Tate Liverpool is to close for over a year in order to carry out a major refurbishment.
The gallery has received £10 million as part of the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund, its half of a successful £20m bid with National Museums Liverpool. Working with architecture practice 6a, works will begin on 16 October and are likely to see the museum out of action until 2025 – though the institution has given no exact date.
In the meantime Tate Liverpool says offsite events and projects will be staged. The institution recently launched a mobile art gallery, in which works from the collection toured local streets in a truck.
When ArtReview approached Tate regarding the closure’s impact on their employees, a spokesperson said: “We are committed to minimising the impact of closing Tate Liverpool on our staff and avoid redundancies. We are still in consultation with staff at this time.”
The current exhibition Dark Waters, which combines paintings by JMW Turner with a sound work by American musician Lamin Fofana, has been extended to 24 September 2023. Tate Liverpool will also be one of the venues for the 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial, open from 10 June to 17 September.
