Chisenhale Gallery


Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's East End.
The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, events, performances, and talks.
The gallery occupies the ground level of a 1930s veneer factory on Chisenhale Road situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near Victoria Park, housed in the same building are Chisenhale Art Place and Chisenhale Dance Space.
The gallery is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations.

Exhibitions

Artists who have exhibited at Chisenhale Gallery include Rachel Whiteread, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor Wood, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Noble, Pipilotti Rist, and Thomas Hirschhorn. In the past decade under the directorship of Polly Staple the gallery has produced solo commissions with a new generation of artists including Florian Hecker, Duncan Campbell, Melanie Gilligan, Hito Steyerl, Janice Kerbel, Josephine Pryde, James Richards, Christina Mackie, Linder, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Amalia Pica, Helen Marten, Ed Atkins, Mariana Castillo Deball, Pratchaya Phinthong, Jordan Wolfson, Camille Henrot, Céline Condorelli, Edward Thomasson, Ed Fornieles, Caragh Thuring, Patrick Staff, Ahmet Ögüt, Nicholas Mangan, Jumana Manna, Park McArthur, Maria Eichhorn, Yuri Pattison, Maeve Brennan, Luke Willis Thompson, Hannah Black, Paul Maheke, Banu Cennetoğlu, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Mandy El-Sayegh, Ima-Abasi Okon, and Imran Perretta.

Networks

Plus Tate

Plus Tate was launched in 2010 with an aim to share art collections and expertise with other UK galleries. The Chisenhale Gallery is one of 34 partners.

How to work together

How to work together was a partnership programme of contemporary art commissions and research based projects devised by Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire between 2013 - 2016. The project is supported by Arts Council England's Catalyst Arts grant scheme, Bloomberg, Cockayne Grants for the Arts and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.