Tate Exhibition Collects, Categorises and Orders

Jake & Dinos Chapman’s Chapman Family Collection and two works from Damien Hirst’s recent gift to Tate will be included in a new exhibition at the gallery.

Classified will offer visitors to Tate Britain the opportunity to see works by leading contemporary artists and to explore the recent development of Tate’s collection.

Artists in the exhibition include Jake and Dinos Chapman, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Damien Hirst, Simon Patterson and Fiona Rae. As well as exploring how the Tate's collects, categorises and orders work, the exhibition will look at how artists use similar curatorial techniques. The works in this exhibition employ a variety of methods and approaches, but are united by the artists’ engagement with the ways we organise the objects and images that surround us as part of our daily life.

Familiar Tate works include Damien Hirst’s room installation Pharmacy, and Simon Patterson’s Great Bear, a reconfigured version of the iconic map of the London Underground. Mark Dion’s Tate Thames Dig, which groups together objects found on the banks of the River Thames, will be shown alongside works that have been acquired over the last five years.

This is the first time that many of these will be on display at Tate, including installations such as Simon Starling’s Work made-ready, Les Baux-de-Provence (Mountain Bike), Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Chapman Family Collection, Tacita Dean’s film portrait Michael Hamburger and Rebecca Warren’s sculpture In the Bois.

Classified runs from 22nd June – 23rd August in the Linbury Galleries at Tate Britain.