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15 January - 6 April 2015
A major new exhibition tracing a century of Abstract art from 1915 to today at the Whitechapel Gallery from January 2015
14 January – 26 April 2015
Screened as part of 'Artists' Film International', The Unreliable Narrator (2014), is a gripping new film about the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai by artist duo Karen Mirza and Brad Butler.
9 December 2014 – 8 March 2015
Leading British artist Fiona Banner chooses rarely seen works from the V-A-C collection by artists including Richard Avedon, Claude Monet and Sigmar Polke, on show at the Whitechapel Gallery from 9 December 2014.
January - December 2015
14 October - 14 December 2014
The UK’s largest ever survey of the renowned American sculptor and poet Richard Tuttle comprises a major exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery surveying five decades of his career, a large-scale sculptural commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and a new publication.
14 October 2014–11 January 2015
The Whitechapel Gallery presents new works for Artists’ Film International, a collection of artists’ film, video and animation from around the world. Selected by organisations in Argentina, China, Israel, Russia and the USA, this season’s works explore self-representation through music, photography and sculpture.
23 September - 22 February 2015
The exhibition sheds new light on sculpture in the capital, charting the creative process, political debates and critical responses surrounding realised and unrealised works from the early twentieth century onwards.
9 July - 14 September 2014
The first major UK exhibition of Italian artist Giulio Paolini (b.1940) since 1980, including key works from the 1960s to the present day and a new installation created specially for the show.
8 July–12 October 2014
A showcase of artists’ films from around the world for Artists’ Film International, a touring programme of film, video and animation. Selected by partner organisations in Afghanistan, Germany, Italy, Norway and Vietnam the works are on show from 8 July - 12 October 2014.
10 June – 28 September 2014
London-based New Zealand artist Francis Upritchard produces the Whitechapel Gallery’s annual Children’s Commission, a new work of art made specially for children and families and presented throughout the summer 2014.
10 June – 31 August 2014
The exhibition - which takes its title from a book about the famous 19th century medium William Eglinton - maps the pivotal moment in cinema history when still photography evolved into moving images.
16 April – 22 June 2014
The first UK retrospective of visionary French filmmaker, photographer, writer and multimedia artist Chris Marker (1921 – 2012).
18 March – 1 June 2014
Bright and bold pots, plus prints by leading British and international Pop artists go on display at the Whitechapel Gallery. Highlights include: Picasso plates of faces from the Attenborough Collection; Babe Rainbow by Peter Blake, the British Pop artist famed for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album cover; and Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry’s huge pot depicting skateboarders called Designer Rebellion.
4 March – 14 September 2014
This archive display focuses on Willats' exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1979.
15 January – 23 March 2014
The first major UK exhibition of the influential German artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978). Hannah Höch was an important member of the Berlin Dada movement and a pioneer in collage.
The Whitechapel Gallery introduces a Café/Bar with longer opening hours and larger capacity at the front of the building on Whitechapel High Street run by caterers Leafi.
The Whitechapel Gallery has been awarded £256,700 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the continuation of the Skills for the Future Traineeship programme.
On 2 April 2014 British artist Howard Hodgkin was the first recipient of the Swarovski Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon at a glittering gala dinner at the Whitechapel Gallery. It honours the lifetime achievement of one of our greatest artists.
British artist Howard Hodgkin is announced today as the first artist to be given the Swarovski Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon
20 May-19 July 2015
Iwona Blazwick, OBE, former Director of the Whitechapel Gallery announced Corin Sworn as the fifth winner of the prestigious Max Mara Art Prize for Women at a ceremony at the Italian Embassy on 23 January 2014.
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