As summer draws to a close in London, it’s a busy time for Tommaso Corvi-Mora.
The gallerist was preparing in early September to open a show featuring Than Hussein Clark and David Lieske, while also gearing up for another exhibition in early October with Che Lovelace — a Trinidadian artist known for vivid paintings that celebrate the cultural vibrancy, landscapes, and carnival traditions of his homeland. On top of that, Corvi-Mora was preparing for Frieze London.
But he is no stranger to juggling multiple projects.
In 2000, he started his namesake gallery, Corvi-Mora, after previously founding Robert Prime with Gregorio Magnani in 1995. Initially located centrally on Warren Street, the Corvi-Mora gallery moved in 2004 to Kempsford Road in Kennington, a quieter pocket of London just south of the River Thames.
The gallery is split between two distinct structures: a Dutch-style building at the front and a larger, warehouselike red brick building at the back, both featuring exhibition spaces. Shared reception and storage areas connect the two. Shows alternate between the intimate upstairs galleries and the expansive, industrial ground-floor venues, allowing for dual exhibitions to run simultaneously.
The gallery also houses a natural wine shop, One A Wines. And together with his wife, Cornelia Grassi — who runs greengrassi gallery — Corvi-Mora operates a nearby space called Neither. “It’s a third space that we use as a kind of release route from the gallery program where we do one-offs with artists,” or show things that “we don’t have the opportunity to fit in the program,” he said in a phone interview.
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