Enjoy exclusive late-night shopping at our Guerrilla Girls x Tate Edit shop takeover, a 90-minute long talk with Q&A, chaired by long-time champion of the collective, Frances Morris and the chance to have books signed and rub shoulders with two members for a specially themed drink at the Tate Modern Corner bar afterwards.
The Guerrilla Girls pictured outside the Whitechapel Gallery, 2016 © David Parry/ PA Wire
Frances Morris in the Tate Modern Community Garden, 2022 © Samia Meah
Guerrilla Girls
Bringing together art and activism, Guerrilla Girls is an all-female collective who remain anonymous by wearing gorilla masks and naming themselves after famous dead women artists. Formed in New York in 1985 to fight discrimination and corruption in the art world, the group use facts, humour, and outrageous visuals to promote their messages. They have produced hundreds of posters, billboards, books, stickers, animations, and actions – not just about art, but also covering politics, film, war, and more.
The collective has a long history with Tate, with the gallery having collected and shown their work for over 20 years. In 2023 a free display of their archive opened, followed by a takeover of the Tate Edit shop, offering a range of merchandise and books, exclusively designed or selected by the Guerrilla Girls.
Frances Morris
Frances Morris was Director of Tate Modern from 2016 until earlier in 2023. Frances Morris has played a key role in establishing Tate, and particularly Tate Modern, as one of the most important and popular galleries of modern art in the world.
After a distinguished academic training at Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute, she joined Tate as a young curator in 1987, and when Tate Modern opened, took on the responsibility of introducing an entirely new way of seeing the national collection of modern and contemporary art, first as Head of Displays (2000-2006), and then Director of International Collections, until she took over as Director in 2016. During her career at Tate, Frances was responsible for expanding and diversifying the collection and organising several major retrospectives on female artists.
All Tate Modern entrances are step-free. You can enter via the Turbine Hall and into the Natalie Bell Building on Holland Street, or into the Blavatnik Building on Sumner street.
The Starr Cinema is on Level 1 of the Natalie Bell Building. There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Nathalie Bell buildings. Alternatively you can take the stairs.
There is space for wheelchairs and a hearing loop is available.
All works screened in the Starr Cinema have English captions.
- Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
- A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.
To help plan your visit to Tate Modern, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information about what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.
For more information before your visit:
- Email hello@tate.org.uk
- Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 – option 1 (daily 10.00–17.00)