Viewing Whitechapel Gallery: Spring Season

Whitechapel Gallery opens its spring season with three exhibitions that each approach memory, material and movement from a different angle. Veronica Ryan’s major survey brings together more than 100 works across sculpture, textiles and works on paper, while a rare archival presentation of Senga Nengudi traces a decade of performances that reshaped how the body could be understood in art. Alongside them, Gabriel Chaile’s new commission introduces a more architectural, communal register, drawing on pre-Hispanic traditions and the historical identity of the East End.

Taken together, it is a particularly strong season: one that moves between the intimate and the monumental, the improvised and the deeply rooted. It also feels fitting for Whitechapel’s 125th anniversary year. Rather than looking backwards too neatly, the programme makes a case for the gallery’s continuing role as a place where urgent artistic languages meet, overlap and push outward.