London Today Tate Britain opens The 90s: Art and Fashion on 8 October
The usual way to tell the story of British art in the nineties is to hang the artists and mention the clothes. Tate Britain is doing the opposite of that: the photographers who made the decade's fashion images are in the same rooms as the artists, curated by Edward Enninful OBE.
Dates
8 October 2026 to 14 February 2027, at Tate Britain. Free for Members.
Who is in it
On the photography side, Juergen Teller, David Sims and Corinne Day. On the art side, Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Yinka Shonibare.
Why the pairing is the argument
Those two lists were made in the same city in the same years by people who knew each other, and they have been shown apart ever since — one set in galleries, the other in magazines and then in books about magazines. Putting them on one wall is a claim about where the decade's images actually came from, and it is a claim a visitor can check by walking the rooms.
Winter exhibitions at Tate Britain are quietest in the fortnight after opening and again in January, and this one will not follow that pattern: a show with fashion photography in it draws a second audience that does not otherwise visit, and the half-terms either side of Christmas are the weeks to avoid. If the point of going is the photographs rather than the paintings, go early — prints of this vintage are usually hung in the lower-lit rooms, which are the ones that fill first.
Tate Britain opens The 90s: Art and Fashion on 8 October: questions
When does The 90s: Art and Fashion open?
8 October 2026, and it runs until 14 February 2027 at Tate Britain.
Who curated it?
Edward Enninful OBE.
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