Taking on the Turbine Hall
Collection by Tate Gallery
Explore Tate Modern's Turbine Hall – a vast, iconic space for large-scale sculpture and site-specific installation art.
Kara Walker's Fons Americanus
Kara Walker's Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Created by artist for the 2019 Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.
Kara Walker takes over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe. She uses water as a key theme, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates and tragedies of people from these three continents. Fantasy, fact and fiction meet at an epic scale.
Kara Walker's 'Fons Americanus' 2019 💧💧💧
Fantasy, fact and fiction meet at an epic scale in Kara Walker's ambitious Hyundai Commission: 'Fons Americanus' in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of London's Buckingham Palace, the 13-metre high fountain questions how we remember history in our public monuments and at the same time, presents a narrative on the origins of the African diaspora.
Anthony Eyton, Bankside - The Turbine Hall 1995-6
In 1994 Eyton was one of a number artists invited by Tate to work in the interior of Bankside power station, now Tate Modern. This picture captures the enormous scale of the turbine hall. He wrote: ‘the machinery looked like modern sculpture and everywhere there were the colours of rust and blue paint’.
Boris Charmatz, Adrénaline 2015
Since Tate Modern first opened in 2000, it has become a London landmark, not just for the art it houses, but also for the architecture of the building itself.
The Unilever Series: Juan Muñoz: Double Bind – Exhibition at Tate Modern | Tate
Juan Munoz Double Bind at Tate Modern
The Tank, Bankside Power Station - Anthony Eyton
Michael Clark Company at Tate Modern 2010–2011, Turbine Hall Residency 2010, th 2011 | Tate
Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project 2003
Instagram's #empty movement explores art spaces after hours
First New York and now London, Instagrammers are persuading the world’s biggest galleries and theatres to let them in after hours – with stunning results
‘Slides in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007’, Matthew Pillsbury, 2007 | Tate
Artwork page for ‘Slides in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007’, Matthew Pillsbury, 2007
Michael Clark Company at Tate Modern 2010–2011, Turbine Hall Residency 2010, th 2011 | Tate
Questions for Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera’s Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall asked museum visitors to experience a community-driven response to the global migration crisis.
Art of Interaction: A Theoretical Examination of Carsten Höller’s Test Site – Tate Papers | Tate
Mark Windsor, Art of Interaction: A Theoretical Examination of Carsten Höller’s Test Site, Tate Papers no.15, Spring 2011
Philippe Parreno’s Turbine Hall review – mesmerising and unmissable
Anywhen is one of the very best Turbine Hall commissions, filling the space with sounds and furies, stillness and movement