Visitors to Tate’s galleries can now enjoy a host of new additions to the national collection, including celebrated sculptures and installations by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, David Hammons and Pipilotti Rist, to be joined later this month by Helen Chadwick, Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas and many more. These outstanding works of contemporary art are among over 110 donated from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection –one of the most significant gifts in the history of Tate’s collection – which Tate’s curators and conservators have been carefully cataloguing and researching over the past two years.
From today, the entire gift featuring works by 53 artists is now freely available to explore online at tate.org.uk. 20 of these works can also be experienced in person in new displays at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate St Ives, with 15 more to follow by the end of the year. As one of the world’s biggest lenders of art, Tate will also make the gift available to other museums and galleries, with several works already due to travel to UK venues in the coming years.
Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate, said: “Tate’s collection is a resource for everyone to enjoy, and it has been significantly enriched by Dimitris Daskalopoulos’ outstanding generosity. We have spent the past two years integrating these incredible works of art into the national collection and I’m delighted to see them beginning to go on display. But this is just the start – In the months and years to come, many more works from the gift will be shared with audiences in all Tate’s galleries and at other venues across the UK and beyond.”