Tate has joined forces with Art Explora & MuMo mobile museum to take masterpieces from Tate’s national collection out of the store to the Midlands and the North in a 12-week tour until 11th May 2024.
The Art Explora Mobile Museum in collaboration with Tate and MuMo, aims to make great art accessible to everyone. The tour will bring works from Tate’s collection directly to communities in Nuneaton & Bedworth (Warwickshire), Ashfield (Nottinghamshire), Walsall (West Midlands), Stoke-on-Trent (Staffordshire), Wigan (Greater Manchester), Rotherham (South Yorkshire) and Tarporley (Cheshire).
The Mobile Museum will tour a specially curated exhibition Soup, Socks and Spiders! Art of the Everyday, an exploration of the ‘still life’ genre. The exhibition brings together contemporary and historic works of art from the Tate national collection that present everyday objects in unexpected ways. Spanning art movements including Cubism, Surrealism and Pop Art, as well as contemporary photography and digital art, the exhibition features work by 22 artists including Vanessa Bell, Christo, Fischli and Weiss, Juan Gris, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Cornelia Parker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol and Erwin Wurm. Through iconic works such as Andy Warhol’s celebrated Campbell’s soup can to a spider found by Cornelia Parker in the Tower of London, Art of the Everyday encourages viewers to look more closely at the world around us.
It is expected that this tour into communities will offer a first encounter with art to groups of school children and young people across the region as well as community groups, care home residents and adults from all backgrounds.
Groups will be given a tour around the exhibition and will then be invited to join creative workshops, to participate themselves in this artistic adventure and share a momento with their families. At the end of the week, families, neighbours and the local community will be invited to visit the exhibition of artworks made during the workshop sessions.
This tour of the Mobile Museum is brought to you by Art Explora, a UK charity, in collaboration with Tate and MuMo. MuMo (“Mobile Museum”) was founded by Ingrid Brochard, designed by matali crasset, with the support of the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso.
Helen Legg, Director, Tate Liverpool said: ‘Tate is proud to be working with Art Explora on the Mobile Museum that will bring artwork from the national collection closer to more people across the country. It is rare that the collection is shown in this way, in non-traditional settings, but it is key if we are to breakdown perceived barriers and bring crucial encounters with art to young people and communities. We learnt last year, when this project was in Liverpool, that the alternative learning environment provided meaningful, memorable experiences to young people. I’m thrilled that works from the National Collection will be touring the country and reaching thousands more people in the coming months, promoting the importance of creative learning and access to the arts for young people.’
Frédéric Jousset, Founder of Art Explora, said: ‘Art Explora is based on the core belief that art should be accessible to everyone. We try to bring art to new places, new audiences, new communities. The Mobile Museum is an opportunity for thousands of people, and especially school children, to experience art for the first time, right on their doorsteps. In this time of crisis for local authorities, with increasing pressures on arts budgets and arts provision on a regional and local level, the Art Explora Mobile Museum is a chance to level up between the children who have access to art and the ones who get left behind. It’s about creating social justice and cohesion.’
About
Art Explora aims to share arts and culture with everyone – locally, nationally and internationally – and inspire new encounters between arts and audiences. Our mission is to encourage new forms of access, participation and engagement with arts and culture and to push the boundaries of digital technology and mobile programming. We work in partnership with artists, cultural organisations and communities, exploring all art forms, to create transformative cultural experiences for everyone.
Art Explora was founded in 2019 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Frédéric Jousset. Art Explora has offices in London and Paris. Previous project highlights include: Artist Residencies in Montmartre in collaboration with the Cité international des arts; The Art Explora Academy in collaboration with Sorbonne University; Arts at Home: a programme bringing arts into care homes; Art Explora – Académie des beaux-arts European Award: an award championing new dialogues between the arts and audiences across Europe. artexplora.org/en/home
The MuMo (Musée Mobile or Mobile Museum) was founded in France in 2011 by Ingrid Brochard to make modern and contemporary art accessible to those who do not typically have access to it. School children, and social or care organisations, as well as families and the inhabitants of the towns and villages can benefit from the exhibition and discovery workshops close to their homes thanks to the reach of the MuMo. musee-mobile.fr/
Envisaged as a flagship for decentralising culture, Tate Liverpool is as relevant now as at its conception; exchanging ideas, embedded in the city and facing both home-grown and global communities. As a sector pioneer and artistic powerhouse Tate Liverpool has been a major contributor to the city and regional economy and, in the process, helped establish a blueprint for a wave of new regional galleries, redefining the role of the museum in the life of a city. The gallery has mirrored Liverpool’s global connections as a port, using its international standing and outstanding collection to place the City at the centre of an outward looking, international artistic programme. Tate Liverpool Is currently undergoing a major transformation that will reimagine the gallery to meet the scale and ambition of today’s most exciting artists and to welcome visitors into a brand-new museum environment. Find out more at tate.org.uk/transforming-tate-liverpool
