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Tate Modern Exhibition

Hyundai Commission Superflex One Two Three Swing!

3 October 2017 – 2 April 2018
two people swing on one two three swing by superflex

Photo: Tate Photography

Playfully subversive artists SUPERFLEX have filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with swings 

An orange line of swings weaves through the Turbine Hall. It then crosses the gallery and emerges in the landscape to the south of the building.

Each swing has been designed for three people by Danish artists’ collective SUPERFLEX. Swinging with two other people has greater potential than swinging alone and One Two Three Swing! invites us to realise this potential together. Swinging as three, our collective energy resists gravity and challenges the laws of nature.

Swing into action on the count of three – One Two Three Swing!

Danish artists’ collective SUPERFLEX is best known for its playfully subversive installations and films. Founded in 1993 by Danish artists Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger and Rasmus Nielsen, SUPERFLEX has gained international recognition for collaborative projects and solo exhibitions around the world.

This is the third annual Hyundai Commission, a series of site-specific works created for the Turbine Hall by renowned international artists, as part of the partnership between Tate and Hyundai Motor.

SUPERFLEX installation in Turbine Hall

© Tate Photography

SUPERFLEX installation in Turbine Hall

© Tate Photography

SUPERFLEX installation in Turbine Hall

© Tate Photography

SUPERFLEX installation in Turbine Hall

© Tate Photography

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Dates

3 October 2017 – 2 April 2018

The superflex swings on the exterior South Tanks remain in place until 4 November 2018

In partnership with

With additional support from

Amorim

Supported by

The SUPERFLEX Supporters Circle

Faurschou Foundation
Montana
New Carlsberg Foundation
Danish Arts Foundation
Beckett-Fonden
Danish Ministry for Culture
The Embassy of Denmark, London

immersive and fun

The Guardian
****

magnificent

Evening Standard
****
The Times

playful and spectacular

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When you get on that swing – and I haven’t been on one for more years than I’d care to mention – you immediately reboot.

Donald Hyslop, exhibition curator

I've spent a lot of time in the Turbine Hall… but I’ve never felt as exhilarated as I did on a swing installed here by Superflex.

Evening Standard

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