Whitechapel Gallery - Autumn Season at Whitechapel Gallery

 

Autumn at Whitechapel Gallery  A brand new programme of exhibitions and events begins tomorrow Nicole Eisenman: What Happened 11 Oct 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 Book your ticket today. 'It's the opposite of porn': the astonishing art and life of Nicole Eisenman' Hot off the press! Read The Guardian's interview with the artist here.  Johanna Billing: Each Moment Presents What Happens 11 Oct 2023 - 28 Jan 2024 Find out more.  Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess 11 Oct 2023 - 21 Jan 2024 Find out more.  Unmissable Events  Special Lunchtime Artist Talk: Johanna Billing, Judith Winter, and Gilane Tawadros 13 Oct 2023 £5 "This is a talk about something and naturally also a talk about nothing" - John Cage, Lecture on Something, 1961 To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Each Moment Presents What Happens (2022), a reimagining of John Cage’s 1952 iconic performance piece Untitled Event (Theater Piece No. 1), Johanna Billing alongside will be in conversation with writer and curator Judith Winter, and Whitechapel Gallery Director Gilane Tawadros. The film and accompanying talk explore the notion of performance and the possibility it holds to explore issues of the public and the private as well as the individual and the collective.  Book Your Ticket Terry Smith: Mirror2 24 Oct 2023 £5 Mirror2 is a live artwork preoccupied by isolation, repetition, and routine – human conditions which concern, absorb, and connect us. Created during lockdown, this performance builds upon Smith’s reputation for innovation, unpredictability, and a sculptural approach to inhabiting space.  Find out more, and book your ticket here.  BSL Tour | Nicole Eisenman: What Happened 26 Oct 2023  Free Join us for a British Sign Language Tour of Nicole Eisenman: What Happened, led by Deaf performance artist and art guide Chisato Minamimura. To book a free place, please email access@whitechapelgallery.org or call +44 (0)20 7522 7888. Find out more.  One For the Bookshelf Nicole Eisenman: What Happened £45 Nicole Eisenman: What Happened documents the breadth of the artist’s career explored in ten newly commissioned texts with over 200 colour illustrations. Featuring essays from exhibition curators Mark Godfrey and Monika Bayer-Wermuth, who survey developments in Eisenman’s work since the 1990s, and Chloe Wyma, who considers Eisenman’s recent engagements with national and institutional politics. Contributors include Jadine Collingwood, Britta Peters, Ann Philbin, Helena Reckitt, Joe Scotland, A.L. Steiner and Nicola Tyson.   Buy Now From Our Friends: Autograph Hélène Amouzou: Voyages 22 Sep 2023 – 20 Jan 2024 This is the first UK solo exhibition of Hélène Amouzou's evocative self-portraits, contemplating the complex emotions of displacement and exile. These hand printed photographs are a crucial document of a migrant who has grappled with notions of freedom, exclusion, and bureaucracy – an attempt to recapture her identity and sense of belonging  Book free tickets on Autograph’s website.