Silvestri (Roman Road, London), Vertical Submarine (Singapore), Morten Viskum (UNION Gallery), David Ben White (l’étrangère, London)

The Fair will be accompanied by a series of events including a charity auction conducted by Christie’s, an extensive VIP programme and a talks programme.

The participating galleries at START 2015 are:

A.I. (London)
Alludo Room Gallery (Jochberg)
Alma Gallery (Riga)
Arcadia Missa (London)
art ON Istanbul (Istanbul)
Art Twenty One (Lagos)
ARTCO (Cologne)
atelier aki (Seoul)
ATELIER ALEN (Munich)
Baik Art (Los Angeles)
CARTER presents (London)
CES Gallery (Los Angeles)
Christine Park Gallery (London)
CUC Gallery (Hanoi)
Dastan’s Basement (Tehran)
Denny Gallery (New York)
dvorak sec contemporary (Prague)
Erdmann Contemporary (Cape Town)
Faur Zsófi Gallery (Budapest)
Fiumano Projects (London)
Galeri Chandan (Kuala Lumpur
Galerie Huit (Hong Kong)
GALLERY BASTEJS (Riga)
Gallery Elena Shchukina (London)
Gallery MOMO (Cape Town)
Gallery SoSo (Seoul)
Hafez Gallery (Jeddah)
Hempel Galleries (Colombo)
Julian Page (London)
Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts Gallery (Budapest)
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (London)
l’étrangère (London)
L153 Art Company (Seoul)
mc2gallery (Milan)
+MAS Arte Contemporáneo (Bogota)
Montoro12 Contemporary Art (Rome)
Ncontemporary (London)
Osage Gallery (Hong Kong)
Project ArtBeat (Tbilisi) Roman Road (London)
Sin Sin Fine Art (Hong Kong) Skipwiths (London)
SODA Gallery (Bratislava)
Studio Pivot (Rome)
Triumph Art Space (Beijing)
Union Gallery (London)
VILTIN (Budapest)

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