Founder of London Matt’s Gallery Robin Klassnik announced the gallery will be moving from its Acme-owned venue on Copperfield Road in east London to a new 9,000sqft space in Wandsworth, south-west London, Art Monthly reports. Originally founded as a studio space on Hackney’s Martello Street in 1979, Matt’s Gallery (named after Klassnik’s dog) moved to Copperfield Road in 1993, when the gallery registered as a Friendly Society, obtaining charitable status. Over the years, the gallery has come to represent the likes of Benedict Drew, Nathaniel Mellors, Mike Nelson and David Osbaldeston, whose show The Top & Bottom of It is currently on at the gallery.
The new space is scheduled to open in 2019. The gallery is currently looking for a smaller temporary space (2-3,000 sqft) elsewhere in London to relocate as of May 2016.
1 February 2016.
