Saturday 8 October (7pm) art collective Liberate Tate with The Guerrilla Girls will challenge Tate to never again partner with any fossil fuel company after its controversial relationship with BP ends in early 2017. Liberate Tate, who carried out a six-year long series of unsanctioned art interventions in Tate galleries over BP sponsorship, will issue …

PRESS RELEASE 31 January 2015 – For Immediate Release Art collective Liberate Tate has today thrown £224,000 of specially designed BP/Tate money from the Members Room inside Tate Britain, down into the main entrance of the galleries branded The BP Walk Through British Art. The performance, titled ‘The Reveal’ was carried out days after Tate …

Tate 1840s GIF party submissions Liberate Tate was delighted to accept the open invitation from Tate to submit GIFs for its animation collage installation at the 7 February 2014 Late at Tate Britain 1840s GIF party.  Tate promised to display all the submissions it received so we submitted 16 – each evoking how works in Tate are …

“Tate shall disclose within 35 days from the date of this decision the BP sponsorship figures from 1990 to 2006 inclusive.”  Information Rights Decision of the First Tier Tribunal, 22 December 2014 The UK’s Information Tribunal has ordered art museum Tate to disclose the sum of money oil company BP paid as a sponsor over …

Serota says Tate Ethics Committee and Trustees will review BP sponsorship in 2016 Members call for Tate to announce in 2015 – ahead of December UN climate summit – that there will be no new deal with BP Tate Members AGM 2014 recommendation that there be a Tate member place on art museum’s Ethics Committee …

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Liberate Tate art intervention ahead of court case on gallery’s lack of transparency on oil company links   LONDON – Over a hundred members and supporters of art collective Liberate Tate today (6 September 2014) carried out an unsolicited interpretation of Malevich’s iconic Black Square in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. …

Advance media notice/advisory – For Immediate Release Who: The art collective Liberate Tate What: Participatory performance art in conversation with Tate’s refusal to disclose the amount of money it receives from BP When: 6 September, 1pm Where: The exact Tate location has yet to be disclosed The art collective Liberate Tate is inviting people to …

We’re going to play a game with Tate. It’s sort of like hide and seek…We want them to reveal the exact amount of money they get from BP – it’s estimated to be less than 0.5% of their annual budget. Do you want to join us? While Tate holds a Malevich Retrospective exhibition, we’re going …

Art Not Oil coalition calls on National Portrait Gallery to break sponsorship ties with oil company responsible for climate change Press Release 21 June 2014 Earlier this afternoon 25 performers scattered throughout the National Portrait Gallery simultaneously had oil poured over their faces in a dramatic protest against the gallery celebrating 25 years of sponsorship …

Liberate Tate calls for the Sydney Biennale to withdraw from the current sponsorship it receives from the Transfield Foundation, and we support the challenging of unethical sponsorship by the group Boycott the Sydney Biennale and the Biennale artists who have added their names to the open letter to the board. While artists prepare their works for …