LOUISE BOURGEOIS

Nature Study Tate Modern 6 July–6 October 2024 London

Press Release

Over an extraordinary seven-decade career, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) created art across a variety of media inspired by her life and experiences. Her endlessly inventive work ranges from monumental installations to figurative sculptures, paintings and works on paper.

Displayed across the galleries, collections and extending into the Capability Brown landscape at Compton Verney, this exhibition explores Bourgeois’s interest in the cycles of life and nature. It features over forty works, including one of the last large-scale works made prior to her death, A l’Infini (2008-09).

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with ARTIST ROOMS and The Easton Foundation.

Compton Verney is an award-winning gallery based in a Grade I-listed Georgian mansion, amid 120 acres of Grade II-listed Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown parkland in Warwickshire. Alongside six permanent collection displays (Naples, Northern European Art 1450-1650, British Portraits, Chinese, British Folk Art & The Marx Lambert Collection), Compton Verney has a schedule of thought-provoking changing exhibitions and events, both indoors and out.

About the Artist

French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) explored complex themes in her paintings, sculptures and installations that were driven by her own personal struggles and experiences. During a career spanning seven decades, she examined sexuality, gender, the unconscious, desire, the female body, motherhood and identity. Often raw and deeply honest, her work was commissioned in public places around the world.

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TRACEY EMIN A Second Life Tate Modern 27 February–31 August 2026 London

About the Gallery

Tate Modern is one of the world’s most iconic museums of modern and contemporary art, located on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. Occupying the former Bankside Power Station, the museum’s dramatic industrial architecture—most notably its cavernous Turbine Hall—has made it a destination for art lovers and architectural enthusiasts alike.

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