Hyundai Motor and Tate have announced the launch of a major new research initiative; ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’. The growth of Tate’s collection displays and programs over the last two decades has created platforms that are open, inclusive and more reflective of its audiences, through exploring links between international art and artists. The Centre will build on Tate’s ground-breaking work in expanding its collections and programs beyond Europe and North America. Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational will transform how Tate grows and shares knowledge about multiple art histories with individuals and organisations world-wide.
Hyundai is supporting the collaboration from now to December 2024, in addition to its support of the annual Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, which began in 2015. For early career scholars and curators, there will be a travel grant program to support their international conference engagements. The Research Centre will expand significantly on the work of Tate Research Centre: Asia, in addition to strengthening its international acquisition strategy.
Wonhong Cho, Executive Vice President at Hyundai Motor said: “The Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational will not only provide significant and long-lasting benefit to Tate but also for the wider research and museum community around the world with a sense of responsibility towards exploring the transnational condition. We are living in a diverse world that is more connected than ever, through technology and media. This project will explore how partnerships with others can transform research and how connections that have been overlooked can provide a new way of framing history.”
Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern, stated: “This visionary project, in acknowledging movement and exchange, forced and voluntary migration and the experience of diaspora as central to modern and contemporary art, will enrich our program of exhibitions, acquisitions and collection displays, while helping us to share and connect more deeply with the work of many institutions around the world. We want to deepen our commitment to exploring multiple art histories beyond Western Europe and North America by showing that art, art movements and their histories are interconnected well beyond their country of origin. This generous new support from Hyundai Motor will allow us to carry out original research in this area, collaborate with international colleagues, and bring in new members to the Tate team, making this work integral to Tate’s activities.”
The first symposium will be held at Tate Modern, London, on 23-25 February 2019, under the title ‘Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures’, co-organised with the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University and the Africa Institute. Tate Modern and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are collaborating on a major exhibition of Nam June Paik, which in addition to London and San Francisco will also be on view in Amsterdam, Chicago and Singapore and will be emblematic of the approach of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational.
