Tag: Whitechapel Gallery

Senga Nengudi: Performance Works 1972-1982

Featuring photographic works, archival materials and films of key performance pieces, this exhibition focuses on pivotal time in the pioneering artist’s career
Candice Lin: g/hosti

Candice Lin’s cardboard labyrinth is at once playful and sinister, conveying the relentless drip-feed of disaster we receive through our pixelated screens as well as more hopeful, mythological tropes
William Mackrell – interview: ‘I have an interest in dissecting the myth of Sisyphus – the persistence in the seemingly impossible’

His work has included lighting 1,000 candles and getting two horses to pull a car. Now, he is using his dismantled childhood bed in one show and dancing in overalls laden with coins in another. He explains his interest in…
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent

For 50 years, Kennard’s activist art has railed against corporate and state power, wars and poverty. And as this exhibition spanning those five decades shows, his outrage has not abated
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

A thrilling survey of the American artist injects the venerable medium of painting with vitality and virtuosity
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction, 1940-70

This thrilling exhibition brings us work, much of it never seen before in the UK, from a largely forgotten generation of female artists working in gestural abstraction
Emma Talbot: The Age/L’Età, Max Mara Art Prize for Women

Talbot’s winning commission for the Max Mara Prize takes as its jumping-off point Gustav Klimt’s The Three Ages of Woman, setting up questions around age, feminism and climate that the viewer is left to answer
A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920–2020

The Whitechapel Gallery takes us on a dizzying, exploratory tour through 100 years of artists’ workplaces in this ambitious group show
Galleries in the Groove: Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s-80s

Through archival ephemera, photographs, posters and letters, this show documents the history of three independent galleries that had a profound influence on the contemporary art of their time
Simone Fattal: Finding a Way

This is a staggering show, dominated by five unsettling figures, whose abstraction echoes the artist’s explanation that they are embarking on a journey of transformation