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Tate Britain Exhibition

Rachel Whiteread

12 September 2017 – 24 January 2018
Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Pink Torso) 1995 (Detail) © Rachel Whiteread. Courtesy of the Artist and Gagosian

Rachel Whiteread Untitled (Pink Torso), 1995 © Rachel Whiteread
Photo: Seraphina Neville and Mark Heathcote © Tate

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Celebrating over 25 years of Rachel Whiteread’s internationally acclaimed sculpture

One of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, Whiteread uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space. Her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental.

Born in London in 1963, Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. The same year she made House 1993–1994, a life-sized cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London’s East End, which existed for a few months before it was controversially demolished.

This momentous show tracks Whiteread’s career and brings together well-known works such as Untitled (100 Spaces) 1995 and Untitled (Stairs) 2001 alongside new pieces that have never been previously exhibited.

On the lawn outside Tate Britain a new concrete sculpture, Chicken Shed 2017, will sit during the exhibition.

This exhibition is co-organised by Tate and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

pale blue cast of a pair of doors

Rachel Whiteread
Due Porte 2016
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill (Rome, Italy) © Rachel Whiteread

cast of some stairs in a warehouse with a woman standing in front of it

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (Stairs) 2001
Tate © Rachel Whiteread
Photo: © Tate (Joe Humphrys)

drippy graphic drawing of some stairs


Rachel Whiteread
Stairs 1995
Private Collection © Rachel Whiteread

cast of a window pane in yellow resin

Rachel Whiteread
Light II 2010
Private Collection © Rachel Whiteread

A resin or wax cast of a beehive

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (Hive) I 2007–8
Private Collection © Rachel Whiteread

cast of a hot water bottle

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (Yellow Torso) 1991
Private Collection © Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread Chicken Shed 2017, the artist and Galleria Lorcan O'Neill © Rachel Whiteread, photo: © Tate

Rachel Whiteread
Chicken Shed 2017
the artist and Galleria Lorcan O'Neill © Rachel Whiteread
photo: © Tate

a grid of resin colour blocks in Tate Britain Duveen gallery space

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) 1995
Pinault Collection. © Rachel Whiteread
photo: © Tate Photo: © Tate (Joe Humphrys)

close-up photograph of resin colour blocks

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) 1995
Pinault Collection. © Rachel Whiteread
photo: © Tate Photo: © Tate (Joe Humphrys)

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Dates

12 September 2017 – 24 January 2018

Sponsored by

RSM

Supported by

FLAG Art Foundation

Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman

With additional support from

The Rachel Whiteread Exhibition Supporters Circle

Roland Augustine and Lawrence Luhring

Gagosian

David and Rose Cholmondeley

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill

Dasha Shenkman

Anna and Ralph Goldenberg

Tate Americas Foundation, Tate International Council and Tate Patrons

*****

Filled with safe spaces and frightening places, mystery and memories

The Guardian
*****

An atmosphere typical of dreams

Evening Standard
****

Essential viewing

The Telegraph

She takes empty interiors and gives them presence and heft. She gives the inside of things a life we never knew they possessed

The Independent

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