Tate Members have also supported the project and altogether over three quarters of the total capital costs of £215 million has been raised.Īrt in Action, a fifteen-week festival celebrating performance, film and installation and the historical works that have shaped these art forms, will run in The Tanks until 28 October. The generosity of early donors to this phase, Maja Hoffmann and John Studzinski, is recognised through The Maja Hoffmann/Luma Foundation Tank and The Studzinski Galleries. Lutnick, Barrie and Emmanuel Roman and others who wish to remain anonymous. The donors include a number of Tate’s current and former Trustees among them Lord Browne, Mala Gaonkar, Maja Hoffmann, Elisabeth Murdoch, Franck Petitgas and John Studzinski as well as other individual donors including Christina and John Chandris, James Chanos, Ago Demirdjian and Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, George Economou, Lydia and Manfred Gorvy, Noam Gottesman, Catherine Lagrange, Pierre Lagrange, Allison and Howard W. These include gifts to support The Tanks, new galleries, learning spaces and other areas of the new building. On the occasion of the opening of The Tanks, Tate has announced a group of major individual donations. The Tanks are the first phase of the Tate Modern Project, which is being made possible by a number of significant donations from public funders and foundations including a £50m investment from the Government, £7m from the Greater London Authority, an importantdonation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and generous gifts from The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation and The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation. The launch is part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad.
The commission for the Maja Hoffmann/Luma Foundation Tank is supported by Sotheby’s and runs from 18 July to 28 October. In Kim’s work, visitors are plunged into a fantastical world of optical illusions that draws on a rich history of performance and film.
This major new work is the first installation to be created especially in The Tanks, the world’s first museum galleries permanently dedicated to exhibiting live art, performance, installation and film works. A new commission by Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim was unveiled today in The Tanks at Tate Modern.
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