The Saatchi Gallery, a gallery for modern art was opened by Charles Saatchi in London, Spring 2003 and takes up 40,000 ft² (3,700 m²) of space at County Hall, the Greater London Council's former headquarters on the South Bank.
Typical exhibits are by Young British Artists, including works by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst, and Tracey Emin.
On 24 May, 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the collection. One art insurance specialist valued the lost work at £50m.
The current Saatchi Gallery was preceded by another exhibition space in Boundary Road, St John's Wood that housed the Saatchi Collection and was the venue for a series of major exhibitions during the 1980s, showing Saatchi's collections of many American artists such as Andy Warhol and Philip Guston. The Boundary Road building was a vast white space.
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