Marking 30 years of collaboration with Jeff Wall (b.1946, Vancouver, Canada), White Cube has announced a major solo exhibition of the artist’s work at the Bermondsey gallery, opening 22nd November 2024.
Titled ‘Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures’, the show celebrates the cultural significance of Wall’s work and how he challenged the conventions of photography to change its course within contemporary art. It follows recent museum shows across Europe in 2024, including Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Switzerland) and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona, Spain), and precedes major solo presentations in 2025 at MAAT (Lisbon), Galleria d’Italia (Turin, Italy) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto, Canada).
Residing between near-documentary realism and compositional artifice, the subjects of Wall’s cinematographic photographs range from the urban environment to elaborate tableaux that evoke the scale and complexity of 19th-century history paintings.
The exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey brings together over 40 key works made between the 1980s and the present day, documenting Wall’s artistic development, from early lightbox transparencies and monochrome print photographs, to his more recent engagement with multi-panel compositions.
Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures 22nd November 2024 – 12th January 2025, White Cube Bermondsey
The exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon, will open in April 2025.
