- Hyundai Fee: Tarek Atoui: Maintain, the eleventh Hyundai Fee, presents a significant new multisensory set up by artist and composer Tarek Atoui
- Combining sculpture, efficiency, music, know-how and social analysis, Atoui’s Hyundai Fee creates environments the place sound is skilled by way of the entire physique and situates Tate Fashionable’s Turbine Corridor as a website for encounter and trade
- Hyundai Motor’s long-term partnership with Tate continues to assist creative innovation and broaden public entry to modern artwork, fostering significant dialogue and collaboration
SEOUL, South Korea and LONDON, Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hyundai Motor Firm and Tate Fashionable announce the opening of Hyundai Fee: Tarek Atoui: Maintain, a significant new multisensory set up by artist and composer Tarek Atoui. Combining sculpture, efficiency, music, know-how and social analysis, Atoui creates environments the place sound is skilled not solely by way of the ears, however by way of the entire physique. For his Hyundai Fee, he has reworked Tate Fashionable’s Turbine Corridor into an immersive sonic panorama comprising custom-built wind devices, percussion, electronics and sculptural objects, woven collectively to make an orchestra which connects the earth and sky. Via participation and efficiency, this residing setting will continually evolve all through the run of the fee.
Hyundai Fee: Tarek Atoui: Maintain, Set up View at Tate Fashionable. Photograph © Tate (Ben Fisher)
Hyundai Fee: Tarek Atoui: Maintain marks the eleventh annual Hyundai Fee and inaugurates the following decade of the Hyundai Motor and Tate partnership extending by way of 2036. Established in 2014, the partnership represents the longest preliminary dedication from a company companion in Tate’s historical past, encompassing the Hyundai Fee and, since 2019, the Hyundai Tate Analysis Centre: Transnational.
Atoui’s Hyundai Fee is the fruits of over 20 years of experimentation, together with collaborations with musicians, instrument-makers, engineers and researchers throughout Asia and Europe. Drawing on these tasks, he reimagines shengs, Korean drums, Uzbek horns and custom-built digital techniques.
Hanging above the Turbine Corridor ramp, a metallic karnai (a ceremonial brass trumpet from Uzbekistan) is joined by two 3D-printed horns that echo and amplify the instrument’s elongated kind. On the far finish of the corridor, drum skins, gongs, horns, stones and 20m lengthy textiles are suspended amongst a community of bamboo and shengs (mouth organs from China and Southeast Asia), by way of which wind is channeled by a computer-controlled motor. In making the work, Atoui has responded to the extraordinary peak, airflows and acoustic character of the Turbine Corridor. Lithophone-like stones and heat lights invite guests to sit down, lie, gaze up, and attune themselves to the connection between sound, supplies, structure and our bodies. Drawing on the artist’s reminiscences of gathering locations, from vine-covered canopies to sheltered courtyards, Hyundai Fee: Tarek Atoui: Maintain situates the Turbine Corridor as a website for encounter and trade.
Microphones embedded throughout the set up pattern the sounds produced by the devices and the bustling backdrop of the Turbine Corridor, with {custom} software program transforming and enjoying them again as layers of the composition. Foregrounding the significance of improvisation in Atoui’s observe, these parts contribute to an ever-changing soundscape.
All through the six-month period of the Hyundai Fee, the Turbine Corridor will recurrently turn out to be a website for dwell sound-based performances, the place a community of musicians will ‘plug into’ Atoui’s set up as a sound system. This system will platform each native and worldwide musicians – from instrumentalists to digital artists, collectives and labels – highlighting the work of Atoui’s longstanding collaborators and fostering new connections.
“Hyundai Fee: Tarek Atoui: Maintain creates new types of connection by way of sound, bringing collectively various cultures and communities. Via his multisensory and collaborative observe, Atoui invitations significant trade and collective reflection on our modern world.”
– DooEun Choi, Artwork Director, Hyundai Motor Firm
The annual Hyundai Fee has attracted over 21.6 million guests and established a platform for a number of the most daring and memorable artworks of the previous decade – from Kara Walker’s spectacular fountain to Anicka Yi’s floating synthetic lifeforms. By extending the partnership till 2036, Hyundai Motor and Tate reaffirm their shared, long-term dedication to creative innovation and public entry to modern artwork.
Hyundai Fee: Tarek Atoui: Maintain
October 13, 2026 – April 11, 2027, Tate Fashionable
In partnership with Hyundai Motor
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