Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Kai Althoff goes with Bernard Leach’ and Nalani Malani ‘Can You Hear Me?’ Private View

Join Whitechapel Gallery for a Private Viewing of their Autumn programme, hosted by Director, Iwona Blazwick. Whitechapel presents the first major UK survey of figurative painter and creator of poetic mise-en-scenes, Kai Althoff (b. 1966 Cologne, Germany; lives and works in New York, USA and Cologne, Germany). The exhibition brings together approximately 100 works spanning Althoff’s career, from childhood drawings and photographs to textiles, sculptural installations and new paintings, presented as immersive environments. 



Whitechapel Gallery will also unveil a major new work titled Can You Hear Me? by Nalini Malani (b. 1946 Karachi, Undivided India; lives and works in Mumbai, India) as part of its prestigious annual programme of artist commissions. 



Also on view: Accelerate your escape: Gary Hume explores the Hiscox Collection, Home: Live > In Room and Exercising Freedom: Encounters with Art, Artists and Communities.

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Image Caption: Nalini Malani, Can You Hear Me?, 2020, Animation Chamber, 9 channel installation with 88 single channel stop motion animations, sound. Photo: Ranabir Das. © Nalini Malani.

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