Bacon, Picasso and Woolf to feature on Tate exhibitions calendar
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Works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf and Edward Burne-Jones will feature in a series of exhibitions at the Tate from next year. The artists join a portfolio of names, from the pre-Raphaelite painters to modern film and performance artists, that will feature in shows across the country’s galleries.
Bacon and Freud will join RB Kitaj and Paula Rego in the All Too Human presentation of figurative painting at Tate Britain in London, while video and textile art by female stars Joan Jonas and Anni Albers will go on show at the Tate Modern.
Detail from the ‘Good Shepherd’ created in 1914, originally designed by Edward Burne-Jones. Photograph: David Jones/PA
Showcasing 150 of Burne-Jones’s paintings, stained-glass pieces and tapestries from October to February 2019, the Tate Britain exhibition will be its first major survey of the romantic pre-Raphaelite’s work in 40 years.
Tate Modern will host the EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy, as well as video and performance work by 1960s and 70s pioneer Jonas and Bauhaus textile creator Albers. Jonas’s show, from March to August, will include the unveiling of a large piece and a programme of performances and concerts.
The organisation will mark the 30th anniversary of Tate Liverpool with an Egon Schiele and Fernand Leger display, and the launch of Tate St Ives with an exploration of 35 female artists led by the works of Virginia Woolf. The new south-west coast gallery spaces open on 14 October.
Other forthcoming events include an Into the Light abstract art and photography exhibition at Tate Modern, featuring images by Paul Strand, Man Ray and Barbara Kasten over the past 100 years.
Aftermath, at Tate Britain from June to September, will mark the centenary of the first world war by examining its impact on European art, particularly Dada and surrealism. Tate’s contemporary programme for the year will also include the Turner prize 2018, from September to January 2019.
This article was amended on 26 May 2017. An earlier picture caption said Edward Burne-Jones created the stained-glass window, Burne-Jones created the design for the window which was made after his death.