Saatchi Art Group is a

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platform and online art gallery.< Saatchi Art is an art platform that aims to help new artists enter the global art market. It is composed of the Saatchi Art online marketplace, The Other Art Fair, and the group's Hospitality Art Advisory.

History

Saatchi Art was founded in 2010 as

Saatchi Online The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the D ...

, which was owned by

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. It was acquired by Demand Media, Inc. (currently

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) in August 2014, which was then bought by

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in 2021. In 2016, Saatchi Art acquired The Other Art Fair. Based in London and founded by Ryan Stanier, the Other Art Fair now operates across 3 continents and is the largest artist-led art event in the world. In 2018, Saatchi Art debuted its hospitality art advisory services, offering art programming for hotels, restaurants, residential buildings, and healthcare institutions. The senior hospitality art advisory team has curated artworks for Four Seasons, Nobu Hotels, 1 Hotels,

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, The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, and other brands. In 2023, Sarah Meller was appointed CEO of Saatchi Art. Rebecca Wilson currently serves as Saatchi Art’s chief curator and vice president. She was formerly a director at the Saatchi Gallery in London and was responsible for maintaining the gallery's online presence.

Controversies

In November 2014,

, then owner of

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, initiated multiple legal actions in the United Kingdom's Chancery Division of

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against

, the current owners of Saatchi Art. Charles Saatchi's contention arose from an alleged breach of an intellectual property agreement dated February 18, 2010, prompting him to ask Demand Media to cease the usage of the “Saatchi Art” name and compensate him for profits made from the name since the alleged breach. He also alleged that the low average transaction price on Saatchi Art might dilute the Saatchi brand's association with the high-end art market.

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