The Unilever Series at the Tate Modern, London

Posted on November 13, 2008 at 9:05 AM.

Unilever's sponsorship of the series has recently been extended until 2012. "The Unilever Series has an unrivalled track record of creating challenging, innovative and inspirational modern art installations since its inception eight years ago," describes Gavin Neath, Senior Vice President, Global Communications, Unilever. It has inspired over 19 million visitors.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
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© Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Photo: Tate Photography

The Unilever Series is a series of annual commissions launched in 2000 when Tate Modern opened with Louise Bourgeois's I Do, I Undo, I Redo. The Spanish artist Juan Muñoz was the second artist to be commissioned in 2001 with Double Bind, and the first British artist to be commissioned was Anish Kapoor with Marsyas in 2002. Then in 2003 Olafur Eliasson illuminated the Turbine Hall with Weather Project and Bruce Nauman's mesmerising sound installation, Raw Materials, opened in October 2004.

While In 2005 Rachel Whiteread created her installation EMBANKMENT, which was followed by Carsten Höller's interactive spiralling slides, Test Site, which allowed visitors to travel through the vast space. In 2007 Doris Salcedo created a subterranean sculpture that ran the length of the building, dramatically breaking open the floor of the Turbine Hall for Shibboleth.

Tate Exhibition of French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster