![]() The space has been designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architects who oversaw the renovation of the old power station into the Tate Modern, which opened in 2000. Once intended to hold a million gallons of oil, The Tanks are now home to live art, performance, film works and installation art, becoming the world’s first permanent museum galleries designed for this purpose. But I saw real potential.London’s Tate Modern has opened the doors on its newest venture: The Tanks, an exhibition space that is underground, created from the oil tanks of the Bankside Power Station. ![]() Serota wrote in the Daily Telegraph newspaper that when he first visited the underground chambers in 1993 "the smell of oil was still incredibly strong and there was a feeling of danger and hostility. The tanks were decommissioned in 1981 when what was then the Bankside Power Station was taken out of service. The tanks have been converted by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog et Pierre de Meuron.Ĭhris Dercon, director of Tate Modern, said they would be used to show "art in action". ![]() Suzanne Lacy's Crystal Quilt, created after 430 women over the age of 60 gathered to share their views on getting older, is in the first tank.Ī second tank contains South Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim's new film "Temper Clay", which juxtaposes his parents' flat in Seoul, South Korea, with the family's countryside home which they had aspired to retire to. The huge iron tanks officially open on Wednesday with a dance work by Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, which will be on show for free from July 18 to 20. "In the past 50 years, film, performance, installation and new media have become the chosen forms of expression for many of the most exciting visual artists," Serota told a press conference at the gallery on Monday. Nicholas Serota, the director of the gallery's parent institution Tate, said the development would also help it keep up with new trends in the art world.
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