Landlords Are Turning Offices Into Art Galleries To Win Tenants

Two years ago, Merrick Porchéddu shifted her consulting business away from the public sector to focus on where artists are getting paid: corporate workplaces.

In efforts to bring back tenants following the pandemic, office landlords are investing tens of millions of dollars in office renovations. Slapping a generic print in a craft store frame and hanging it on a conference room wall is no longer enough — the space has to be exciting. For some, it has to be exclusive. 

Budgets for commissions commonly range from $200K on the low end and into the millions, according to Porchéddu, the founding partner of Artist Uprising. 

“Sometimes what we pay artists blows my mind,” Porchéddu said.

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RSK: I say, whatever it takes, within reason to make tenants happy, do it.