What Are the Highlights of Tate’s 2024 Exhibition Programme?

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Tate yesterday announced highlights of its 2024 programme, including shows at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain. (Tate Liverpool will be closed throughout 2024 for major renovations.)

In the spring, Tate Modern will present a Yoko Ono show featuring works spanning the past six decades, including early performances, objects, music, and activist projects such as PEACE is POWER (2019–ongoing) and Wish Tree (1996–ongoing).

The Yoko Ono show will be joined in April by Expressionists, a showcase of over 130 works by The Blue Rider circle, whose members included Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, and Franz Marc.

In the summer, the museum will build on a 2020 exhibition by Zanele Muholi that was cut short by the pandemic. The show celebrates South Africa’s queer communities.

Tate Modern will also show mist and light installations by New York-based artist Anthony McCall.

In autumn, Tate Modern will stage the U.K.‘s first major museum exhibition of American artist Mike Kelley. Featured works will include sculptures made with plush toys and multi-media installations set to music such as Day Is Done (2005–2006), which constructs portraits of personal and cultural abuse inspired by memories of school, yearbook photos, and pop culture.

Entitled Electric Dreams, the final show of the year explores artists’ use of machines and algorithms from the 1950s to the 1980s. Tate describes the show as ‘vintage tech art in action’, including ‘psychedelic environments, sensory installations, and machine-generated artworks.’

Tate Britain will begin its 2024 programme with portraits by John Singer Sargent and the exhibition Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920.

For the Tate Britain commission, Alvaro Barrington will create a new work for the neo-classical Duveen Galleries.

Lastly, Tate Britain will show Photographing 80s Britain: A Critical Decade, which will examine the contributions of Autograph ABP, Half Moon Photography Workshop, Hackney Flashers, Ten.8, and Cameraworks, among others, to social change and artistic experimentation. —[O]

Main image: Anthony McCall, Meeting You Halfway (2009). Exhibition view: LAC, Lugano (2015). © Anthony McCall. Courtesy Sprüth Magers. Photo: Anna Domenigoni.