✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Visual Arts

Andreas Gursky at White Cube Bermondsey ★★★★★

29 Apr 22 – 26 Jun 22, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Size, perfection, anonymity and the inexorability of time: Andreas Gursky’s endless reflections on modern society are on display at the White Cube

By Eleonore Dresch on 5/5/2022

Kreuzfahrt, Andreas Gursky, 2020
Kreuzfahrt, Andreas Gursky, 2020
Andreas Gursky at White Cube Bermondsey 5 Andreas Gursky at White Cube Bermondsey Eleonore Dresch
In this exhibition of Gursky's recent works, some of them created during the time of Covid, size still matters.



A colossal Norwegian cruise ship, a faceless crowd gathering during lockdown in a Brueghel-like landscape of snowy Dusseldorf, a wide and sinister Rhine: Gursky's large-scale photographs display a sense of loneliness, anonymity and ecological tragedy.





Some of his works reflect on the role of images in a society in which photography has become such a key part of our relationship with the outside world. Looking at the photos of slim, anonymous models on a catwalk, it is hard not to notice one’s own reflection in the glass of the picture frame. Oddly enough, it is our own imperfection that seems to bring some life into an otherwise clinical vision of perfect beauty.



Perhaps even more revealing of our dysfunctional world is the photo of an empty and very icy ski competition slope, with a big screen displaying a skier crashing. The snow is melting and nature is collapsing, yet we need to be entertained and the show must go on at all costs.





But there is a small respite such as a photo of a woman with a bucket on her head building a castle with wooden building blocks known as Kapla. The construction is about to collapse, which, for those who know and love Kapla, is one of the most exhilarating moments. Beyond the allegory to our ability and pleasure in destroying everything that we built, there is something quite humorous and tender in describing the tragedy and the repetitiveness of it all.



What Andreas Gursky at White Cube Bermondsey
Nearest tube London Bridge (underground)
When 29 Apr 22 – 26 Jun 22, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Price £FREE
Website



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend. Fumi Kaneko in Cinderella, The Royal Ballet © 2023 Tristram Kenton
Things to do in London this weekend: 31 March – 2 April
Irene Maiorino and Alba Rohrwacher in My Brilliant Friend season 4, HBO/Sky Atlantic (Photo: HBO)
My Brilliant Friend, season 4, Sky Atlantic: first-look photo, release date, plot, cast
Best art exhibitions in London. Photo: Thin Air at the Beams
Top exhibitions on now in London

Editor's Picks

Caroline Walker, photo Peter Mallet
Lisa by Caroline Walker
Liam Young, Planet City, Our Time on Earth, Exhibition Barbican
Our Time on Earth
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).

London exhibitions

London art galleries

May exhibitions 2022

Andreas Gursky

You might like

  • Caroline Walker, photo Peter Mallet

    Lisa by Caroline Walker ★★★★★

  • Liam Young, Planet City, Our Time on Earth, Exhibition Barbican

    Our Time on Earth ★★★★★



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×