Elmgreen & Dragset have transformed the ground floor exhibition space at The Whitechapel Gallery into a disused municipal swimming pool complete with cracked tiles, fallen fluorescent lights, peeling plaster and scaffolding posts
27 September 2018
A major new overview of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset has been announced for September 2018 with six new sculptures and 29 works created over 20 years of the artists’ collaboration. It will be their first comprehensive show in a public UK gallery.
24 July 2018
The Whitechapel Gallery is presenting a new exhibition which brings together artworks and documents tracing a visual journey through the motif of dust from aerial reconnaissance, wartime destruction and natural disasters to domestic dirt and forensics.
12 June 2017
The first London retrospective exhibition of the innovative artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) has opened at the Whitechapel. Paolozzi was one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Considered one of the the ‘godfathers of Pop Art’.
15 February 2017
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced Emily Riddle as the winner of the 2016 NEON Curatorial Award. The NEON Curatorial Award was established in 2012 to champion curatorial excellence and is part of an ongoing partnership between the Whitechapel Gallery and NEON, a non-profit organisation in Athens.
19 December 2016
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that the Scottish painter Peter Doig (b. 1959) is the fourth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award.
28 October 2016
A major new art commission by Corin Sworn, the latest winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, will… Read More
23 October 2014
During World War II, when Richard Tuttle was but a young boy, his father had a nervous breakdown, which effectively… Read More
17 October 2014
Richard Tuttle, ‘I Don’t Know, Or The Weave of Textile Language’ will be the largest survey of work ever held… Read More
13 October 2014
The London Art Book Fair celebrates the best of international contemporary art publishing. Exhibitors include galleries, booksellers, colleges and leading… Read More
25 June 2014
The American sculptor and poet Richard Tuttle will have his UK’s largest ever survey in London this October. It will… Read More
22 June 2014
It has been a very busy week for the Turner Prize winning video artist Elizabeth Price who has not only… Read More
19 November 2013
The Whitechapel Gallery is partnering with Dazed and Converse for the 2012 Emerging Artists Award. This prize offers a platform… Read More
13 August 2012
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced the first major British survey show of the New York artist Mel Bochner, one of… Read More
30 July 2012
Masterworks from the Government Art Collection Opens at Whitechapel The second exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery of the Government… Read More
16 September 2011
Rothko In Britain Whitechapel Gallery 9 Sept 2011 – 26 Feb 2012 Rothko in Britain is an exhibition about an… Read More
9 September 2011
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this influential exhibition held In 1961, the Whitechapel Gallery is to hold a major… Read More
8 July 2011
