Tate Modern

Co-organised by The Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, it brings together 125 of his most definitive paintings and sculptures and will reassess his enduring legacy.

Renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots, the exhibition showcases key paintings such as Look Mickey 1961 lent from the National Gallery Art, Washington and his monumental Artist’s Studio series of 1973–4.

Suitable for

• Family friendly

Admission

Ticket prices to be announced shortly.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/roy-lichtenstein

The large room at the heart of the wing is devoted to Surrealism, while the surrounding displays look at other artists who, in different ways, have responded to or diverged from Surrealism, or explored related themes such as the world of dreams, the unconscious and archetypal myth.

These displays also show how characteristically Surrealist techniques such as free association, the use of chance, biomorphic form and bizarre symbolism have been reinvigorated in new contexts and through new media, often at far remove from the intentions of their pioneers.

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/poetry-and-dream

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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Admission

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

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.

Suitable for

Admission

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

Suitable for

• 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.

Suitable for

• 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

The screening will be followed by a keynote lecture by John C Welchman and a panel discussion. The first of the Mobile Homestead videos follows a full-size replica of Kelley's family house front as it travels from downtown Detroit to its original location in suburban Westland, encountering and documenting urban decay and deep socio-economic disparities along the way

Suitable for

• 16-17
• 18+

When

6:30-8:30pm

Admission

£7 (concessions available)

This UK premiere of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead videos, presented in collaboration with Artangel. The screening will be followed by a keynote lecture by John C. Welchman and a panel discussion. The first of the Mobile Homestead videos follows a full-size replica of Kelley’s family house front as it travels from downtown Detroit to its original location in suburban Westland, encountering and documenting urban decay and deep socio-economic disparities along the way.

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When

6:30-8:30pm

Admission

£7, concessions available

Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland and Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit

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• Any age

Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland
Mike Kelley, USA, 2010–11, 76.15 min
The first of the Mobile Homestead videos follows a full-size replica of Kelley’s family house front as it travels from downtown Detroit to its original location in suburban Westland, encountering and documenting urban decay and deep socio-economic disparities along the way.
Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit
Mike Kelley, USA 2010–11, 76.17 min
In the second part of the documentary, the Mobile Homestead journeys back to its final location in downtown Detroit, outside the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), as interviews with local residents cast a bleak but revelatory picture of life in the Midwest.
The Mobile Homestead videos are an Artangel commission, with LUMAFoundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).

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Admission

Free

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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Admission

Adult £140

Japanese artist, Meiro Koizumi, will unveil his new work for BMW Tate Live on 13 June. Meiro Koizumi will challenge social boundaries in a work where he and his performers end up in a bizarre choreographed situation which will straddle the blurred lines between the comic and the cruel. BMW Tate Live Performance Room is a pioneering strand of live, online performances simultaneously seen by international audiences across world time zones at www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive.

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When

8-10pm

Admission

Free

Philosopher Jacques Rancière will be in conversation to show how art, far from foundering upon the intrusions of the prosaic world, welcomed images, objects and performances that seemed most opposed to the idea of fine art. This event coincides with the publication of his new book Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art.
In partnership with Verso.

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When

6:30-8pm

Admission

Adult £12

This year’s annual lecture on the connection between the arts and wellbeing will be given by author, playwright and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer. The lecture will look at the links between health and creativity and particularly the ways in which the arts can challenge health inequalities and bring about change in society. This lecture will launch the second London Creativity and Wellbeing Week taking place across the capital 17–22 June, organised in collaboration with London Arts in Health Forum.
www.creativityandwellbeing.org.uk

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When

6:30-8pm

Admission

Adult £12

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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Admission

Adult £120

Melanie Smith, Professor Dawn Ades and Tanya Barson will be in conversation about Smith’s film installation Xilitla (on display on Level 2), Edward James’s extraordinary Surrealist garden at Xilitla in Mexico, and the relationship between modernism, the ruin and contemporary art. The event will also mark the launch of a new book on Melanie Smith’s Xilitla.

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When

6:45-10pm

Admission

Free but tickets required

‘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

Admission

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.

Suitable for

When

6:30-8:30pm

Admission

Adult £12

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.

Suitable for

When

6:30-9:30pm

Admission

Adult £35