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Ana Mendieta
15 July 2026 to 17 January 2027
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4.3/5Best known for the Silueta Series, in which she traced her body's outline in fire, water and flowers, then filmed its disappearance, Mendieta posed questions of displacement and identity that remain urgent today. The exhibition extends beyond gallery walls to honour her relationship with the natural world.
From Tate Modern
This major exhibition dedicated to Ana Mendieta presents many of her iconic works alongside newly remastered films, early paintings, and late sculptural pieces, many of which have never been seen in the UK before. The show will continue outside the gallery walls, embracing Mendieta’s deep relationship with the natural world. Mendieta is best known for her Silueta Series, exploring the presence and absence of the human body, using a number of natural materials including fire, water and flowers....
Read more at Tate Modern →Critic Reviews (7)
The Standard
Anny Shaw
A triumphant tribute to a neglected visionary
"In 2016, feminist activists from the WHEREISANAMENDIETA collective and the domestic violence group Sisters Uncut staged a protest at Tate Modern over a display of Andre's work and the historical exclusion of Mendieta's. With this exhibition, the Tate at last rightly recognises her as one of the 20th century's most singular and visionary artists: the poetic, primordial power of her work undimmed, its influence still resonating down the generations."
Read full review →TimeOut
Rosie Hewitson
Ana Mendieta
"A deeply affecting study of an artist who would surely be a household name if she were still alive today, it will hopefully serve to introduce a new audience to her timeless, magical, invigorating work."
Read full review →The Telegraph
Alastair Sooke
Forget Emin and Kahlo, this is the true star of Tate's all-female summer
"In a manifesto-like move, all three of this summer's big exhibitions at Tate Modern celebrate an individual female artist; the others are Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo. This is by far the best."
Read full review →The Guardian
Jonathan Jones
Were she still alive she'd be at the forefront of art in this century
"This artist is irresistible. She does not just make startling interventions but presents a worked-out theory of the cosmos. She strives to reconnect art and nature around a feminist mythology of ancient goddesses, half forgotten, whom she literally digs out of the soil or reveals hidden in trees by fire sacrifice."
Read full review →The Independent
Chloe Ashby
Strange, singular and strikingly contemporary
"How refreshing, in an art world focused on output, to spend time with an artist dodging permanence. Again and again, Mendieta dissolved her body, hiding behind a bunch of flowers, crawling on all fours beneath the skin of a shepherd dog."
Read full review →The Observer
Laura Cumming
The artist who left her mark on the world
"It took the New York Times more than 30 years to publish an obituary for Mendieta and her name is still insufficiently known in Europe. Although this is by some way the best of Tate Modern's trio of current shows by women, alongside Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo, Mendieta's fame remains decades overdue, though in her case better late than never."
Read full review →New York Times
Emily LaBarge
The Burning, Bleeding, Breathing Art of Ana Mendieta
"Is this an elegant but slightly polite account of an artist who said, “My art comes out of rage and displacement”? Who passionately and notoriously argued about art and life, yelled at critics who wrote lukewarm reviews of her shows and flipped off Italian drivers while at the American Academy in Rome in 1983? Who also made many rageful and erotic, violent and discomfiting works?"
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Tuesday10am–6pm
Wednesday10am–6pm
Thursday10am–6pm
Friday10am–9pm
Saturday10am–9pm
