White Cube is a contemporary art venue in Hoxton in the East End of London. This long run-down area has been popular with Young British Artists since the 1990s. White Cube is housed in a former light industrial building. It was opened in 2000 and extended in 2002. A focal point of the Brit Art movement, it stages individual and group exhibitions featuring works by the likes of Damien Hirst. The White Cube is owned and run by the art dealer Jay Jopling who is married to the artist Sam Taylor-Wood Hoxton (origin Hocs farm) is an area of London (UK) in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. ... The term East End is most commonly used to refer to the East End of London. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Young British Artists or YBAs is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London. ... Young British Artists or YBAs is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London. ... Damien Hirst (born 1965 in Bristol) is a British artist and probably the most famous of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Jay Jopling (born 1963) is a British contemporary art dealer and gallerist. ... Sam Taylor-Wood (born London 1967) is a contemporary artist working mostly in video and photography. ...
WhiteCube, Masons Yard continues with an international, high profile programme of exhibitions and was launched with an inaugural exhibition by Gabriel Orozco.
In April 2000, WhiteCube, Hoxton Square was set up as a second, larger gallery space in LondonsEast End.
WhiteCube was set up by Jay Jopling in 1993 as a project room for contemporary art.
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