Tate Liverpool forms part of the iconic Royal Albert Dock and is at the heart of the Liverpool Waterfront. Tate Liverpool attracts an average of 640,000 visits a year and hosts a diverse and lively special exhibitions and events programme while displaying work from the national collection free of charge.
JULY HIGHLIGHTS
This month sees the exciting opening of the 10th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, Beautiful World, Where Are You? From Saturday 14 July, Tate Liverpool will present new and existing work by contemporary artists Kevin Beasley, Dale Harding, Brian Jungen, Duane Linklater, Annie Pootoogook, Joyce Wieland and Haegue Yang. During the opening weekend, learn more about Haegue Yang’s new commission in an artist’s talk on Saturday 14 July at 13.00 until 14.00 and then see Kevin Beasley’s performances in the fourth floor gallery at 15.00.
Visitors can look forward to Op Art in Focus, a dazzling display of work from innovative artists including Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Jim Lambie. The gallery’s summer exhibition Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/ Francesca Woodman continues, featuring work by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele and American photographer Francesca Woodman.
In Tate Exchange Liverpool, from Monday 16 July visitors can join Liverpool Pride for a week of events and workshops including a banner making workshop on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 July. 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 2018
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
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. Visitors can also enjoy Damien Hirst’s 1994 work Anthraquinone-1-Diazonium Chloride, which echoes Op Art aesthetics.
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 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, tannoys in the gallery and music in the café are all turned off. Drinks are served in paper cups, allocated quiet rooms are available and ear defenders can be borrowed from the front desk. 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
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.
HAEGUE YANG: ARTIST’S TALK
Saturday 14 July 2018
13.00–14.00
FREE (Advanced booking recommended)
Visitors are invited to join Liverpool Biennial artist Haegue Yang for a discussion about her practice. Haegue Yang (b. 1971, South Korea) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul, South Korea. Her practice spans a wide range of media, from paper collage to performative sculpture and large-scale multi-sensorial installation, often featuring everyday objects, in addition to labour-intensive woven sculptures. Yang has created a new environment for her sculpture series, The Intermediates. Made from artificial woven straw, The Intermediates allude to both traditional arts and crafts techniques and modern industrial production methods. Representing figures and sites from folk tales and ancient traditions in a variety of forms, they question definitions of ‘paganism’. During this insightful talk Yang will discuss her varied practice and the new commission at Tate Liverpool.
KEVIN BEASLEY PERFORMANCE
Saturday 14 July 2018
15.00
FREE DROP-IN
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Visitors are invited to encounter Liverpool Biennial artist Kevin Beasley’s performances taking place in the fourth-floor gallery. Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA) lives and works in New York. Beasley’s practice includes sculpture, photography, sound and performance. Your face is / not enough 2016 is a sculptural and performance based installation that reimagines new uses for standard issue police protective gear to portray symbolic figures of power and resistance.
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
JULY 2018
THE PERCEPTION MACHINE
On until Sunday 8 July 2018
10.00–17.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors are invited to drop-into The Perception Machine and discover new visual interpretations of artworks. Led by the postgraduate Art in Science programme at Liverpool John Moores University, Tate Exchange Liverpool will be transformed into a working studio-laboratory. Scientific experts will share new perspectives on selected artworks on display in Tate Liverpool’s free collection display Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art. Throughout the week, visitors can explore these new interpretations that will highlight overlooked or hidden details of artworks, revealing alternative narratives. There will also be a programme of live interpretations and talks with guest scientists for visitors to enjoy. A digital curating experiment in the space will allow visitors to use Tate’s online catalogue of works to curate their own exhibition of artworks that are inspired by the ideas raised from the scientists involved in the project.
For further information about this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
PHYSIQUE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Monday 9 – Sunday 15 July 2018
11.00–16.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors are invited to take part in Physique of Consciousness, the first cultural fitness class ever made, created by artist Xu Zhen and presented by Open Eye Gallery. In Tate Exchange Liverpool, instructors will lead demonstrations of the exercise and there will also be a video demonstration being shown in the space. Visitors can either join in with the whole sequence lasting for thirty minutes or drop-in and out of sessions. Accompanied by relaxing music, participants will take part in movements that are flowing, peaceful and aesthetic. The exercise can bring peace of mind, by relieving stress and providing a feeling of wellness.
This project is part of the exhibition This Is Shanghai, the second phase of China Dream, a nine-month festival celebrating Chinese contemporary art and culture, curated by Jiang Jiehong, curator and professor from Birmingham City University. Physique of Consciousness will take place at Tate Exchange Liverpool and then move to the public realm across the city.
For further information about this event please visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
LIVERPOOL PRIDE: PRODUCING EQUALITY
Monday 16 – Sunday 22 July 2018
10.00–18.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors are invited to join Liverpool pride for a week of events and workshops in Tate Exchange Liverpool. Liverpool Pride brings the city to a halt each year with a celebration of LGBT lives and culture. During the week, visitors can meet Pride volunteers and learn more about how to get involved in their campaign against homophobia and transphobia. Art banners will be on display along with a selection of photography and moving image captured throughout Liverpool’s Pride history. Visitors are invited to drop into the following event:
BANNER WORKSHOP WITH LIVERPOOL PRIDE
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 July 2018
11.00–17.00
FREE DROP-IN
Visitors are invited to join Liverpool Pride for a banner making workshop in Tate Exchange Liverpool. In the months leading up to Pride, volunteers and community groups across the region prepare costumes, banners, artworks and performances for the big weekend. In this workshop visitors can create their own banner in time for the festival on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 July 2018.
MOVING OBJECTS
Monday 23 – Sunday 29 July 2018
10.00–17.00
FREE DROP-IN
Moving Objects is a photographic and oral history project exploring why treasured objects become meaningful to their owners. This project focuses on the cherished objects that have made the journey to Liverpool with their owners who have moved to the city. Each day, from 14.00 until 17.00, visitors can drop-into Tate Exchange Liverpool and explore a pop-up photographic studio documenting objects and the stories of the people they belong to. Then on Sunday 29 July, for the culmination of the project, hear more about the stories of the objects that have been gathered during the week.
This project has been programmed by Tate Exchange Associate, Liverpool Hope University.
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.
JULY 2018
CREATIVE STUDIO
Tuesday 14 August 2018
11.00–12.30 & 13.30–15.00
FREE DROP-IN
Families are invited to Creative Studio, a hands-on workshop for children with autism, other social communication issues, their siblings, parents and carers. Led by artist Sarah Marsh, participants will make their own sensory-inspired printing tools exploring different textures and materials. Using these tools, participants can experiment with printing straight, bendy and zig-zag lines to make striking patterns. Then they can animate and bring these patterns to life by using the stop-motion station in the learning studio. This workshop is inspired by Op Art in Focus, a free display featuring artists that use lines, geometric shapes and patterns to create artworks that fool the eye and give the illusion of movement.
MOVE ME
Wednesday 8 – Saturday 11 and Wednesday 15 – Saturday 18 August 2018
13.00–16.00
FREE DROP-IN
Families are invited to create dazzling designs in the free drop-in workshop Move Me. Led by artist Sarah Marsh, participants will make their own printing tools using a variety of materials. Using these tools, participants can experiment with printing straight, bendy and zig-zag lines to make striking patterns. Then they can animate and bring these patterns to life by using the stop-motion station in the learning studio. This workshop is inspired by Op Art in Focus, a free display featuring artists that use lines, geometric shapes and patterns to create artworks that fool the eye and give the illusion of movement.
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