Pipilotti Rist, Lungenflügel 2009, on display at Tate Modern. Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023. © Pipilotti Rist. Photo © Tate (Matt Greenwood)
Full list of works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift to Tate are announced today, as new displays open at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate St Ives
Visitors to Tate’s galleries can now enjoy a host of new additions to the national collection, including celebrated sculptures and installations by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, David Hammons and Pipilotti Rist, to be joined later this month by Helen Chadwick, Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas and many more. These outstanding works of contemporary art are among over 110 donated from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection – one of the most significant gifts in the history of Tate’s collection – which Tate’s curators and conservators have been carefully cataloguing and researching over the past two years.
From today, the entire gift featuring works by 53 artists is now freely available to explore online at tate.org.uk. 20 of these works can also be experienced in person in new displays at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate St Ives, with 15 more to follow by the end of the year. As one of the world’s biggest lenders of art, Tate will also make the gift available to other museums and galleries, with several works already due to travel to UK venues in the coming years.
Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate, said: “Tate’s collection is a resource for everyone to enjoy, and it has been significantly enriched by Dimitris Daskalopoulos’ outstanding generosity. We have spent the past two years integrating these incredible works of art into the national collection and I’m delighted to see them beginning to go on display. But this is just the start – In the months and years to come, many more works from the gift will be shared with audiences in all Tate’s galleries and at other venues across the UK and beyond.”
Visitors to Tate Modern can now see works presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift throughout the gallery’s free displays. These include an immersive video environment by Pipilotti Rist, a phallic sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, a large-scale installation by Vlassis Caniaris, and three solo rooms dedicated to the work of David Hammons, Robert Gober and Martin Kippenberger. At the end of September they will be joined by a large-scale display devoted to Helen Chadwick in Tate Modern’s ARTIST ROOMS gallery, while in October another work from the gift will feature as part of the upcoming Mike Kelley exhibition.
Tate Britain is now showcasing a video installation by Paul Pfeiffer in the Clore Gallery alongside the JMW Turner painting which originally inspired it. From September visitors will also find three prominent works from the 1990s – a room-sized installation by Mona Hatoum, cabinets of formaldehyde jars by Damien Hirst, and a sculpture by Sarah Lucas featuring a reclaimed toilet – all drawn from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift.
At Tate St Ives, a ceramic sculpture by Lynda Benglis is now on display in a room exploring connections between spiritual ideas and modern art. A relief by Dieter Roth has also been incorporated into a group display about landscape and the natural world, which will be joined later this year by a brilliant blue seascape by Paul Thek.
In summer 2025 Helen Chadwick’s installation Piss Flowers from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift will travel to National Galleries Scotland: Modern in Edinburgh as part of a wider exhibition featuring ARTIST ROOMS displays, followed by a UK tour of Chadwick works as part of Tate’s longstanding partnership with National Galleries of Scotland.
Alongside the works given to Tate, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection donated a further 140 works to the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, several of which went on display there in December 2023 as part of the museum’s new collection display WOMEN, together. Around 100 more works were jointly donated to the Guggenheim and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, some of which can now be seen in the exhibition By Way Of at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the shows Descending the Staircase and Trade Windings at MCA Chicago.