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Whitechapel Gallery

  • Art | Galleries
  • Whitechapel
  • Recommended
Eddy Frankel
Written by Eddy Frankel
Art Editor, UK
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Time Out says

What is it? 

Since 1901, Whitechapel Art Gallery has built a reputation as a pioneering contemporary institution, giving early, important exhibitions to artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Frida Kahlo. It got a big refurb in 2009, when it was transformed into a vibrant, holistic centre of art complete with a research centre, archives room and café.

Why go? 

This place has been an art hotbed for over a century, and it’s still doing sterling work, giving space and attention to artists that other institutions might overlook.

Don’t miss

Its main exhibitions are often great, but it’s the more experimental stuff in the archive and library areas that are usually the most interesting. 

When to visit

Open Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; Thu 11am-9pm.

Ticket info

Ticket prices vary, and some shows are free. Check the website for details. 

Time Out tip

The downstairs cafe is an atmospheric, intimate place to have a coffee while browsing through your latest art mag purchase from the gallery’s bookshop.

Details

Address
77-82 Whitechapel High St
London
E1 7QX
Transport:
Tube: Aldgate East
Price:
Free
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun (except Thu) 11am-6pm; Thu 11am-9pm.
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What’s on

Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at Whitechapel

Having studied at Goldsmiths College with them in the late 1980s, the late Pakistani-born intermedia artist Hamad Butt is often associated with the YBAs. As this impressive survey exhibition, travelling from IMMA in Dublin, reveals, the body of technically ambitious and precisely engineered sculptural work completed before his untimely death at 32 is entirely singular. Navigating the thin boundary between desire and danger, this exhibition will reveal Butt as a subtle master of both chemistry and social critique.

Candice Lin: g/hosti

Vistors will be plunged into Candice Lin’s ghoulish, red hued world at Whitechapel Gallery this October, as the artist’s new commission inspired by the politcal and cultural upheaval in the USA goes on display. Created in Los Angeles during the the inauguration of Donald Trump’s second presidency, and the LA wildfires, Lin’s hellish and labrythine landscapes – where small creatures stand beneath towering monoliths, and human cadavers emerge from behind shrubberies – evoke the shock, grief and helplessness many Americans feel today in the face of genocide, police brutality and a climate catastrophe. 
  • Contemporary art

Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey

Since the early ’80s, British artist Joy Gregory has been a pioneer in contemporary photography. Now, after four decades of work exploring identity, history, race, gender and societal ideals of beauty, her first major show arrives at Whitechapel Gallery. The landmark exhibition will bring together more than 250 works encompassing photography, film, installation and textiles, all of which showcase and celebrate Gregory’s inventive, culturally resonant and materially rich practice.  
  • Photography
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