Lehmann Maupin has secured a permanent space on the first floor of No. 9 Cork Street in London's Mayfair, the gallery hub operated by Frieze. The gallery will hold three to four exhibitions annually in the ground-floor gallery, starting with a show of British painter Freya Douglas-Morris on February 26, priced between £40,000 and £60,000. The upstairs viewing space opened with Billy Childish and will feature Catherine Opie later this year. The gallery also plans to develop its secondary market business from this London base.
This move signals Lehmann Maupin's strategic commitment to the London market, which partner Isabella Icoz describes as "very important" given the gallery's work with UK and European institutions, artists, and collectors. The permanent space at a prestigious Frieze-run hub allows the gallery to align its London programming with institutional shows—such as Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern and Gilbert & George at the Hayward Gallery—while carefully timing exhibitions to avoid conflicts with art fairs and biennials. The expansion also reflects a shift from the gallery's earlier London outpost at Cromwell Place, which has since pivoted to a restaurant.