Showing This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery, at Whitechapel Gallery

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Lenz Geerk, Scent II, 2025
Lenz Geerk, Scent II, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Massimo De Carlo.

Group exhibition

This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery

Remi Ajani, Andrew Cranston, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Shiwen, Arisa Yoshioka and others

Whitechapel Gallery

Oct 8 – Nov 8, 2026

Paintings by twenty-three international artists, new and recent, shown and sold to mark the gallery’s 125th anniversary.

The exhibition and sale marks Whitechapel Gallery’s 125th anniversary and raises funds for its future. Twenty-three artists, working with their galleries, show newly commissioned or recent paintings in the Assembly Room, the former Whitechapel Library.

The works range from figurative to abstract and treat the image as a space of enquiry, built through surface, material, gesture and time. They invite slow looking rather than quick reading. All are for sale, with proceeds supporting the gallery, the artists and their galleries.

Full details at whitechapelgallery.org

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