Tate Modern



Tate Modern

The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron and contractors Carillion, after which it stood at 99m tall. The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern. The southern third of the building was retained by the French power company EDF Energy as an electrical substation (in 2006, the company released half of this holding)


Paul Gauguin , Teha 'amana has many parents , 1893 Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin
30 September 2010 – 16 January 2011 

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, site of The Unilever Series © Tate The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei
12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011

Gabriel Orozco, Black Kites, 1997  © Courtesy of the artist; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; and kurimanzutto, Mexico City  . Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift (by exchange) of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Magill, 1997 Gabriel Orozco
19 January – 11 April 2011

Joan Miró, Head of a Catalan Peasant, 1925 © Succession Miro / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008. Tate Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
14 April – 11 September 2011

Gerhard Richter, Reader, 1994 © Gerhard Richter. Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gerhard Richter: Panorama
6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012

Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, 2003 © Olafur Eliasson. © 2003 Tate, London The Unilever Series 2011
11 October 2011 – 9 April 2012