The commercial gallery Cabinet, which represents Ed Atkins and the Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey, is due to move into a new permanent home in the borough of Lambeth, south London, early next year. The purpose-built, five-storey building, located on the edge of Spring Gardens next to Vauxhall train station, is backed by the London-based arts patron Charles Asprey.
Cabinet, which was founded in Brixton in 1991, is currently based in Old Street in the east of the capital. The gallery, a fixture on the contemporary art scene, has worked with high-profile names such as Martin Creed and Tris Vonna-Michell.
Its new venue, designed by Trevor Horne architects, is on the former site of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, a popular visitor attraction with circus and theatre acts that opened in 1661.
“To be the neighbour of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern [a historic gay pub], on the edge of what remains of the Pleasure gardens, is an added bonus," says Martin McGeown, the co-director of Cabinet Gallery. The new venue is a key addition to Lambeth, which is also home to Damien Hirst’s new gallery. His vast £25m complex is due to open in Newport Street this October.
