Tate Modern

This is a varied, spectacular exhibition of a truly unique artist. The nine decades of Yayoi Kusama's life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style.

Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation.

It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as "Accumulations", to her "Infinity Net" paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns.

Admission

£11 (£9.50 concessions)
Free for Tate Members
Book online with Tate or call 020 7887 8888.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/yayoikusama/tickets.shtm

Alighiero E Boetti (1940–1994) was one of the most important and influential Italian artists of the twentieth century.

He was a key member of the Arte Povera group of young Italian artists in the late 1960s which was working in radically new ways using simple materials. This will be the first solo show by an Arte Povera artist at Tate Modern.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

£11 (£9.50 concessions)
Free for Tate Members
Book online with Tate or call 020 7887 8888.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/alighieroboetti/tickets.shtm

A five-room displa exploring the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium.

Consisting entirely of new acquisitions to Tate’s collection, it includes recent work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/newdocumentary%20forms/default.shtm

The exhibition includes iconic sculptures from his Natural History series, including The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde.

Also included are vitrines such as A Thousand Years from 1990, medicine cabinets, pill cabinets and instrument cabinets in addition to seminal paintings made throughout his career using butterflies and flies as well as spots and spins. The two-part installation In and Out of Love, not shown in its entirety since its creation in 1991 and Pharmacy 1992 are among the highlights.

Admission

£15.50 (£13.50 concessions)
Free for Tate Members
Book online with Tate or call 020 7887 8888.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/damienhirst/tickets.shtm

FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall.

It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital.

The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Admission

please contact Tate Modern for more details.

A major exhibition devoted to a reassessment of the works of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944).

This exhibition proposes a dialogue between the artist’s pictorial work in the twentieth century and his interest in the most modern of representational forms: photography, film and the rebirth of stage production at that time.

Admission

£15.50 (£13.50 concessions)
Free for Tate Members
Book online with Tate or call 020 7887 8888.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/edvardmunch/tickets.shtm

Tino Sehgal will undertake the annual commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2012.

To be unveiled on 17 July that year, Sehgal’s new work will be the thirteenth to be commissioned in The Unilever Series as part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/tinosehgal/default.shtm

a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting since 1950.

Contrasting key paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition considers two different approaches to the idea of the canvas as an arena in which to act: one gestural, the other one theatrical.

The paintings of the Vienna Actionists or the Shooting Pictures of Nikki de St Phalle re-presented within the performance context that they were made, and juxtaposed with works by artists such as Cindy Sherman or Jack Smith that used the face and body as a surface, often using make-up in work dealing with gender role-play.

Admission

Admission price tbc. Tickets will be available shortly before the exhibition opens.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/abiggersplash/tickets.shtm

Spaces of Transformation Continuity/Infinity

3 March 2012

Three dimensional space is not a given but the result of a long history through which the spatial characters of a very specific historical definition of what it is to be 'in the world' has been entrenched in common sense. Includes Q&A.

Suitable for

• 18+
• Not suitable for children

When

2-4:30pm

Admission

£15/£12

Secrets of Space Seminar

10 March 2012

Topology investigates the fabric of space. It looks into the texture of not merely physical space, but of all conceivable other spaces – spaces of phrases, spaces of colours or sounds, spaces of moods and passions, all spaces of operations on the human soul. Topology resolves the problem of what it is that holds a space together: of what it is that ties a point to its neighbouring regions. Includes an opporunity to ask questions and join the debate.

Suitable for

• 18+
• Especially for children

When

2-4pm

Admission

£9/£7. Level 7 East Room

Contemporary Art as the Space of Liturgy

31 March 2012

Philosopher Giorgio Agamben in conversation with Thanos Zartaloudis and Anton Schütz.

Suitable for

• 18+
• Not suitable for children

When

2-4:30pm

Admission

£15/£12

Epistemologies of the South: Reinventing Social Emancipation

28 April 2012

This panel explores counter-hegemonic transnational networks, global voices and cartographic practices that map the abyssal line between epistemologies of the North and the South. Includes Q&A.

Suitable for

• 18+
• Not suitable for children

When

2-4:30pm

Admission

£15/£12

Secrets of Space Seminar

5 May 2012

Topology investigates the fabric of space. It looks into the texture of not merely physical space, but of all conceivable other spaces – spaces of phrases, spaces of colours or sounds, spaces of moods and passions, all spaces of operations on the human soul. Topology resolves the problem of what it is that holds a space together: of what it is that ties a point to its neighbouring regions. Includes an opporunity to ask questions and join the debate.

Suitable for

• 18+
• Especially for children

When

2-4pm

Admission

£9/£7. Level 7 East Room

The Vast Space-Time of Revolutions Becoming

12 May 2012

This panel constitutes the spirit that opens up new potentiality spaces for human thought and action toward a transformative movement (abolishing the state of things) that is always there for the making and the taking - pushing human possibilities to their limits. This is what gaining the courage of our minds is all about: to take a speculative plunge into the unknown and the unknowable - facing up to a world of uncertainty and risk where the social and the ecological orders are unpredictable and unstable.

Suitable for

• 18+
• Not suitable for children

When

2-4:30pm

Admission

£15/£12

Spaces of Transformation: Spatialised Immunity

16 June 2012

Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophico-morphological theory is based on an understanding of the history of culture as spatialisations of forms. The world in which we live now requires us to design new types of 'spatialised immunity'. More broadly, the concept of a spherical logic of space - a polymorphologic of form, order and thinking - is explicated in Spheres, his three-volume archaeology of the human attempt to dwell within spaces, from womb to globe.

Suitable for

• 18+
• Not suitable for children

When

2-4:30pm

Admission

£15/£12

The relationship between the work of William Klein (b1928), one of the 20th century’s most important and influential photographers and film-makers, and that of Daido Moriyama (b1938), the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Provoke movement in 1960s Japan.

It will bring together for the first time, vintage photographs from Klein’s New York work, as well as those taken in Tokyo and Paris, with work made by Moriyama in the same cities, including landmark projects from the 1970s such as Moriyama’s Another Country in New York, and Farewell Photography.

Admission

Price tbc. Tickets will be available shortly before the exhibition opens.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/williamkleindaidomoriyama/tickets.shtm