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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, Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara revealed the names of the five artists shortlisted for the sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women at a special event at the historical headquarters of Max Mara in Reggio Emilia, Italy on 4 October 2015. The shortlisted artists are Ruth Ewan, Ana Genovés, Emma Hart, Tania Kovats and Phoebe Unwin.
The Whitechapel Gallery announces exhibitions, displays, commissions and events for 2016.
A garden of an archaeological institute in Athens provides the backdrop for works of art that reconnect the human with the animal. Echoing the satyrs, sphinxes and centaurs of Greek statuary, contemporary sculptures, installations and films draw on myth, drama and the animal kingdom to suggest a ‘bioethics’ for the 21st century.
Richard Long awarded the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon at a gala dinner supported by the Swarovski Foundation
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