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Edvard Munch
An exploration of Edvard Munch's "soul paintings" through cinema and visual storytelling, featuring key works from The Frieze of Life alongside large-scale paintings, prints and archival material.
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Preview: written before the show opened
In the summer of 1927 Munch bought a Pathé-Baby, a small amateur film camera, in Paris and started shooting home movies. Tate says his experimental film is in this show, and that is the angle: Munch's paintings read through cinema and visual storytelling, with contemporary filmmakers and academics feeding in.
It's organised with the MUNCH museum in Oslo, which looks after about 45,000 objects Munch left to the city. You get key works from The Frieze of Life, the cycle he called "impressions from the life of the soul", plus large paintings, prints, photographs and rare archive material. Tate hasn't published a list of works yet, so nobody can say whether The Scream is coming. The image on the show's page is Tate's own The Sick Child (1907).
It opens on 11 November 2027 in the Eyal Ofer Galleries. Prices aren't set; Members go free without booking and 16 to 25s on Tate Collective pay £5. Open until 21:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Look for
Munch's own film
Look for the home movies Munch shot himself in 1927 on a Pathé-Baby, a cheap amateur camera he picked up in Paris.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- First-Timers
- Nerding Out
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- Edvard MunchCourtesy of Tate Modern
- By Appointment Only: Romani Art, Culture & Heritage© London Museum
- Salman Toor: Someone Like You© Salman Toor; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Genevieve Hanson
- Tate ModernAcabashi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Hayward GalleryMykReeve / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- London MuseumMatt Brown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Courtauld GalleryAnthony O'Neil / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Barbican CentreJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0