White Cube is a contemporary art gallery founded by Jay Jopling in London in 1993. The gallery has two branches in London: White Cube Mason's Yard in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London; White Cube Hong Kong, in

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; White Cube Paris, at 10 avenue Matignon in Paris; and White Cube West Palm Beach, which opened at 2512 Florida Avenue in 2020 and operates annually in West Palm Beach, Florida, from winter through to spring. In New York, White Cube has an office and viewing rooms at 699

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in the Upper East Side. In 2023, the gallery will open its first public gallery in New York, in a 1920s building spanning three floors at 1002 Madison Avenue. The Hoxton Square space in the

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closed at the end of 2012 and the

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gallery in 2015.

History

White Cube is a gallery owned and run by the art dealer Jay Jopling (an Old Etonian and son of a Conservative MP) who, until September 2008, was married to artist Sam Taylor-Wood. It was first opened in a small, square room in May 1993 in Duke Street, St James's, a traditional art dealing street in the West End of London. In that location there was a gallery rule that an artist could only be exhibited once. The gallery achieved its reputation by being the first to give one person shows to many of the Young British Artists (YBAs), including Tracey Emin and Gavin Turk. In April 2000 it moved to 48 Hoxton Square, a 1920s building that had previously been occupied by the small publishing company Gerald Duckworth & Co. In 2002 an extra two stories (750 m²) were added by hoisting a prefabricated unit on top of the existing structure. White Cube St James's 1

The

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area has been popular with the Young British Artists (YBAs) since the 1990s, at which time it was a run-down area of light industry. More recently it has undergone extensive redevelopment with clubs, restaurants and media businesses. Hoxton Square is a prime site with a central area of grass and trees, which the vicinity is mostly lacking. White Cube previews were open to the public and crowds used to fill the square on such occasions. Its publicly accessible interior had a small reception area, which lead onto a 250-m² exhibition area downstairs, two storeys in height. Another smaller exhibition space upstairs often showed a different artist. Offices and a conference room are on the upper floors. On some occasions exhibitions have been installed on the grass of the square, one example being Hirst's large sculpture (22 ft, 6.7 m) ''Charity'', based on the old Spastic Society's model, which shows a girl in a leg brace holding a charity collecting box. White Cube Hoxton Square closed at the end of 2012. White Cube also offers artists' editions. In September 2006 it opened a second site at 25–26

Mason's Yard Mason's Yard is a street in London SW1, England. Overview Mason's Yard is a cul-de-sac east off Duke Street in the St James's area of London in the City of Westminster. White Cube has one of its two London galleries locations here, which ope ...

, off Duke Street, St. James's, home of the original White Cube gallery, on a plot previously occupied by an electricity sub-station. The gallery, designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates, is the first free-standing building to be built in the St James's area for more than 30 years. In October 2011 White Cube Bermondsey was opened on Bermondsey Street. The building was formerly a 1970s warehouse and was converted into 58,000 sq ft of interior space making it, at launch, Europe's biggest commercial gallery. White Cube Hong Kong, Kitmin Lee

White Cube Hong Kong opened in March 2012 at 50 Connaught Road, in the heart of Hong Kong's

district. It was the first White Cube gallery located outside the UK. Many artists have exhibited there including Gilbert & George,

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, Damien Hirst and Cerith Wyn Evans. The gallery presents in an internal exhibition space of 550 m2 (6000 sq ft), which is set over two floors and has a ceiling height of over 4.5 metres. The space was designed by London-based architects

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and Matthews. White Cube São Paulo opened in December 2012 in a converted warehouse in the centre of the city, on a three-year lease. The gallery launched after a one-off project in the space by

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, organised in conjunction with the British artist’s major exhibition at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo in the summer of 2012. The gallery hosted a series of exhibitions by artists including Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst,

, Larry Bell and

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. It closed in 2015. In summer 2015, White Cube showed works from its stable of artists at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in East Sussex - White Cube at Glyndebourne. The launch exhibition, held in a newly designed space created by the London-based architectural studio Carmody Groarke, featured a selection of paintings by the German artist

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. In 2018 White Cube opened a branch in

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. In 2019, the gallery set up a presence in the

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Artists

White Cube represents several living artists, including: * David Altmejd (since 2018) * Michael Armitage * Christine Ay Tjoe(since 2018) *

* Julie Curtiss (since 2020) * Tracey Emin * Cerith Wyn Evans *

(since 2011) * Gilbert & GeorgeCharlotte Higgins (26 September 2011)
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* Louise Giovanelli (since 2022) * Mona Hatoum * Damien Hirst *

* Rachel Kneebone * Ibrahim Mahama *

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Julie Mehretu Julie Mehretu (born November 28, 1970) is an Ethiopian Americans, Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumula ...

* Beatriz Milhazes (since 2020)Emma Crichton-Miller (17 May 2018)
Latin American art takes centre stage
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''. * Sarah Morris * Gabriel Orozco *

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* Cinga Samson * Raqib ShawAnny Shaw (5 July 2018)
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''. * Danh Vo (since 2018) Hoxton white cube 1

In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: * Isamu Noguchibr>(since 2021)
* Bram Bogart (since 2019) *

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(since 2018) *

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(since 2020) White Cube has in the past represented other artists, including: * Itai Doron * Marc Quinn *

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* Gavin Turk

Criticism

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In 1999, the

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