12.2016 marks the next phase in Tate Modern’s evolution, with the opening of a new 10-storey building to the south of the Turbine Hall on the site of the power station’s former Switch House. 28, is part of the London 2012 Festival - bringing together an international program of performance, film, talks and live events to coincide with the Summer Olympics, opening Friday and running through Aug. Kim, a South Korean artist, chose to divide the East Tank, one of two circular former oil containers, into two spaces.Īmong his installations on display is Temper Clay, which focuses on the theme of property by juxtaposing film of his parents’ apartment in a modern high-rise building with footage of their country home. “The opening of the Tanks allows us to offer a different space in our programming so that performance, sound, moving images and participation can carry as much weight as anything else we are doing,” Dercon said.Īmong the artists featured this summer in the Tanks are Sung Hwan Kim and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who adapted her acclaimed 1982 dance piece, Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, for the opening of the space. The conversion of the vast concrete cylinders is the first stage of the Tate Modern Project, a $336 million transformation that will include a new building to expand the museum’s size by 60 percent. This is something different,” said gallery director Chris Dercon, who thinks the unusual shape of the Tanks will challenge artists to create exciting new works. “This is not a museum this is not a gallery this is not a theater. The Tanks, which opened to the public on Wednesday, is an underground area of former oil tanks in a converted power station that has been transformed into a sleek exhibition space for artists to showcase their works.

LONDON - The Tate Modern gallery has unveiled its first space dedicated to live art and installations as part of plans to explore new areas of visual culture - such as video, photography and performance art.

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