Tate Modern

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After sharing the Millbank site with Tate Britain for many decades, since 2000 Tate Modern has occupied the converted former Bankside Power Station. This was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. It is directly across the river from St Paul's Cathedral. The power station closed in 1981.{{cite web|url=http://www.glias.org.uk/gliasepapers/bankside.html|title=The rise, fall and transformation of Bankside power station, 1890-2010|accessdate=6 December 2013}}

Prior to redevelopment, the power station was a {{Convert|200|m|abbr=on}} long, steel framed, brick clad building with a substantial central chimney standing {{Convert|99|m|abbr=on}}. The structure was roughly divided into three main areas each running east–west – the huge main Turbine Hall in the centre, with the boiler house to the north and the switch house to the south.

For many years after closure Bankside Power station was at risk of being demolished by developers. Many people campaigned for the building to be saved and put forward suggestions for possible new uses. An application to list the building was refused. In April 1994 the Tate Gallery announced that Bankside would be the home for the new Tate Modern. In July of the same year, an international competition was launched to select an architect for the new gallery. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron were announced as the winning architects in January 1995. The £134 million conversion to the Tate Modern started in June 1995 and was completed in January 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/10439829.Tate_Modern_builders_win___400m_Battersea_Power_Station_contract/|title=Tate Modern builders Carillion win £400m Battersea Power Station contract|publisher=Your local Guardian|date=23 May 2013|access-date=27 September 2013}}

The most obvious external change was the two-story glass extension on one half of the roof. Much of the original internal structure remained, including the cavernous main turbine hall, which retained the overhead travelling crane. An electrical substation, taking up the Switch House in the southern third of the building, remained on-site and owned by the French power company EDF Energy while Tate took over the northern Boiler House for Tate Modern's main exhibition spaces.

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The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern. The conversion work was carried out by Carillion.

Tate Modern was opened by the Queen on 11 May 2000.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/8/newsid_2519000/2519069.stm|title=2000: Sneak preview of new Tate Modern|publisher=BBC|access-date=15 June 2016}}

Tate Modern received 5.25 million visitors in its first year. The previous year the three existing Tate galleries had received 2.5 million visitors combined.{{cite journal|title=Tate Modern. Nought to Sixteen. A History|journal=Art Review|year=2016}}

Tate Modern had attracted more visitors than originally expected and plans to expand it had been in preparation since 2004. These plans focused on the south west of the building with the intention of providing 5,000 m² of new display space, almost doubling the amount of display space.Tate Guide, August–September 2012{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/tate-modern-project/vision|title=Vision|work=Tate Etc.|access-date=15 August 2012}}

The southern third of the building was retained by the French State owned power company EDF Energy as an electrical substation. In 2006, the company released the western half of this holding{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/arts/design/26tate.html|title=Tate Modern Announces Plans for an Annex|work=The New York Times|date=26 July 2006|access-date=26 July 2006|first=Alan|last=Riding}} and plans were made to replace the structure with a tower extension to the museum, initially planned to be completed in 2015. The tower was to be built over the old oil storage tanks, which would be converted to a performance art space. Structural, geotechnical, civil, and façade engineering and environmental consultancy was undertaken by Ramboll between 2008 and 2016.{{cite web|title=Tate Modern extension|url=http://www.ramboll.com/projects/ruk/tate-modern|access-date=22 February 2017|archive-date=7 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607091128/http://www.ramboll.com/projects/ruk/tate-modern|url-status=dead}}

This project was initially costed at £215 million.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2285488,00.html Tate Modern's chaotic pyramid]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Times, 26 July 2006. Retrieved 26 July 2006. Of the money raised, £50 million came from the UK government; £7 million from the London Development Agency; £6 million from philanthropist John Studzinski; and donations from, among others, the Sultanate of Oman and Elisabeth Murdoch.Farah Nayeri (20 April 2012), [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420115613/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-20/murdoch-s-daughter-elisabeth-gives-tate-at-least-1-dot-6-mln Murdoch's Daughter Elisabeth Gives Tate at Least $1.6 Mln]Bloomberg.

In June 2013, international shipping and property magnate Eyal Ofer pledged £10 million to the extension project, making it to 85% of the required funds. Eyal Ofer, chairman of London-based Zodiac Maritime Agencies, said the donation made through his family foundation would enable "an iconic institution to enhance the experience and accessibility of contemporary art".{{cite web|last=Pickford |first=James |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/73bfec0c-e32f-11e2-bd87-00144feabdc0.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/73bfec0c-e32f-11e2-bd87-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |title=Eyal Ofer donates £10m to Tate Modern extension |work=Financial Times |date=2 July 2013 |access-date=12 January 2014}} The Tate director, Nicholas Serota, praised the donation saying it would help to make Tate Modern a "truly twenty-first-century museum".{{cite news|author=Mark Brown|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/02/tate-modern-gift-eyal-ofer |title=Tate Modern receives £10m gift from Israeli shipping magnate Eyal Ofer|work=The Guardian |date= 2 July 2013|access-date=12 January 2014 |location=London}}

The first phase of the expansion involved the conversion of three large, circular, underground oil tanks originally used by the power station into accessible display spaces and facilities areas. These opened on 18 July 2012 and closed on 28 October 2012 as work on the tower building continued directly above. They reopened following the completion of the Switch House extension in June 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/expanded-tate-modern-to-open-june-2016/|title=Expanded Tate Modern to open June 2016|date=25 September 2015|publisher=AN40|access-date=16 March 2021}}

Two of the Tanks are used to show live performance art and installations while the third provides utility space. Tate describes them as "the world's first museum galleries permanently dedicated to live art".{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tanks-tate-modern/eventseries/tanks-art-action|title=The Tanks: Art in Action|work=Tate Etc.|access-date=8 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104132030/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tanks-tate-modern/eventseries/tanks-art-action|archive-date=4 January 2013|df=dmy-all}}

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A ten-storey tower, {{convert|65|m|abbr=on}} high from ground level, was built above the oil tanks.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/file/tate-modern-project-environmental-statement-non-technical-summary|title=Environmental Statement non-technical summary|work=Tate Etc.|access-date=25 September 2014}}

The original western half of the Switch House was demolished to make room for the tower and then rebuilt around it with large gallery spaces and access routes between the main building and the new tower on level 1 (ground level) and level 4. The new galleries on level 4 have natural top lighting. A bridge built across the turbine hall on level 4 provides an upper access route.

The new building opened to the public on 17 June 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/special-event/new-tate-modern-opening-weekend|title=The new Tate Modern opening weekend – Special Event at Tate Modern|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=18 June 2016}}

The design, again by Herzog & de Meuron, has been controversial. It was originally designed with a glass stepped pyramid, but this was amended to incorporate a sloping façade in brick latticework (to match the original power-station building){{cite web|url=http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10122|title=Tate Modern extension redesigned|publisher=Worldarchitecturenews.com|date=18 July 2008|access-date=8 January 2013}} despite planning consent for the original design having been granted.{{cite web|url=http://legacy.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning_decisions/strategic_dev/2007/20070509/tate_modern_bankside_report.pdf|title=Tate Modern extension, Bankside|publisher=Greater London Authority|access-date=25 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819083439/http://legacy.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning_decisions/strategic_dev/2007/20070509/tate_modern_bankside_report.pdf|archive-date=19 August 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

The extension provides {{convert|22,492|sqm|abbr=on}} of additional gross internal area for display and exhibition spaces, performance spaces, education facilities, offices, catering and retail facilities as well as a car parking and a new external public space.{{cite web|url=http://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/tate-modern-expansion-herzog-de-meuron/|title=Tate Modern extension by Herzog & de Meuron architects|publisher=Inexhibit|access-date=25 September 2014}}

In May 2017, the Switch House was formally renamed the Blavatnik Building, after Anglo-Ukrainian billionaire Sir Leonard Blavatnik, who contributed a "substantial" amount of the £260 million cost of the extension. Sir Nicholas Serota commented, "Len Blavatnik's enthusiastic support ensured the successful realisation of the project and I am delighted that the new building now bears his name".{{cite web|author=Hannah Ellis-Petersen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/04/tate-modern-names-extension-after-oligarch-donor-len-blavatnik |title=Tate Modern names extension after billionaire Len Blavatnik |work=The Guardian |date=4 May 2017 |access-date=30 June 2017}}

The collections in Tate Modern consist of works of international modern and contemporary art dating from 1900 until today.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern|title=Tate Modern|access-date=22 January 2016}}

Levels 2, 3 and 4 contain gallery space. Each of those floors is split into a large east and west wing with at least 11 rooms in each. Space between these wings is also used for smaller galleries on levels 2 and 4. The Boiler House shows art from 1900 to the present day.Tate Modern Visitor Map June 2016

The Switch House has eleven floors, numbered 0 to 10. Levels 0, 2, 3 and 4 contain gallery space. Level 0 consists of the Tanks, spaces converted from the power station's original fuel oil tanks, while all other levels are housed in the tower extension building constructed above them. The Switch House shows art from 1960 to the present day.

The Turbine Hall is a single large space running the whole length of the building between the Boiler House and the Switch House. At six storeys tall it represents the full height of the original power station building. It is cut by bridges between the Boiler House and the Switch House on levels 1 and 4 but the space is otherwise undivided. The western end consists of a gentle ramp down from the entrance and provides access to both sides on level 0. The eastern end provides a very large space that can be used to show exceptionally large artworks due to its unusual height.{{cite web|url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12505/tate-modern-turbine-hall-20-years-louise-bourgeois-ai-weiwei-kara-walker|title=In Pictures: Tate's Top Ten Turbine Hall Moments|publisher=Another Mag|date=11 May 2020|access-date=16 March 2021}}

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The main collection displays consist of 8 areas with a named theme or subject. Within each area there are some rooms that change periodically showing different works in keeping with the overall theme or subject. The themes are changed less frequently. There is no admission charge for these areas.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern#visit|title=Tate Modern|last=Tate}}

As of June 2016 the themed areas were:

• Start Display: A three-room display of works by major artists to introduce the basic ideas of modern art.
• Artist and Society
• In The Studio
• Materials and Objects
• Media Networks
• Between Object and Architecture
• Performer and Participant
• Living Cities

There is also an area dedicated to displaying works from the Artist Rooms collection.

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Since the Tate Modern first opened in 2000, the collections have not been displayed in chronological order but have been arranged thematically into broad groups. Prior to the opening of the Switch House there were four of these groupings at a time, each allocated a wing on levels 3 and 5 (now levels 2 and 4).

The initial hanging from 2000 to 2006:{{cite web | title=Tate Modern: Collection 2000 | website=Tate | date=12 May 2000 | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/about/press-office/press-releases/tate-modern-collection-2000 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812143408/http://www.tate.org.uk/about/press-office/press-releases/tate-modern-collection-2000 | archive-date=12 August 2016 | url-status=dead | access-date=20 February 2023}}{{cite web | title=Tate Modern: Collection 2003 | website=Tate | date=1 March 2003 | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/about/press-office/press-releases/tate-modern-collection-2003 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622203846/http://www.tate.org.uk/about/press-office/press-releases/tate-modern-collection-2003 | archive-date=22 June 2017 | url-status=dead | access-date=20 February 2023}}

• History/Memory/Society
• Nude/Action/Body
• Landscape/Matter/Environment
• Still Life/Object/Real Life

The first rehang at Tate Modern opened in May 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/about/press-office/press-releases/tate-modern-launches-first-major-rehang-its-collection-support-ubs|title=Tate Modern launches first major rehang of its Collection with the support of UBS |website=www.tate.org.uk}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080316122625/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 March 2008|title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives|first=Internet Memory|last=Foundation}} It eschewed the thematic groupings in favour of focusing on pivotal moments of twentieth-century art. It also introduced spaces for shorter exhibitions in between the wings. The layout was:

• Material Gestures{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1259|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080316122625/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1259|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 March 2008|title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives|first=Internet Memory|last=Foundation}}
• Poetry and Dream{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1258|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080316122625/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1258|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 March 2008|title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives|first=Internet Memory|last=Foundation}}
• Energy and Process{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=2338|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100104184517/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=2338|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 January 2010|title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives|first=Internet Memory|last=Foundation}}
• States of Flux{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1333|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080926114626/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1333|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 September 2008|title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives|first=Internet Memory|last=Foundation}}

In 2012, there was a partial third rehang.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibitionseries/tate-modern-collection-displays|title=Collection Displays|work=Tate Etc.|date=10 April 2012|access-date=8 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227092218/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibitionseries/tate-modern-collection-displays|archive-date=27 December 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} The arrangement was:

• Poetry and Dream{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1258|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110801233902/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&showid=1258|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 August 2011|title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives|first=Internet Memory|last=Foundation}}
• Structure and Clarity{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/structure-and-clarity |title=Structure and Clarity |work=Tate Etc. |access-date=8 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104215031/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/structure-and-clarity |archive-date=4 January 2013 }}
• Transformed Visions{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/transformed-visions|title=Transformed Visions|work=Tate Etc.|date=23 July 2012|access-date=15 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804090316/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/transformed-visions|archive-date=4 August 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• Energy and Process
• Setting the Scene – A smaller section, located between wings, covering installations with theatrical or fictional themes.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/setting-scene|title=Setting the Scene|work=Tate Etc.|access-date=8 January 2013}}

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The Turbine hall, which once housed the electricity generators of the old power station, is five storeys tall with 3,400 square metres of floorspace.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/features/story/0,11710,1587112,00.html|title=Profile: Rachel Whiteread|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=7 October 2005|access-date=20 April 2006|first=Xan|last=Brooks}} It is used to display large specially-commissioned works by contemporary artists, between October and March each year.

From 2000 until 2012, the series was named after its corporate sponsor, Unilever. In this time the company provided £4.4m sponsorship in total including a renewal deal of £2.2m for a period of five years agreed in 2008.Gareth Harris (14 August 2012), [http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tate+seeks+new+sponsor+for+Turbine+Hall+commissions/27009 Tate seeks new sponsor for Turbine Hall commissions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605020631/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tate+seeks+new+sponsor+for+Turbine+Hall+commissions/27009 |date=5 June 2013 }} The Art Newspaper.

This series was planned to last the gallery's first five years, but the popularity of the series led to its extension until 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27060/dominique-gonzalez-foerster-chosen-for-tate-moderns-turbine-hall/|title=Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Chosen for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall|access-date=16 September 2008}}

The artists who have exhibited commissioned work in the Turbine Hall as part of The Unilever Series are:

In 2013, Tate Modern signed a sponsorship deal worth around £5 million with Hyundai to cover a ten-year program of commissions, then considered the largest amount of money ever provided to an individual gallery or museum in the United Kingdom.xMartin Bailey (20 January 2014), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tate-signs-m-sponsorship-with-Hyundai/31578 Tate signs £5m sponsorship with Hyundai] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122185549/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tate-signs-m-sponsorship-with-Hyundai/31578 |date=22 January 2014 }} The Art Newspaper. The first commission for the Hyundai series is Mexican artist, Abraham Cruzvillegas.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/hyundai-commission-2015-abraham-cruzvillegas|title=Hyundai Commission 2015: Abraham Cruzvillegas|access-date=23 January 2015}}

The artists who have exhibited commissioned work in the Turbine Hall as part of the Hyundai series thus far are:

When there is no series running, the Turbine Hall is used for occasional events and exhibitions. In 2011 it was used to display Damien Hirst's For The Love of God.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/about/press-office/press-releases/damien-hirsts-iconic-love-god-be-shown-tate-moderns-turbine-hall|title=Damien Hirst's iconic For the Love of God to be shown in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall|work=Tate Etc.|date=21 November 2011|access-date=15 August 2012}} A sell-out show by Kraftwerk in February 2013 crashed the ticket hotline and website, causing a backlash from the band's fans. In 2018 the Turbine Hall was used for two performances of Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum and Stockhausen's Gruppen.{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/performance/stockhausen|title=Stockhausen London Symphony Orchestra at Tate Modern|access-date=1 January 2019}}

Two wings of the Boiler House are used to stage the major temporary exhibitions for which an entry fee is charged. These exhibitions normally run for three or four months. When they were located on a single floor, the two exhibition areas could be combined to host a single exhibition. This was done for the Gilbert and George retrospective due to the size and number of the works.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/gilbert-george|title=Gilbert & George – Tate|access-date=22 January 2016}}

A 2014 show of Henri Matisse provided Tate Modern with London's best-attended charging exhibition, and with a record 562,622 visitors overall, helped by a nearly five-month-long run.Javier Pes and Emily Sharpe (2 April 2015), [http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/17584/ Visitor figures 2014: the world goes dotty over Yayoi Kusama] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420033842/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/17584/ |date=20 April 2015 }} The Art Newspaper. In 2018, Joan Jonas had a retrospective exhibition.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/13/joan-jonas-review-tate-modern|title=Joan Jonas review – post-internet confusion before the internet|date=13 March 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=18 March 2018}}

A Year in Art: Australia 1992, featuring contemporary Indigenous Australian art of 1992, which opened in June 2021, was extended until September 2022 owing to its popularity.{{cite web | website=ABC News | title=Australian Indigenous art takes centre stage as Tate Modern, Sotheby's embrace First Nations creations| publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation| first= Jade| last= Barker | date=14 June 2022 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-14/australian-indigenous-art-in-the-global-spotlight/101148274 | access-date=14 June 2022}}

In May 2025, Tate Modern celebrated its 25th anniversary with a free four-day "Birthday Weekender" (Highlights include the return of Louise Bourgeois’s iconic spider sculpture Maman).{{Cite web|url=https://www.flolondon.co.uk/all-posts/whats-on-in-london-this-week-5-11-may-2025|title=FLO London; What's on in London this week: 5 - 11 May 2025|date=5 May 2025|website=FLO London}}

The Tanks, located on level 0, are three large underground oil tanks, connecting spaces and side rooms originally used by the power station and refurbished for use by the gallery. One tank is used to display installation and video art specially commissioned for the space while smaller areas are used to show installation and video art from the collection. The Tanks have also been used as a venue for live music.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emzj6q|title=Proms at ... The Tanks at Tate Modern|publisher=BBC|access-date=1 January 2019}}

The Project Space (formerly known as the Level 2 Gallery) was a smaller gallery located on the north side of the Boiler House on level 1 which housed exhibitions of contemporary art in collaboration with other international art organisations. Its exhibitions typically ran for 2–3 months and then travelled to the collaborating institution for display there. The space was only accessible by leaving the building and re-entering using a dedicated entrance. It is no longer used as gallery space.

Works are also sometimes shown in the restaurants and members' rooms. Other locations that have been used in the past include the mezzanine on Level 1 and the north facing exterior of the Boiler House building.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/street-art|title=Street Art – Tate|access-date=22 January 2016}}

In addition to exhibition space there are a number of other facilities:

• A large performance space in one of the tanks on level 0 used to show a changing programme of performance works for which there is sometimes an entrance charge.
• The Starr Auditorium and a seminar room on level 1 which are used to show films and host events for which there is usually an entrance charge.
• The Clore Education Centre, Clore Information Room and McAulay Studios on level 0 which are facilities for use by visiting educational institutions.
• One large and several small shops selling books, prints and merchandise.
• A cafe, an espresso bar, a restaurant and bar and a members' room.
• Tate Modern community garden, co-managed with Bankside Open Spaces Trust

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The closest mainline station is Blackfriars via its new south entrance. Nearby underground stations include Southwark, as well as St Paul's and Mansion House north of the river which can be reached via the Millennium Bridge. The lampposts between Southwark tube station and Tate Modern are painted orange to show pedestrian visitors the route.

There is also a riverboat pier just outside the gallery called Bankside Pier, with connections to the Docklands and Greenwich via regular passenger boat services (commuter service) and the Tate to Tate service, which connects Tate Modern with Tate Britain.

To the west of Tate Modern is an area currently under redevelopment following the demolitions of Ludgate House, the former headquarters of Express Newspapers and Sampson House, a massive late Brutalist office building.

• At the exit of Southwark tube station, orange lamposts direct visitors to Tate Modern.

The following have served as Director of the Tate Modern:

• Lars Nittve (1998–2001)
• Vicente Todolí (2003–2010)
• Chris Dercon (2010–2016)
• Frances Morris (2016–2023){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/22/frances-morris-takes-tate-modern-helm|title=Why it's great news that Frances Morris will run Tate Modern|author=Jonathan Jones|work=The Guardian|date=22 January 2016|access-date=22 January 2016}}
• Karin Hindsbo (2023–Present){{cite news|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/karin-hindsbo-named-director-tate-modern-1234665901/|author=Alex Greenberger|date=April 28, 2023|title=Tate Modern Names Leader of Oslo’s National Museum as Its New Director|work=ART News}}

Since 2010 there have been a series of protest art performances by the art collective Liberate Tate demanding the Tate to "disengage from BP as a sponsor, and stop allowing Tate to be used to deflect attention away from the devastating impacts that BP has around the world." BP is criticised for operations in relation with petroleum exploration in the Arctic, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, oil sands and climate change. In June 2015 a group of artists occupied Tate Modern for 25 hours.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/14/tate-modern-climate-activists-bp-protest|title=Climate activists leave Tate Modern after all-night protest against BP|first=Karl|last=Mathiesen|date=14 June 2015|work=The Guardian}}

In 2012 and 2024, two people fell to their deaths from the galleries' balconies.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/30/man-tate-modern-balcony-named |title=Man who fell to his death from Tate Modern balcony is named |date=30 July 2012|work=The Guardian}}{{cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/man-dies-after-falling-from-londons-tate-modern-gallery-13062232 |title=Man dies after falling from London's Tate Modern gallery |date=2 February 2024 |work=Sky News}} In 2019, a six-year old child from France was thrown off the 10th floor by a teenager with a history of violent conduct. The child survived but sustained life-changing injuries.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/15/boy-thrown-from-tate-modern-improving-condition |title=Family of boy thrown from Tate Modern tell of improving condition |date=15 January 2023 |work=The Guardian}}

File:Georges Braque, 1909-10, La guitare (Mandora, La Mandore), oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.9 cm, Tate Modern, London.jpg|Georges Braque, 1909–10, La guitare (Mandora, La Mandore), oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.9 cm

File:Pablo Picasso, 1909-10, Figure dans un Fauteuil (Seated Nude, Femme nue assise), oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm, Tate Modern, London.jpg|Pablo Picasso, 1909–10, Figure dans un Fauteuil (Seated Nude, Femme nue assise), oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm. This painting from the collection of Wilhelm Uhde was confiscated by the French state and sold at the Hôtel Drouot in 1921.

File:Albert Gleizes, 1911, Portrait de Jacques Nayral, oil on canvas, 161.9 x 114 cm, Tate Modern, London.jpg|Albert Gleizes, 1911, Portrait de Jacques Nayral, oil on canvas, 161.9 x 114 cm. This painting was reproduced in Fantasio: published 15 October 1911, for the occasion of the Salon d'Automne where it was exhibited the same year.

File:'Windows Open Simultaneously (First Part, Third Motif)' by Robert Delaunay.JPG|Robert Delaunay, 1912, Windows Open Simultaneously (First Part, Third Motif), oil on canvas, 45.7 x 37.5 cm

File:Juan Gris 001.jpg|Juan Gris, 1914, The Sunblind, collage and oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm

File:Londres tate modern kirchner baigneurs.jpg|Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909/1926, Badende bei Moritzburg (Bathers at Moritzburg)

File:Claude Monet 044.jpg|Claude Monet, 1916, Water-Lilies

File:A Young Lady's Adventure.JPG|Paul Klee, 1921, Abenteuer eines Fräuleins (A Young Lady's Adventure), watercolor on paper, 43.8 × 30.8 cm

File:Londres tate modern klee nuit walpurgis.jpg|Paul Klee, 1935, Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgian Night)

File:'Endless Rhythm' by Robert Delaunay, Tate Modern.JPG|Robert Delaunay, 1934, Endless Rhythm

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• {{Cite news |last1=Larsen |first1=Reif |title=The Tate Modern and the Battle for London's Soul |work=The New York Times |date=18 July 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/travel/tate-modern-london-museum-city-evolution.html |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}

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• Temporary Exhibitions at Tate Modern – 2008 to 2016, Dataset, {{doi|10.6084/m9.figshare.5766570.v1}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070416114758/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&editorial_id=9880 'Tate Modern: a Year of Sweet Success'] by Esther Leslie, in Radical Philosophy
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110726181931/http://www.inspiringcities.org/index.php?id=388&page_type=Article&id_article=19254 The buildings of Bankside Power Station(Tate Modern) and Battersea Power Station compared]
• {{YouTube|lCxl2tKuo3Y|Inside Bankside Power Station with Antony Gormley 1991}}
• [https://www.ramboll.com/tate-modern-uk Extension project description] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607091128/http://www.ramboll.com/projects/ruk/tate-modern |date=7 June 2017 }}

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