Location: Lord's Cricket Ground
Event Schedule
First View
Thursday | October 16 | 10am-8pm
Press Breakfast
Thursday | October 16 | 10am-12pm
Collector Mentorship Auction
Thursday | October 16 | 5pm-8pm
Fair Hours
Friday | October 17 | 11am-8pm
Saturday | October 18 | 11am-8pm
Sunday | October 19 | 11am-6pm
Overview | SCOPE London 08
Building on the success of its international art fair program, SCOPE Art Fair is pleased to announce the return of its fourth SCOPE London art fair, October 16-19, 2008. SCOPE London 08 will present its most international fair focusing on emerging galleries from all over the world. Situated directly across from Regents Park, SCOPE London’s world-class, 30,000 sq-ft exhibition hall at Lord’s Cricket Ground is within walking distance of Frieze.
Alongside featured curations, screenings, and special projects, SCOPE London is chosen by an elected selection committee. Each committee member will be a representative from a particular city or region, inviting the most significant emerging galleries, curators, and artist projects, striving to scout the most emerging contemporary talent. SCOPE's 50 international exhibitors will uphold its unique tradition of one-person and thematic group shows, bringing visitors a real-time international survey of the emerging contemporary art world available nowhere else.
Programming Highlight | Collector Mentorship Auction
Continuing its "Art Fair as Resource" mandate, SCOPE is proud to present the second Collector Mentorship Auction during SCOPE London 08. This unique event is designed to provide invaluable networking and educational opportunities for beginning collectors while promoting the philanthropic mission of the SCOPE Foundation. SCOPE’s first Collector Mentorship Auction featured established collectors Melva Bucksbaum, Bob Colacello, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Eileen and Richard Ekstract, John Friedman, Raymond Learsy, Arnold Lehman, Kim Levin, Adam Lindemann, Enrique Norten, Dennis Oppenheim, Lowell Pettit, Nancy Seltzer, Richard Stewart, Terrie Sultan, Rob Teeters, Jed Walentas, and Rick Wester. The donation of an hour of their time was bid on by young collectors from MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, The Parrish Museum, Guild Hall, and Core Club as an innovative means to shape and strengthen the art market.
Programming Highlight | Museum Presents
The SCOPE Foundation will hold its second edition of Museum Presents, a non-commercial exhibition space in the SCOPE London 2008 hall. Museum Presents focuses on emerging contemporary art market trends concentrating on emerging talent from India, North Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia; SCOPE’s second edition of Museum Presents will feature China.
Programming Highlight | Lecture series
Friday | October 17 | 3pm-5pm
Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art
Joshua Jiang, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Karen Smith, and Amelie von Wedel
SCOPE Art Fairs | Background
Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new audiences internationally has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world available anywhere. With art fairs in Miami, Basel, New York, London, and the Hamptons, SCOPE is proud to be an influential presence in the expanding global art market.
With total sales of nearly $100 million and attendance of over 250,000 visitors, SCOPE has drawn wide media attention including CBS News, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Art in America, and ArtNet Magazine, which wrote, “Of the various art fairs in Miami, it was SCOPE that served up the best, both inside and out.”