Whitechapel Gallery 12 - 11:59pm
Anna Mendelssohn - Speak, Poetess
Aldgate
Nicole Eisenman - What Happened
Johanna Billing - Each Moment Presents What Happens
Whitechapel Gallery 11 - 9pm
Martin O’Brien - Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis)
Whitechapel Gallery 6:30 - 7:30pm
>>Curator Tour with Lydia Lee (chief curator of the Whitechapel) - Is This Tomorrow?
Whitechapel Gallery 7 - 9pm
Set and readings from Jarvis Cocker [Pulp] & Thurston Moore [Sonic Youth], alongside Big Jonie, CAConrad & Sophie Robinson - Evening of experimental performance in response to new exhibition, Adrian Henri, City Poems & City City Music
Cameron Foote [Assistant Curator] - Is This Tomorrow?
Whitechapel Gallery 7 - 8pm
Artist Charles Gaines, Louis Hartnoll [Researcher] & John Tain [Researcher] - for the Exhibition Histories Series discusses The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism (UC Irvine 93)
Darren Almond [Artist] & Martin Herbert [Critic, ArtReview, Artforum] - In Discussion
Whitechapel Gallery 7 - 10pm
Evening of experimental performance in response to new exhibition, Adrian Henri, City Poems & City City Music - Part Two: City Poems & City Music Live
Deyan Sudjic [Director of the Design Museum] - On architect Theo Crosby [curator 1956 exhibition This is Tomorrow & founder of Pentagram]
Whitechapel Gallery 7 - 8:20pm
Xiaolu Guo - Five Men and a Caravaggio [part pf Retrospective: She, A Chinese]
Afterparti Architecture Collective - Is This Tomorrow?
Evening of experimental performance in response to new exhibition, Adrian Henri, City Poems & City City Music - Part Three: City Poems & City Music Live
Whitechapel Gallery 1:30 - 6pm
Xiaolu Guo - Once Upon a Time in China [part pf Retrospective: She, A Chinese]
Jeff McMillan [Displaying Artist], David Batchelor [Artist] & Iwona Blazwick [Director, Whitechapel] - Discussing McMillan's practice and new work Biblio
Whitechapel Gallery 10 - 5pm
Dr Gilda Williams [London Correspondent, Artforum & Senior Lecturer MFA Curating Programme, Goldsmiths] - How to… Write for the Exhibition
Kirsty Lowry [Curator: Schools and Teachers, Whitechapel] & Ben Jones [Mayflower Primary School, Tower Hamlets] - How to… Curate Participatory Art Projects – Schools and Teachers
Jenny Lea [Director of Communications, Whitechapel], Lucy Hawes [Senior Media Relations Manager, Whitechapel] & Jessica Roper [Marketing Assistant, Whitechapel] - How to… Create a Communications Campaign
Jane Scarth [Curator: Public Programmes, Whitechapel] & Louise O’Kelly [Founder, Block Universe] - How to… Curate Public Events and Performance
Sue Evans [Development Manager, Whitechapel] & Ushi Bagga [Senior Grants Manager, Paul Hamlyn Foundation] - How to… Fundraise – Grants and Foundations
Lydia Yee [Chief Curator, Whitechapel], Emily Butler [Curator, Writer, incl. ongoing Artists’ Film International programme, Whitechapel] & Candy Stobbs [Exhibitions, Whitechapel] - How to… Curate an Exhibition – Touring Exhibitions and Partnerships
Elinor Morgan [Senior Curator, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)], Renee Odjidja [Curator: Youth Programme, Whitechapel] & Sofia Victorino [Dir. Education & Public Programmes, Whitechapel] - How to… Curate with Communities
Dr Nayia Yiakoumaki [Head of Curatorial studies, Whitechapel] & Cameron Foote [Assistant Curator, Whitechapel] - How to… Curate an Exhibition – Archive Displays
Gareth Evans [London-based Writer, Editor, Film & Event Produce] & Andrea Luka Zimmerman [London-based Artist, Filmmaker and Cultural Activist] - How to… Curate Moving Image
Wells Fray-Smith [Assistant Curator: Special Projects, Whitechapel Gallery] - Helen Cammock 'Che si può fare' [Winner - Max Mara Art Prize for Women]
Francesca Vinter [Head of Publications, Whitechapel] - How To… Publish Exhibition Catalogues
Whitechapel Gallery 6 - 9pm
London Art Book Fair 2019 - Opening Night
Whitechapel Gallery 7 - 8:30pm
London Art Book Fair: Sir Michael Craig-Martin [Artist], Paul Winstanley [Artist] & Richard Noble [Head of the Art Dept, Goldsmiths College] - On Being An Artist
Whitechapel Gallery 11 - 6pm
London Art Book Fair 2019
Whitechapel Gallery 1 - 2:30pm
London Art Book Fair: Sarah Shin [Co-founder, Silver Press], Harriet Judd [Editor, Eiderdown Press] & Lucy Howarth [Author] - Hidden In Plain Sight: New Feminist Publishing
Whitechapel Gallery 3 - 4:30pm
London Art Book Fair: Eleanor Vonne Brown - Publishing Manifestos
London Art Book Fair: Painting The Stage [Reflecting on artist design for opera] - London Art Book Fair: Denise Wendel-Poray [Writer, critic, fmr opera singer], Philipp Fürhofer [Stage designer] & Iwona Blazwick [Dir. Whitechapel Gallery]
Whitechapel Gallery 2 - 4pm
London Art Book Fair: Plan and Play, Play and Plan: Defining Your Art Practice
Whitechapel Gallery 3 - 4pm
London Art Book Fair: Alvaro Barrington [Artist] & Elizabeth Karp-Evans [Writer, Publisher] - In Conversation discussing Garvey's practice
Whitechapel Gallery 4:30 - 6pm
London Art Book Fair: RIVET. 20 - Poetry Reading
Whitechapel Gallery 11 - 4pm
Whitechapel Gallery 12 - 2pm
London Art Book Fair: Tai Shani [Artist, Turner Nominated, Writer], Dr Bridget Crone [Curator, Prof. Goldsmiths] & Kristen Gallerneaux [Folklorist] - Strange Attractor Press Presents: Sonic Spectres, Fatal Magics
Whitechapel Gallery 3:30 - 5pm
London Art Book Fair: Performance as Publishing presents Diana Policarpo
Whitechapel Gallery 2:30 - 4:30pm
London Art Book Fair: Curators and researchers Karen Di Franco and Irene Revell - We Will Pluck Our Magic Twangers [readings, audio and moving image works that capture the grammar of community]
Lis Rhodes [Film maker] & Maria Palacios Cruz [Editor & Dir. LUX] - Telling Invents Told
Anna Maria Maiolino [Artist] & Dr Michael Asbury [Curator & Art Historian] - Maiolino discusses her 5 decade long career & her major retrospective at the Whitechapel
Astra Taylor - What Is Democracy? [2019]
Big Ideas: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Whitechapel Gallery 2 - 6pm
Art and Feminisms in Latin America
Photographer Munem Wasif - Conversations on Photography
Whitechapel Gallery 12 - 5:30pm
Film London Jarman Award Weekend 2019
Sophie J Williamson with Simona Škrabec discussing societal impacts & cultural questions surrounding translation today
Whitechapel Gallery 3 - 5:30pm
Farid Rakun and Indra Ameng discuss their previous projects as part of the Indonesian ruangrupa - Those giving the talk are the future curators of Documenta 15
Whitechapel Gallery 6 - 8pm
Limited Editions Xmas Flash Sale - [Also available online 6-9]
Whitechapel Gallery 6:30 - 9pm
Daniela Galan [Art Historian] provides a private tour of Anna Maria Maiolino
Group Show incl. Michael Armitage, Dana Schutz & Tschabalala Self - Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
Artists Tschabalala Self, Ryan Mosely & Michael Armitage with Lydia Yee [Chief Curator, Whitechapel] - Discuss their work in the context of the exhibition 'Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium'
Panel in Conversation - Stories at the End of the World
Whitechapel Gallery 11 - 2:30pm
Osman Yousefzada - Her Dreams Are Bigger [2018]
Emily Richardson [Artist] & Jonathan P. Watts [Writer, Curator] - House Works [3 short films exploring radical domestic spaces in Essex & Suffolk]
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain [Artist] & Dr Sarah Hayden [Prof. Visual Culture, U of Southampton] - Screening onf Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre [2018] & Discussion
Nicholas Serota [Chair, Arts Council, Fmr Dir, Tate Museums 88-17, Whitechapel 76-88] & Nayia Yiakoumaki [Chief Curator, Whitechapel] - In conversation reflecting on his period as the Whitechapel's Gallery Director between 1976-88
Lola Olufemi [Writer] - Burn it Down! Feminist Manifesto Reading Group
Late Opening Thursday - Carlos Bunga, Hiscox Collection, The Return of the Spirit in Painting - [All current exhibitions are free]
Late Opening Thursday - Hiscox Collection & The Return of the Spirit in Painting - [All current exhibitions are free]
Whitechapel Gallery 10 - 3pm
Autumn Exhibitions
Late Opening Thursday - Kai Althoff & Hiscox Collection - [All current exhibitions are free]
Whitechapel Gallery 9 - 2pm
Summer Exhibitions Briefing & Tou
Eileen Agar - Angel of Anarchy [x5 free exhibitions]
Yoko Ono - MIND PIECE for London
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation - This is the Night Mail Selected by Ida Ekblad
Simone Fattal - Finding a Way
Theaster Gates & Ongoing Displays & Commissions
Theaster Gates - A Clay Sermon
Gerrard O’Carroll Memorial Lecture: Ramon Amaro
Theaster Gates - Big Ideas
Whitechapel Gallery 1 - 6pm
The Film London Jarman Award Whitechapel Weekend
Terra Firma: The Politics of Earth
Galleries in the Groove Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s–80s
The Living Studio
Paulina Olowska [Artist] & Iwona Blazwick [Whitechapel Dir] - In Conversation
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation selected by Paulina Olowska - The Travel Bureau
Underway: Four Essay Films
Artist & Studio Provider Panel - Living Studios
Ben Rivers - Women at Work: Anne Truitt and Rose Wylie
Spring Exhibitions
A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920-2020
Kelly Lloyd [Artist], Morgan Quaintance [Artist] & Zarina Muhammad [Critic] - This Thing We Call Art
Portugal Prints & Submit to Love Studios - Supported Studios
Shiraz Bayjoo [Artist] & Ekow Eshun [Curator/Journalist] - In Conversation
Simone Fattal + A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020 + Galleries in the Groove: Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s–80s
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation - The Unseen, Selected by Hurvin Anderson
We Get to Choose Our Families
Hurvin Anderson [Artist] & Duro Olowu [Cuator/Designer] - In Conversation
What We Shared
Simone Fattal + Galleries in the Groove: Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s–80s
The Unseen Selected by Hurvin Anderson + Galleries in the Groove: Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s–80s
Summer Exhibitions - The London Open 2022, Emma Talbot: The Age/L'Età & Christen Sveaas Art Foundation
The London Open 2022
Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Emma Talbot - The Age/L’Età
All Ongoing Exhibitions incl. The London Open 2022
Max Mara Art Prize for Women Winner Emma Talbot with Laura Smith - In Conversation
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: Tracing Absence
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: PORTAL DE PLATA, Selected by Donna Huanca
Out of the Margins: Performance in London’s institutions 1990s – 2010s
All Ongoing Exhibitions incl. Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: Tracing Absence
Zadie Xa - House Gods, Animal Guides and Five Ways 2 Forgiveness
Big Ideas: Sarah Shin with Nisha Ramayya
Moving Bodies, Moving Images
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz - Moving Bodies, Moving Images
Whitechapel Gallery 1:30 - 4:30pm
Hetain Patel and Lois Keidan - Performance Now: Reflecting on live art
All Ongoing Exhibitions incl - Moving Bodies, Moving Images
Big Ideas: Katherine Angel
Gallery Takeover: BAXSAN and Friends - Moving Bodies, Moving Images
Whitechapel Gallery 7 - 8:45pm
Gerrard O'Carroll Memorial Lecture: Fiona Raby
Whitechapel Gallery 12 - 6pm
Jarman Now! The Film London Jarman Award’s new pioneers
Phoebe Boswell - Bodies of Water: A Confluence of Voices
Gallery Takeover: Polyphonic Bodies
Whitechapel Gallery 5 - 7pm
Alberta Whittle with Lydia Yee - In Conversation
The Emerging Artist: a soft unwrapping
Galleries in the Groove: Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s–80s
Action, Gesture, Performance: Feminism, the Body and Abstraction
All Ongoing Exhibitions incl - Out of the Margins: Performance in London’s Institutions 1990s – 2010s
The House of Le Bas
Cyberfeminism Index
Time Quartet: Estonian Women’s Artists’ Films
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–70
Big Ideas: Griselda Pollock
In response to Zadie Xa's commission - The Korean House
Whitechapel Gallery 11:30 - 6pm
The Survivor Lens: Reframing Trauma Narratives through Filmmaking
Whitechapel Gallery 6 - 10pm
Climate Crisis >> Art Action Takeover
Soul Bag: A Northern Soul Takeover
Film and Performance by Whitechapel Gallery Staff Artists
Body Politic: The Films of Natalia LL
The Celluloid Body: Women’s Artist Films at the Limit
Speculation: Documents of Contemporary Art
Escape the Slick: Youth Takeover
An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)
Decolonising Modernism
Documents of Contemporary Art Series - Speculation
Whitechapel Gallery 5 - 8pm
Life is More Important Than Art
Life Is More Important than Art: Discussion
Rehearsing Futures: Life-Affirming Community Practice (Pt. 1)
Martin O’Brien - Overture For The End (An Ashen Place)
Big Ideas: Lauren Elkin - Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
East London Art Prize Takeover
Alia Syed’s - Fatima’s Letter (16mm - 19mins)
Grassroots Series: The George Tavern
Whitechapel Gallery 6 - 12am
Oitij-jo x Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery 3 - 6pm
Theatrum Mundi: Whitechapel Radio Station (WRS) Takeover
The Voice of the People
Whitechapel Gallery 1 - 2pm
Johanna Billing & Gilane Tawadros - In Conversation
Terry Smith - Mirror2
Activism: Documents of Contemporary Art
The Film London Jarman Awards - Jarman Now!
Sophie K Rosa
Whitechapel Gallery 6:30 - 9:30pm
TISSUE PAPERS #01: MAKING
2023 Film London Jarman Award Screening Programme
Nicole Eisenman & Mark Godfrey - In Conversation