Tate Modern Hyundai Commission
Máret Ánne Sara has been selected for the next Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, with the artist known for exploring Indigenous and environmental themes. Hyundai Motor has also extended its partnership with Tate until 2036, ensuring continued investment in major contemporary art commissions.
- The Turbine Hall is a vast, five-story space that once housed the electricity generators of the former Bankside Power Station, offering artists 3,400 square meters of floor space for their installations. - Máret Ánne Sara will be the tenth artist to take on the Hyundai Commission; previous commissions in the iconic space have included works by Kara Walker, Anicka Yi, and El Anatsui. - Sara, who grew up in a reindeer-herding family in Northern Norway, often uses materials like reindeer skulls, jaws, and stomachs in her work to address the interdependence of humans, animals, and the land. - Her most famous work, *Pile o' Sápmi*, began as a protest against a Norwegian government policy of forced reindeer culling and involved an installation of 400 reindeer skulls with bullet holes in their foreheads. - The commission is part of a long-standing partnership between Hyundai Motor and Tate, which began in 2014 and has attracted over 19 million visitors to the Turbine Hall. - The extended partnership also funds the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, a center established in 2019 to promote new perspectives on global art histories. - Sara has previously exhibited at major international art events, including Documenta 14 and the Venice Biennale, where she was part of the first-ever Sámi Pavilion in 2022. - The new, site-specific work by Máret Ánne Sara will be open to the public from October 14, 2025, to April 6, 2026.
