.New York supplier Per Skarstedt will move into a Chelsea room that previously housed Cheim & Read, a gallery that shuttered in 2015 after 26 years in business. Skarstedt will remain to operate his Upper East Side area on East 79th Road, according to Kenny Shachter, that first mentioned the headlines in his Artnet column. Skarstedt, whose roster consists of performers like Eric Fischl, KAWS, David Salle, and Martin Kippenberger, has safeguarded a $13.5 million deal to move into the West 25th Road gallery site.
The 6,000-square-foot building, designed by architect Richard Gluckman, was actually listed for $15 million in May. The action is actually a major modification for Skarstedt, which will certainly now be actually closer to most of its peers. Skarstedt additionally possesses a gallery in London.
His gallery’s development comes as lots of others are actually leaving Chelsea. Before handful of years, a lot of pictures have actually left for Tribeca, where a disaparate network of rooms is right now sited. That community presently hosts galleries such as James Cohan, Andrew Kreps, and also P.P.O.W., every one of whom were actually Chelsea essentials just before moving downtown.
The turn over has actually enabled some new entrants to open up outlet locally. Kurimanzutto, David Kordansky, Nara Roesler, as well as others have all opened Chelsea galleries previously five years, along with Aura set to follow recently. A Skarstedt representative did certainly not react to ARTnews’s request for review.