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Leonor Antunes' new site-specific commission opens at the Whitechapel Gallery 3 October 2017 – 8 April 2018 is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the UK.
The Whitechapel Gallery’s new autumn 2017 collection display explores contemporary portraiture – both real and imagined – and the relationship between self and other, or between artist, sitter and viewer, by nearly 30 international artists.
In autumn 2017, the Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major London retrospective of German artist Thomas Ruff.
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.
Leading contemporary artists donate works for charitable Art Icon auction in support of Whitechapel Gallery’s education and community programmes.
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.
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.
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