White Cube - October 2025
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Theaster Gates - 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise
White Cube 2025 ISBN 9781910844779 Acqn 37443
Pb 23x32cm 140pp col ills £56.25
1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise documents Theaster Gates's exhibition of the
same name (February - April 2025) which commemorated the centenary of Malcolm X's birth and
60 years since his assassination. A record of Gates's archival practice and commitment to Afro-
Asian alliances, the publication is interspersed with documents from the Black radical archive of
the late Japanese journalist Ei Nagata and his partner Haruhi Ishitani.
Fitted with a silver screen-printed cover and designed by Studio Ardworks, the catalogue walks
the reader through the exhibition, illustrating a series of architectural interventions, sculptures,
archival materials, and new film work. Beginning with an introductory essay by emerging Malcolm
X scholar, Najha Zigbi-Johnson, the book also features a dynamic conversation between Gates,
curator Zoe Whitley, and artist John Akomfrah, who together discuss subjects of Black militancy,
artistic solidarities and personhood.
Contributions by John Akomfrah, Zoe Whitley and Najha Zigbi-Johnson.
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White Cube Companion (2025)
White Cube 2025 ISBN 9781910844793 Acqn 37442
Pb 15x23cm 264pp col ills £31.25
Companion, White Cube gallery's annual reader, is a compilation of contemporary art and
discourse. Visual essays, in-conversations, lectures, poetry, artist writings and newly
commissioned texts are just some of the forms of creative expression and scholarship brought
together in a single volume.
Highlights include newly commissioned writing by Amalia Ulman on Sarah Morris's iconic film Los
Angeles (2004); Adrian Searle's close reading of an early work by Gilbert & George; a visual
essay dedicated to Doris Salcedo's public projects in her native city of Bogota; a 1952 piece of
cultural commentary by Isamu Noguchi; a conversation between Ilana Savdie, Ariana Reines,
and Jasmine Wahi; an essay by the late Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman on the practice of
Miroslaw Balka; and new work by Haim Steinbach created exclusively for the book using a
random number generator.
Contributors: Darren Almond, Miroslaw Balka, Zygmunt Bauman, Lucy Bradnock, David
Campany, Alex Carver, Yeon Shim Chung, Lynne Drexler, Nancy Feldman, Sara Flores, Gilbert
& George, Antony Gormley, On Kawara, Lee Ufan, Yoko Matsumoto, Sarah Morris, Isamu
Noguchi, Minoru Nomata, Howardena Pindell, Ariana Reines, Doris Salcedo, Ilana Savdie, Adrian
Searle, Jennifer Sliwka, Haim Steinbach, Sam Thorne, Reiko Tomii, Amalia Ulman, Jasmine
Wahi, Jonathan Watkins, and Jeff Wall.
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Cai Guo-Qiang - Gunpowder and Abstraction 2015-2025
White Cube 2025 ISBN 9781910844809 Acqn 37441
Pb 25x30cm 178pp col ills £62.50
Published to mark Cai Guo-Qiang's solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey (September -
November 2025), this catalogue charts a decade of the artist's experimentation with gunpowder.
Detailing monumental works which shift between registers of the figurative and abstract, this
publication profiles Cai's distinctive engagement with a volatile and transformative medium.
Over 30 years after their first meeting, Cai and Hans Ulrich Obrist are reunited in conversation for
this publication, discussing the artist's early forays with gunpowder, and the many public
commissions which have punctuated his career. Additionally, Rachel Rivenc explores the
conceptual and material complexity of the artist's practice from her unique perspective as Head of
Conservation and Preservation at the Getty Research Institute.
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