Goldie Saatchi Gallery fans, take note: the drum & bass pioneer is taking over a whole room at the Chelsea institution for six months. He’ll be setting up an immersive Metalheadz record shop and a video archive as part of the street culture exhibition BEYOND THE STREETS II.
Goldie at Saatchi Gallery: what’s in the room
Goldie’s space will play 30 years of his short films and music videos on 30 stacks of vintage TVs. Next to the screens is a working Metalheadz record shop. Goldie co-founded the label in 1994, and it went on to shape the sound of jungle and drum & bass. The room also goes back to where he started: painting graffiti across the West Midlands, before the breakbeats took over.
Goldie puts the exhibition in defiant terms. He says that however hard governments try to erase this culture, BEYOND THE STREETS shows there’s enough interest in it, and enough documentation of it, for the scene to rise up.
BEYOND THE STREETS II: dates and line-up
The exhibition runs at Saatchi Gallery from 11 November 2026 to 5 May 2027. The gallery says it fills more than ten rooms with work by over 100 international creators. It covers six decades of street culture’s influence on art, photography, fashion, music and activism, from graffiti and hip-hop to 2Tone.
Goldie is in strong company. Also on the list:
- The Selecter frontwoman Pauline Black
- The archive of The Big Issue
- Normski’s photographs of Soul II Soul and Public Enemy
- Janette Beckman’s shots of The Specials
- Shepard Fairey, KAWS, FUTURA 2000, Lady Pink, Jenny Holzer and the Guerrilla Girls
- Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova
Tickets are available through the Saatchi Gallery website.
A big week for Goldie in London
The timing works out well. Three days after the exhibition opens, Goldie headlines the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre on Saturday 14 November 2026. He’ll perform with a live band, an orchestra and guest artists as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival programme. So in one week, you can go through the Metalheadz crates in Chelsea and then hear the catalogue played by an orchestra on the South Bank.
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