Rachel Whiteread: Sculpture, Britannia Street, London, October 19–December 3, 2005

Works Exhibited

Rachel Whiteread, Keep, 2004. Plaster, 4 ¾ × 10 × 13 ½ inches (12.2 × 25.5 × 34.5 cm) — Rachel Whiteread
*Keep*, 2004
Plaster, 4 ¾ × 10 × 13 ½ inches (12.2 × 25.5 × 34.5 cm)

Rachel Whiteread, Train Set, 2004. Plaster, 17 1/3 × 52 5/12 × 10 7/12 inches (44 × 133 × 27 cm) — Rachel Whiteread
*Train Set*, 2004
Plaster, 17 1/3 × 52 5/12 × 10 7/12 inches (44 × 133 × 27 cm)

Rachel Whiteread, Tare II, 2005. Plaster and plastic, 27 ¾ × 43 ¼ × 47 ¼ inches (70.5 × 109.9 × 120 cm) — Rachel Whiteread
*Tare II*, 2005
Plaster and plastic, 27 ¾ × 43 ¼ × 47 ¼ inches (70.5 × 109.9 × 120 cm)

Rachel Whiteread, Garage, 2005. Plaster, painted steel and laminated wood, 44 ½ × 49 × 27 ¼ inches (113 × 126 × 69 cm) — Rachel Whiteread
*Garage*, 2005
Plaster, painted steel and laminated wood, 44 ½ × 49 × 27 ¼ inches (113 × 126 × 69 cm)

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2004. Pencil and collage on paper, 22 ¼ × 30 inches (56.5 × 76 cm) — Rachel Whiteread
*Untitled*, 2004
Pencil and collage on paper, 22 ¼ × 30 inches (56.5 × 76 cm)

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2004. Collage on paper, 6 × 4 inches (15.3 × 10.4 cm) — Rachel Whiteread
*Untitled*, 2004
Collage on paper, 6 × 4 inches (15.3 × 10.4 cm)

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2004. Gouache and collage on paper, 6 × 4 inches (15.3 × 10.4 cm) — Rachel Whiteread
*Untitled*, 2004
Gouache and collage on paper, 6 × 4 inches (15.3 × 10.4 cm)

Thumbnail - Rachel Whiteread, Keep, 2004. Plaster, 4 ¾ × 10 × 13 ½ inches (12.2 × 25.5 × 34.5 cm)

Thumbnail - Rachel Whiteread, Train Set, 2004. Plaster, 17 1/3 × 52 5/12 × 10 7/12 inches (44 × 133 × 27 cm)

Thumbnail - Rachel Whiteread, Tare II, 2005. Plaster and plastic, 27 ¾ × 43 ¼ × 47 ¼ inches (70.5 × 109.9 × 120 cm)

Thumbnail - Rachel Whiteread, Garage, 2005. Plaster, painted steel and laminated wood, 44 ½ × 49 × 27 ¼ inches (113 × 126 × 69 cm)

Thumbnail - Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2004. Pencil and collage on paper, 22 ¼ × 30 inches (56.5 × 76 cm)

Thumbnail - Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2004. Collage on paper, 6 × 4 inches (15.3 × 10.4 cm)

Thumbnail - Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2004. Gouache and collage on paper, 6 × 4 inches (15.3 × 10.4 cm)

About

A major exhibition of important new works by Rachel Whiteread will open at Gagosian, London. This exhibition includes over twenty sculptures and drawings completed over the last two years and is scheduled to coincide with Embankment, her much anticipated Unilever Series commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, on view from October 11, 2005, through April 2, 2006.

Whiteread is one of Britain’s leading contemporary sculptors. Born in London in 1963, she studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic and sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. She shot to public attention in 1993 with her sculpture, House, a life-size replica of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London’s East End which provoked intense public debate until it was eventually demolished in 1994.

Over the last decade she has developed a significant international reputation, creating major public works in both Europe and the United States. Her winning proposal for the Holocaust memorial at the Judenplatz in Vienna was one of the most prestigious sculptural commissions in Europe in the 1990s. This piece involved placing the cast interior of a library, including imprints from the books on their shelves, into the center of the square. It was unveiled in October 2000. She represented the UK at the 1997 Venice Biennale and created Monument for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2001. Her Water Tower (1998) was reinstalled on the roof of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this autumn. She lives and works in London and her work is represented in many private and public collections worldwide.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany this exhibition, which will include an essay by Alex Potts, professor of art history at the University of Michigan.

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An installation by Rachel Whiteread in the Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy, commissioned by Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and cocurated by Lorenzo Giusti and Sara Fumagalli, opened in June of 2023 and ran into the fall. Conceived in relation to the city, the architecture of the site, and the history of the region, it comprised sixty sculptures made with local types of stone. Fumagalli writes on the exhibition and architect Luca Cipelletti speaks with Whiteread.

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On the occasion of Artist Spotlight: Rachel Whiteread, curator Tom Eccles and artist Kiki Smith speak about the work of Rachel Whiteread through the lens of their personal friendships with her. They discuss her public projects from the early 1990s to the present, the relationship between drawing and sculpture in her practice, and the way her works reveal the memories embedded in familiar everyday objects.

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Rachel Whiteread on Piero della Francesca

Rachel Whiteread writes about the Italian artist’s Baptism of Christ (after 1437) and what has drawn her to this painting, from her first experience of it at a young age to the present day.

Cast of Characters

James Lawrence explores how contemporary artists have grappled with the subject of the library.

Shy Sculpture: Nissen Hut

Rachel Whiteread’s public sculpture Nissen Hut was unveiled in October 2018 in Yorkshire’s Dalby Forest. Curator Tamsin Dillon explores the dynamic history of these structures and provides a firsthand account of the steps leading up to the work’s premiere.

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Becoming Home

Rachel Whiteread’s US Embassy (Flat pack house) was unveiled in its permanent home at the new American embassy in Nine Elms, London, in early 2018. Virginia Shore, the curator for the London embassy project who worked with Whiteread to realize this site-specific commission, reflects on the history of prefabricated housing, the power of “home,” and the connecting force of art.