Tate Britain rehangs its paintings May 2023
Tate Britain will have a “complete rehang” of its free collection displays for the first time in a decade.
It means there will be new artworks added to the gallery’s displays when the rehang takes place in May.
Visitors will be able to see 800 works by more than 350 artists, featuring much-loved favourites and recent discoveries, alongside brand new commissions.
Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain, said: “When our new displays open on May 23, visitors to Tate Britain will be able to explore 500 years of revolutionary changes in art, culture and society, culminating in new work by some of Britain’s most exciting contemporary artists.
“We will celebrate the very best of British art and show how it speaks to us, challenges us, and inspires us.”
The most iconic works from the world’s greatest collection of British art will be free for all to see, from John Everett Millais’ Ophelia and William Hogarth’s The Painter and his Pug to David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, Barbara Hepworth’s Pelagos and Chris Ofili’s No Woman, No Cry.
There will be a career-spanning display of over 100 works by JMW Turner, as well as rooms devoted to key figures in art history like William Blake, John Constable, the Pre-Raphaelites and Henry Moore, and a series of regularly changing solo displays exploring other ground-breaking artists, including Annie Swynnerton, Richard Hamilton, Aubrey Williams and Zineb Sedira.
The rehang will reflect the ongoing transformation of Tate’s collection by putting on display over 200 works which were acquired after the millennium.
These include 70 works which entered the collection in the past five years alone, from grand Tudor portraits and Georgian battle scenes, to modern paintings and sculptures by Derek Jarman, Gluck, Takis, Kim Lim and Donald Locke.
Visitors will also find works by a new generation of young artists who are joining the national collection for the first time, such as a kaleidoscopic canvas by Rachel Jones, born in 1991, and a series of photographs capturing 21st century British life by Rene Mati, born in 1997.
Half the contemporary artists on display will be women, from Bridget Riley and Tracy Emin to Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Lydia Ourahmane.
Tate’s longstanding commitment to diversifying its collection means the gallery can also showcase great women artists from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including many who have never been shown at Tate before.
Polly Staple, Tate’s director of collection, British art, said: “Tate Britain’s new displays will embody our commitment to expanding the canon and diversifying British art history.
“In recent years we have brought so many incredible works into Tate’s collection and visitors will soon be able to see these new acquisitions hung alongside more familiar and much-loved classics.”
Work on the rehang is now underway and will continue over the coming months, with more details to be announced in May.
Website: https://www.tate.org.uk/
Picture: JMW Turner’s Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, exhibited 1842. Picture: Tate
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