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Tate Liverpool + RIBA North Exhibition

The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space

16 December 2008 – 1 February 2009
The Fifth Floor exhibition banner

To mark the end of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture, we present a ground-breaking exhibition of contemporary art. We asked one thousand people across the city what kind of exhibition they would like to experience, and leading international artists have created major new works responding to their ideas.

The gallery has been transformed into a space for encounter and collaboration, imagination, invention and a celebration of ideas that takes you on a journey to another level, beyond the gallery walls.

The exhibition presents humorous and thoughtful works in a range of media including video, photography, sculpture and drawing. Dan Perjovschi scrawls cartoons on the gallery walls and invites you to do the same, and Nina Edge invites you to play a Regeneration Game. Other artists featured include Rineke Dijkstra, Tino Sehgal and Paul Rooney, and an exciting programme of music and performances accompanies the show.

The Fifth Floor refers to a floor that does not physically exist within Tate Liverpool’s four-storey building, but invites the visitor to reconsider the Gallery as a place of imagination and invention.

Tate Liverpool + RIBA North

Mann Island
Liverpool L3 1BP
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Dates

16 December 2008 – 1 February 2009

Sponsored by

PH Holt Charitable Trust

PH Holt Charitable Trust

The Granada Foundation

The Granada Foundation

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  • Dan Perjovschi Tate Modern Members Room commission 2006

    Dan Perjovschi: The Room Drawing 2006

    Dan Perjovschi: The Room Drawing 2006: past Tate Modern exhibition

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    The Unilever Series: Tino Sehgal 2012

    Tino Sehgal will undertake the annual commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2012.

  • Artist

    Dan Perjovschi

    born 1961
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    Pawel Althamer

    born 1967
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    Rineke Dijkstra

    born 1959
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    Tino Sehgal

    born 1976
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    Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

    born 1967
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