In 2019, Hyundai Motor and Tate’s long-standing arts partnership was expanded to enable Tate to create and launch the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. A revolutionary concept, the Centre places the exchange of ideas between art and artists from around the world at the core of its research and programme related initiatives, championing new perspectives in global art histories and celebrating diverse audiences.
This generous new support from Hyundai Motor will allow us to carry out original research in this area, collaborate with international colleagues, and bring in new members to the Tate team, making this work integral to Tate’s activities.
Francis Morris, Director, Tate Modern
Hyundai Motor’s enduring partnership with Tate has evolved into the establishment of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. This visionary initiative, deeply integrated into Tate’s core practices, fosters diverse engagement to redefine the arts for our inclusive future.
DooEun Choi, Art Director, Hyundai Motor
Tate’s long-term partnership with Hyundai Motor is a globally celebrated and incredibly successful arts collaboration founded on a shared commitment to creative innovation, celebrating some of the most ambitious and risk-taking contemporary art through the annual Hyundai Commission. In 2019, the partnership evolved through the creation of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, marking a decisive next step on Tate’s journey to diversify its collection, displays, and programme. Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational is a research-based curatorial collective based at Tate and supported by Hyundai Motor that places the exchange of ideas between art and artists from around the world at the core of its research and programme related initiatives.
Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational releases ongoing digital content which includes an annual conceptual film, inviting global audiences to interact with the Centre’s work.
Still from 'Making sense of place: how artists map a transnational world'. © Tate
Overview
The creation of Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational has transformed how Tate grows and shares knowledge about art histories around the world, establishing dialogues and collaborations between the Tate galleries and artists, curators, scholars and organisations on a very wide scale.
Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’s work is integral to Tate’s activities and expands its commitment to developing collections and programmes beyond Western Europe and North America. Hyundai Motor’s support facilitates new exchanges of ideas and promotes innovative ways of interpreting and presenting art through the framework of ‘transnational’.
Sook-Kyung Lee, former Senior Curator of International Art for Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational at ‘Confluences: Stories of Art and the Planetary’. © BAY STUDIO (Choi seongung)
'Temporary Spaces’ Annual Symposium 2019. © Augustine Paredes
The Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational supported Tate Late ‘Extending Sovereignty’. © Tate Photography (Sophie Shaw)
The Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational ‘Chile 1973’ event. © Guillaume Valli
The Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational ‘In Conversation: Rasheed Araeen’ event. © Tate (Ben Fisher Photography)
The Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational ‘The Networks of Nam June Paik’ Tate Talk. © Guillaume Valli
Research outputs
The research outputs of Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational have fed into exhibitions and displays including:
- Nam June Paik
- A Year in Art Chile: 1973
- Zanele Muholi
- A Year in Art: Australia 1992
- Life Between Islands
- Surrealism Beyond Borders
- Richard Bell: Embassy
Annual symposium
Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational also holds an annual symposium which explores themes and questions related to the centre’s core research outputs and programme. This annual moment enables Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational to further extend its reach to global audiences and has taken place both at Tate’s galleries and other international institutions in countries such as South Korea, Dubai, and Mexico.
Adjunct curators
An integral part of Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational is support for an ongoing series of adjunct curatorial posts that provide international curators and researchers with the opportunity to remain within the region in which they usually work and live whilst carrying out field research for Tate.
Fields of research have included:
- Africa and the African Diaspora
- First Nations and Indigenous Art
- Caribbean Diasporic Art
- Art and Ecology
Discover Hyundai’s supported programme
- Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational | Tate
- The Hyundai Commission
- Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational Annual Conceptual Film 2021: ‘Making Sense of Place’
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