Summer Season at Whitechapel Gallery
Tewodros Hagos, Journey (32), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 130 cm. Courtesy the artist and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.
Whitechapel Gallery launches its Summer Season with five exhibitions and a moving image programme.
The London Open 2022
What makes London's art scene so vibrant? What are the concerns of the next generation of artists and their insights in challenging times? This triennial, open submission exhibition showcases the most dynamic talent from across the capital. Discover new work reflecting on topics ranging from the personal to the collective, the cathartic to the poetic, the political to the environmental. The exhibition features works by 46 London-based artists working across painting, sculpture, moving image, installation and performance.
Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Emma Talbot: The Age / L’età
Emma Talbot’s (b. 1969, UK) winning proposal for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women questions deeply rooted positions of power, governance, attitudes to nature and representations of women through an acutely personal lens. Following a bespoke six-month Italian residency organised by Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy, this new commission takes as a starting point Gustav Klimt’s painting The Three Ages of Woman (1905), which features a naked elderly woman standing in apparent shame. In silk paintings, animation, three-dimensional figures and drawing, Talbot animates the figure of the older woman as someone with agency who overcomes a series of trials similar to The Twelve Labors of Hercules. Through her modern-day trials, Talbot invests the woman with the potential to reconstruct contemporary society, tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time including climate disaster and feminism.
We Get To Choose Our Families
Organised by trans and non-binary curators this exhibition explores the idea of chosen families in response to the oppression faced by LGBTQAI+ communities. By bringing together archive materials from the Museum of Transology, works by queer artists, and makers Cassils, Cosmic Constructions, Tolu Elusadé, Rachael House, and Bernice Mulenga in dialogue with artworks by Matthew Barney, Candida Höfer, Vibeke Tandberg, and Francesca Woodman selected from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation, this exhibition forms a chosen family in its own right: a thoughtful selection of portraits, video, objects and stories drawn from different origins, backgrounds and experiences, set against a backdrop of queer domesticity.
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Unseen selected by Hurvin Anderson
Painter Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, UK) reflects on illusory and fragmentary space and depictions of black figures and experience in The Unseen, an artist-curated selection of 25 works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. The display includes works by Norwegian artists Lars Elling, Per Krohg and Borghild Røed Lærum alongside international figures Glenn Ligon, Caragh Thuring and Stanley Whitney.
Galleries in the Groove: Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s-80s
The exhibition spotlights three historical galleries, Just Above Midtown in New York (1974–86), Robert Fraser Gallery in London (1962–69) (83–85) and Antwerp’s Wide White Space (1966–76), to demonstrate how each gallery took great risks in order to offer opportunities to artists, support their careers and open up their networks.
Artist's Film International
The launch of a new season of moving image works selected by 20 global partners explores the theme of 'climate'.
Summer Season @ Whitechapel Gallery
starting 30 June 2022
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High St
London
E1 7QX
