Anicka Yi has been selected to create the next Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. She will take over the vast hall of the London institution from October 2020 to January 2021. Yi succeeds to Kara Walker, whose 13-metre fountain currently occupies the space.
The Korean-American artist, who is based in New York, has developed a research-based experimental practice that sees her collaborate with experts from the fields of science, technology, AI or philosophy. She is perhaps best known for developing scents which become tangible components of her installations-as-exhibitions, whether the ‘scent of forgetting’ created with a French perfumer, or the scent of Gagosian Gallery meant to evoke wealth, luxury and privilege. Yi received the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize in 2016, and has exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2019), the Whitney Biennial (2017), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2016).
Yi’s project will be the sixth of a ten-year commissioning programme supported by Hyundai. Previous iterations were works by Tania Bruguera, Superflex, Philippe Parreno and Abraham Cruzvillegas.
17 March 2020
