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Tarek Atoui fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with sound and sculpture
Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui has created Hold, an installation for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London.
It combines suspended horns and drums with rocks, water basins and other objects.
Sounds move through the large former power station hall, where its echoes help shape the work.
Atoui says he chose instruments and materials to work with the hall’s acoustics.
The installation is designed around human presence, and visitors’ movement and sounds can form part of his works.
The experience brings together sculpture and sound without giving visitors one fixed meaning to take away.
The sources do not say how long the installation will be on display.
Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui created Hold, a sound-focused installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
The work combines suspended instruments, rocks, water basins and other sculptural elements with changing sounds.
Atoui designed instruments and sounds to work with the hall’s acoustics.
The audience’s presence and movement are part of the work’s development.
- Who
- Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui.
- What
- He created Hold, a sound-based installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
- When
- It is this year’s Turbine Hall commission; the articles were published on 12 October 2026.
- Where
- Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
- Why
- Atoui said he chose instruments and materials to converse with the hall’s acoustics. The sources do not state a broader reason for the commission.
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Atoui revisited a karnai horn from Uzbekistan that he had used in work for the Bukhara Biennial.
Hold was presented as this year’s Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern.
The Guardian and The Art Newspaper published articles about the installation.
- Artist
- Tarek Atoui
- Installation
- Hold
- Venue
- Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
- Commission
- This year’s Turbine Hall commission
- Publication date
- 12 October 2026
What people are saying
I see it not necessarily as a cathedral or a type of religious monument.
For me, it reminded me of a silo or of a big industrial space rather than a cathedral, per se.
Yes, it’s a challenge, of course, and there are lots of variables and uncertainties in it, but it’s an improvisation with the space, as well.
Sources
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