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The prestigious Art Icon award, now in its twelfth year, celebrates the work of an artist deemed to have made a profound contribution to the artistic landscape. The 2025 award will be presented to the Colombian artist, Doris Salcedo.
Archipelago: Visions in Orbit is an original exhibition curated by students from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course - a unique one-year professional placement qualification, organised in collaboration with London South Bank University (LSBU).
An Awkward Relation is a new exhibition from interdisciplinary artist Sonia Boyce (b.1962, London, UK).
The I and the You at Whitechapel Gallery marks the first major UK public gallery presentation of the pioneering and influential Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920 –1988, Brazil).
The Whitechapel Gallery is pleased to announce that Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963, UK) is the sixth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award in partnership with Swarovski.
The first UK survey of Elmgreen & Dragset announced for this Autumn, in addition to new exhibitions and commissions across our archive, collection and project galleries.
The Prize, which has been awarded in alternate years since 2005, supports UK-based female artists who have not previously had a solo survey exhibition, making it the only visual art prize of its kind the UK.
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