Tate Liverpool forms part of the iconic Albert Dock and is at the heart of the Liverpool Waterfront. Tate Liverpool attracts an average of 620,000 visits a year and hosts a diverse and lively special exhibitions and events programme while displaying work from the national collection free of charge.
JUNE HIGHLIGHTS
Throughout June, visitors can continue to experience Tate Liverpool’s recently opened summer exhibition Life in Motion featuring work by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele and American photographer Francesca Woodman. There are a number of events taking place this month that are inspired by the exhibition. Highlights include a talk from author Deborah Levy on Wednesday 13 June who will discuss the influence Francesca Woodman had on her writing. On Thursday 26 June, discover more about Schiele’s intimate drawings and Woodman’s haunting photographs in a curator’s tour around the exhibition.
It’s the last chance to see artworks by Tate collection favourites including J.M.W. Turner, Barbara Hepworth and Mark Rothko in Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen before it closes on 17 June. Visitors are also encouraged to see works by the renowned American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein ARTIST ROOMS: Roy Lichtenstein in Focus before it finishes on the same day.
The playful and interactive installations created by Brazilian collective OPAVIVARÁ continue in Tate Liverpool’s top floor gallery until 24 June. In Tate Exchange Liverpool from Wednesday 27 June, visitors can share skills, ideas and stories in a pop-up Swap Shop, designed and built by students from Birmingham School of Art. If that wasn’t enough, the public can discover works by iconic artists for free in Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art.
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS, DISPLAYS & COMMISSIONS 2018
SPRING 2018
KEN’S SHOW: EXPLORING THE UNSEEN
On until 17 June 2018
FREE
Supported by Tate Liverpool Patrons and Corporate Supporters
2018 marks Tate Liverpool’s 30th anniversary. Since opening in 1988 one man has been a constant presence at the Albert Dock gallery: Art Handling Manager Ken Simons. To celebrate this landmark year, Tate Liverpool will present a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of 30 artworks from the Tate collection curated and conceived by Ken. Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen, in the ground floor Wolfson Gallery, includes some of his favourite artworks – many of which he has previously installed in the galleries. Together the works explore the unseen or mysterious spaces in our world and point to Ken’s particular interest in sculptural and landscape art. Highlights include Tate collection favourites such as J.M.W. Turner, Barbara Hepworth and Mark Rothko.
OPAVIVARÁ!: UTUPYA
On until 24 June 2018
FREE
Sponsored by Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University. Supported by Tate Liverpool Commissioning Circle and the Opavivara! Supporters Group
Tate Liverpool’s top floor gallery has been transformed by Brazilian collective OPAVIVARÁ! into an immersive environment featuring installations which encourage visitors to complete the artwork by becoming an active part of its animation and interpretation. Highlights include Rede Social where the group will create a ‘social network’ in a giant hammock and Pajé Curumin, where the artists invite visitors to come together and share their experiences at a communal tea station. For over a decade OPAVIVARÁ!’s work has blurred the lines between public and private space, encouraging people to share ideas, cultures and experiences. This will be their first solo exhibition in the UK. The free exhibition is part of the ‘We Have Your Art Gallery’ series which seeks to challenge conventional behaviours in public and gallery spaces.
SUMMER 2018
LIFE IN MOTION: EGON SCHIELE/ FRANCESCA WOODMAN
On until 23 September 2018
£12.50 / £10.50
This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme with additional support from Tate Liverpool Members
Tate Liverpool presents an exhibition that highlights the expressive nature of the human body, seen through the eyes of two influential and innovative artists. Life in Motion combines the work of radical Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele (1890–1918) and American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), and investigates their incredible ability to capture and suggest movement to create dynamic, extraordinary compositions. Working at either end of the twentieth century, Woodman’s photographs help to refocus how we see the work of Schiele, highlighting how the latter’s practices and ideas continue to have a relevance to contemporary art. Renowned for their nude portraits and self-portraits, Schiele and Woodman lay bare their subjects’ raw emotional state and physical tensions in intimate and unapologetic work.
LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL: BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU?
14 July – 28 October 2018
FREE
Liverpool Biennial is the largest festival of contemporary art in the UK, with free exhibitions and events taking place across the city’s public spaces, galleries, museums and online. The 10th edition of Liverpool Biennial, Beautiful world, where are you? invites artists and audiences to reflect on a world in social, political and economic turmoil. At Tate Liverpool, the Biennial will present new and existing work by artists Kevin Beasley, Dale Harding, Brian Jungen, Duane Linklater, Annie Pootoogook, Joyce Wieland and Haegue Yang. Their work responds to a resurgence of consciousness and activism among peoples whose histories have been marked by physical and cultural expropriation. This presentation at Tate Liverpool brings to the fore work from America, Australia and Canada by artists from communities for whom this cultural shift has frequently been encountered as loss and suppression.
TATE COLLECTION AT TATE LIVERPOOL
ARTIST ROOMS: ROY LICHTENSTEIN IN FOCUS
On until 17 June 2018
FREE
Made possible through the generosity of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Tate Liverpool presents a display of works by the renowned American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997). The display includes major paintings such as In the Car 1963 and provides a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of Lichtenstein’s work in the North of England. It includes some 20 paintings, reliefs and works on paper by the artist known for his paintings based on comic strips, advertising imagery, and adaptations of works by other artists. Bringing together painting, sculpture and video from throughout Lichtenstein’s career, this exhibition constitutes a key body of work, drawn from ARTIST ROOMS – a collection of international modern and contemporary art, established through the d’Offay Donation in 2008, and jointly owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland – alongside major loans from both institutions and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
OP ART IN FOCUS
21 July 2018 – 16 June 2019
FREE
Tate Liverpool presents Op Art in Focus, a dazzling display from innovative artists of the 1960s to today. Op art – short for optical art – emerged in the 1960s. Its leading figures included Bridget Riley, Jesus Rafael Soto and Victor Vasarely who combined lines, geometric shapes and eye-popping colour to create artworks that fool the eye. Images could be subtle or disorientating, giving the illusion of movement. Op Art in Focus moves beyond the typical period of op art and includes work by more contemporary artists such as Angela Bulloch. A highlight of the display is a rare installation of Jim Lambie’s Zobop 1999 which floods the entire gallery floor with psychedelic patterning.
CONSTELLATIONS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NATION’S COLLECTION OF MODERN ART
On until July 2019
FREE
Tate Liverpool’s free collection display Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art continues throughout 2018. The display is made up of several groupings of artworks with each grouping, or ‘constellation’, focussed around one particular piece that has relationships with a variety of modern and contemporary artworks. Continuing in the gallery are constellations featuring pieces by artists including American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960); German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986); French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010); American photographer Cindy Sherman (b. 1954); American painter Bernard Perlin (1918–2014); English painter L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) and British contemporary artist Bob and Roberta Smith (b. 1963).
ADULT EVENTS PROGRAMME
Tate Liverpool’s adult events programme features a variety of talks, workshops, discussions and courses on offer. These events are programmed in parallel with the current special exhibitions and collection displays at Tate Liverpool.
ONGOING
DAILY TALKS AT TATE LIVERPOOL
Every day
13.20, 13.35 and 14.00
FREE (No booking required)
Visitors can join free daily talks to get an introduction to key artworks on display at Tate Liverpool. These talks are designed for individuals or small groups and visitors are advised to look out for signs in the gallery for times. Groups of over 10 people can register their visit and book a tour separately.
QUIET HOUR
First Saturday of every month
10.00–11.00
On the first Saturday of every month from 10.00 until 11.00, Quiet Hour at Tate Liverpool offers a calmer, more comfortable environment to make the gallery more Autism friendly. Small changes are made during Quiet Hour to ensure a visit to the gallery is more comfortable and accessible for all visitors with additional needs. During Quiet Hour hand driers in the toilets are turned off, drinks are served in paper cups and music is turned off in the café, allocated quiet rooms are available, tannoys are turned off and ear defenders are available to borrow. Quiet Hour signs are placed around the gallery encouraging all visitors to contribute to a more calming environment and an accessible guide to the gallery is available from the front desk.
For further information please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
JUNE 2018
EXPLORING LIFE IN MOTION THROUGH DRAWING AND MONOPRINT
Thursday 7 June – Thursday 5 July 2018
10.00–13.00
£32.50 (Advanced booking recommended)
The public are invited to a 4 week course inspired by Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/ Francesca Woodman. Led by artist educator Colette Whittington, this course will provide a deeper understanding of the work of Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman by engaging in practical monoprinting and mark-making processes. Participants will have the opportunity to work with a life model for some of the sessions to learn how to express movement, sensitivity, and energy in the work they create.
This event is programmed in association with the Workers’ Educational Association. To book onto this course please visit www.enrolonline.wea.org.uk
PLANNING THE 100 YEAR CITY
Saturday 9 June 2018
14.00–16.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors are invited to a drawing session where they will imagine what Liverpool could look like in the future. Working with artist Nina Edge, visitors will think about what could be planned for our descendants to enjoy in the future. Large-scale, multi-coloured picture making sessions will record the imaginings of visitors. This event is part of a series of workshops with Squash, a Liverpool based dynamic food, arts and environmental-focused social enterprise.
DEBORAH LEVY TALK
Wednesday 13 June 2018
18.00–19.00
£5 (Advanced booking recommended)
Visitors are invited to hear from Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk 2016 and Swimming Home 2012, both shortlisted for the ManBooker Prize. Deborah will discuss her latest instalment of her living autobiography The Cost of Living about writing and womanhood, and the impact Francesca Woodman has had on her writing.
This talk is supported by Liverpool John Moores University. To book onto this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool.
FOOD AND CINEMA
Saturday 16 June 2018
14.00–16.00
FREE DROP-IN
Tate Liverpool’s top floor gallery has been transformed into an immersive environment by Brazilian collective OPAVIVARÁ! and includes a communal tea station where visitors can come together and share experiences. Inspired by the exhibition, filmmaker Michael Pierce will lead a discussion about film’s relationship with food and the future of food. Michael is producer of Squash’s Food for Real festival, a four-season arts festival, that uses film to connect people with cooking, growing and eating. This event is part of a series of workshops with Squash, a Liverpool based dynamic food, arts and environmental-focused social enterprise.
FOOD RITUALS
Saturday 23 June 2018
14.00–16.00
FREE DROP-IN
Tate Liverpool’s top floor gallery has been transformed into an immersive environment by Brazilian collective OPAVIVARÁ! and includes a communal tea station where visitors can come together and share experiences. Taking inspiration from the exhibition, visitors are invited to join Liverpool based food artists FoodSketz for lunch and a discussion about dining rituals, from the everyday to the celebration. This event is part of a series of workshops with Squash, a Liverpool based dynamic food, arts and environmental-focused social enterprise.
CURATOR’S TOUR: LIFE IN MOTION
Tuesday 26 June 2018
16.00–17.00
£5 (Exhibition ticket also required. Advanced booking recommended)
Visitors are invited to learn more about Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/ Francesca Woodman. Join Tamar Hemmes, Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool, who will lead this exclusive tour around the exhibition exploring Egon Schiele’s intimate drawings and Francesca Woodman’s haunting photographs, shedding light on the life and work of these two fascinating artists.
To book onto this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool.
JULY 2018
LIFE DRAWING IN MOTION
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 July 2018
10.30–17.30
£90 (Concession £85, price includes entry into Life in Motion. Advanced booking recommended)
Taking inspiration from Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/ Francesca Woodman, this unique course will explore drawing from the figure. Through life drawing sessions and group discussions led by artist and lecturer Steve Ashton, this course will respond to the particular approaches and contrasting techniques utilised by these two artists. Participants will analyse drawing processes and composition to initiate experimentation with drawing as a creative medium to produce their own works inspired by the two artists on display.
To book onto this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool.
TATE EXCHANGE LIVERPOOL
Visitors can enjoy a free programme of participatory workshops, performances and debates as part of Tate Exchange Liverpool. The programme takes place in a unique space at the heart of Tate Liverpool’s collection display Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art on the first floor galleries.
TATE EXCHANGE LIVERPOOL PROGRAMME
JUNE 2018
SPACES IMAGINING INCLUSION AND BELONGING
Monday 4 – Sunday 10 June 2018
10.00–18.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors can drop-into a week of activities and workshops discussing social inclusion and exclusion within education. Children and young people from four schools in the North West and the Isle of Man were invited by Edge Hill University to take photographs that answered the question ‘What does inclusion look like?’. These photographs will be on display in Tate Exchange Liverpool, inviting discussion from visitors to widen the conversation and create ideas for new social spaces. Every day in the Clore Learning Studio, from 11.00 until 12.00 and 14.30 until 15.30, visitors can take part in a creative activity and produce an image of artefact to share their views.
For further information about this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
MADE FROM LIGHT: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
Monday 11 – Sunday 17 June 2018
10.00–18.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors can drop-into a series of creative workshops and talks led by the University of Liverpool and discover more about the art and science of sustainable renewable energy. Participants can share their thoughts by composing a poem, writing a story or recording their voice. These recordings will be digitally transformed and added to a soundscape that will be performed in Tate Exchange Liverpool on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 June. During the week, visitors can learn about the history of renewable energy that has inspired engineers, writers and artists and find out more about the future of energy production.
For further information about this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
UNDER THE SURFACE WITH FESTIVAL31
Monday 18 – Sunday 24 June 2018
12.00–15.00
FREE DROP-IN
Join FESTIVAL31 for a week of activities in Tate Exchange Liverpool exploring the experiences of refugee artists. Visitors can join daily discussions raising questions about productivity and creativity during times of chaos. On Saturday 23 June there will be a focussed debate and on Sunday 24 June, visitors can take part in a maker session with artists and the curator of the festival. FESTVAL31 is a month-long festival providing a platform for organisations and activists from Merseyside to celebrate refugee arts and culture.
For further information about this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
SWAP SHOP
Wednesday 27 June – Sunday 1 July 2018
10.00–18.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors are invited to drop into Swap Shop, a pop-up shop in Tate Exchange Liverpool designed and built by students from Birmingham School of Art. Swap Shop offers an interactive platform where objects can be exchanged between the customer and shop. Each day, visitors can drop into the shop and browse the custom-made objects, images and zines created by students and join an in-conversation event with a guest speaker from 17.00 until 17.45. Then on Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July, visitors are invited to swap an object of their own for a new object from the shop.
This event has been programmed by Birmingham City University, a Tate Exchange Associate, with support from Selfridges. Swap Shop will pop-up again in September 2018 at Selfridges Birmingham. For further information about this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
FAMILY AND YOUNG PEOPLE EVENTS PROGRAMME
Families are invited to visit Tate Liverpool’s family space situated on the first floor and open daily from 10.00-17.50. Named the Clore Learning Centre it comprises a family learning room, an ‘Ideas Lounge’ for young people, and a studio space for workshops giving families the opportunity to relax, play and create in this space while enjoying the beautiful views over the Mersey.
ONGOING
WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
Ongoing
10.00–17.50
FREE DROP-IN
The family learning room has been transformed in response to the current free display ARTIST ROOMS: Roy Lichtenstein in Focus. Families can have fun turning an everyday outing into a comic strip adventure. Use the lightboxes and projectors to make up a visual story, create a costume with the fabrics, and have an adventure in the dens.
MAKE & CREATE STATION
Until 17 June 2018
10.00–17.50
FREE DROP-IN
Families can have fun creating their own comic strip design at the Make & Create station located in the free display ARTIST ROOMS: Roy Lichtenstein in Focus in the second floor gallery. Families can explore some of their favourite art techniques inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein in this free activity. The Make & Create station has been designed by Tate Liverpool’s Family Collective, a group of local parents who have been invited to work together with artists at Tate Liverpool to develop exciting activities for the gallery’s early years and family visitors.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Contact details
Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool Waterfront
L3 4BB
Call 0151 702 7400
E-mail [email protected]
Visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool