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6 unusual facts about Tate Modern


Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

It presents him installing his show at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in September 2009 and his 100 million-ceramic porcelain piece at the Tate Modern a year later.

Cidade Limpa

At the same time the artists' work was being celebrated in the Street Art exhibition at Tate Modern Gallery in London, with large-scale works by Os Gêmeos and Nunca decorating the Tate Modern's external walls.

David Pickvance

In 2007, Pickvance created the Creative Sound course for the Tate Modern in London.

K8 Hardy

Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has been exhibited and performed internationally at venues including, MoMA PS1 (New York NY), Artists Space (New York, NY), The Tate Modern (London, UK) and Galerie Sonja Junkers (Munich, Germany) among many others.

In 2007, Hardy and Greenwood performed New Report Live at the Tate Modern in London.

Pop Shop

In September 2009, the shop has been reconstructed as part of London's Tate Modern's exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World.


Dance Umbrella

Recently the festival has also included visits to Laban, Battersea Arts Centre, the Criterion Theatre, TATE Modern, Brick Lane Music Hall and Siobhan Davies Studios.

Francisco Rodrigues da Silva

Having developed their reputation in São Paulo Nunca and the Pandolfos were invited to participate in a street-art exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery in London that led to a significant re-evaluation of their work by their home city.

Hannah Starkey

Starkey's work is included in the collections of the Tate Modern, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and Castello di Rivoli in Turin.

Jérôme Bel

Films of his shows have been presented at biennials of contemporary art in Lyon, Porto Alegre, Tirana and at the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris and in Metz, at the Hayward Gallery and the Tate Modern in London, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York).

Kaplan Law School

Kaplan Law School is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, close to Southwark Cathedral, Borough Market and the Tate Modern.

Katharina Fritsch

Her work has since been the subject of exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago as well as of a survey exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich and Deichtorhallen (2009).

Liberate Tate

The site-specific work, an alternative to the official Tate Multimedia Guide and Tate to Tate tours, is for the three locations of Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Tate Boat.

LUMA Foundation

The Foundation engages in long-term collaborations with institutions like the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), CCS Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern (London), the Kunsthalle Zürich and the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland).

Massimiliano Gioni

In 2002, at 29, he opened a one-meter-square space, The Wrong Gallery, in Chelsea with Ali Subotnick (then of Parkett) and Maurizio Cattelan; when they lost the lease, they reopened in the Tate Modern.

Meat magazine

It is retailed in Borders nationwide and many independent bookshops and galleries including the ICA and Tate Modern.

Pauline Forster

Dog On was a clamped, mirrored Capri which Forster slept in for three nights outside the Tate Modern starting on the day of its grand opening.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Sean Landers

Landers’s work is represented in numerous major museum and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Denver Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Tate Modern in London, Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin, Sammlung Goetz in Munich, and Fundación/La Colección Jumex in Mexico, among others.

Steven Shearer

He has exhibited internationally, including the Tate Modern in London, The New Museum, the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York, the Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago.

Sue Sanders

With the help of the Schools Out committee, she instituted the UK's first LGBT History Month; this was launched in December 2004 at Tate Modern and the took place the following February.

Takako Saito

Aside from solo exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Fukui, New York and Kansas, she has featured in recent exhibitions including Fluxus retrospectives at the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár in 2002 and at Tate Modern London in 2008 and the Re-Imagining Asia at the House of World Cultures in Berlin.


see also

Faena Arts Center

The inaugural exhibition featured a monumental installation by Brazilian contemporary artist Ernesto Neto, curated by the Tate Modern’s Jessica Morgan.

Tate Etc.

Articles: Peter Blake's A-Z polaroids, Paula Rego's illustrations for Jayne Eyre, Tom Morton on Tate Modern's 'Common Wealth' exhibition, Alan Davie: Myth & Gesture, Turner Prize: Justin Westover photographs the shortlisted artists.