Tate Launches Infinities Commission for Experimental Art
The commission was named to reflect 'the boundless curiosity', 'multiplicity of tools', and 'limitless diversity' of contemporary artists.
The Tanks at Tate Modern. Courtesy of Tate Modern. Photo: Iwan Baan
Tate Modern's performance space the Tanks will host the London institution's newest art commission programme, The Infinities Commission, from 2025.
The programme aims to support artists working at the cutting edge of experimental art, commissioning one artist to make a major work for the Tanks each year.
Three other artists will receive £10,000 (US $12,075) for research and development to support and advance their practices.
Tate Modern's Director of Programmes, Catherine Wood, said 'Artists have always been innovators, taking ideas, materials, and technologies in unexpected directions and pushing them to their limits.'
Many of today's artists, Wood said, are working across disciplines 'to create speculative, disruptive, or immersive projects' which are beyond the boundaries of conventional artistic categories.
'The Infinities Commission will give that kind of innovative work a home at Tate Modern and allow a broader public to experience it,' she said.
The inaugural commission and R&D grant winners will be chosen by a panel that includes artist and musician Brian Eno, and Golden Lion winner Anne Imhof. Curators Oulimata Gueye, Andrea Lissoni, and Legacy Russell will also be on the panel.
The first Infinites Commission will be awarded in 2024 and the work will be presented in spring 2025.
Tate Modern is well known for the existing Hyundai Commission in its Turbine Hall space, which has generated iconic works such as Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project (2003), and Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds (2010).
El Anatsui's 2023 Hyundai Commission will be unveiled in the Hall on 10 October. —[O]
