The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in London in December
5 December 2025 • Tabish Khan
A glowing globe, food, slavery, a maze and an explosion.
Tag: Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery (founded 1901, London, UK) has long been a catalyst for contemporary art and ideas. Known for introducing British audiences to global voices—from Picasso’s Guernica in 1939 to major shows by Barbara Kruger, Sophie Calle, and Theaster Gates—it remains a site where art meets social consciousness. Its exhibitions, talks, and commissions bridge the local and the international, reflecting London’s shifting cultural landscape while championing experimentation, access, and dialogue.
Whitechapel Gallery announces it’s 125th anniversary programme .
12 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery to celebrate the it’s groundbreaking history, while setting out a bold new direction for the future.
Artists announced for The London Open Live 2025
14 March 2025 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery has announced the fifteen artists selected for the 2025 edition of The London Open, which this year focuses on live art practices.
6 Museum Exhibitions we are looking forward to in 2025.
6 January 2025 • Mark Westall
We’ve decided to focus on London and choose some of the most interesting exhibitions
Major survey exhibition of the late British multi-media artist Donald Rodney to open at Whitechapel Gallery.
19 November 2024 • Mark Westall
Visceral Canker encompasses the majority of Rodney’s surviving works from 1982 to 1997, including large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures as well as his sketchbooks and rare archival materials.
15 Years of Duchamp & Sons
14 November 2024 • Mark Westall
15 Years of Duchamp & Sons is an original exhibition curated by Whitechapel Gallery’s youth collective Duchamp & Sons, with artist Holly Graham, and Amelia Oakley
The Top 5 Museums Exhibitions to see in London in October
13 October 2024 • Tabish Khan
Nuclear weapons, colonialism, Expressionism, a spinning teacup and a rock formation.
The I and the You – Lygia Clark’s First Major UK Public Gallery Presentation.
3 August 2024 • Mark Westall
The I and the You marks the first major UK public gallery presentation of the pioneering and influential Brazilian artist Lygia Clark
Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation
25 July 2024 • Mark Westall
An Awkward Relation is a new exhibition from interdisciplinary artist Sonia Boyce (b.1962, London, UK). It has been especially conceived to be in… Read More
Max Mara Art Prize for Women – Dominique White: Deadweight
19 June 2024 • Mark Westall
Dominique White (b.1993, UK), winner of the ninth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, to present a new body of work, Deadweight.
Whitechapel Gallery announces Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
8 May 2024 • Mark Westall
This summer, Whitechapel Gallery presents the work of Peter Kennard (b. 1949, UK)
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in May
6 May 2024 • Tabish Khan
Sculpture, figures, performance, textiles and William Blake.
Whitechapel Gallery reveal Isaac Julien as the 2024 Art Icon.
31 January 2024 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery is delighted to announce the eleventh recipient of its prestigious Art Icon Award as the visionary filmmaker and artist, Isaac Julien… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Whitechapel Gallery
22 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Whitechapel Gallery has a distinguished history. Founded in 1901 to present ‘the finest art of the world for the people of the East End, London’,
Terry Smith – Mirror2 at Whitechapel Gallery
20 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Terry Smith – Mirror2 at Whitechapel Gallery will be a live artwork preoccupied by isolation, repetition, and routine – human… Read More
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career.
10 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery has just opened the first major UK retrospective of the artist Nicole Eisenman (b.1965, France, lives and works in the USA) coinciding with Frieze Week.
Whitechapel Gallery announces Future Plans 23/24 Programme.
23 May 2023 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery has announced future plans and its programme for 2023/24. Under the new directorship of Gilane Tawadros they have reaffirmed… Read More
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in early May
29 April 2023 • Tabish Khan
Apocalyptic installations, abstract art, slavery, portraits and a church.
In conversation with Emma Talbot – how can we challenge classical power?
5 June 2022 • Irene Machetti
Emma Talbot is the recipient of the 8th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a biennial prize… Read More
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in June
29 May 2022 • Tabish Khan
Demons, Impressionism, climate change, studios and roses.
Gilane Tawadros Appointed New Director of Whitechapel Gallery, London.
16 May 2022 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery has announced that Gilane Tawadros has been appointed the new Director of Whitechapel Gallery. Tawadros is a curator… Read More
Iwona Blazwick OBE to step down as Director of Whitechapel Gallery
5 January 2022 • Mark Westall
Iwona Blazwick has announced that after twenty years at the helm she will be stepping down in April 2022. Blazwick… Read More
The Top 5 Painting Exhibitions to see in London
26 September 2021 • Tabish Khan
Cities, mountains, faceless figures, war and birds.
3 major London galleries collaborate with artist Theaster Gates on a multi-venue presentation.
28 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Serpentine have jointly announced a multi-venue presentation dedicated to artist Theaster Gates’s (b.1973, USA) clay practice for 2021-22.