Director of Tate Liverpool, Dr. Christoph Grunenberg, Concludes Ten Successful Years

LIVERPOOL.- It is announced today that Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool, has been appointed Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany. Christoph leaves Tate after a decade as Director of Tate Liverpool. He has made a critical contribution to the cultural regeneration of Liverpool and the city’s extraordinarily successful year as European Capital Culture of Culture in 2008 in which Tate Liverpool attracted over one million visitors. The new director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, Dr. Christoph Grunenberg. Photo: Harald Rehling. In that remarkable [...]

Two Works About Children and Art by Dutch Artist Rineke Dijkstra at Bonniers Konsthall

STOCKHOLM.- Bonniers Konsthall presents I See a Woman Crying—two works about children and art by Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. One of the two films in Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition I See A Woman Crying shows a group of children from a primary school who interpret Picasso’s painting Weeping Woman from 1937. Together, the children devise stories about the woman in the image; how she feels, where she has been and where she is going. We never get to see the painting, [...]

Almost Unknown Perspective of Pablo Picasso Explored in New Exhibition at Albertina

VIENNA.- The exhibition Picasso: Peace and Freedom shows the twentieth century’s most important painter from a hitherto almost unknown perspective: in cooperation with Tate Liverpool, the Albertina presents Pablo Picasso as a politically and socially committed artist, thereby questioning the common image of this genius of a century. Assembling some two hundred exhibits from more than sixty international collections, the exhibition illustrates within a historical review and in chronological order how Picasso responded to the war and its atrocities in [...]

6th Liverpool Biennial Celebrates a Decade of Bringing New Art to the UK

LIVERPOOL.- Touched at the 6th Liverpool Biennial celebrates a decade of bringing new art to the UK through curatorial collaboration. Conceived as a ‘sculptural happening,’ Tate Liverpool’s exhibition features on-going live interventions and appearances by artists, performing objects, as well as installations and sculptures to be explored by visitors. Since the emergence of challenging and rebellious artistic strategies in the 1960s, international artists have questioned the idea that visual art should be static, sanctified, and viewed from a distance. Touched [...]

Comprehensive Nam June Paik Retrospective Opens at Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf

DUSSELDORF.- In collaboration with Tate Liverpool, the museum kunst palast dedicates a comprehensive retrospective to Nam June Paik (*Seoul 1932, +Miami 2006), founder of video and media art. With numerous loans drawn from both international public and private collections, the exhibition brings together German, Anglo-American and Korean research on Paik’s work for the first time and provides an extensive overview of the crucial developments of this extraordinary and influential artist of the 20th and 21st centuries. The works The spectrum [...]

Tate Liverpool Announces René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle

LIVERPOOL.- Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) is one of the most important and revered artists of the 20th century. A major new exhibition presented by Tate Liverpool in summer 2011 will reveal the inspiration behind the artist’s unique style, highlighting how his practice continues to influence later generations of artists, resonating beyond Surrealism to inform the language of pop and conceptual art. Described as a ‘creator of images,’ Magritte once stated that there is “very little difference between seeing a [...]

New Head of Exhibitions and Displays for Tate Liverpool

LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool announced the appointment of Gavin Delahunty to the position of Head of Exhibitions and Displays. Gavin is currently Curator at mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). He will join the gallery in November 2010 and succeeds Peter Gorschlüter, who has taken up the position of Deputy Director at MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst) in Frankfurt. Gavin will work alongside Tate Liverpool Director Christoph Grunenberg to lead the programme of the Gallery. He stated, “I am delighted to [...]

Tate Liverpool Announces First Major Retrospective of Nam June Paik

LIVERPOOL.- Video artist, performer and composer Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century and is widely considered to be the first video artist. From 17 December 2010 – 13 March 2011 Tate Liverpool, in collaboration with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), presents the first major retrospective of Paik’s work in the UK. Displaying works from all phases of his career, many shown in the UK for the first time, the [...]

Tate Liverpool Receives Freedom of the City of Liverpool

LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool was given the Freedom of the City in recognition of its two decades as a major cultural presence in the city. The high-profile art gallery, which opened at the Albert Dock in 1988, has given Liverpool people some of the very best displays from the national collection. It is an integral part of the artistic and cultural life of the city – and is the most visited modern and contemporary art gallery outside London. Since it opened [...]