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Backyard Biennial: East
15 July 2026 to 6 September 2026
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Free 8-week Whitechapel Gallery biennial across 40+ East London venues, with exhibitions, performances and talks celebrating the area's diverse communities.
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Backyard Biennial: East is an 8-week, free, summer arts festival initiated by Whitechapel Gallery in collaboration with more than 40 local partners across East London. Titled East and featuring exhibitions, installations, screenings, performances, workshops, residencies, walks, open studios and special events, this first iteration of Backyard Biennial will celebrate the unique historic, cultural and creative identity of the East End,...
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The Guardian
Eddy Frankel
This morose and meaningless exhibition gave me a migraine
"It's rare that an exhibition is so bad you feel compelled to text a friend saying "you wouldn't believe the garbage I just saw" as soon as you get out. And if you can walk around this badly explained, undercontextualised, barely linked, poorly thought through mess of a show without getting a migraine, you have a stronger constitution than me."
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Sunday11am–6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday11am–6pm
Wednesday11am–6pm
Thursday11am–9pm
Friday11am–6pm
Saturday11am–6pm
