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Whitechapel Gallery is delighted to announce the fifteen artists selected for the 2025 edition of The London Open, which this year focuses on live art practices.
On the evening of Monday 3 March 2025, Colombian artist, Doris Salcedo (b. 1958, Bogotá) was presented with Whitechapel Gallery’s prestigious annual Art Icon Award, which celebrates the work of an artist who has made a profound contribution to the artistic landscape and influenced a generation of artists.
Bidding opens today for the 2025 Art Icon Auction, with a stellar lineup of works from leading contemporary artists in support of Whitechapel Gallery’s Exhibition and Participation Programmes.
Following acclaimed presentations at both Spike Island (Bristol) and Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham), Whitechapel Gallery brings this major survey exhibition of the late British multi-media artist Donald Rodney to London.
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.
Iwona Blazwick has announced that after twenty years at the helm she will be stepping down in April 2022. Blazwick will continue to work as an independent curator both with the Gallery into 2023, and on a wide range of international projects.
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the Asymmetry Curatorial Fellowship at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Zoe Diao, a Chinese scholar and curator currently based in New York, has been awarded the six-month Fellowship, which begins on 20 September 2021.
Whitechapel Gallery in London has received a grant of £206,332 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen.
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