Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
Greater London
E1 7QX
England
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The Whitechapel Art Gallery was founded in 1901 to bring great art to the people of east London. Internationally acclaimed for its exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and its pioneering education and public events programmes, the Gallery has premiered international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Nan Goldin, and provided a showcase for Britain’s most significant artists from Gilbert & George to Lucian Freud, Peter Doig to Mark Wallinger.
The Gallery plays a unique role in the capital’s cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of East London as the world’s most vibrant contemporary art quarter.
The Grade II* Whitechapel Gallery was designed by architect Charles Harrison Townsend. This purpose built gallery is an outstanding example of the Arts and Crafts movement and its aspirations of being accessible, spiritually uplifting and transformative. This development also builds on the 1980s expansion by Colquhoun and Miller under the directorship of Sir Nicolas Serota and inaugurated by the Queen Mother.
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77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
Greater London
E1 7QX
England
Website
Telephone
020 7522 7888
Fax
020 7377 1685
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77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
Greater London
E1 7QX
England
Website
Telephone
020 7522 7888
Fax
020 7377 1685
Rothko in Britain
The Whitechapel Gallery revisits its famous first exhibition of Mark Rothko in
Britain. In 1961 the Whitechapel Gallery showed the work of American artist Mark
Rothko in Britain for the first time. While working on his Whitechapel Gallery
exhibition Rothko made a breakthrough that was to become the blueprint for all his
subsequent shows. This now iconic exhibition is brought vividly to life through the
Gallery’s archives of original photographs and letters from the artist shown
alongside Rothko’s painting Light Red Over Black (1957).
Zarina Bhimji
The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK survey show of photographer
and film-maker Zarina Bhimji. This exhibition will document Bhimji’s poetic
mediations of power, politics and space throughout the last three decades and will
premiere her latest film, Yellow Patch (2011), an ambitious narrative inspired by the
journey of countless people from India to East Africa and eventually to Britain. A
range of previously unseen photographic series, installations and storyboards will
also be on display.
Gillian Wearing
This major exhibition surveys Wearing’s work from Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and to her latest video Bully (2010).
Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing’s photographs and films explore the public and private lives of ordinary people. Fascinated by how people present themselves in front of the camera in fly-on-the-wall documentaries and reality TV, she explores ideas of personal identity through often masking her subjects and using theatre’s staging techniques.
Suitable for
- 18+
Where
Galleries 1, 8 & Gallery 9
Admission
Tickets:
£9.50/ £7.50 concessions (incl. Gift Aid donation)
£8.50/ £6.50 (excl. Gift Aid)
To book tickets call +44 (0)844 412 4309 or see the link below to book online.
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The Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny
American sculptor, writer and glass blower, Josiah McElheny transforms the
Whitechapel Gallery into a hall of mirrors. Josiah McElheny is the latest artist
invited to create a new work of art for The Bloomberg Commission. Glass, light
and transparency provide the motif for his new installation sited in the former
Whitechapel library (now part of the Gallery), built in 1892 as a ‘lantern for
learning’. Seven large-scale glass sculptures will be arranged as multiple screens
for the artist’s interpretation of groundbreaking experimental abstract films,
programmed to change throughout the year. The sculptures will reflect and
refract the projected film selection, saturating the whole gallery and visitors in
images and light.
Mel Bochner
One of the founding figures of conceptual art, and one of its most astute critics, Mel Bochner combines colour and language in his work.
The exhibition traces his work over the last 50 years, from the 1960s and 70s and his early installations, wall drawings and works on paper, to his most recent series of exuberant paintings using a thesaurus to generate word chains full of wit and humour.
This is the first major European survey show of the US artist.
Suitable for
- 16-17
- 18+
Admission
Admission charges tbc. See the link below for updates.
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77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
Greater London
E1 7QX
England
Website
Telephone
020 7522 7888
Fax
020 7377 1685
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