The Whitechapel Gallery in London will host “Deadweight,” a striking new exhibition by Dominique White, the winner of the ninth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
17 June 2024
London’s Whitechapel Gallery has announced that visionary filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien KBE RA will be honoured with the prestigious… Read More
1 February 2024
In February, most major galleries are launching their new season’s exhibitions. From solo shows featuring contemporary artists Barbara Kruger and Yoko Ono to group shows on the subjects of colonialism, contemporary artists…
2 January 2024
The Freelands Foundation has announced the artist Joy Gregory and the Whitechapel Gallery have won the eighth annual Freelands Award…. Read More
29 November 2023
The Freelands Foundation has announced the five visual arts organisations and women artists under consideration for the eighth Freelands Award…. Read More
18 September 2023
Several exciting art exhibitions will open in London’s major museums and galleries this Autumn.
22 August 2023
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Firstsite Colchester, Newport Street Gallery and Salisbury Cathedral.
13 July 2023
A spectacular exploration of death and immortality, this newly commissioned performance work by Whitechapel Gallery Writer-in-Residence 2023 Martin O’Brien transforms the gallery into a place of ceremony.
27 June 2023
This exhibition explores the intersection of art and everyday life and the role of the contemporary art institution at a time of uncertainty and change.
Tues-Sat 11am-6pm Thursday until 9pm
Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti have announced Dominique White (b. 1993) as the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
28 March 2023
The Whitechapel Gallery In London has announced a major new exhibition bringing together over 150 paintings by an overlooked generation of 80 international women artists.
17 January 2023
A major exhibition of 150 paintings from an overlooked generation of 81 international women artists.
Tuesday- Sunday 11am - 6pm (Thursday until 9 pm)
Whitechapel Gallery has announced that Jenny Holzer is the tenth artist to receive its prestigious annual Art Icon award.
15 November 2022
This exhibition brings together recent films by artists who explore the intersection of dance, choreography and moving image.
Tuesday 11am–6pm Wednesday 11am–6pm Thursday 11am–9pm Friday 11am–6pm Saturday 11am–6pm Sunday 11am–6pm
For her winning Max Mara Art Prize for Women commission, Emma Talbot (b. 1969, UK) questions deeply rooted positions of power, governance, attitudes to nature and representations of women through an acutely personal lens.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Thursday until 9pm
This triennial exhibition showcases the most dynamic talent from across the capital.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Thursday until 9pm
The artist’s studio is a timeless, complex space. A place where artists go to work, to think, providing both inspiration and comfort, as well as an actual physical place to go to create and experiment.
9 March 2022
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that Tracey Emin (b. 1963, UK) will be the ninth artist to receive the prestigious… Read More
10 January 2022
In the beginning, there was Clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates’ ‘A Clay Sermon’,
19 October 2021
Visitors are invited to participate in an interactive installation by world-famous artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Thursday until 9pm
his is part of a multi-venue presentation dedicated to Theaster Gates clay practice for 2021-22 alongside the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Serpentine.
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm; First Thursdays, 11am – 9pm
For one night only, Whitechapel Gallery and nearby historic, outdoor and unusual spaces in East London are transformed by installations, films, live performances, music, and food experiences.
6-11pm
As a new young arts writer, I once went to Eileen Agar’s flat in Kensington. I honestly didn’t know who she was at that time. The flat was quite conventional, except for a few collages on the walls and her famous Bouillabaisse hat – constructed of cork and decorated with a large orange plastic flower, a blue plastic star, assorted shells, glass beads and starfish – sitting on a stand.
24 May 2021
Selected by British Artist Gary Hume, the exhibition features important works by renowned artists from the Hiscox Collection.
Tuesday-Sunday 11-6 Thursday until 9pm
The rather splendid show of new figurative painting, now on view at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, boasts that it is the first event of its kind since the New Spirit in Painting exhibition that made such an impact here in London in the now long-ago 1980s.
5 February 2020
Reopened
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium brings together a new generation of artists who represent the body in radical ways to tell stories and explore vital social concerns.
Tuesday-Sunday 11-6 Thursday until 9pm
To celebrate the eleven-year partnership between the Whitechapel and the Film London Jarman Award, the Whitechapel will present works from the six artists shortlisted in 2019 every day in the Zilkha Auditorium.
Tuesday-Sunday 11:00am – 6:00pm. Thursdays until 21:00.
With simple materials like clay, paper and ink Anna Maria Maiolino (b.1942, Italy) constructs a fascinating world rooted in human conditions such as longing, fragility and resistance.
Tuesday - Sunday 12-6pm Thursdays until 9pm
For four exciting days, creative and cutting-edge publishers, big and small, transform the Whitechapel Gallery into the London Art Book Fair.
Thursday 6pm–9pm Friday 11am–6pm Saturday 11am–6pm Sunday 11am–4pm
Nocturnal Creatures is a free annual late-night festival inviting everyone to explore a host of extraordinary local spaces transformed by leading international artists.
6-11pm
The winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women Helen Cammock is a visual poet whose drawings, prints, photographs and films juxtapose word and image.
Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Thur until 9pm Monday closed
Premiering Rakowitz’s most important projects from two decades, eight multifaceted installations draw on architecture, cultural artefacts, cuisine and geopolitics from 750BC to today.
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm; Thursdays, 11am – 9pm
