Superflex to Transform Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2017

The Danish art collective Superflex will take over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in October 2017 as part of the Hyundai Commission series, following previous installations by Abraham Cruzvillegas and Philip Parreno. Founded in 1993 by Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, and Rasmus Nielsen, the group is known for politically and socially engaged works. Their past projects include a 2009 video at South London Gallery depicting a flooded McDonald's restaurant, a portable biogas unit developed in Tanzania in 1998, the Superkilen urban park in Copenhagen (2011) designed to promote integration among 57 ethnic communities, and a 2014 operating room installation in S-chanf, Switzerland, later donated to a medical center in Syria. The Turbine Hall, a former power station, began its new sponsorship cycle in 2014 with Hyundai after the Unilever Commission ended in 2012. The Hyundai agreement, worth over £5 million, will fund site-specific projects through 2025. Notable past Turbine Hall installations include Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project (2003), Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds, Doris Salcedo's cracked floor, Rachel Whiteread's white cube cathedral, and Carsten Höller's slide.