Exhibitions currently running:
The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka - Polish artist Miroslaw Balka will undertake the tenth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Including installation, sculpture and video, his works explore themes of personal history and common experience, drawing on his Catholic upbringing and the fractured history of Poland. Intimate and self-reflective, his works demonstrate his central concerns of identifying personal memory within the context of historical memory. Until 5 April.
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective - Tate Modern will present the first major retrospective of Arshile Gorky (c.1904-1948) to be seen in Europe for twenty years. Celebrating one of the most powerful and poetic American artists of his generation, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will examine the extraordinary contribution of this seminal figure in Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition will span Gorky’s 25 year career and offer the opportunity to see this complex and moving body of work as a whole. It will include more than 150 paintings and works on paper, many of which have not been shown in public previously. From 10 February until 3 May 2010.
Michael Rakowitz - Michael Rakowitz's new project investigates the influence of western science fiction and fantasy on Iraqi military and scientific activities during the Saddam era. It reveals the hidden links between Saddam's vision, Star Wars, Jules Verne and GI Joe. Shown for the first time in the UK, The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own is the latest in the Level 2 Gallery series. From 22 January until 3 May.
Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World - This Spring, Tate Modern re-examines Modernism in the early 20th century in Europe, with an exhibition devoted to Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) and his modernist contemporaries. This is a unique and exciting chance for van Doesburg’s multi-disciplinary work to reach British audiences for the first time. An artist, architect, typographer, poet, art critic and publisher, van Doesburg founded the far-reaching movement and magazine De Stijl. This artistic movement of painters, architects and designers sought to build a new society in the aftermath of World War I, advocating an international style of art and design based on a simple geometric language. From 4 February until 16 May.
Gauguin - Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the late nineteenth century. Remarkably, this is the first major exhibition in London to be devoted to his work in over half a century. Bringing together over one hundred works from public and private collections from around the world, the exhibition will take a fresh and compelling look at this master of modern art. Challenging commonly held assumptions about the artist and his practice and encompassing paintings, sculptures and drawings, as well as a documentary section, the exhibition will reveal the complexity and richness of his narrative strategies for a twenty-first century audience. Key loans include Self-portrait with Manao tu papau 1893, Teha 'amana has many Parents 1893 and Vision of the Sermon 1888. From 30 September 2010 until 16 January 2011.
International Modern Art - Four themed areas, featuring Landscape, Still-life, The Nude and History as well as rooms devoted to particular iconic works of art and artists.
Tate Modern - Bankside, SE1. Information line 020 7887 8888. Open every day 10.00–18.00 and late night until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday www.tate.org.uk/modern