Temporary was established in 2025 by Mexican cultural promoter Javier Calderón as a complementary force of Somers Gallery. While Somers Gallery promotes Latin American and British Art as an art gallery, Temporary offers a wide range of art services for private individuals organisations and government, in partnership with a diverse network of International artists and art experts & specialists.

Temporary is an adaptive art force guided by the historical formal characteristics of art. In that sense we are really progressive and agile. Nevertheless, we are incredibly traditional when it comes to considering the purpose and power of art and the role we must play as a serious and responsible art  organisation.

Our office and hiring gallery are located by Kings Cross – one of the most innovative areas of London; home of leading Global institutions in the fields of AI, Fintech, Life Sciences and other advanced sciences as well as leading academic organisations such as the Courtauld Institute,  the Art Fund and St Martins School of Art.

About Our Founder.

Javier Calderon was born in Mexico City and has lived in the UK since 2004. He has had  a passion for art since he was very young. He was always attracted to the San Carlos Academic of Art in Mexico City and the rich and vast historic sites of Mexico city.

In Mexico he took various art courses with influential Mexican artists and in the UK he studied History of Art before working on the front of house of most National museums and galleries including The Royal Academy, Tate Modern & Tate Britain, The V&A, The National Gallery, The Queen’s Gallery and other great institutions where he met directors, curators, conservators, art handlers and artists.

In 2009 Javier curated his first education programme at the Blue Coat Gallery in Liverpool and from 2010 to 2014 he curated several exhibitions of Mexican artists in London and of British artists in Mexico. In 2015 Javier opened Somers Gallery as a project space and in 2021 he founded  the Day of the Dead Festival UK. 

Javier has lectured at  The Jan Van Eyck Academie, the University of the Arts London and the National School of Art, La Esmeralda in Mexico. 

Javier’s work has been supported on several occasions by the Arts Council of England, the British Council and the Mexican Embassy in the UK amongst other entities. In 2022 He received The Ohtli Award by the Mexican Government for promoting Mexican Arts.