Migrations: Journeys into British Art

Tate Britain (United Kingdom) presents an exhibition exploring how British art has been shaped by migration. Featuring artists from Van Dyck, Whistler and Mondrian to Steve McQueen and Francis Alÿs, Migrations traces not only the movement of artists, but the circulation of art and ideas.

Beginning with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the exhibition shows that much British art from this period was made by artists from abroad, including Antwerp-born Anthony Van Dyck, the court painter whose famous portraits such as Charles I 1636 (The Chequers Trust) have come to shape our perceptions of the British aristocracy of this time. 

Other important figures who marked the course of British Art include Piet Mondrian, Naum Gabo and Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, who sought refuge in Britain whilst escaping political unrest and war in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

The exhibition also features recent work by contemporary artists who use the moving image as a versatile tool for both documenting and questioning reality, including Zineb Sedira's fourteen screen installation Floating Coffins 2009 and Steve McQueen's Static 2009, which probes ideas of freedom and migration through the potent symbol of the Statue of Liberty.

Date: until 15 August
Location: Tate Britain. Millbank. London. SW1P 4RG. United Kingdom
Horario: from Monday to Sunday, from 10am to 6pm.