This is a very special year for Tate Modern. We first opened our doors in May 2000, marking this year as our 25th anniversary.

We have chosen 25 artworks around the building to celebrate this moment. Select any artwork to read a personal perspective from a guest voice. Each reflection brings to mind the feelings that might be associated with a birthday, such as joy, humour, introspection, and nostalgia.

We hope you enjoy reading these viewpoints, whether you're at Tate Modern or celebrating with us from afar.

  • Iva

    Joan Mitchell
    1973
  • Delivery Dancer’s Sphere

    Ayoung Kim
    2022
  • Spell on You!

    Outi Pieski
    2020
  • Art and Religion Room From Museum of Contemporary African Art

    Meschac Gaba
    1997–2002
  • The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge

    Edgar Calel
    2021
  • Woman in Leopard Print

    Farah Al Qasimi
    2019
  • Black on Maroon

    Mark Rothko
    1958
  • In Search of Vanished Blood

    Nalini Malani
    2012–20
  • Matanzas Sound Map

    María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Neil Leonard
    2017
  • Burning Country

    Arahmaiani
    1998–2020
  • Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? Update

    Guerrilla Girls
    2012
  • Lungenflügel

    Pipilotti Rist
    2009
  • Babel

    Cildo Meireles
    2001
  • Untitled, from Eel Series, Venice, Italy

    Francesca Woodman
    1978
  • On 22 and 23 August, Wenceslas Square was Cleared of People, August 1968

    Josef Koudelka
    1968, printed 1970s
  • A Tax Haven Run By Women

    Monster Chetwynd
    2010–1
  • Marilyn Diptych

    Andy Warhol
    1962
  • The Snail

    Henri Matisse
    1953
  • Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams I

    Ibrahim El-Salahi
    1961–5
  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

    Dorothea Tanning
    1943
  • Lobster Telephone

    Salvador Dalí
    1938
  • Fountain

    Marcel Duchamp
    1917, replica 1964
  • European Mask

    Pacita Abad
    1990
  • Life of Imitation

    Ming Wong
    2009
  • Sentinel

    Simone Leigh
    2019

Banner image © Tate (Lea Riggi)

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