Tacita Dean at Tate Modern

Tacita Dean is the next artist to create a commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall (London, United Kingdom) as part of the Unilever Series.

Dean will be making a new commission especially designed to respond to the architecture of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. The Unilever Series has become renowned as one of the most exciting and impressive contemporary art exhibitions in London each year.

Tacita Dean is a British artist now based in Berlin, best known for her use of film. Dean's films act as portraits or depictions rather than conventional cinematic storytelling, capturing fleeting natural light or subtle shifts in movement. Her static camera positions and long takes allow events to unfold unhurriedly.

Dean's interest in the cinematic also extends to her work in other media. The Russian Ending 2001 borrows its title from the early Danish cinema tradition of making two alternate endings for a film: one happy for the American market and one tragic for the Russian market. In this work, Dean annotated postcards of catastrophes with director's notes.


Date: until March 11.
Location: Tate Modern. Bankside. London SE1 9TG. United Kingdom.
Opening hours: from Sunday to Thursday from 10am to 6pm. Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 10pm.