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Hyundai CommissionThe annual commission to create work for Tate Modern’s famous Turbine Hall

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed large-scale works of art, enjoyed by audiences of millions each year. The way artists have responded to this vast, former industrial space has transformed public perceptions of contemporary art.

Tuesday 02 October 2018 to Saturday 30 March 2019
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Anni AlbersTate Modern explores the work of one of the best-known textile artists of the 20th century

As a student at the radical and ostensibly egalitarian Bauhaus art school, Anni Albers, like other women, was barred from becoming a painter. Instead she enrolled in the weaving workshop and made textiles her means of expression.

Anni Albers

Tuesday 11 September 2018 to Sunday 27 January 2019
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Christian Marclay: The ClockA mesmerising masterpiece of contemporary art

Christian Marclay’s acclaimed installation The Clock 2010 has captivated audiences across the world from New York to Moscow. 24-hours long, the installation is a montage of thousands of film and television images of clocks, edited together so they show the actual time. It is a thrilling journey through cinematic history as well as a functioning timepiece.

Christian Marclay

Friday 14 September 2018 to Sunday 20 January 2019
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

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Into The Light: Photography And Abstract ArtHow photographers responded and contributed to the invention of abstract art

The birth of abstract art and the invention of photography were both defining moments in modern visual culture, but these two stories are often told separately. Into the Light is the first major exhibition to explore the relationship between the two, spanning the century from the 1910s to the present day.

Wednesday 02 May 2018 to Sunday 14 October 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

The Ey Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy image

The Ey Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, TragedySee the first solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work ever to be held at Tate Modern

The EY Exhibition Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy is one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged. Taking visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picasso’s life and work that it has been called his ‘year of wonders’.

Pablo Picasso

Thursday 08 March 2018 to Sunday 09 September 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Joan JonasTate Modern celebrates the work of a pioneer of performance and video art

A pioneer of performance art in 1960s, Joan Jonas (born 1936) has sustained a six-decade long career, making her one of the most highly regarded and influential artists working today.

Joan Jonas

Wednesday 14 March 2018 to Sunday 05 August 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

ModiglianiSee some of the most memorable art of the 20th century at Tate Modern’s comprehensive retrospective of Modigliani’s work

During his brief and turbulent life Modigliani developed a unique and instantly recognisable pictorial style. Though meeting little success during in their time, his emotionally intense portraits and seductive nudes are now among the best-loved paintings of the 20th century.

Thursday 23 November 2017 to Monday 02 April 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Hyundai Commission: Superflex One Two Three Swing! image

Hyundai Commission: Superflex One Two Three Swing!Playfully subversive artists SUPERFLEX have filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with swings

An orange line of swings weaves through the Turbine Hall. It then crosses the gallery and emerges in the landscape to the south of the building.

Superflex Bjørnstjerne Christiansen Jakob Fenger Rasmus Nielsen

Tuesday 03 October 2017 to Monday 02 April 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Red Star Over Russia A Revolution In Visual Culture 1905–55 image

Red Star Over Russia A Revolution In Visual Culture 1905–55A dramatic visual history of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1905 to the death of Stalin – seen through the eyes of artists, designers and photographers

2017 marks the centenary of the October Revolution. Rebellion brought hope, chaos, heroism and tragedy as the Russian Empire became the Soviet Union, endured revolutions, civil war, famine, dictatorship and Nazi invasion. A new visual culture arose and transformed the fabric of everyday life.

Wednesday 08 November 2017 to Sunday 18 February 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Ilya And Emilia Kabakov

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are Russian-born conceptual artists known for their pioneering large-scale environments and installations

Ilya Emilia Kabakov

Wednesday 18 October 2017 to Sunday 28 January 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Ilya And Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future image

Ilya And Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The FutureEnter the fantastical world of the Kabakovs in the first major UK museum exhibition dedicated to these pioneers of installation art

The Kabakovs are amongst the most celebrated artists of their generation, widely known for their large-scale installations and use of fictional personas.

Emilia Kabakov Ilya Kabakov

Wednesday 18 October 2017 to Thursday 18 January 2018
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power image

Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black PowerSoul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history

The show opens in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights movement and its dreams of integration. In its wake emerged more militant calls for Black Power: a rallying cry for African American pride, autonomy and solidarity, drawing inspiration from newly independent African nations.

Wednesday 12 July 2017 to Sunday 22 October 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power

Spanning the period 1963–83, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power explores how the category ‘Black Art’ was defined, rejected and redefined by artists across the United States.

Romare Bearden Norman Lewis Lorraine O’Grady Betye Saar Frank Bowling

Wednesday 12 July 2017 to Sunday 22 October 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Trained in both Paris and Istanbul, Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901–1991) is best known for her large-scale abstract paintings. Her abstract vocabulary has been described as a synthesis of Islamic, Byzantine, Arab and Persian influences combined with stylistic elements that were developed in Europe during the post-war period.

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Wednesday 07 June 2017 to Sunday 15 October 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Alberto Giacometti

Fifty years since we first showed London his work, Giacometti returns to our galleries One of the few artists of the last century whose work is often more recognisable than his name, his distinctive elongated figures are inescapably linked to the post-War climate of existential despair.

Alberto Giacometti

Wednesday 10 May 2017 to Sunday 10 September 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Wolfgang Tillmans

From intimate still-lifes and portraits, to images that address vital political issues, explore the photographs of this groundbreaking artist

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wednesday 15 February 2017 to Sunday 11 June 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography From The Sir Elton John Collection

This major exhibition presents an unrivalled selection of classic modernist images from the 1920s to the 1950s – a crucial moment in the history of photography. In this period of rapid change, photography offered a new means to communicate and represent the world.

Thursday 10 November 2016 to Sunday 07 May 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Bmw Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights

Ten days of performance, film, music and dance in The Tanks The first BMW Tate Live Exhibition marks a new departure in the concept of the art exhibition: from a static presentation to an experience of art that unfolds through time. The Live Exhibition will combine installation, performance, film, video, sound, and talks over a period of ten days.

Camp Emily Roysdon Wu Tsang Fred Moten Ian Cheng Fujiko Nakaya Isabel Lewis Melanie Bonajo Carlos Casas Ligia Lewis Paul Maheke Phill Niblock Daïchi Saïto Lorenzo Senni Pepa Ubera Ian Wilson Catherine Wood Andrea Lissoni Isabella Maidmen Carly Whitefield

Friday 24 March 2017 to Sunday 02 April 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

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Robert Rauschenberg

The first US artist to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1963, Robert Rauschenberg blazed a new trail for art in the second half of the twentieth century.

Robert Rauschenberg

Thursday 01 December 2016 to Sunday 02 April 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

The Hyundai Commission 2016

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed new works of contemporary art, enjoyed by an audience of millions.

Tuesday 11 October 2016 to Sunday 02 April 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Bruce And Norman Yonemoto: The Future Of My Desire

A retrospective of the collaborative videos of seminal Los Angeles artists Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

Bruce And Norman Yonemoto

Friday 20 January 2017 to Sunday 22 January 2017
Art screening in City of London, United Kingdom.

Film Screening: Bedwyr Williams

Enter a dystopian future through the artist’s film work Bedwyr Williams creates film, performance, sculpture and drawing that is focused on social and political behaviour and the ways in which that impacts upon individuals and communities. The artists interest in serious philosophical and moral concerns are explored through surreal and often comic means.

Bedwyr Williams

Thursday 19 January 2017 to Thursday 19 January 2017
Art screening in City of London, United Kingdom.

Tony Conrad’s Fifty-five Years On The Infinite Plain

Join us for this special iteration of the late Tony Conrad’s hypnotic audio-visual performance

Tony Conrad

Wednesday 18 January 2017 to Wednesday 18 January 2017
Art performance in City of London, United Kingdom.

The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam’s work lies between East and West, Surrealism and tradition, Africa and the Caribbean, Europe and America.

Wifredo Lam

Wednesday 14 September 2016 to Sunday 08 January 2017
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Bhupen Khakhar

Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) played a central role in modern Indian art and was a recognised international figure in twentieth century painting.

Bhupen Khakhar

Wednesday 01 June 2016 to Sunday 06 November 2016
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Georgia O’Keeffe

Tate Modern will present a major retrospective of the American modernist artist Georgia O’Keeffe, a century after her New York debut. The exhibition is the first important solo institutional exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK for a generation.

Georgia O’Keeffe

Wednesday 06 July 2016 to Sunday 30 October 2016
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

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Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum creates a challenging vision of our world, exposing its contradictions and complexities. Hot Spot is a steel cage-like neon globe which buzzes with an intense, mesmerising yet seemingly dangerous energy. Elsewhere electricity crackles through household objects, making the familiar uncanny.

Mona Hatoum

Wednesday 04 May 2016 to Sunday 21 August 2016
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Belonging Together Connecting Global Students, Refugees And Communities Through Making

This BP Art Exchange display documents participatory interventions devised by refugees, students and communities working alongside artist Albert Potrony in India, Denmark and the UK.

Ben Smith

Thursday 19 May 2016 to Thursday 14 July 2016
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Performing for the Camera

Serious performance art, portraiture, or just simply posing for the camera? What does is it mean to perform for the camera?

Hannah Wilke Yayoi Kusama Cindy Sherman Francesca Woodman Erwin Wurm Marcel Duchamp Yves Klein Samuel Fosso

Thursday 18 February 2016 to Sunday 12 June 2016
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Mona Hatoum: Piercing the object - Inventing the self

Mona Hatoum creates a challenging vision of our world. Her sculptures and installations subvert the formal language of minimalism, introducing traumatic and political themes that expose the contradictions and complexities of today.

Mona Hatoum

Wednesday 01 June 2016 to Wednesday 01 June 2016
Art talk in City of London, United Kingdom.

Tate Modern

Hyundai CommissionThe annual commission to create work for Tate Modern’s famous Turbine Hall

Anni AlbersTate Modern explores the work of one of the best-known textile artists of the 20th century

Christian Marclay: The ClockA mesmerising masterpiece of contemporary art

Into The Light: Photography And Abstract ArtHow photographers responded and contributed to the invention of abstract art

The Ey Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, TragedySee the first solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work ever to be held at Tate Modern

Joan JonasTate Modern celebrates the work of a pioneer of performance and video art

ModiglianiSee some of the most memorable art of the 20th century at Tate Modern’s comprehensive retrospective of Modigliani’s work

Hyundai Commission: Superflex One Two Three Swing!Playfully subversive artists SUPERFLEX have filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with swings

Red Star Over Russia A Revolution In Visual Culture 1905–55A dramatic visual history of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1905 to the death of Stalin – seen through the eyes of artists, designers and photographers

Ilya And Emilia Kabakov

Ilya And Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The FutureEnter the fantastical world of the Kabakovs in the first major UK museum exhibition dedicated to these pioneers of installation art

Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black PowerSoul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history

Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Alberto Giacometti

Wolfgang Tillmans

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography From The Sir Elton John Collection

Bmw Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights

Robert Rauschenberg

The Hyundai Commission 2016

Bruce And Norman Yonemoto: The Future Of My Desire

Film Screening: Bedwyr Williams

Tony Conrad’s Fifty-five Years On The Infinite Plain

The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam

Bhupen Khakhar

Georgia O’Keeffe

Mona Hatoum

Belonging Together Connecting Global Students, Refugees And Communities Through Making

Performing for the Camera

Mona Hatoum: Piercing the object - Inventing the self

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