Máret Ánne Sara will create the next Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the gallery announced this week. The commission will be the artist’s first display of work in the UK.
Born in 1983 to a Sámi reindeer herding family in Guovdageaidnu in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, Sara is an artist and writer whose work explores ecological issues through the lens of her lived experience within the Sámi community. She is also founder of the Dáiddadállu artist collective, based between the Kautokeino and in Sápmi, and has shown at Documenta 14 and the 59th Venice Biennale, among others.
Her installation Pile o’ Sápmi (2017), at Documenta 14, centred on hundreds of reindeer skulls, hung as a curtain in the Kassel gallery space. The work references at once a 2006 public proceedings against the Norwegian state to challenge the obligatory cull dictated by the Norwegian Reindeer Herding Act, which flies in the face of traditions the Sámi community has a legal right to preserve; and ‘Pile of Bones’, the Indigenous name for the place where the Cree nation (in today’s Western Canada) stacked buffalo bones to anchor the animals’ spirits to the land, in a defiant act of self-actualisation.
Karin Hindsbo, director of Tate Modern, said in a statement: ‘By addressing the major social, ecological and political concerns of her community, Sara hopes not only to increase interest and awareness, but also to effect real change.’
Sara’s work will go on view from 14 October 2025 through 6 April 2026.
