Exhibitions and Projects

Whitechapel Gallery launches first in series of new fiction by leading contemporary writers

Whitechapel Gallery Publishing is delighted to present new short fiction text Cabinet d’amateur, an oblique novel by internationally acclaimed author Enrique Vila-Matas

Posted in | 16 Jan 2019

“la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art Selected by Enrique Vila-Matas

Internationally acclaimed authors explore Spain’s leading collection of contemporary art in this series of four displays taking place over the course of a year.

Posted in | 15 Jan 2019

Visions of the future transform Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery is transformed by experiential installations, environments and pavilions, conceived by over 30 world-leading artists and architects working in collaboration. Ten new experimental multimedia projects responding to critical issues of today to offer speculative visions of the future are presented in Is This Tomorrow?.

Posted in | 02 Jan 2019

Sophia Al-Maria: BCE

Marking the culmination of a year-long collaboration as Whitechapel Gallery’s Writer in Residence, this new project from Sophia Al-Maria draws on feminism and radical queer politics to consider themes of history and narrative.

Posted in | 15 Nov 2018

News

Joy Gregory wins the Freelands Award 2023

Joy Gregory with Whitechapel Gallery has won the Freelands Award 2023. This award enables organisations to present an exhibition by a mid-career female-identifying artist who may not yet have received the acclaim or public recognition that her work deserves.

Posted in | 30 Nov 2023

Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Auction 2023

Leading contemporary artists donate works for charitable Art Icon auction in support of Whitechapel Gallery’s education and community programmes.

Posted in | 10 Jan 2023

Whitechapel Gallery Announced Winner of 2020 NEON Curatorial Award

Whitechapel Gallery is delighted to announce Chloe Carroll as the winner of the 2020 NEON Curatorial Award, the announcement of which has been postponed for two years owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Posted in | 27 Oct 2022

Gilane Tawadros Appointed New Director of Whitechapel Gallery

16 May 2022 – Whitechapel Gallery is delighted to announce that curator and writer, Gilane Tawadros, has been appointed the new Director of Whitechapel Gallery, London. Currently Chief Executive of DACS, a not-for-profit visual artists' rights management organisation, and previously founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Tawadros will take up her post in October 2022.

Posted in | 16 May 2022

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