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Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall until April 16, 2023 Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña’s Forest Quipu, a multi-part installation made up of sculpture, sound, music and video is currently on view at Tate Modern Turbine Hall. The quipu is an ancient South American recording and communication system made from knotted threads. Vicuña has been […]

For the first time in the fair’s history, The Armory Show will bring together three curators with similar fields of curatorial practice, that of Latin American and Latinx art, offering a distinct, unified vision for the fair’s initiatives. They are Carla Acevedo-Yates (Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Mari Carmen […]

Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña at Tate Modern’s Turbine HallOctober 11, 2022 to April 16, 2023 Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña will create the next annual Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern. Vicuña (b.1948) is perhaps best known for her radical textile sculptures, combining natural materials and traditional crafts. A prolific multi-disciplinary artist, Vicuña explores the pressing […]

Tate Modern today announces Christine Y. Kim in the newly created position of Britton Family Curator-at-Large (North American Art). Based in Los Angeles and New York, her role will focus on the development of North American art in Tate’s collection through new research and acquisitions. Kim will start in January 2022.  Since 2009 Kim has […]

Tobias Ostrander is the new Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art at Tate. He is the former Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2011-2019). Major exhibitions developed for PAMM include Beatriz González: A Retrospective; Beatriz Milhazes: Jardin Botânico; On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the […]

Making its Tate debut when the galleries open in May will be Cecilia Vicuña’s Quipu Womb, recently voted to be acquired by the Tate Latin American Acquisitions Committee. Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago, Chile, 1948) is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, dissolution, extinction and […]

This premiere is a chance to view new work from some of the most intriguing artists working in performance, dance, and music now. This fresh and relevant material was performed live to camera in the empty tanks during lockdown. Join artists Thomas Heyes, Ekin Bernay and Rowdy SS with special guest Rebecca Bellantoni, as they respond […]

For LGBTIQA+ History Month in February 2021, Tate’s Queer and Now festival is crossing digital borders to bring queer artists, activists, collectives and communities together from around the world. The events will queer digital curation into a new formation of LGBTIQA+ cultural activism. It will be a chance to celebrate, explore and critique the place […]

Tate is excited to introduce a new limited edition artwork by world-renowned artist Vivian Suter. Inspired by the tropical landscape of Guatemala where she lives and works, Suter’s abstract paintings reflect the color palette and organic shapes of nature. Her limited edition Tintin and Bonzo 2020 recreates one of her nature-inspired abstract paintings in the medium of […]

The world’s largest collection of paintings by one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, J.M.W. Turner, has been rejoined by Mark Rothko’s Seagram murals.Intended as objects of contemplation, these nine abstract paintings were donated to Tate by the artist due to his deep affection for British art, especially Turner.