The World's Biggest Tracey Emin Exhibition Is Coming to London
Opening next year at the Tate Modern.
Next Spring, the Tate Modern in London is set to host the largest-ever exhibition celebrating the work of the world-renowned artist Dame Tracey Emin. Titled “A Second Life,” it will span her 40-year career, showing formative installations from the 1990s to recent works displayed for the first time, marking the most significant exhibition of her work so far.
Emin shows a longstanding commitment to self-expression, challenging our concept of what art can be and consistently influencing contemporary creativity. Much of her work explores passion, pain and healing through using the female body with a confessional approach and sharing her experiences of love, trauma and growth.
The exhibition will bring together over 90 works encompassing painting, video, textile, sculpture and installation. It will begin with showcasing her first solo exhibition at the White Cube, a series of tiny photographs of her art school paintings from the 1980s, which she destroyed during a difficult period of her life. At the heart of the show are two seminal installations, ‘Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made’ 1996 and ‘My Bed’ 1998. The latter was last shown at the Tate Modern in 1999 as a shortlisted work for the Turner Prize and is perhaps one of her most globally known pieces.
Experiencing many life-altering hardships, Emin brings her trauma to the forefront to dispel any stigma. There is no separation between the personal and public; one of the aspects that makes her work so important. Today, her pieces represent more of a spiritual quality and focus on living in the present. The exhibition culminates with the artist exploring this idea through large-scale paintings.
“I feel this show will be a benchmark for me. A moment in my life when I look back and go forward. A true celebration of living,” shares the artist in a press release.
The exhibition will open on February 26 at the Tate Modern in London.
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