Whitechapel Auction
At Sotheby’s
Auction of works by contemporary international artists to raise funds for the £10m expansion of the Whitechapel Art Gallery
Nine AM worked with the Whitechapel Gallery and Sotheby’s to organise a major auction that raised 2.8 million GBP towards the Gallery’s expansion and future Exhibition and Education programmes.
Nine AM worked with the Whitechapel Gallery and Sotheby’s to organise a major auction that raised 2.8 million GBP towards the Gallery’s expansion and future Exhibition and Education programmes. The Whitechapel Gallery launched an ambitious £10 million expansion plan which incorporated the former library next to the Gallery. The development increased the gallery space by 78% and gave the people of East London more opportunities for learning by trebling training and education facilities.
The plans, designed by leading Belgian architects, Robbrecht en Daem Architecten, were unveiled for the first time in early 2006. A new Collections Gallery was designed to provide public access to important art collections, along with a Commissions Gallery, which provided a new platform for an annual art commission. Also, a permanent gallery for the Whitechapel’s 100-year-old archive was designed, along with an Education and Research Tower, which included a research centre, education studios and galleries.
Artists who pledged works include: Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Emi Avora, John Baldessari, Miquel Barceló, Claire Barclay, Georg Baselitz, Tony Bevan, Naomi Bishop, Christian Boltanski, G.L. Brierley, Angela Bulloch, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Francesco Clemente, Tony Cragg, Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Deacon, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Diebenkorn, Peter Doig, Lucian Freud, Liam Gillick, Nan Goldin, Rodney Graham, David Harrison, Damien Hirst, Thomas Hirschhorn, Gary Hume, Cristina Iglesias, Raoul De Keyser, Toba Khedoori, Guillermo Kuitca, Jim Lambie, Paul McCarthy, Cathy de Monchaux, Juan Muñoz, Paul Noble, Albert Oehlen, Raymond Pettibon, Walid Ra’ad, Tobias Rehberger, Ugo Rondinone, Eva Rothschild, Julian Schnabel, Thomas Schütte, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Euan Uglow, Jeff Wall, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Gary Webb, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Terry Winters, Zatorski & Zatorski.
