Whitechapel Gallery - What's On: September

What's on in September

Coming Soon William Kentridge: Thick Time Opens 21 Sep 2016 Tickets: £13.50 / £11.95 (without Gift Aid) Book now Renowned for his animated expressionist drawings and films, South African artistWilliam Kentridge (b.1955) presents six major installations including The Refusal of Time (2012), a collaborative work featuring a shadow procession of dancers, clocks, metronomes and a cacophony of sounds. More

Online offer Book two exhibition tickets plus the William Kentridge: Thick Time catalogue* for only £35.  Available online only. Until 20 September 2016. *RRP £24.99

Image credit: William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time with collaboration of Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison, Film Still. 2012. Courtesy William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Lia Rumma Gallery.

New exhibitions

Barjeel Art Foundation Collection Mapping the Contemporary II Until 8 Jan 2017 | Free entry Offering unprecedented insight into contemporary art from the Arab world, works in this display range from an animation by Sadik Alfraji (b.1960) to a Utopian monument for Tahrir Square byIman Issa (b. 1979). Further works byEtel Adnan, Susan Hefuna, Zineb Sedira and others weave together tragedy, beauty, politics and humour.More   Commission Samson Kambalu Until 14 Aug 2016 | Free entry Samson Kambalu (b. 1975) draws inspiration from early cinema and his childhood in Malawi. Turning the gallery into a magazine spread, he projects his black and white films of visual slapstick alongside writings. More Kambalu gives a performative lecture as part of our 'Big Ideas' talk series on Saturday 10 September at 3pm

Artists' Film International Zeyno Pekünlü and The Institute for New Feeling Until 2 Oct 2016 | Free entry See recent works by artists from Turkey and the U.S selected by Istanbul Modern andBallroom Marfa. In Zeyno Pekünlü's (b.1980) How to properly touch a girl so you don’t creep her out? (2015), the artist collates material posted online by 'pick-up' coaches, while The Institute of New Feeling's This is Presence (2016) borrows from the language of corporate branding, beauty, and new age healing. More

Trailer Watch the trailer for the new season of Artists' Film International on our YouTube Channel (dur. 02.24)

Last chance to see

Exhibition Keith Sonnier: Light Works, 1968–70 Until 11 Sep 2016 | Free entry Last chance to see American artist Keith Sonnier's (b.1941) three-dimensional drawings in neon. This exhibition of the artist's early work includes Ba-O-Ba VI(1970), meaning ‘bath of colour’ in the Haitian French dialect of Louisiana, and the Morse code influenced Dot Dash Corner (1979). More   Archive Imprint 93 Until 25 Sep 2016 | Free entry An archive display bringing together rarely seen material from the 1990’s mail art project Imprint 93, which featured contributions from leading British contemporary artists such as Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Fiona Banner. More

Events

Talk Big Ideas: Samson Kambalu Sat 10 Sep 2016, 3pm | £9.50/£7.50 concs. Coinciding with the exhibition Introduction to Nyau Cinema, artist Samson Kambalu gives a performative lecture prompted by his Nyau films, discussing alternative concepts of time and the subversive potential of play. Book now   Tour Whitechapel Walking Tour Sat 17 Sep 2016, 2pm | £5/£3.50 concs. Join a walking tour of London’s East End highlighting architectural and social histories in the local area. Sites on the tour include Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, East London Mosque, Royal London Hospital, Wilton’s Music Hall and more. Book now

From our friends

Open House London 2016 17-18 Sep 2016 Open House London is the capital’s largest architecture festival, with more than 750 buildings of all types and periods opening their doors to all, completely for free. Get 10% off the Open House guide when you use the code GUIDE16 atopenhouselondon.org.uk