Tate Modern, London (4-10-2005)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

We are ofcourse here for the special exhibition of Frida Kahlo (80 works! most from Mexico!!) and it was extremely brilliant but the the Tate Modern also has an impressive permanent collection of modern artworks.
The permanent collection is free (the special exhibit's quite expensive but if you live in London you can become a friend of the Tate for something like 55£ a year and see most of the exhibits for free!).
The view from the musuem and the museum itself (an old factory) are pretty impressive too!

So after seeing brilliant Frida Kahlo works for one hour we decide to go and have a look at the other artworks. Luckily we have a map because finding your way around isn't evident: elevators stop at every floor but there's a big escalator that misses one floor totally...

Highlights of the Tate Modern collection 2005:
- Joseph Beuys (some smaller and one big work => The Pack)
- Anselm Kiefer (woohoo three paintings I have not yet seen!)
- Christian Boltanski (dead swiss)
- hey they have a Marcel Broodthaers
- Andy Warhol
- Gilbert & George
- Bruce Nauman and many many more well known and interesting works ;-)

One of our favorites was a work by Mark Dion. He collected all the stuff on one of the banks of the Thames (near Tate Britain). Very interesting collection of trash ;-) (see pic)

In the gallery on the groundfloor and outside there was also an exhibit by a young Belgian artist called Jan De Cock. He makes installations from plywood that look like models for modern houses but... different, absurd.
Check the Tate site for his work ;-) => http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/