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The Tanks

Experience live art, performance, film and video art in these gallery spaces

visitors in the Tanks staircase

© photo: Rikard Österlund

The Tanks provide a permanent gallery for live art, performances and film and video work from the Tate collection. There is also a programme of new commissions of works made for the specific spaces.

The Tanks were previously used to store oil when the gallery was a power station. These huge circular spaces in the foundations of the Blavatnik Building have kept their rough, industrial feel to now house new art. No longer generating electricity, the Tanks generate ideas, creative energy and new possibilities for artists and audiences. These raw, industrial, subterranean spaces, each measuring over thirty metres across and seven metres high are the world’s first museum galleries permanently dedicated to exhibiting live art, performance, installation and film.

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Daria Martin

Daria Martin

Daria Martin’s film In the Palace shows four performers holding poses within a cage-like structure

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Daria Martin, In the Palace 2000. Tate. © Daria Martin.

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

This display includes several of Giacometti’s later works, made after the Second World War

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Alberto Giacometti, Man Pointing 1947. Tate. © The Estate of Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Giacometti, Paris and ADAGP, Paris), licensed in the UK by ACS and DACS, London 2025.

María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard

María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard

This installation offers a sonic and sculptural cartography of Matanzas, Cuba

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Photo © Tate (Reece Straw)

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