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. The gallery was originally at 21 Dering Street, but moved to 4 Hanover Square, London W1, in October 2012. The London gallery opened on 13 October 2010 with an exhibition by

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. In 2011 the gallery opened a branch in the former print room of ''

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'' in the Potsdamer Straße in

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. The first show was of work by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, with the participation of

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. Subsequent exhibitions have included drawings by

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in 2012; a collaboration between

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and

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in 2013; sculpture by Lynn Chadwick in 2014; work by Andreas Schmitten, and Mathias Lanfer, curated by

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, in 2015; and

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’s ''Moving Stillness'' later that year. In May 2019, the gallery presented ''The Mariners Meadow'' by Cuban/ American artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. In 2019 the gallery opened a space in New York with an inaugural exhibition by Abdoulaye Konaté. The gallery permanently closed all three locations in 2020, saying that it was "unable to secure the gallery’s future long term".

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