White Cube Adds Italian Artist Enrico David to its Roster
White Cube has announced its representation of artist Enrico David. This development precedes the opening of a major survey in Italy later this year. Save to My Ocula
White Cube gallery has announced that it will represent London‑based Italian artist Enrico David, in collaboration with Michael Werner Gallery. This development precedes the opening of a comprehensive retrospective at Castello di Rivoli, Turin, opening in October 2025.
David, born in Ancona, Italy, in 1966, moved to London in 1986 and studied at Central Saint Martins. His practice spans painting, sculpture, tapestry, and installation, tracing the line between figuration and abstraction into something mutable and often uneasy.
Although drawing from various sources, including Italian craft traditions, literature, film, and theatre, his work is also deeply personal. David has spoken of formative loss in his adolescence as particularly influential. This experience underpins his ongoing exploration of themes around impermanence, consciousness, and the body’s role as a vessel.
The artist’s first exhibition with White Cube is scheduled to open in October 2025 at their Paris location, coinciding with a retrospective at Castello di Rivoli, Italy.
The Castello di Rivoli retrospective, curated by Marianna Vecellio, aims to provide a comprehensive survey of David’s oeuvre. Titled I Am Back Tomorrow, it will feature seminal works such as Madreperlage (2003), David’s first large-scale installation, and Ultra Paste (2007), originally presented at London’s ICA. The show will also include Absunction Cardigan (2009), created for David’s Turner Prize nomination, and works from his ‘Teatrini’ series, an ongoing project initiated in 2005.
This exhibition follows other major institutional showings, including retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, both in 2019. That same year, David represented Italy at the 58th Venice Biennale.
The gallery plans to showcase David’s work at the upcoming Art Basel Hong Kong (28–30 March 2025), with their booth featuring his paintings Sofia I and Study for a Bust I (both 2024), alongside an earlier sculpture Fortress Shadow (2017). —[O]
Main image: Enrico David. Photo: © White Cube, Eva Herzog.
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