Art
The Museum of the future: The new Tate Modern
Join us to reap instead of dirty looks from the Museum guards. In the newly refurbished Tate Modern in London, space was created for the future of the art.
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Progress advance
With over five million visitors a year, Tate is a magnet for Modern cultural audience in London. Of the nearly 330-million-Euro renovation will make the Museum fit for the future.
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More space for more art
The ‘Switch House’ was built instead of the old shift work. With the new building, the exhibition space was increased by two-thirds.
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From a casting
As with the original depression Tate Modern, the cultivation by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron has been executed. The draft Fare, light wood and brick was carried out by the German project leader, Ascan mergenthaler.
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Stone on stone
Around 170,000 bricks in total were installed in the Tate Modern. Instead of rigid walls, the architects designed a translucent stone pattern for the new building.
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Seven Double-Decker Buses…
…could you stack in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern on top of each other. Currently, the seven-Meter-high tree by the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei find space there.
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Art to Join in
Not, the visitor comes to the object, but the object to the visitor: In the Performance hall of the new Tate Modern, viewers can be part of an art project.
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Women in focus
With Francis Morris, a woman Director of the Tate since the beginning of 2016 for the first time, Modern. You want to increasingly exhibit the works of artists, such as this Sculpture of Louisa Bourgeois.
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Meeting place
In order to foster the exchange with those interested in Culture, will take place from September in the new building of the Tate Exchange. There, artists are allowed to make, together with non-profit organizations and educational institutions, a private cultural program.
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Progress advance
With over five million visitors a year, Tate is a magnet for Modern cultural audience in London. Of the nearly 330-million-Euro renovation will make the Museum fit for the future.
-
More space for more art
The ‘Switch House’ was built instead of the old shift work. With the new building, the exhibition space was increased by two-thirds.
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From a casting
As with the original depression Tate Modern, the cultivation by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron has been executed. The draft Fare, light wood and brick was carried out by the German project leader, Ascan mergenthaler.
-
Stone on stone
Around 170,000 bricks in total were installed in the Tate Modern. Instead of rigid walls, the architects designed a translucent stone pattern for the new building.
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Seven Double-Decker Buses…
…could you stack in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern on top of each other. Currently, the seven-Meter-high tree by the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei find space there.
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Art to Join in
Not, the visitor comes to the object, but the object to the visitor: In the Performance hall of the new Tate Modern, viewers can be part of an art project.
-
Women in focus
With Francis Morris, a woman Director of the Tate since the beginning of 2016 for the first time, Modern. You want to increasingly exhibit the works of artists, such as this Sculpture of Louisa Bourgeois.
-
Meeting place
In order to foster the exchange with those interested in Culture, will take place from September in the new building of the Tate Exchange. There, artists are allowed to make, together with non-profit organizations and educational institutions, a private cultural program.
“Everywhere cafes, where the art is”, asks an elderly lady while she looks at a signpost visitors to the new extension of the Tate Modern in London. “Right here,” answers her companion and points to the sign next to it. The two Arts are some of the few lucky ones who are allowed to see the “Switch House” already, before it is opened to the Public on Friday.
The art is, in fact, right here, you think as you Explore the ten-story building by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Wide curved stairs Fare, grid of bricks and the window are aligned enlightened spaces that create smooth Transitions between the exhibition and the staircase.
A stage for Performance art
“It is an in-depth understanding on the philosophy, like art in the Tate should be issued,” says Francis Morris, the Director of the Tate Modern on the collaboration with the architects. For many of the modern works of art, we need spaces, flexible exhibition. Ai Weiwei’s seven-Meter-high tree, for example, found so far only in the gigantic Turbine Hall space.
The view from the top of the “Switch House”
“The new building gives us space for the work that we have sought for a decade,” says Catherine Wood, a curator at the Tate Modern. For Contemporary art, moving between Performance, Film and digital installations, it is difficult to find place in the traditional spaces of the Museum. In the new Switch House was therefore created in space, including appropriate lighting, and spaces for film screenings.
The future of art is a Museum of the future
With Apps for phone, free Internet access and an interactive exhibition, the Tate is already offered for a long time as a pioneer of visitor involvement. However, there is still more that five million visitors a year can expect. “The art is you visit as you visit the Museum and the art,” says curator Wood. Shortly thereafter, a performance group on a melody from the Star Wars films, and runs through the room. You understand what the curator thinks, because the same force asks later for the visitors, with you in a Formation.
In essence, the Tate will remain Modern but a Museum, assured Wood. “We will not say goodbye to the idea of works of art in the time of the history of the issue and to tell how they are related to each other,” says the curator. However, in the case of the exhibitions, there is revolutionary progress, at least for equality: the first woman at the top of the Tate Modern Francis Morris wants to put more artists in the focus.
“In the past century, women have been denied access to many occupational fields,” says Morris, “they have not been accordingly recognised as their male colleagues.” One of the new exhibitions is dedicated to therefore, the painter Georgia O’keefe, whose paintings are often referred to condescendingly as a “flower images”.
A cultural change for London
London mayor Sadiq Khan during a visit to the Tate Modern Museum
As one of the four nationwide Tate houses the Tate also takes on outside a big influence – even the policy. “For a long time, culture was simply a nice accessory,” says London mayor Sadiq Khan during his visit to the new Tate Modern. The newly elected mayor wants to back the culture more and more into the focus of his reign. “To be a world city, has to London to be a creative city.” So Khan, “the Tate Modern is a pioneer.”
Your audience to include even more, the Tate Modern, therefore more projects are in planning. A whole floor of the new Switch House is dedicated to the Tate Exchange. The project will start in September: artists are allowed to use the Tate as her Studio, and together with, for example, open radio channels, educational institutions and non-profit institutions a program on the legs. “It will be an experimental space,” says Tate Modern Director Morris. “It is impossible for me to predict how it will look.”
To make art tangible, also liked the architects of Herzog & de Meuron: “The fact that you can sit on the architecture, we like it very much,” says Ascan Mergenthaler, and writes the window sills along the staircase, which are padded for visitors to Rest. The architect is a Partner with Herzog & de Meuron for the Tate project.
Number 263: The Tate Modern Project
Herzog & de Meuron were already in the 1990s, for the first design of the Tate Modern is responsible. At that time, the building was used as an urban substation to be known, built by the British architect Sir Giles Gilbert Schott, from whose Hand also is the famous red phone booth comes from.
From left to right: The architect Ascan Mergenthaler, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
Only five years after the opening of the Tate Modern by the Swiss architects had, however, already the next project on the table: number 263, as it is said in the Opus of the architecture office in Basel. With the “Tate Modern project” should be created an additional exhibition space by 60 percent.
While around the Tate Modern building smooth, high glass facades are becoming more and more popular, the architects opted for a tried and tested Material: bricks. “We lifted bricks to a new level,” says Mergenthaler. Instead of building a solid wall that enveloped the Team, the building in a veil of stones that are arranged like a net. “It is perforated, so that sunlight is filtered,” says Mergenthaler.
The entire Expansion of the Tate Modern cost 260 Million pounds (328 Million euros) and could only be using the donations realized. “Not sure whether we still need to build a growing,” says Mergenthaler, laughing. But who knows what the future of art for the Tate Modern yet ready.