Whitechapel Gallery

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Contemporary art

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The Romanian twins bring their impressively large and intricate woodcuts, collages and wall paintings to the Whitechapel, alongside new ceramic sculptures, for a site-specific installation that will convert the gallery into a modernist environment.

Karl Blossfeldt

Photography

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The artist's photographs of plants were a big influence on the surrealists who were drawn to the odd corporeal quality of the images, they also found favour with the great theorist Walter Benjamin. Over 80 gelatin prints of his beautiful and intricate...

Giuseppe Penone

Art

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Sculptor Giuseppe Penone – famously part of the Italian movement Arte Povera, a group Inspired by the politics of 1960s and who often used everyday materials in their work – has created a twelve metre bronze cast of a tree for the latest Bloomberg Commission....

Children's Art Commission: Simon & Tom Bloor: Loose Parts

Things to do, Contemporary art

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Each year the Whitechapel Gallery invites a contemporary artist to create new work for the Chilldrens Art Commission. Following in the footsteps of Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eva Rothschild, and Jessica Voorsanger, this year's artists are Simon and Tom Bloor....

The Spirit of Utopia

Art

This group exhibition features both existing and newly commissioned works by architects, artists and designers who have a desire to act as agents of positive social change in the world, among them Yto Barrada, Peter Liversidge and Pedro Reyes.

Sarah Lucas

Art

Everybody's favourite YBA is given a long overdue survey of her anthropomorphic and tragicomic sculptures. There's the additional twist of a tailor-made new work commissioned by the gallery (to give you a flavour, the last piece she made for them was...