White Cube presents a comprehensive solo exhibition of over 30 key works by Jeff Wall at Bermondsey in November 2024.
Marking 30 years of collaboration with Jeff Wall (b.1946, Vancouver, Canada), White Cube is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition of the artist’s work at the Bermondsey gallery, opening 22 November 2024.
Titled ‘Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures’, the show celebrates the cultural significance of Wall’s work and how he challenged the conventions of photography to change its course within contemporary art. It follows recent museum shows across Europe in 2024, including Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Switzerland) and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona, Spain), and precedes major solo presentations in 2025 at MAAT (Lisbon), Galleria d’Italia (Turin, Italy) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto, Canada).
Residing between near-documentary realism and compositional artifice, the subjects of Wall’s cinematographic photographs range from the urban environment to elaborate tableaux that evoke the scale and complexity of 19th-century history paintings.
The exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey brings together over 40 key works made between the 1980s and the present day, documenting Wall’s artistic development, from early lightbox transparencies and monochrome print photographs, to his more recent engagement with multi-panel compositions.
Listings
Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures: 22 November 2024 - 12 January 2025
White Cube Bermondsey,144 – 152 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ
The exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon, will open in April 2025.
Preview: 21 November 2024, 6:30–8pm
Mulled wine and Gingerbread will be served in the gallery's courtyard.
Further Information: Jeff Wall (Bermondsey, London 2024) | White Cube