Whitechapel Gallery Books Spring 2021

For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has premiered world-class artists such as Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo and David Hockney, as well as groundbreaking group exhibitions. We continue to showcase the best in contemporary art, alongside our pioneering education and public events programmes.

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Credits: Christen Sveaas Photo © Ivar Kvaal

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NEW Eileen Agar Edited by Laura Smith, with Grace Storey Paperback 978-0-85488-292-2 February 2021 £24.99 Eileen Aigar (b.1899 Buenos Aires; d.1991 London) is an often overlooked but crucial figure within the development of European twentiethcentury culture. Throughout her 80-year career she synthesised elements of both cubism and surrealism to create a unique personal style suffused with intelligence, wit, irreverence, and emotion through a century of huge social and political change. Previously appraised in relation to her connections to male figures of modernism such as Paul Nash, Ezra Pound, Roland Penrose and Paul Eluard, this first major survey of her work will place her firmly as a pioneering surrealist artist in her own right, illuminating her progressive attitudes to making, sexuality and art history through new contributions by writer Marina Warner, poet Daisy Lafarge and biographer Andrew Lambirth.

Exhibition: Whitechapel Gallery, 11 February – 23 May 2021

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NEW Nalini Malani: Can You Hear Me? Edited by Emily Butler, with Ines Costa Hardback, 96pp 210 × 270 mm 978-0-85488-291-5 October 2020 £29.99 Widely considered the pioneer of video art in India, Nalini Malani (b.1946, Karachi) has a 50 year multimedia practice that includes film, photography, painting, wall drawing, erasure performance, theatre and animation. Embodying the role of artist as social activist, Malani gives voice to the marginalised through her visual stories, drawing inspiration from history, culture and her direct experience of the Partition of India.

Can You Hear Me? is her brand new commision for Whitechapel Gallery, an immersive installation of projected hand-drawn images which create an effect of moving graffiti on the brick walls of the gallery space.

This comprehensively-illustrated catalogue includes new photography of the commission.

Exhibition: Whitechapel Gallery, 23 September 2020 – May 2021

NEW Christen Sveaas Art Collection at Whitechapel Gallery Edited by Iwona Blazwick and Lydia Yee 978-0-85488-293-9 June 2021 £30 Norwegian entrepreneur Christen Sveaas’s collection of modern and contemporary Norwegian and international art includes work by Harald Sohlberg, Thorvald Hellesen, Howard Hodgkin, Yayoi Kusama, Marc Quinn, Lynda Benglis, Hannah Ryggen, Martin Creed and Edvard Munch.

Whitechapel Gallery will display the highlights of this collection in four parts, from 2021-22.

Exhibition: Whitechapel Gallery, May 2021 – August 2022

NEW The London Open 2021 Edited by Emily Butler 978-0-85488-294-6 June 2021 £12.99 First known as the East End Academy, then the Whitechapel Open, and finally The London Open, the Whitechapel Gallery has been open for submissions to exhibit since 1932.

From the 1970s, when the area around the Gallery in East London was home to some of the UK’s most important artists, The Open became a launch pad for many in the early stages of their career including Peter Doig, Antony Gormley, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread. Since 2012 Whitechapel Gallery has expanded the reach of The London Open to include artists from all over the capital, recognising the Gallery’s cultural role in the city and reputation for exhibiting the best in contemporary art.

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Exhibition: Whitechapel Gallery, June – August 2021

Spring 2021

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Documents of Contemporary Art Our acclaimed series of anthologies dedicated to major themes and ideas in contemporary art, edited by a scholar, artist, critic or curator. £16.95 Paperback 240pp 210 × 145 mm For sale in the UK and Europe only.

Abstraction Maria Lind 978-0-85488-208-3

Colour David Batchelor 978-0-85488-160-4

Information Sarah Cook 978-0-85488-248-9

Painting Terry R. Myers 978-0-85488-188-8

Situation Claire Doherty 978-0-85488-173-4

Craft Tanya Harrod 978-0-85488-266-3

The Magazine Gwen Allen 978-0-85488-243-4

Participation Claire Bishop 978-0-85488-147-5 208pp

Sound Caleb Kelly 978-0-85488-187-1

Dance André Lepecki 978-0-85488-203-8

The Market Natasha Degen 978-0-85488-216-8

The Studio Jens Hoffmann 978-0-85488-197-0

Materiality Petra Lange-Berndt 978-0-85488-237-3

The Sublime Simon Morley 978-0-85488-178-9

Memory Ian Farr 978-0-85488-204-5

Systems Edward A. Shanken 978-0-85488-234-2

Education Felicity Allen 978-0-85488-192-5

Animals Filipa Ramos 978-0-85488-249-6

Ethics Walead Beshty 978-0-85488-235-9

The Artist’s Joke Jennifer Higgie 978-0-85488-156-7

The Everyday Stephen Johnstone 978-0-85488-159-8

Design and Art Alex Coles 978-0-85488-153-6

Exhibition Lucy Steeds 978-0-85488-225-0

Destruction Sven Spieker 978-0-85488-258-8

Beauty Dave Beech 978-0-85488-163-5 Boredom Tom McDonough 978-0-85488-252-6

Documentary Julian Stallabrass 978-0-85488-207-6

Failure Lisa Le Feuvre 978-0-85488-182-6

Health Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz 978-0-85488-286-1 September 2020 At a moment in which epidemics and global warming menace all forms of life, our newest anthology engages with the ways the vulnerability of our bodies and the maladies that seize them also reveal structural aspects of our societies, exposing how health intersects with sexuality, ethnicity, gender, class and coloniality. Includes brand new texts by artists Mahmoud Khaled and Patrick Staff; new essays by curator Clare Barlow on disability in the museum and curator Portia Malatjie on the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape; and two recent texts on Covid-19 by writers Anne Boyer and Filipa Ramos.

Moving Image Omar Kholeif 978-0-85488-238-0

Practice Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine 978-0-85488-261-8 Queer David J. Getsy 978-0-85488-242-7

Time Amelia Groom 978-0-85488-215-1 Translation Sophie J. Williamson 978-0-85488-267-0

Ruins Brian Dillon 978-0-85488-193-2

Nature Jeffrey Kastner 978-0-85488-196-3 The Object Antony Hudek 978-0-85488-218-2

The Rural Myvillages 978-0-85488-271-7 Science Fiction Dan Byrne-Smith 978-0-85488-281-6 Sexuality Amelia Jones 978-0-85488-224-3

Utopias Richard Noble 978-0-85488-162-8 Work Friederike Sigler 978-0-85488-255-7