Whitechapel Art Gallery
The Whitechapel Art Gallery is a public contemporary art exhibition space in the Spitalfields district of London's East End . The Whitechapel Art Gallery was founded in 1901 and, together with the Tate Modern and the private gallery White Cube, is considered to be the most renowned exhibition space for contemporary art in London . The building was built in the Arts and Crafts style by the architect Charles Harrison Townsend .
In the more than a century of Whitechapel Art Gallery's history, a number of artists and works have been featured for the first time in Great Britain, including Picasso's picture Guernica (1939). In 1956 the important ICA exhibition This Is Tomorrow was held here. The leading exponents of abstract expressionism , Jackson Pollock (1958) and Mark Rothko (1961) were exhibited, the British artists David Hockney (1970), Gilbert & George and Richard Long (1971), Lucian Freud (1993) and Ian McKeever. The Whitechapel Art Gallery hosted the first major UK solo exhibitions for Antony Gormley (1981), Sean Scully (1989), Liam Gillick (2001) and Nan Goldin (2002).
Web links
- Official website of the Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Literature on the Whitechapel Art Gallery in the catalog of the German National Library
- Whitechapel Art Gallery on kunstaspekte.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 58.1 ″ N , 0 ° 4 ′ 13.6 ″ W.