Nocturnal Creatures
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
Whitechapel Gallery
Helen Cammock: Che si può fare
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
Michael Rakowitz
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
Queer Spaces: New Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition Opens
Over half of London’s LGBTQ+ venues closed between 2006 and 2016 New exhibition explores queer spaces through contemporary artworks and rare archival material. It asks what defines a ‘queer space’ and questions what the cultural legacy of these under-threat venues is?
2 April 2019
Staging Jackson Pollock
In an archive exhibition, the Whitechapel Gallery revisits how the 1958 Jackson Pollock exhibition was organised and the reasons for its profound significance with rare archival material and an exclusive recent interview with the exhibitions’s designer, architect Trevor Dannatt.
Tuesday-Sunday 11-6 (Thursdays until 9pm)
London Art Book Fair 2018 Where Cutting-Edge Publishers Unite
The Whitechapel Gallery will be transformed by over 80 creative and cutting-edge publishers for four days.
15 August 2018
Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue
This exhibition juxtaposes a survey of Elmgreen & Dragset’s emotional figurative sculptures with an extraordinary new large-scale installation that meditates on the fate of civic space.
Tuesday 11am–6pm Wednesday 11am–6pm Thursday 11am–9pm Friday 11am–6pm Saturday 11am–6pm Sunday 11am–6pm
Nocturnal Creatures
Nocturnal Creatures is a new, free festival, for one night only. It brings together performance, video, sculpture and sound.
6pm-11pm
The London Open 2018
The London Open 2018 brings together the most dynamic and critical contemporary art being made in the capital today. The latest edition of this triennial summer exhibition offers a free, lively space to discover new work and reflect on a time of significant change in this global city.
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm; Thursdays, 11am – 9pm
Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World
Explorer, collector, activist and conjurer of theatrical environments American artist Mark Dion (b.1961) has travelled through rainforests and rubbish dumps to reveal the wonder and fragility of life on earth.
Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 11am-6pm Thurs 11am-9pm
Mona Hatoum Selected For Whitechapel’s Art Icon Award 2018
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) is the fifth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award at the Whitechapel Gallery. The Art Icon 2018 award will be presented on Monday 29 January 2018.
24 October 2017
Thomas Ruff
Cosmology, suburbia, nudity, utopianism, catastrophe – these are some of the subjects that Thomas Ruff (b. 1958, Germany) addresses in his photographic series, which for almost four decades have investigated the status of the image in contemporary culture.
Tues-sun 11-6 Thurs until 9pm
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust is a speculative history of the 20th century, featuring works by over 30 artists and photographers including Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Gerhard Richter.
Tues/Wed 11am–6pm Thursday 11am–9pm Friday/Sat/Sun 11am–6pm
Benedict Drew: The Trickle-Down Syndrome
Benedict Drew (b.1977) works across video, sculpture and music, creating large-scale installations which he conceives in response to major global events, commenting on the effects of socio-political and environmental issues.
Monday closed Tues-Wed 11-6 Thurs 11-9 Fri-Sun 11-6
Art Night 2017
Art Night is a free contemporary arts festival transforming London’s East End for one unforgettable night in extraordinary spaces including Tower Bridge, Masonic Temple and Cass School of Art.
6pm-4am
Eduardo Paolozzi – Halfway In Halfway Out Whitechapel Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Paolozzi exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery is, for an old stager like me, a bit of a puzzle. There was a time when Paolozzi was a very big deal – one of the major innovators in British art, the destined successor to the first generation of major British Modernists, chief among them Henry Moore.
20 March 2017
Nan Goldin and Marina Abramovic Turn The Camera To Women
Photography and video works drawn from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. go on display at the Whitechapel Gallery 18 January -16 April.
10 January 2017
Guerrilla Girls Launch Pro-Diversity Banner At Whitechapel Gallery
The Guerrilla Girls have been exposing and challenging sexism and racism in the visual arts, politics and culture for over three decades…. Read More
30 September 2016
William Kentridge Returns With First London Public Exhibition In Fifteen Years
A major exhibition of work by the South African artist William Kentridge opens at the Whitechapel Gallery on Wednesday. Artlyst… Read More
20 September 2016
Winners Of The 2015 NEON Curatorial Award Announced By Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery announces Joseph Constable and Rebecca Edwards as the winners of the 2015 NEON Curatorial Award. This is the… Read More
15 December 2015
Whitechapel Gallery: Exhibition Electronic Superhighway Shows Impact Of Technology On Artists
In January 2016 the Whitechapel Gallery presents Electronic Superhighway, a landmark exhibition that brings together over 100 artworks to show… Read More
12 November 2015
Jarman Award Tour Culminates At The Whitechapel Gallery In November
This year’s Jarman Award tour will culminate with a weekend of music, events, spoken word, performances, talks and screenings at the Whitechapel Gallery,… Read More
30 October 2015
Max Mara Art Prize For Women: Shortlist Unveiled
The Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara revealed the names of the five artists shortlisted for the sixth Max… Read More
5 October 2015
Emily Jacir: Europa To Open At Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first UK survey of artist Emily Jacir this autumn. Bringing together almost two decades of… Read More
24 August 2015
Artlyst Photo Special: The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery
Artlyst attended The London Open 2015, at the Whitechapel Gallery – the triennial exhibition open to all artists aged 26… Read More
17 July 2015
Artists’ Film International Opens At Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery presents four new works for Artists’ Film International, a seasonal programme of film, video and animation chosen… Read More
17 July 2015
Artlyst EXCLUSIVE: LISTEN To James Richards Sound Installation For Francis Bacon Painting
The Turner Prize nominated artist James Richards has selected Francis Bacon’s ‘Study for a Portrait’ (1953), for the fourth and… Read More
16 July 2015
The London Open 2015 Triennial Exhibition Opens At Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery presents The London Open 2015 , the triennial exhibition open to all artists aged 26 or over… Read More
15 July 2015
James Richards Juxtaposes Sound With Francis Bacon For V-A-C Collection Presentation
For the fourth and final presentation of works from the V-A-C collection, Moscow, Turner Prize nominated artist James Richards has… Read More
30 June 2015
Peter Liversidge: Notes On Protesting – Whitechapel Gallery – Intervention Of The Collective Voice
Known for his proposals, documents which delineate a possible action or project, Peter Liversidge’s art is one of possibility. The… Read More
24 March 2015
Whitechapel Gallery Presents First Solo Exhibition Of British Artist Peter Liversidge
Whitechapel Gallery presents ‘Notes on Protesting’, a new solo exhibition by British artist Peter Liversidge, inspired by ideas around demonstration… Read More
17 March 2015
Whitechapel Gallery Announces Artists For 2015 London Open Triennial Exhibition
From a record number of 2,133 applicants, 48 artists have been selected from open submission by a panel of high… Read More
2 March 2015