An art installation by late Anu Põder entitled 'Tongues (Activated version)' (1998) was accessed to the Tate Collection in the United Kingdom, ERR's culture portal reports, along with the original moulds and reproduction rights. 'Tongues' is the first artwork by an Estonian artist to be acquired by the Tate collection.
Purchasing the work was the culmination of the Tate Modern curators' systematic research, which started by mapping the post-war Estonian art along with curators meetings with artists and art historians in Estonia in past few years.
In July 2018, the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center in cooperation with philanthropist initiative Outset Estonia hosted a delegation of curators and Tate Modern's Eastern European art collection acquisition committee.
Then, in 2019, at a gathering in London, the committee decided to accession Anu Põder's work to their collection. As a rule, acquisitions are publicly announced once a work has physically been handed over to the collection.
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