Tate Modern explores home, belonging and connection in 2025

Do Ho Suh, Rubbing/Loving Project: Seoul Home 2013-2022

Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia. Photography by Jessica Maurer. © Do Ho Suh

Tate has been announcing its 2025 exhibition highlights, with its Tate Modern site holding The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh, inviting visitors into the world of the Korean-born, London-based artist.

Tate Modern says that Do Ho Suh’s immersive fabric installations, life-size replicas of his past homes, videos and delicate works on paper ask timely questions about belonging and connection, and explore the intricate relationship between architecture and the body. Is home a place, a feeling, or an idea? Questions are posed about the enigma of home, identity and how we move through and inhabit the world around us.

The visitor is encouraged to wander through the passages and thresholds through his life-sized replicas of past and present homes in Seoul, New York and London and encounter sculptures that explore the tradition of monuments.

Tate Modern’s first exhibition of 2025 will focus on the boundary-pushing career of artist, performer, model, designer and musician Leigh Bowery.

It states:

'The show will span his emergence in London’s 1980s club scene through to his outrageous performances in galleries, theatres and the street, using the body as a shape-shifting tool in ways that would go on to inspire Alexander McQueen, Lady Gaga and many more. Later in the spring, Tate Modern’s unique spaces dedicated to performance, film and installation – The Tanks – will host the UK premiere of Hagay Dreaming. This acclaimed performance by new media artist Shu Lea Cheang and practicing shaman Dondon Hounwn combines dance and ritual with laser projections and motion-capture technology.'

There will also be the first major exhibition of work by Emily Kam Kngwarray ever held in Europe. One of Australia’s greatest artists, Kngwarray was a senior Anmatyerr woman, a community from the Utopia region (north-east of Mparntwe/Alice Springs), whose paintings reflected her ritual, spiritual and ecological engagement with her homelands. Tate Modern will tell her powerful story and showcase the monumental, shimmering canvases she created in her late 70s and early 80s, many of which have never been shown outside Australia.

In the autumn, Tate Modern will unveil a landmark group exhibition on Nigerian Modernism. The show will celebrate the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria before and after national independence in 1960, combining African and European traditions to create new, multidisciplinary forms across painting, sculpture, textile, literature and poetry. This will coincide with an exhibition taking Picasso’s The Three Dancers as its focus, marking 100 years since this iconic painting was made. Foregrounding Picasso’s fascination with dance, sex and death, this deep dive will put a pivotal work of modern art in dialogue with its historic context and with contemporary dance.

The final exhibition of the year will be a major photography exhibition about Global Pictorialism, the international movement which first transformed the camera into an artistic tool. It will show how photographers from Shanghai to Sydney, New York to Cape Town, and Brazil to Singapore created beautiful and atmospheric images between the 1880s and 1960s, using experimental new techniques to redefine photography as an art form.

Each season will also be marked by one of Tate Modern’s three high-profile annual commissions. The spring will feature the inaugural Infinities Commission, for which a selected artist will create an experimental and visionary new work for the Tanks. Over the summer school holidays, UNIQLO Tate Play will once again invite visitors of all ages to take part in a newly created artwork founded in participation. In the autumn the Hyundai Commission will see a world-renowned artist transform the Turbine Hall at the heart of Tate Modern with an ambitious new installation.

The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh in partnership with Genesis

Co-curated by Nabila Abdel Nabi, Senior Curator, International Art, (Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational) and Dina Akhmadeeva, Assistant Curator, International Art, Tate Modern