The new Switch House will contain four levels of art, as well as a bar, shop, restaurant, offices, learning spaces and a members room. “For us to be simply reflecting the fact that there have been really significant artists working in Tokyo, São Paulo, Rio, north Africa, the Sudan, is not imperialism but quite straightforwardly both just and opening people’s eyes to the world.” He denied it could be seen as an “imperialist” approach. Tate’s director Sir Nicholas Serota told a press briefing in London that the aim was to create “a new museum for the 21st century that reflects a truly international view of art”. Tate’s best-known works by Matisse, Picasso and Lichtenstein will remain, curators have promised, but they will be joined by more art from Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and eastern Europe.Īmong the more recently purchased works on display will be a tower of radios called Babel by the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles and a vibrantly coloured untitled painting of war suffering by the Mozambican artist Malangatana Ngwenya. Sir Nicholas Serota lays the final brick of the new Switch House extension back in February.
The existing Tate Modern building, the Boilerhouse, will be the home of new displays exploring different approaches to modern art since 1900. Level four will be dominated by works by the late Louise Bourgeois, while elsewhere visitors may encounter a four-tonne cube of pink glass by Roni Horn, or a bubble fountain by the kinetic art pioneer David Medalla.Ĭarl Andre’s pile of bricks, which were a national scandal when the Tate bought them in the 1970s, will be joined by new bricks: the Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair’s Infinite Structure, 1963-65, which is composed of 12 stone blocks and was obtained by the Tate in 2011.
In between, three levels will tell the story of contemporary art since the 1960s. In the basement, floor 0, will be The Tanks, the world’s first museum spaces dedicated to live art, while the 10th floor will be given over to a spectacular viewing level. The new Tate Modern will open on 17 June with around 60% more gallery space provided by its 11-floor Switch House extension.
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