CORK STREET GALLERIES
Cork Street Galleries, an initiative from The Pollen Estate, lies at the centre of the highest concentration of galleries in London. Since Freddie Mayor opened the first gallery on Cork Street in 1925, the street has remained at the forefront of innovative art movements. As well as becoming the unrivalled hub for Surrealism during the 1930s, Cork Street launched the careers of some of the leading forces in art from the past century. In 2018, The Pollen Estate acquired 23,000 sq ft of additional gallery space on the East side of the street, tripling the existing space and underlining the estate's commitment to preserving Cork Street as the epicentre of the London art scene and the spiritual home of modern and contemporary art. Cork Street Galleries is currently home to thirteen galleries, including Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, Alison Jacques, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Flowers Gallery, Goodman Gallery, Holtermann Fine Art, Massimodecarlo, Messums London, Nahmad Projects, The Redfern Gallery, Stephen Friedman, Tiwani Contemporary and Waddington Custot.
1925 Mayor Gallery opens at 18 Cork Street
1936 London Gallery opens at number 28 Cork Street
1936 Redfern Gallery relocates from 27 Bond Street to 20 Cork Street
1936 Peggy Guggenheim opens her gallery Guggenheim Jeune at 30 Cork Street, above a pawn shop
*1945 Roland Gallery opens at 19 Cork Street
1955 Piccadilly Gallery moves to 5a Cork Street in 1978 they moved to 16 Cork Street
1957 Victor Waddington opens his gallery at 2 Cork Street
1965 The Waddington Galleries opened a second gallery at 25 Cork Street, opposite No. 2.
1966 Leslie Waddington opens his own gallery at 11-12 Cork Street
1969 Waddington Galleries announced the opening of two further galleries at 34 Cork Street, named Waddington Galleries II and III, with No. 2 being Waddington Galleries I
*1977 Browse & Darby opens at 19 Cork Street
1982 Waddington Galleries, now under sole ownership by Leslie opened a fourth gallery at 4 Cork Street
1982 Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd establish their gallery at 25 Cork Street
1983 Robert Fraser opens on Cork Street
1980s By the end of 1980 two additional Waddington galleries had been opened at 5 & 12 Cork Street
1993 Messum Fine Art move into 28 Cork Street
1994 Beaux Arts Gallery opens on Cork Street
1995 Alan Cristea opens his gallery at 31 Cork Street
2000 Flowers Gallery opens at 21 Cork Street
2004 Bernard Jacobson Gallery moves into 6 Cork Street
2016 Cork Street’s redevelopment commences, creating the most prestigious, dedicated street for art in the world
2019 Goodman Gallery opens at 26 Cork Street
2023 Stephen Friedman Gallery opens at 5-6 Cork Street
2023 Alison Jacques opens at 22 Cork Street
2023 Tiwani Contemporary opens at 24 Cork Street