Lehmann Maupin has taken on a everlasting house on the primary ground of London’s No. 9 Cork Avenue, the gallery hub run by Frieze, and has dedicated to holding three-to-four exhibitions a yr within the Mayfair constructing’s floor ground gallery.
“New York is our flagship, however we work with a number of establishments, artists and collectors within the UK and Europe. London is essential to us,” says Isabella Icoz, the companion at Lehmann Maupin who runs its Europe actions out of the UK capital. Current institutional exhibits for his or her artists in London embody Do Ho Suh’s Stroll the Home at Tate Fashionable final yr and Gilbert & George’s twenty first Century Footage, which closed on the Hayward Gallery final week.
Of the break up between the 2 areas in No.9, Icoz explains that “the everlasting viewing house [upstairs] will mirror exhibits at establishments, our different galleries and past”. It opened this week with a present of Billy Infantile, who at the moment has an exhibition within the gallery’s West twenty fourth Avenue in New York. Future exhibitions right here will embody the photographer Catherine Opie, to coincide along with her exhibition at London’s Nationwide Portrait Gallery, Icoz says. She provides that the plan is to develop additional the gallery’s secondary market enterprise from this base.
For the downstairs gallery, Lehmann Maupin has successfully taken a block reserving at No. 9 Cork Avenue and has three exhibits within the planning for this yr, coinciding with London’s seasonal peaks. Their opening present on February 26 is of the British painter Freya Douglas-Morris, a brand new artist to the gallery’s roster (Douglas-Morris is co-represented in New York by Lehmann Maupin and Alexander Berggruen). There will likely be round a dozen of Douglas-Morris’s vivid, layered imagined landscapes, priced between about £40,000 and £60,000.
Teresa Photo voltaic Abboud
Tunnel Boring Machine, 2025
Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin and Travesía Cuatro
In April and Could, Lehmann Maupin London will present the New York-based, South Korea-born artist Anna Park, whereas in September, it’ll open with the Madrid-based Teresa Photo voltaic Abboud, whose sculpture of huge, pink tongues at the moment stands outdoors the Hayward Gallery.
“We’re so conscious of the quantity of artwork festivals that we do, the quantity of institutional exhibits and biennials that our artists are in concerned in, whereas we’re additionally juggling galleries in New York and in Seoul. We actually need to guarantee that after we are doing a present in London, it’s all new work, actually participating and that our artists are actually impressed… We’ve been very strategic in regards to the timing,” Icoz says.
Lehmann Maupin first opened in London in 2020 because the anchor tenant for the South Kensington gallery hub, Cromwell Place, which final yr needed to rethink its technique and now operates primarily as a restaurant known as The Lavery. Icoz says that the gallery’s priorities in London have since modified. “We had a smaller staff then and maybe location was much less essential,” she says. In 2025, the gallery trialled exhibits at No. 9 Cork Avenue and located that its Mayfair location was among the many issues that “made sense,” she says.
Icoz reveals too that Mary Cork, beforehand at Stephen Friedman gallery, has joined as a senior director of Lehmann Maupin in London.
