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Born in Dresden in 1931, Gerhard Richter left the former GDR in 1961 to study in Düsseldorf, later living and working in Cologne. His practice has redefined the medium of painting, combining a rigorous conceptual approach with a sumptuous yet elusive beauty. His mastery of genres spans landscapes, portraiture, still life and abstraction. Lying at the heart of his practice is an ongoing project that commenced in 1964 and continues to this day. ...

This new catalogue provides a comprehensive document of Goshka Macuga's Bloomberg Commission, The Nature of the Beast, exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery. The catalogue includes an introduction by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick and curator Kirsty Ogg, as well as essays by Dieter Roelstraete, Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, Cynthia Bronson Altman, Pablo Lafuente, Nayia Yiakoumaki and Sally O'Reilly. The publication focuses on the rec...

This publication provides a comprehensive document of Josiah McElheny's site-specific Bloomberg Commission exhibiting at the Whitechapel Gallery. Reflection, light and transparency are defining themes of Modernism and provide a leitmotif for the American sculptor Josiah McElheny's 2011 Bloomberg Commission, The Past Was A Mirage I'd Left Far Behind. Seven mirrored, sculptural screens double, triple and refract the projections of reconfigured a...

The first UK publication on Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade, accompanying her major new commission at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

A seminal new publication on one of Britain's most original and influential post-war artists, marking a major retrospective.

James Richards: To Replace a Minute's Silence with a Minute's Applause is the final of four unique monographs documenting four contemporary artist's selections from Moscow's V-A-C collection and their subsequent display at Whitechapel Gallery during 2014/2015. Creating an immersive environment artist James Richards accompanies Francis Bacon's Study for a Portrait with a sound installation of public silences - acts of mourning, remembrance, or ...

Networks, edited by Lars Bang Larsen, is the first anthology to consider art at the centre of network theory, from the rise of the electronic media age in the 1960s to the present.

This important study -- published in conjunction with the Whitechapel's acclaimed exhibition -- is the first comprehensive survey of filmmaker Chris Marker's influential oeuvre, surveying the entirety of his prolific careerIllustrated throughout, the book charts Marker's unique commentaries on societies at times of upheaval, from his early writing and photography to his later use of CD-ROM and appropriation of web technology. Integrating his f...

The role of philanthropy in public collections across the UK is explored in this landmark collaboration between the Contemporary Art Society and the Whitechapel Gallery. Drawing on the collections of regional museums, art and social reform, subjective notions of value, and the individual's relationship to collections are debated and explored.

Omar Kholeif is a writer and Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, Senior Editor of Ibraaz Publishing and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME. He was a co-curator of the Liverpool Biennial in 2012 and Curator of the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Bienniale in 2015. His books include Jeddah Childhood circa 1994 (2014) and You Are Here: Art After the Internet (2014).

Published to accompany the exhibition Miraculous beginnings held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, October 16th 2010-January 6th 2011.

Renowned for his films installations which re-enact conversations from specific historic moments, Irish artist Gerard Byrne's (b. 1969) work explores the way we understand the present through revisiting the past. Drawing from a diverse range of sources including plays, magazine interviews and art journals, his film installations and photographs engage with the structuring of time, with looking and interpretation and the idea of the object thro...

A seminal new publication on one of Britain's most original and influential post-war artists, marking a major retrospective.

Margaret Iversen is a Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, England. Her books include Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory (1993), Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (2007) and Writing Art History with Stephen Melville (2010).