Tate develops a wide-ranging programme of international touring exhibitions, bringing works from Tate’s collection to museums and galleries around the world. Our art exhibitions for hire draw on Tate’s collection of British, modern and contemporary art and are developed for international audiences.

Tate's International Partnerships department works collaboratively with host venues to develop and deliver exhibitions that connect Tate’s collection with audiences worldwide. Our programme includes touring exhibitions alongside longer-term partnerships, commissions and multi-media collaborative projects with museums, galleries and visual arts organisations around the world.

To enquire about the availability of current, upcoming and in development projects please email InternationalPartnerships@tate.org.uk.

Available to tour

Turner's Sublime Legacy follows a journey through Turner's career, from his spectacular landscapes to his elementary explorations of light and atmosphere. It considers the aesthetic and philosophical concept of ‘the sublime’. Turner's works are punctuated with contemporary interventions by artists such as Richard Long, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, Cornelia Parker, John Akomfrah, Katie Paterson and Mark Rothko, who offer twenty-first century interpretations of this eighteenth century idea.

Image: Richard Long Slate Circle 1979, Tate. Installation view at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. Photo © Grimaldi Forum

JMW Turner: On the Wing is a multiscreen installation presenting a new film that charts the life and career of JMW Turner. Featuring interviews with curators, conservators, writers and historians, the film shows Turner’s most famous works and takes us to many of the locations that he sketched and painted. The film explores how Turner’s experience of place and light influenced his radical approach to painting, which in turn transformed the history of British art.

• Currently on as part of TURNER: The Enchantment of Lake Como and the Italian Landscape at Broletto and Pinacoteca Civica, Como, Italy

Image: JMW Turner: On the Wing 2024. Installation view at Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai. Photo © Museum of Art Pudong

International Surrealism explores how and why surrealism was taken up around the world. It continues the thinking in Tate Modern's blockbuster exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders (2022). The exhibition addresses the broad reach of surrealism as a state of mind, through paintings, photographs, sculptures, objects, and archival material.

• Currently on at Frist Art Museum, Nashville, USA

Image: Dorothea Tanning Eine Kleine Nachtmusick 1943 Tate © DACS, 2025

Anthony McCall: Solid Light is currently available for tour following Tate Modern's presentation. Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema, drawing, and performance, McCall is known for his innovative installations of light. In 1973, his seminal work Line Describing a Cone redefined the possibilities of sculpture. Visitors enter and explore the large-scale sculptural forms which McCall creates from a thin mist and planes of projected light.

Image: Anthony McCall You and I Horizontal 2005. Installation view, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France, 2006. Photo: Blaise Adilon

YBAs and Beyond: British Art in the '90s is an expansive survey of British art from the late 1980s to the new millennium. Framed by this period of great change and development, it reveals how a group of artists working in the aftermath of Thatcherism began to dissolve traditional forms of art making and foster new forms of creativity. The exhibition considers the ‘Young British Artists’ (or ‘YBAs’) who began their careers in the 1990s, but also takes a wider view of British art in the last decade of the 20th century.

• Currently on at Kyoto Kyocera Museum of Art, Japan

Image: Tracey Emin Monument Valley (Grand Scale) 1995-7, Tate © Tracey Emin

School of London takes a look at the importance of London as a hub of figurative art in the second half of the 20th century. Artists including Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, and Sylvia Sleigh are represented through prominent paintings and works on paper in Tate’s collection.

Image: Paula Rego The Dance 1988, Tate © Paula Rego

The Self-Portrait takes artists self-portraits as a starting point to explore how the individual thinks about the world and how they want the world to see them. While today’s selfie is often seen as a low-ranking offshoot of fine art’s more elevated discourses, the tradition of self-portraiture, which has informed the history of art for many centuries, is an obvious precursor to the selfie.

Image: Dame Ethel Walker Self-Portrait c.1930, Tate

The floral still life has been prized for its symbolic allusions to the transience of life, youth and beauty. Through the Flower: Flowers in Art from 1900 - Present explores the way in which artists in the past century have drawn upon this archetype, using flowers as both a subject and a material. This exhibition invites visitors to have a closer look and realise that flowers are perhaps not as innocent as they might at first appear.

Image: Helen Chadwick Piss Flowers 1991-92. Installation view at Jupiter Artland. Photo © Jupiter Artland

Grand Tourists to Turner: British Artists in Europe looks at how travel to continental Europe contributed greatly to the development of British 18th and 19th century landscape art. Using watercolour as their primary medium, artists like John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne and above all, J.M.W Turner, transformed the medium into a vehicle for emotional and atmospheric expression. Grand Tourists to Turner: British Artists in Europe explores this history, mapping it via the geographical routes taken by artists through France, Northern Europe and the Alps to Italy.

• Currently on at Villa Vauban, Luxembourg

Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner Lucerne, with the Hofkirche and the Rigi: Moonrise c. 1841-4, Tate

Consultancy

Winner of the Creative Concept Prize at the inaugural MYA Prize at MAP, which Tate advised on

Lin Zhizhen, New Metropolitan in the Woods 2023 © Museum of Pudong, Shanghai

Tate provides training, support, guidance and advice to new and established arts institutions around the world through our Collaborative Consultancy programme.

Our projects range from staff training in all areas of museum expertise to the development of audience engagement programmes. This can include workshops on museum practice, guidance on collection care and conservation, public programmes which support Tate touring exhibitions, resources for family audiences and much more.

All our projects are opportunities for our partners and Tate staff to engage in collaboration and exchange.

A selection of past projects

The Nude

This exhibition traced artists’ engagement with the naked human form from the early 19th century to today through a selection of major paintings, sculpture and photographs from the Tate collection.

A smaller version of the exhibition focussed on a diverse selection of paintings of nudes from the twentieth century.

Twentieth-Century Nudes is currently at Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, US.

Venues

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • SOMA, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  • Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
  • Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, USA (Twentieth Century Nudes)

William Blake and the Age of Romantic Fantasy

This exhibition presents a selection of Blake’s finest works from Tate's collection, putting them in the context of a convulsive moment in British art, imagination and history. Blake’s enduring images are shown with works by the artists who most inspired him, including Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West and John Hamilton Mortimer.

Venues

  • La Reggia de Venaria, Turin Italy
  • Currently touring in Europe

Light: Works from the Tate collection

Light traced the way in which artists have captured or harnessed light in their work spanning the past 200 years – from painters Joseph Mallord William Turner and Claude Monet to contemporary artists such as James Turrell and Tacita Dean. All artists featured in Light are connected by their fascination with the qualities of light as both material and subject.

Venues

  • Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China
  • Buk-SeMA, Seoul, South Korea
  • ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
  • Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
  • National Arts Center Tokyo, Japan
  • Nakanoshima Museum of Art Osaka, Japan

Landscapes of the Mind: Masterpieces from Tate Britain (1700–1980)

Ranging from oils, watercolours, sketches to print and photography, this exhibition was a retrospective of 300 years of development in British landscape art. From JMW Turner to Tracy Emin, it explored humankinds' relationship with the natural environment and earnt the accolade of the most visited exhibition in Tate’s history when it received 615,000 visitors in Shanghai.

Venues

  • Shanghai Museum, China
  • National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China

JMW Turner: Sun is God

This exhibition explored Turner’s fascination with meteorological and atmospheric phenomena; the sun, moon and clouds, as well as the vast, humbling forces of nature. Between tradition and innovation, outdoor studies and the studio, nature and the ideal; the exhibition presented the various preoccupations behind Turner’s creations and their contradictions.

Venues

  • ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Museo Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  • National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
  • Fondation Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland

Hockney

David Hockney is one of the greatest and most influential painters of the twentieth century. Framed around works from Tate’s collection this exhibition featured some of the most memorable images of the last century. Arranged thematically and broadly chronologically, it revealed Hockney’s interrogation of the nature of seeing as a painter, draftsman and printmaker.

Venues

  • Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • M Woods Beijing, China
  • Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
  • BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
  • Kunstforum Wien, Austria
  • Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
  • Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France

Tate Britain Commission: Hew Locke: The Procession

Originally commissioned by Tate Britain for its 2022 Tate Britain Commission, Hew Locke’s The Procession was staged at ICA Boston Watershed, which marked the first time a Tate site commission has toured. Drawing upon a series of motifs and concerns that have occupied the artist over decades, The Procession is a colourful gathering of approximately 140 life-size sculptures of adorned figures of all walks of life. Poetic and powerful, this installation draws on the metaphor of the voyage to, in the artist’s words, “reflect on the cycles of history, and the ebb and flow of cultures, people, finance, and power.”

Venue

  • ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Pre-Raphaelites

This exhibition provided a stunning survey of the Pre-Raphaelite movement drawing upon Tate's most famous and best-loved works alongside several loans. These masterpieces are rarely lent and many have never been seen globally before. The exhibition provided a rare opportunity for a generation of audiences to experience these works for the first time.

Venues

  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
  • Palazzo Real, Milan, Italy
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

MAP YOUR ART: Children and Young People’s Art Prize

Tate supported and advised the Museum of Art Pudong’s Learning team on how to structure and deliver the inaugural MAP YOUR ART (MYA) prize for children and young people. The programme aimed to inspire young people’s creativity and raise the value and importance of art education.

The prize received over 3,000 submissions from young artists aged 6 to 15 from all over China; 139 finalists had their work displayed in a special exhibition at MAP and a display at Tate Modern. Winners were selected by a jury that included artists Xu Bing, Ding Yi, and Gayle Chong Kwan.

Tate is currently advising on the second edition of the prize, which has received 30,000 submissions from across China.

Pudong Consultancy

Over a period of 2.5 years Tate advised and supported peers in Pudong (Shanghai) as they built and opened a new art museum. Dozens of contributors from across Tate shared their expertise with the growing team at the new Museum of Art Pudong, writing hundreds of documents and taking part in dozens of workshops that covered all aspects of museum management – from visitor experience to curation, conservation to marketing.

The museum opened in 2021 and has established itself as one of China’s most-visited contemporary art spaces. The consultancy laid the foundation for a long-term collaboration which sees the two institutions continue to work together on exhibitions, commissions and audience programmes.

Contact us

To find out more about exhibitions available for touring or consultancy opportunities, please email InternationalPartnerships@tate.org.uk.

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Olafur Eliasson Your Double-Lighthouse Projection 2002

Installation view at Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai. Photo © Museum of Art Pudong