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London’s Tate Modern celebrates British artist Tracey Emin with the largest ever retrospective of her work in an exhibition showcasing forty years of creative effort by Micaela Zucconi

Left page, Tracy Emin. A Second Life, light installation, also the title of the exhibition. © Tate (Sonal Bakrania)

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Portrait of Tracey Emin at Tate Modern, 2026. The British artist’s retrospective comprises over 100 works. © Tate (Yili Liu)

racey Emin (Margate, 1963) is regarded as one of contemporary art’s most influential figures – and also one of the most controversial and “shameless”. She was appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire

(DBE) by King Charles III in recognition of her exceptional contribution to contemporary art. The exhibition A Second Life (until August 31st 2026), developed in close collaboration with the artist, gives visitors an insight into the artist’s philosophy through over 100 works (some famous, some on display for the first time) including paintings, videos, textiles, neons, sculptures and installations. After studying at the Royal College of Art, in the 1990s she became one of the Young British Artists (YBA), and since then her career has been distinguished by a raw, strongly autobiographical and intimate approach through which she explores themes like sex, trauma, love and solitude. Emin has broken with convention by combining art and private life through the prism of confessional revelation. 109

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Tracey Emin, I followed you to the end 2024. Yale Centre for

Tracey Emin, Exorcism of the last painting I ever made 1996

She has transformed the complexity of the female body, sexuality,

a tumour in 2020. High points in her career include exhibiting her

abortion and illness into art. One example above all stands out – the

work in the British pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale and being

notorious installation entitled My Bed from 1998, short-listed for the

appointed to teach drawing at London’s Royal Academy, one of the

Turner Prize in 1999 and the subject of a heated critical debate. The

first women to fill this role.

work depicts her recovery from a breakdown caused by alcohol abuse.

She has always maintained close links with Margate in south-east of

Together with other pieces created during challenging periods of her

England, the beloved seaside town of her birth, and here she founded

life, it is one of the most striking works in the Tate exhibition and

a school with free art courses. The Tracey Emin Foundation, dedicated

draws visitors into the experience, leading them from her “first” to

to the promotion of the visual arts, provides professional studio spaces

her “second” life, after illness and a surgical intervention. The artist is

through TKE Studios, giving artists the space and support they need to

regarded as a symbol of resilience after experiencing and overcoming

develop their work. It also runs two residency programmes: the TEARS

a period marked by a struggle after her mother’s death in 2016 and

(Tracey Emin Artist Residency), a 14-month residency supporting

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Tracey Emin, A Second Life at Tate Modern, installation view. The bed is one of the artist’s most successful installations. © Tate Modern (Jai Monaghan)

Tracey Emin, A Second Life at Tate Modern, installation

Tracey Emin, A Second Life at Tate Modern, installation view. © Tate Modern (Sonal

view. © Tate Modern (Sonal Bakrania)

painters at a pivotal stage in their careers, and the Victoria House

(2016), sold at Christie’s (Modern Visionaries) for £1,206,500, and An

Residency, which offers shorter-term studio opportunities for artists

Insane Desire for You, which went for £774,000 at Phillips (Modern

working across disciplines. After the Sex & Solitude exhibition, held

& Contemporary Art Evening Sale). So Tell Me (1997) was sold for

last year at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, the exhibition held at Tate

22,680 euro by Lempertz in December 2025. Nowadays the strongest

Modern in London once again throws a spotlight on an artist whose

areas of her work are her autobiographical and figurative paintings,

career is studded with successes – at the auction houses, too. Over

while the neons from 2000-2015 are still much appreciated, but with

the past 18 months the market for Tracey Emin’s work has shown a

more variable results. Prints and lithographs go for around 800 to

consistently strong performance, especially her figurative paintings,

3,000 euro. The record is still held by My Bed (1998), sold in 2014 at

neons and works on paper. The highest recent figures achieved show

Christie’s for over £2.5 million (3-3.5 million euro) to collector and

renewed interest from institutions and collectors. Among the most

industrialist Christian Duerckheim, who has lent it to the Tate for at

significant hammer prices last March were A Certain Degree of Anger

least ten years.

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