Exhibitions and Projects

Dominique White wins the 9th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2022-2024

Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti are delighted to announce Dominique White (b. 1993) as the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

Posted in | 28 Mar 2023

Whitechapel Gallery announces Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940 – 1970

Whitechapel Gallery presents Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70. The exhibition reaches beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with the Abstract Expressionism movement, to discover the practices of numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Posted in | 01 Dec 2022

Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon 2023: Jenny Holzer to be honoured on 19 January 2023

Whitechapel Gallery is pleased to announce that Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is the tenth artist to receive its prestigious annual Art Icon award. On 19 January 2023, the award will be presented at a gala celebration hosted by Whitechapel Gallery Director, Gilane Tawadros.

Posted in | 15 Nov 2022

News

Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Auction 2023

Leading contemporary artists donate works for charitable Art Icon auction in support of Whitechapel Gallery’s education and community programmes.

Posted in | 10 Jan 2023

Whitechapel Gallery Announced Winner of 2020 NEON Curatorial Award

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.

Posted in | 27 Oct 2022

Gilane Tawadros Appointed New Director of Whitechapel Gallery

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.

Posted in | 16 May 2022

Iwona Blazwick OBE to step down as Director of Whitechapel Gallery

Iwona Blazwick has announced that after twenty years at the helm she will be stepping down in April 2022. Blazwick will continue to work as an independent curator both with the Gallery into 2023, and on a wide range of international projects.

Posted in | 05 Jan 2022

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