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White Cube Art Gallery London Attraction
www.whitecube.com
White Cube was set up by Jay Jopling in 1993 as a project room for contemporary art. Although it was one of the smallest exhibition spaces in Europe, it was arguably one of most influential commercial galleries of the past decade. Situated on the second floor of 44 Duke Street, St James’s, one of London’s most traditional art dealing streets, White Cube, Duke Street was, literally, a simple white cube, a room within a room, designed by the architect Claudio Silvestrin.
The central concern when establishing the programme was to create an intimate space in which an artist could present a single important work of art or a coherent body of work within a focused environment, an idea that in some way, stemmed from the memorable experience of Walter de Maria’s ‘Earth Room’ in New York. The programme was singular among commercial galleries in that an artist was invited to exhibit only once. Since its inception, the gallery mounted exhibitions of work by many leading international and British artists including Franz Ackermann, Miroslaw Balka, Chuck Close, Tracey Emin, Katharina Fritsch, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Ellsworth Kelly, Julie Mehretu, Doris Salcedo, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luc Tuymans and Jeff Wall. White Cube, Duke Street closed in 2002.
In April 2000, White Cube, Hoxton Square was set up as a second, larger gallery space in London’s East End. Housed in a 1920s light industrial building, and designed by architects MRJ Rundell and Associates, White Cube Hoxton Square has 2000 square feet of uninterrupted exhibition space.
White Cube, Mason’s Yard opened in September 2006. It is located off Duke Street, St. James's, home of the original White Cube gallery, on a site that was previously an electricity sub-station. Also designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates it is the first free-standing building to be built in the St James's area for more than 30 years. The building houses a main, basement floor gallery which is a naturally lit, double-height space with a second gallery on street level providing 5000 ft² of exhibition space. White Cube, Mason’s Yard continues with an international, high profile programme of exhibitions and was launched with an inaugural exhibition by Gabriel Orozco.
White Cube Gallery's Mason's Yard Site
25-26 Mason’s Yard (Off Duke Street) St. James’s London SW1Y 6BU
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7930 5373 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7749 7480
Open: 10 – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday
To access White Cube Gallery's Mason’s Yard site via Underground:
Piccadilly Circus Station (Bakerloo and Piccadilly Lines)
Green Park Station (Victoria, Jubilee and Piccadilly Lines)
To access the White Cube Gallery's via Bus:
The following buses stop near the gallery:
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White Cube Gallery's Hoxton Square SIte
48 Hoxton Square London N1 6PB
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7930 5373 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7749 7470
Open: 10 – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday
To access the White Cube Gallery's Hoxton Square site via Underground: Old Street Station (Northern Line)
To access the White Cube Gallery's via Bus:
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