This landmark exhibition traces 40 years of Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain, and healing.
Dame Tracey Emin is one of the most important contemporary artists of her generation. She was catapulted into the public eye in the 1990s with iconic works like her Turner Prize nominated My Bed, which sparked fierce critical and public debate, challenging what art could be. Emin’s disregard for any separation of the personal and the public, along with her commitment to unapologetic self-expression, came to define a historic moment in British culture and global art history.
Broadening Emin’s story, this exhibition celebrates her raw and confessional approach as she poses profound questions on love, trauma, and autobiography. It also demonstrates her lifelong commitment to painting, showing her recent work as the culmination of the ways she has channelled her life into her art.
Tracey Emin is presented in the Eyal Ofer Galleries. In partnership with Gucci. With additional support from the Tracey Emin Exhibition Supporters Circle, Tate International Council, Tate Members and Tate Americas Foundation. Also supported by Farrow & Ball for the supply of paint..
Tracey Emin I never Asked to Fall in Love - You made me Feel like This 2018 Private Collection c/o Xavier Hufkens Gallery © Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin The Last of the Gold 2002 The Levett Collection / FAMM (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum), France © Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin I whisper to My Past Do I have Another Choice 2010 © Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin The End of Love 2024 Tate Purchased with funds provided by A4 Arts Foundation 2025 © Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin Why I Never Became a Dancer 1995 Tate Presented anonymously 1997 © Tracey Emin
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Exhibition with lunch or dinner
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- £59* for the exhibition and two courses from our à la carte menu
- Available daily with 12.00, 12.30, 13.00 and 13.30 exhibition entry slots, followed by lunch
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Served 12.00-15.00
To Start
Dorset crab and chalk stream trout rillette, crème fraîche, dill, pickled cucumber
Chicken liver parfait, currants, hazelnuts, lambs’ lettuce, brioche
Cashew hummus, broad beans, seeded crackers, grilled spring onions (vg)
Mains
Roasted pollack, crushed purple potatoes, seaweed butter sauce, leeks
Potato gnocchi, courgette, wild garlic pesto, pine nuts, Grana Padano (v)
Grilled bavette steak, watercress and shallot salad, Béarnaise sauce
Desserts
Crème caramel, golden raisins
Tiramisu
Vanilla rice pudding, rhubarb (vg)
You can also book separately via our Restaurant page.
*A discretionary 12.5% service charge will be added to your bill
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