Tate Modern

Tate Modern and Museo de Arte de Lima-MALI, one of Peru’s most important museums, have come together to curate a new exhibition as part of Project Space, Tate’s dedicated space for presenting emerging and recently established international artists. Re-thinking the traditional divide between historical monuments and discarded urban ruins, artists Rä di Martino, Pablo Hare, José Carlos Martinat, Haroon Mirza, Eliana Otta and Amalia Pica are brought together to explore contemporary ideas of archaeology, fiction and reality.
The Project Space series has been made possible with the generous support of Catherine Petitgas. The curatorial exchange is supported by Tate International Council with the collaboration of Gasworks

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Free

Tate Modern presents the UK’s first major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (b.1930). Bringing together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective highlights one of the most significant figures in African and Arab Modernism, and reveals his place in the context of a broader, global art history.

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Admission £10 (£8.60 concessions) or £11 (£9.50 concessions) with Gift Aid donation

Tate Modern presents Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997–2002 by Meschac Gaba (b.1961, Benin), an immersive twelve-room installation which fuses art and daily life, questioning the nature of the museum and perceptions of African art. Constructed over a five year period, it invites visitors to see and interact with a vast array of objects and environments. This free exhibition will be the first time it has been shown in its entirety in the UK. The show also marks Tate’s acquisition of the work, part gifted to Tate by the artist and part purchased through the Acquisitions Fund for African Art supported by Guaranty Trust Bank plc.

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Free

Tate Modern’s Project Space presents a new group exhibition about the relationship between language and power. Word. Sound. Power. is the result of a curatorial collaboration between Tate Modern in London and Khoj International Artists’ Association in New Delhi. The show brings together eight emerging and established international artists, including new and specially commissioned works. The gallery’s window has been transformed into an ‘invisible speaker’ for the exhibition, playing Caroline Bergvall’s Voice 2007. Also on display is the specially commissioned film work by Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen.

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Free

Tate Modern presents a unique opportunity to view the work of acclaimed North American artist, Ellen Gallagher (born 1965), known for her examination of race and cultural identity.

Where

Tate Modern: Exhibition

Admission

Free

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ellen-gallagher

The first full-scale survey in the UK of the work of Latin American artist Mira Schendel (1919–1988) goes on show at Tate Modern, realised in partnership with the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.

Where

Tate Modern: Exhibition

Admission

Ticket prices to be announced shortly

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/mira-schendel

In the autumn of 2013, Tate Modern presents the first UK exhibition in over a decade of the work of Paul Klee (1879–1940), exploring the intense and inventive work of this renowned painter.

Where

Tate Modern: Exhibition

Admission

Ticket prices to be announced shortly

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/paul-klee

Born in Beirut in 1916, Choucair is a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East and is now becoming recognised as an important figure in the history of global modernism.

Her work combines an experimental approach to materials with an elegant use of symmetry, line and curve. Comprising over 100 works, this exhibition will bring together paintings, sculptures and other objects made by the artist over five decades, reflecting her interests in science, mathematics and Islamic art

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• Any age

Admission

£10, concessions available

Website

http://£10, concessions available

Created by artists Heather and Ivan Morison, Skirt of the Black Mouth is a place for everyone within the south landscape of the Tate Modern Project.

The artists often make works for public spaces that disrupt the rigid grid of the modern world. They use simple folds and cuts to transform monolithic forms, materials and ideas, producing a more unexpected, more beautiful geometry. The resulting structures are intended to agitate and provoke the viewer, but the artists also want people to find hope through this confrontation.

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• Any age

Where

Outside Tate Modern at Holland Street

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/skirt-black-mouth

‘Pictures’ is a word that has become synonymous with photographs, encompassing vernacular uses of photography. From the 1980s, photography as ‘picture’ acquired a very different meaning through the association with large-scale colour photographic prints, assertive of its place in the museum. This panel examines the effect of these changes on photographic practice and discourses.

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When

2-4pm

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Adult £15

This event is a special occasion to mark Tate’s acquisition and display of Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art. Join us for a unique opportunity to hear the artist talk to Tate Modern’s director, Chris Dercon, about this work, the significance of its display at Tate Modern and where it fits within his practice more broadly. Ticket holders will have an opportunity to visit the display on Level 2 after the talk.

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6:30-8:30pm

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Adult £12

This practical six-week course is inspired by the Ellen Gallagher exhibition at Tate Modern. You will create a bespoke artist book, exploring some of the processes of transformation through a wide range of techniques including collage, paper engineering and mixed media. Your finished book will be a visual record of your creative process. No technical knowledge required, all levels of ability welcome. Materials provided.

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Adult £140

This five-session poetry course engages your senses and perceptions in expressing something of our own and others’ identities – imagined, real, mythical and futuristic. Art, discussion and creative writing exercises encourage you to play with forms and create new poems. Here is your chance to enjoy Tate Modern when the galleries are closed to the public. This course is suitable for writers with some experience of poetry workshops. Led by Dorothea Smartt. Ticket price includes drinks afterwards

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Adult £120

For this special event Tate is collaborating with a London-based artist on a public dinner event, activating a section of Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art, the Museum Restaurant, and turning it into a dynamic social and cultural space with some warm home-style cooking. The evening also includes an opportunity to visit and experience the display out of hours.

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When

6:30-9:30pm

Admission

Adult £35

A series of new Sonic Trails will be introduced over 2013. Drop in and pick up the latest trail, Audible Silence: Tate, sleeping and waking.

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• 7-10
• 11-13
• 14-15
• 16-17
• 18+

Admission

Admission free.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk

Join curator Nada Raza for a tour of Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art while the gallery is quiet and closed to the public. Raza offers an insight into the curatorial processes behind the display as well as sharing thoughts on Gaba’s life and work.

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When

6:30-8:30pm

Admission

Adult £12

This major retrospective tracing the life and work of Ibrahim El-Salahi brings together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career. Join curator Elvira Dyangani Ose to explore the work of one of the most significant figures in African and Arab Modernism.

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When

6:30-8:30pm

Admission

Adult £15

Teresa Cisneros in collaboration with Margareta Kern present ¡Lotería!, a one night culinary intervention in Meschac Gaba’s Museum Restaurant, exploring the economy of food through conversation, research and play. The event takes its title from Lotería, a Latin American game of chance. Devising a new Lotería, Cisneros and Kern will invite the dinner guests to playfully map the economy of food and its impact on the daily lives of people in the UK and worldwide. A vegetarian option is available, please advise on booking. For more information on other events as part of the dinner series please look at the website.

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When

7:30-9:30pm

Admission

£35 (includes drinks)

For the final event in the Museum Restaurant dinner series, Tate is collaborating with London-based artist Gayle Chong Kwan. For this unique artist dinner Gayle invites guests to create an artwork together in the form of a communal sensory ‘Garden of Adonis’, through sharing dishes cooked using herbs and spices grown in local community gardens. Guests will each receive a specially created limited-edition artwork – a ‘Garden of Adonis Award of Merit’. A vegetarian option is available, please advise on booking. For more information on other events as part of the dinner series please look at the website.

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When

6:30-9:30pm

Admission

£35 (includes drinks)

Nicoline van Harskamp addresses the function and power of the spoken word, and its ability to influence and shape thought in an online performance for the BMW Tate Live: Performance Room. Nocoline van Harskamp's new work will explore the power of the English language. BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is a pioneering programme of live performances commissioned and conceived exclusively for online viewing and simultaneously seen by international audiences across world time zones.

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When

8-10pm

Admission

Details will be made available at www.tate.org.uk/bmwtatelive