Whitechapel Gallery - Anna Maria Maiolino, ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art Selected by Tom McCarthy and more this month

What's On in October: Exhibitions

Exhibition Anna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary Until 12 Jan 2020 | £12.95/ £9.50    'Sensual drawings and organic objects from a lifetime rebel against authoritarian regimes.' - ★★★★ The Guardian With simple materials like clay, paper and ink Anna Maria Maiolino (b.1942, Italy) constructs a fascinating world rooted in human conditions such as longing, fragility and resistance. This is the artist’s first retrospective in the UK, spanning six decades of work. Now open   #AnnaMariaMaiolino  #MakingLoveRevolutionary  #AMMWhitechapel Exhibitions & Displays Exhibition ''la Caixa'' Collection of Contemporary Art Selected by Tom McCarthy Until 5 Jan 2020 | Free entry Celebrated novelist Tom McCarthy meditates on surveillance and control, and their malfunction and breakdown, in this free display of photography, sculpture, installation and film by artists including Steve McQueen, Eve Sussman and Isa Genzken. Read more #laCaixaCollection Archive Sense Sound/Sound SenseFluxus Music, Scores & Records in the Luigi Bonotto Collection Until 2 Feb 2020 | Free entry This display explores the interest in music and sound amongst artists of the Fluxus movement. Featuring works by artists central to the Fluxus movement including John Cage, George Brecht and Yoko Ono. Read more #SenseSound   Commission Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) Once Heard Before Until 5 Jan 2020 | Free entry Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White collaborated with a group of young musicians and Spotlight Youth Centre in East London to produce a call and response that activates past, present and future sounds. Read more #OnceHeardBefore   Exhibition Artists' Film International: Angela Su, Tomasz Machciński, D’Ette Nogle Until 25 Aug | Free entry Three artists from Canada, Poland and United States depict interpretations and perceptions of gender as part of our newest Artists' Film International display. Read more #ArtistsFilmInternational