White Cube

Art / 23 Nov 2017

Christian Marclay pays homage to Edvard Munch with new series of woodcuts

Those familiar with London-based artist Christian Marclay’s impressive body of work will hardly be surprised by his new collection of black and white woodblock prints that masterfully blend collage, digital technology and traditional printmaking. The American-born, Swiss-educated artist and former...

Art / 9 May 2017

The big smoke: there’s more to Larry Bell’s latest show than meets the eye

Larry Bell is an illusionist. At the 77-year-old West Coast minimalist’s fifth solo exhibition at White Cube’s Bermondsey outpost, he promises to conjure ‘Smoke on the Bottom’ — or at least, something like it. The show is arranged into three...

Art / 6 Oct 2016

Frieze London 2016 takes a nostalgic turn, as galleries look back to the Nineties

‘Contemporary art is struggling to address real events in the art world right now,’ claimed Gregor Muir, executive director of the ICA, two weeks before Frieze opened. As co-curator of the fair’s talks programme, he chose the theme ‘Borderlands’...

Art / 3 Oct 2016

Christian Marclay’s outdoor projections put a dizzying spin on the ordinary

It takes a curious eye to find beauty in the banal, and few are more curious than Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay. His latest work, a series of six new videos due to be unveiled at White Cube Bermondsey later this...

Art / 7 Sep 2016

Bone idol: Danh Vō’s ruminative sculptures arrive at White Cube Hong Kong

As eerie as his theatrical display of mammoth fossils might seem, Danh Vō’s first solo exhibition at White Cube’s Hong Kong outpost nevertheless offers a timely reflection on modern day questions about identity. The Vietnamese-born Danish artist’s collection of some...

Art / 31 May 2016

Order and chaos: Dóra Maurer’s graphic multimedia works at White Cube

A new exhibition at the White Cube at Mason’s Yard introduces experimental work from across the 50-year career of one of Eastern Europe’s most prominent artists. Since the 1960s, Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer has been producing original and precise conceptual...

Art / 31 May 2016

Picture postcard: Gabriel Orozco’s new works at White Cube Hong Kong

‘I get bored very, very easily,’ warns the globetrotting Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, whose latest series of works – inspired by his 18 month-long residency in Tokyo, Japan – is on show at White Cube Hong Kong. The 80...

Art / 28 Apr 2016

Distorted portraits: Georg Baselitz’s ghostly oil works at White Cube

There’s a hint of the megalomaniac in Georg Baselitz’s art. In recent years his output has accelerated, as if he is battling to keep up with the frantic energy he projects in his work. In his latest show, ‘Wir fahren...

Art / 23 Mar 2016

Love stone: Tracey Emin embraces marriage at Art Basel Hong Kong

There’s been much furor ahead of Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition, ‘I Cried Because I Love You’, not least because it is her first solo venture in greater China – and rumoured to be her last before she embarks on a...

Art / 6 Oct 2015

Light fantastic

Having just marked his 87th birthday, American artist Robert Irwin has touched down in London for his latest solo exhibition at White Cube’s Bermondsey outpost. The show, entitled ‘2 x 2 x 2 x 2’, unites three different bodies of...

Art / 6 Oct 2015

Glow with the flow: Cerith Wyn Evans sets White Cube Bermondsey alight

A fantastical force is coursing through White Cube Bermondsey’s South Gallery, which is hosting new works by the Welsh conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans this autumn. The artist found an inspirational spark in the flow of energy in conduits (both...

Art / 17 Sep 2015

Class connotation: Liu Wei’s ’Silver’ at White Cube, Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s current love affair with contemporary Chinese art continues with a freshly unveiled solo exhibition of mirrored sculptures, collage and a ‘shape-shifting’ video by the Beijing-based artist Liu Wei, at the city’s White Cube outpost. The artist has been...