Current and forthcoming Level 2 Gallery exhibitions
Level 2 Gallery: Stutter
23 April – 16 August 2009Stutter presents the work of international contemporary artists Sven Augustijnen, Anna Barham, Will Stuart, Dominique Petitgand, and Michael Riedel. Exploring ideas of the unexpected within the processes of thoughts and language in both written and spoken forms, this exhibition displays work in a range of media including sculpture, work on paper, video and sound.
Past Level 2 Gallery exhibitions
Level 2 Gallery: Nicholas Hlobo
9 December 2008 – 29 March 2009Nicholas Hlobo's new commission for the Level 2 Gallery is anchored in Xhosa cultural references and his experiences of living in post-apartheid South Africa.
Level 2 Gallery: Latifa Echakhch
19 September – 23 November 2008Latifa Echakhch creates sculptures and installations that explore the visual and architectural codes of identity.
Level 2 Gallery: 9 Scripts from a Nation at War
13 June – 25 August 2008This ten-part video installation by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer responds to the conditions and questions that have arisen during the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Level 2 Gallery: Here We Dance
14 March – 26 May 2008Here We Dance features artists who use bodies in movement, group actions and games to explore ideas of community and politics.
Level 2 Gallery: Illuminations
14 December 2007 – 24 February 2008This exhibition presents four film and video pieces that explore gestures and spaces that shape belief.
Level 2 Gallery: The Irresistible Force
20 September – 25 November 2007Addressing issues from celebrity culture to migration, the service industry and privatisation, this exhibition explores the seductions and contradictions of systems of exchange.
Level 2 Gallery: Artist Platform - Matei Bejeranu
8 September – 9 September 2007This performance and video installation was devised by Romanian artist Matei Bejenaru, working with a number of Romanian community groups in London.
Level 2 Gallery: Learn to Read
19 June – 2 September 2007This dense and visually diverse display brings together works by 29 artists which play with text, erasure and miscommunication. Learn to Read explores failed articulations, shifts and slippages through translation, repetitions, memories and humour.
Level 2 Gallery: The Artist's Dining Room
2 March – 4 June 2007The Artist's Dining Room explores the ways in which artists are reinvigorating the language of abstraction, in both painting and sculpture, through the use of brilliant paints, shiny surfaces and unexpected materials.
Level 2 Gallery: Media Burn
16 December 2006 – 18 February 2007This thought-provoking exhibition presents a selection of works which look at the often uncertain boundaries between politics and protest, art and the media.
Level 2 Gallery: Rings of Saturn
30 September – 3 December 2006Rings of Saturn is the first in a new series of displays which forecasts themes or trends in international contemporary art.
Level 2 Gallery: Roman Ondák
29 July – 17 September 2006Roman Ondák's art focuses on questioning perception and the nature of codes and conventions of social behaviour.
Level 2 Gallery: Brian Jungen
20 May – 9 July 2006This is Brian Jungen's first exhibition in the UK and presents intriguing new work made specifically for the Level 2 Gallery.
Level 2 Gallery: Simryn Gill
18 March – 7 May 2006Gill's installation, made from books assembled over many years, questions the systems which humans create to 'know' the world around them.
Level 2 Gallery Catherine Sullivan
19 November 2005 – 5 March 2006Catherine Sullivan presents a new multi-screen video based on the intersection of contemporary dance, live art, performance and video.
Level 2 Gallery: Jan De Cock
10 September – 30 October 2005Jan De Cock's installations are made in response to the architecture of Tate Modern and are both aesthetic interventions as well as performing a utilitarian function.
Level 2 Gallery: Meschac Gaba
25 June – 21 August 2005Meschac Gaba's works examines the cultural and economic codes of exchange between Africa and the West, through engaging visitors in an exchange of ideas.
Untitled: Damián Ortega: The Uncertainty Principle
23 April – 12 June 2005Subverting the notion of sculpture as a solid, monumental, finished object, the works Ortega has selected to show at Tate Modern are intended to stir up doubts.
Untitled: Simparch
19 February – 10 April 2005The fifth in a series of eight-week displays exploring The Public World of the Private Space was undertaken by the collaborative group Simparch, testing the physical limits of the gallery space.
Untitled : Pin Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing
4 December 2004 – 30 January 2005Pin Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing is the fourth exhibition in Tate Modern’s new Untitled series which looks at The Public World of the Private Space.
Untitled: Mohamed Camara
2 October – 21 November 2004Mohamed Camara’s photographic works form the third in a series of eight-week displays exploring the theme of The Public World of the Private Space.
