Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Art Gallery is a public exhibition space for contemporary art in Spitalfields in London's East End. The Whitechapel Art Gallery was founded in 1901, and is considered along with the Tate Modern and the private gallery White Cube as the most renowned venue for contemporary art in London. The building was built by the architect Charles Harrison Townsend in the Arts and Crafts style.

In the more than one hundred year history of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, a number of artists and works were first introduced in the UK, including Picasso's Guernica ( 1939). 1956 here the important ICA exhibition This Is Tomorrow was organized. The leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1958 ) and Mark Rothko (1961 ) were issued, the British artist David Hockney (1970 ), Gilbert & George and Richard Long ( 1971), Lucian Freud ( 1993) or Ian McKeever. The Whitechapel Art Gallery hosted the first major solo exhibitions in the UK for Antony Gormley (1981 ), Sean Scully (1989 ), Liam Gillick (2001) and Nan Goldin ( 2002).