Sentences with phrase «turbine hall as»

A choir of 500 people performed The Bridge (Choral Piece for Tate Modern) in the Tate's Turbine Hall as the centerpiece of the opening weekend's events.

Achim Borchardt - Hume, the director of exhibitions at the Tate Modern, describes Turbine Hall as a cross between «a covered street and a public park.»

Currently, her work is on view in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall as part of their Unilever Series.

He is well known for his use of rich pigment and imposing, yet popular works, such as the vast, fleshy and trumpet - like Marsyas, which filled the Tate's Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series, the giant reflecting, pod like sculpture Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park and his recent record breaking show at the Royal Academy, the most successful exhibition ever presented by a contemporary artist in London.

Fulton presented Slowalk (In support of Ai Weiwei) at Tate Modern as a collective action created specifically in response to the iconic architecture of the Turbine Hall and in the context of the recent disappearance of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose work Sunflower Seeds is currently on display in the east end of the Turbine Hall as the eleventh project in the series of Unilever Commissions.

Many museum - goers first became aware of Höller's work on the occasion of his 2007 exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, where several of the Belgian - born artist's slides were installed in the cavernous Turbine Hall as part of the museum's annual Unilever Series (watch videos of a ride down one of the slides here).

The gantry crane that once served the power station remains high overhead in the Turbine Hall as a tool for moving large - scale sculpture such as the commissioned works by Louise Bourgeois that now fill the east end of this space.

Commissioned by TBA21 — Academy and presented in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall as part of a survey exhibition dedicated to the artist's work, the multi-layered performance is Jonas» poetic response to the threatened marine cultures, endangered habitats, and rampant exploitation of our seas.

Not exact matches

One of the most successful major public art projects in recent (ish) memory as Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, when in 2003 the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall was bathed in sunlight and a sublime fine mist that felt entirely otherworldly.

From vast outdoor public sculptures such as the Angel of the North and Mark Wallinger's soon to be realised White Horse to the many projects designed to enliven Tate Modern's vast, bare Turbine Hall, the scale of art just keeps getting bigger.

In 2011 - 12, her piece FILM was featured in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern as part of the Unilever series.

In 1995 Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron were appointed to convert the Bankside Power Station for this purpose; their vision was structured around the building's original features — a magnificent turbine hall of 35 metres high and 152 metres long, as well as a boiler house and central chimney.

Special sections document public projects which have punctuated Whiteread's career, such as Watertower 1998 in New York and Embankment 2005 for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

transformed Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for two days in May, 2015 as part of BMW Tate Live series of events.

These will be suspended from the ceiling as a sculptural form, contrasting with the solid industrial architecture of the Turbine Hall, to create a huge volume of joyous colour and fluidity.

With an exhibition area of 1,800 sq metres, the Tanks are more than half as big as the not - small Turbine Hall, and exceed the display space of entire regional galleries, such as the Turner Contemporary in Margate.

Now, starting April 13, art pilgrims will find the institution vastly changed as the result of a 10 - year, $ 500 million renovation project — one that both modernized the museum, including the creation of a 24,000 - square - foot, Turbine Hall - sized public space (a current must - have for art capitals), and brought it back to its original grandeur by stripping away ill - considered additions and ornaments incurred over the years.

Their designs for live performance have led to commissions for venues such as the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Serpentine Gallery and Madison Square Garden in New York.

More recently, Tancons conceived Up Hill Down Hall (2014), a carnival in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall to examine, as she explains, carnival as a «countercultural movement that transformed into a multicultural festival and a performance art form with mass appeal.»

It should come as no surprise, then, that he is one of the best - loved artists working today, the recipient of numerous international awards (including the Turner Prize) and the creative force behind some of the most popular public sculptures in contemporary art, including Marsyas in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall (2002) and Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park (2004).

The interior appears as a black, open void, facing the end wall of the Turbine Hall and swallowing the light.

Originally conceived as the inaugural commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in May 2000, Maman is one of the artist's most ambitious and recognizable works to take the spider as its subject.

The Indian - born sculptor, who has had major shows at the Royal Academy in London and the Turbine Hall in recent years, said he had been attracted to Berlin in part by its strong artistic community, which includes major British artist friends of his such as Douglas Gordon and Tacita Dean; they, in turn, have been drawn here by the strong encouragement given to the arts.

Bourgeois is familiar to all of us as the creator of the enormous metal spider sculptures, like the ones that towered above dizzied spectators at the inauguration of Tate Modern's momentous Turbine Hall.

At the same time as his cavernous industrial container eats up the light in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, Modern Art Oxford is staging Topography, an exhibition of his lesser - known video art.

How It Is joins Juan Muñoz's 2001 Double Bind, Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth and Bruce Nauman's sea of voices, Raw Materials, as the most successful of the Turbine Hall commissions.

Prior to working at the Whitney, De Salvo served for five years as a Senior Curator at Tate Modern, London, where she curated such exhibitions as Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970 (2005); Marsyas (Anish Kapoor's 2003 work commissioned by Tate Modern for its Turbine Hall); and Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (2001).

The French artist's Turbine Hall commission continues his interest in the exhibition as a living organism

Even in Unlimited, the fair's showcase of megaworks that steamroll towards the viewer, as if it were in a never - ending Tate Modern Turbine Hall, there was a more polite, less - is - more approach in 2014.

If you can't get to London to disappear into «Doris's crack» in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, then Tate Liverpool, this year's venue for the Turner prize in honour of the city's stint as capital of culture in 2008, is providing another chance to fall flat on your face.

At Tate Modern, the opening of the Tanks in the summer, the Damien Hirst exhibition which attracted 463,000 visitors, and Tino Sehgal 2012 in the Turbine Hall, all part of the London Festival 2012, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad, contributed to this success along with other exhibitions such as Edvard Munch

The artist's great haze of vapour encompassing the Turbine Hall; in which his huge sun shone down on many basking viewers — resting beneath the spectacle of his artificial sun, as if having finally reached their holiday destinations — is a testimony to the talent and effectiveness of Eliasson's work.

This fourth and final curator highlights one particular project as the deciding factor for selecting the innovative group: Echo (2006), at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, which Clark describes as: «A performance piece in which the human form was represented through a 3 - D data cloud, rendered directly behind the dancers.»

As in Eliasson's previous immersive installation, The Weather Project at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall (2003), Reality projector takes time to fully comprehend.

You'd have to be blind not to notice that, from a distance, Tacita Dean's commission for Tate Modern's sepulchral Turbine Hall looks like nothing so much as a vast stained - glass window — and for this reason I fervently hoped it was going to have the same effect on me as Olafur Eliasson's numinous The Weather Project (Eliasson's commission, the fourth in the Unilever series, filled this space in 2003 - 4 — and oh, how I worshipped it).

AMc: Do you think events such as Susan Philipsz winning the Turner Prize for a purely audio work in 2010 and Bruce Nauman's filling the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern with a series of sound sculptures in 2004 have helped the public accept sound art and audio pieces as art?

Tacita Dean has been unveiled as the next artist to exhibit in the Tate Modern turbine hall.

is the third annual Hyundai Commission, a series of site - specific works created for the Turbine Hall by renowned international artists, as part of the partnership between Tate and Hyundai Motor.

The installation engages with the Turbine Hall's industrial history as a site for the generation of energy and its new role as an open space in the heart of an art gallery.

As part of the artist's survey show at Tate Modern, Joan Jonas presents a live performance at the Turbine Hall.

The congregations of 14th - and 15th - century Britain must have thought the edifices of Catholic Britain would last for ever, much as we now think of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

Eliasson is behind many major exhibitions and projects around the world, such as «The Weather Project» at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2003, «Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson» organized by SFMOMA in 2007, which travelled until 2010 to major venues such the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and «Riverbed» at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in 2014.

Lights and sounds come and go as you spend time in the Turbine Hall — it's a particularly unnerving experience to lie on the carpet as the panels descend towards you, and the sound of rain intensifies.

The museum - going public, meanwhile, developed a taste for the novel and the monumental through Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions, such as the sodium - coloured sun and Turner-esque fog of Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project (2003).

Tacita Dean is a very English artist, I thought as I watched black and white waves, a sea of mist, and a fountain flicker in and out of her superb film in the Tate Turbine Hall.

Compared with the daring and intelligence of the best Turbine Hall commissions the latest work here looks lazy and complacent, as if unbothered by the challenge, uninterested in winning an audience.

Poppy red, marigold orange and, if visitors look closely enough, midnight blue fabrics have been shaped, draped and suspended as an enormous sculpture in the latest commission for the Turbine Hall ay Tate Modern in London.

As Tate Modern reveals its latest Turbine Hall blockbuster, Jonathan Jones gives his verdict on which installations have worked best so far, and which have failed to rise to the enormous challenge

The next month, Tate Modern's Turbine Hall will be filled with an installation by Tino Sehgal, a Berlin - based artist whose works involve performers interacting with viewers, which Tate Modern's director, Chris Dercon, describes as «almost like a mental and bodily exercise».

The artist Philippe Parreno admitted there was an awful lot going on as he unveiled his Hyundai commission for Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.