Whitechapel Gallery

British Collection: Threshold

Characters drawn from myth and legend, brooding allegories of everyday life, strange, fantastical visions of the animal and natural worls: these are the subjects selected by artist Paula Rego for her display of works chosen from the British Council Collections.
This display marks the British Council's 75th anniversary. It is one of five displays presented over one year and selected by guest curators. The final display in spring result from an international competition for curators.

Suitable for

• All ages

When

10am-6pm

Where

Whitechapel Gallery

Admission

Admission free

Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

This landmark exhibition gives an inside view of how modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have shaped trough the lens of their photographers.
Over 70 photographers including Pshpamala N., Rashid Rana, Dayanita Singh, Raghubir Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Rashid Talukder, Ayesha Vellani and Munem Wasif are presented in the show, with works drawn from important collections of historic photography, including the influential Alkazi Collection, Delhi and the Drik Archive, Dhaka.

Suitable for

• Family friendly
• All ages

When

10am-6pm

Where

Whitechapel Gallery

Admission

Tickets £8.50 / £6.50 concessions / free for under 18s & Sundays 11am - 1 pm

Robbrecht en Daem

Established in 1975, Ghent-based architects Robbrecht en Daem (Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem), who designed the recent expansion of the Whitechapel Gallery, are guided by a poetic approach to building and architecture.This exhibition, their first in the UK, focuses on 30 projects ranging from the 1980s to today, including drawings, notational watercolours, plans and photographs. Six films directed by cinematographer Marteen van den Abeele allow visitors a sensory experience of different building typologies.

Suitable for

• All ages

When

10am-6pm

Where

Whitechapel Gallery

Rachel Harrison: Conquest of the Useless

One of the most compelling artists to emerge in the 1990s, the Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of works by Rachel Harrison. Born in New York City in 1966, Harrison critically examines and plays with sculpture’s fundamental properties, conventions, subjects and history. Object and pedestal, picture and wall, painting and sculpture, as well as manufactured and handmade objects, are all joined in her irregular handmade constructions.
Harrison’s work reflects an incisive relationship to consumer culture and the American psyche, propelled by a critique of the clichés and hierarchies that influence and construct our desires, expectations, social relations and values.

Suitable for

• All ages

When

10am-6pm

Where

Whitechapel Gallery

Admission

Admission free

The D.Daskalopoulos Collection

As part of its ongoing programme of opening up important art collections to the public the Gallery presents a series of four thematic exhibitions drawn from one of the foremost European collections of contemporary art. Composed of over 400 works by leading international artists including Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine, Paul McCarthy and Kiki Smith the backbone of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection is formed by works from the past two decades and reflects the ideas and aesthetic strategies of this period giving particular prominence to large-scale installations and sculpture, as well as drawing, collage and video.

Suitable for

• All ages

When

12-12am

Where

Whitechapel Gallery

Alice Neel: Painted Truths

Alice Neel (1900–1984) is best known for psychologically acute portraits that chronicle the social and economic diversity of the artist’s work. A self-proclaimed ‘collector of souls’, she often painted friends and family, as well as celebrated artists and writers of her day, such as Andy Warhol, Frank O’Hara and Meyer Shapiro, delving into their personalities and idiosyncrasies with rare frankness. Bringing together over 60 of her most important paintings on loan from international museum and private collections, this exhibition spans nearly seven decades of her career.

Suitable for

• All ages

When

12-12am

Where

Whitechapel Gallery

Walid Raad

US-based Lebanese artist Walid Raad, is one of the most original and significant voices to emerge from and to engage with the current situation of the Middle East. This exhibition brings together Raad’s landmark projects from the past two decades: the documentary-style films and photographs produced under the name of the fictitious collective The Atlas Group which take the civil wars in Lebanon as their source of creative inspiration; and his ongoing investigation into the lost tradition of modernity and the rapidly developing infrastructure for contemporary art in the Gulf states in A History of Art in the Arab World.

Suitable for

• All ages

When

12-12am

Where

Whitechapel Gallery

The Bloomberg Commission: Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast

London-based Polish artist Goshka Macuga is widely acclaimed for her sculptural installations of artefacts and photographs, derived from art history, politics and anthropology. The artist focuses on a key moment in the history of the Whitechapel Gallery: the presentation of Picasso’s Guernica in 1939.

When

11am-6pm

Admission

Admission free.