THE UNILEVER SERIES : MIROSLAW BALKA
Oct 13, 2009 - Apr 5, 2010
Following in the footsteps of Doris Salcedo, Carsten Höller and Olafur Eliasson, Polish artist Miroslaw Balka (b1958) has created the tenth work in The Unilever Series, one of the world's most famous and prestigious public commissions. Balka's installations, sculptures and video explore personal history and common experience, drawing on his Catholic upbringing and the fractured history of his native country. In recent years the Holocaust has played a significant role in many of his works. Balka makes art from everyday and non-traditional materials, for example, maggots, foam, medicine balls, soap and salt.
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored by Unilever

VAN DOESBURG AND THE INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE
Feb 4 - May 16, 2010
'Constructing a New World'.
Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition in the UK devoted to the Dutch artist and lynchpin of the European avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931). A radical and multidisciplinary artist (painter, architect, designer, poet, art critic and publisher), van Doesburg played a pivotal role as a conduit for the international exchange of information and ideas. He founded the magazine and movement De Stijl, advocated Dadaist concepts under the pseudonym IK Bonset, taught a De Stijl course in Weimar in opposition to the Bauhaus and forged links with Constructivist groups. Controversial and opinionated, van Doesburg formed relationships with the most influential artists of mid-century Modernism. There will be over 300 works by 80 different artists on display including works by Alexander Archipenko, Raoul Hausmann, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter, Gerrit Rietveld, Sophie Taeuber and Piet Mondrian.

ARSHILE GORKY : A RETROSPECTIVE
Feb 10 - May 3, 2010

THE MANY HEADED MONSTER
Apr 08, 2010 6:30pm talk/event
The Many Headed Monster : The Audience of Contemporary Performance.
Across a range of disciplines, artists are placing the audience at the heart of their work in innovative and creative ways. The Many Headed Monster is a new critical and practical resource investigating the role of the audience in contemporary performance. Joshua Sofaer presents this performance lecture as an introduction to its extensive uses.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888

ATOM EGOYAN ON ARSHILE GORKY
Apr 21, 2010 6:30pm talk/event
Independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan talks about a number of his installations and short films that relate to Arshile Gorky’s life and artistic legacy in relation to the Armenian massacres, which are widely regarded as a genocide.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888

AUGUST SANDER : PEOPLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Apr 22, 2010 2:30pm talk/event
In the mid 1920s the Cologne photographer began to gather his images of people into a larger scheme that he envisaged as a survey of his contemporaries and that he called ‘People of the 20th Century’. It became a classic project of social observation: poignant, immediate and timeless. To coincide with a new display of Sander photographs, Reiner Holzemer’s 2005 documentary will be followed by a discussion with Gerd Sander, the photographer’s grandson and an expert on his life and work.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Free, no bookings taken
Seated on a first-come, first-served basis

TATSUO MIYAJIMA
Apr 24, 2010 2:00pm talk/event
Since 1987, Tatsuo Miyajima has been using small LED counters that display flashing numbers, arranging them in grids or around sculptural forms. His installations invite viewers to reflect on the passing of time in both personal and more abstract terms, while alluding to structures as small as a single cell and as large as a planetary system.
Tatsuo Miyajima is in conversation with art historian Marcus Verhagen.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£9 (£5 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888

MATTHEW SPENDER ON GORKY
Apr 26, 2010 6:30pm talk/event
Following his emigration from Armenia to America in 1920, Arsile Gorky was a key figure in the New York art world during the 1930s and 40s. With strong links to contemporaries like Willem de Kooning and European war exiles such as the Surrealist Andre Breton, his connection to the worlds of Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism makes him a pivotal figure. Gorky expert, biographer and son-in-law Matthew Spender will lead a tour through the exhibition, combining a critical assessment of his work with personal reflections on the artist’s life and numerous myths that surround him.
Tate Modern, in the exhibition
£10 (£8.50 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888

VAN DOESBURG AND THE INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE
Apr 26, 2010 6:30pm talk/event
Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde Curators' Conversation.
DeStijl moved beyond painting to encompass design, architecture, furniture, film, music and more, examples of which are presented in the Van Doesburg exhibition. Curators Gladys Fabre and Michael White discuss key aspects of the show, including its interdisciplinarity and the contribution made by van Doesburg and De Stijl to the European avant-garde.
Tate Modern In the exhibition
£15 (£12 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes entry to the exhibition
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888

TANYA RAABE
May 04, 2010 3:00pm talk/event
Artist Tanya Raabe is creating portraits of ten disabled sitters as part of a project exploring identity, body image and disability culture. Watch Raabe create a portrait of Baroness Jane Campbell, a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and speak to them both. Raabe will draw on the Tate Modern displays for visual representations of disabled people.
Tate Modern Studio C Level 3
Free

AFTER POST-COLONIALISM
May 08, 2010 2:00pm talk/event
After Post-colonialism : Transnationalism or Essentialism?
What are the implications of regional or ‘ethnic’ narratives of contemporary art in a global context? Do they reflect a new approach to ‘multiple modernities’ or are they another form of essentialism? This panel brings together artists, philosophers and curators to discuss if this approach contradicts the move towards the integration of other histories in the larger narrative of the museum and the art-historical canon.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£12 (£10 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888

DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE
May 25, 2010 6:30pm talk/event
Edifices built and used under colonial rule are informed by the ideologies and power relations used in their construction. In Bethlehem, Algiers, Johannesburg or Berlin, de-colonizing the architecture of a liberated landscape is a condition for the re-negotiation of collective identities, based on new geo-political terms. This process encourages both imaginative and practical planning about the areas that already have or will be released from direct colonial control and opens up questions about the future of these sites and their inhabitants. How can the architecture of domination be reused, recycled or re-inhabited by those it dominated? What are the processes involved in planning and implementing the decolonization of a site? How can one inhabit the house of one’s enemy?
Bethlehem-based architectural practice Decolonizing Architecture members Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman present some of the ideas that inform their work in conversation with artist Lorenzo Pezzani, Abdoumaliq Simone, urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College and film curator Rasha Salti.
The work of Decolonizing Architecture has been exhibited internationally, including recent exhibitions at Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles (BOZAR, 2009), the Venice Biennale for Architecture (2008), the 11th Istanbul Biennale (2009) and the Rotterdam International Biennale of Architecture (2009).
This event runs concurrently with the ‘Decolonizing Architecture’ film season at The Delfina Foundation curated by Rasha Salti.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£12 (£10 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets, call 020 7887 8888

EXPOSED : VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE AND THE CAMERA
May 28 - Sep 19, 2010

FRANCIS AL¾S
Jun 15 - Sep 5, 2010

GAUGUIN
Sep 30, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011

THE UNILEVER SERIES, 2010
Oct 12, 2010 - Apr 25, 2011