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Sir Nicholas Serota
Category: Museum Director
Nationality: British
Last Year: 3
As Director of Tate, Sir Nicholas Serota oversees the operations of the four
Tate museums – London’s Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and
St Ives. This year saw a record number of visitors – 7.7 million of them, of
which 5.2 million went to Tate Modern, now unchallenged as the world’s
most popular art museum, smashing predictions made when it first opened
in 2000.
Tate Modern triumphs of 2007 include blockbuster shows of the
work of Gilbert & George and Dalí, and the critically acclaimed exhibitions of
both Hélio Oiticica and Fischli & Weiss. The Unilever series of commissions
for the gallery’s massive Turbine Hall has attracted more than 17 million
visitors since it began. Last autumn’s fairgroundlike installation of tubular
slides by Carsten Höller offered punters the pleasure of descending giant
slides in the name of culture. This autumn Doris Salcedo, who has previously
built a giant tomblike structure within the interior of the Castello di Rivoli,
presents an installation that promises to be a more sombre affair.
At Tate Britain the arrival of Nicolas Bourriaud (co-founder and
director of Paris’s hip contemporary art museum Palais de Tokyo) as curator
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of the next Tate Triennial suggests an edgier take on contemporary art is
on the cards. Tate Liverpool’s profile is also on the rise; in the lead up to
Liverpool’s reign as City of Culture 2008, it has staged shows by major
international artists like Bruce Nauman and will host this year’s Turner Prize
exhibition – the first time it has been presented outside London – with Tate
Britain hosting a retrospective of previous Turner Prize winners. Tate St
Ives, on the sunny Cornwall coast, is braced for some fresh ideas with the
appointment of Martin Clark as artistic director, who comes from a stint as
curator at Bristol’s Arnolfini.
With all these people wanting to look at art in Tate environments,
there was also the fortunate news that plans for a £215 million extension,
designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, had been approved by
Southwark Council, catering for a predicted extra one million people a year.
The development, which will expand the exhibition space by 60 percent, is
set to raise Tate Modern’s reputation to even greater heights when it opens
in 2012 (coinciding with the arrival of the Olympics in London).
The past year hasn’t been an entirely easy ride at Tate, but Unilever
are obviously happy with their deal, as they have recently confirmed further
sponsorship until 2012. And altough another major Tate sponsor, UBS, was
at the heart of some furore this summer, when the museum gave space
to first drawing and then photography from the bank’s private collection,
it would take a lot to stop Tate and its master’s onward march.
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