Ana Mendieta’s ‘Neolithic art’ recreated for major Tate Modern survey

Tate Modern is preparing a major survey titled “Ana Mendieta” that will present about 150 works and be the UK’s first major Mendieta exhibition in over a decade. The show will frame the Cuban American artist’s practice (1948–1985) through symbolic “locations,” including her engagement with Neolithic sites she visited in 1984 across Malta, Italy, and Ireland, alongside themes such as caves, woodland, water, and “the threshold.” Curator Valentine Umansky said the approach highlights Mendieta’s view of her work as aligned with “Neolithic art,” a perspective she articulated in a 1984 interview with critic Channing Grey. The exhibition will open with the 1981 moving-image work “Ochún” and will include newly remastered films, rarely seen paintings and drawings, late sculptures, and restaged installations, including a recreation of “Ñañigo Burial” (1976) with ritual candles lit regularly.

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