Tate and Hyundai Motor today announce that Máret Ánne Sara will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Máret Ánne Sara is a Northern Sámi artist and author known for her work exploring global ecological issues through the lens of her lived experience within the Sámi community.
Open to the public from 14 October 2025 – 6 April 2026, her new site-specific work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will be the 10th in the series of commissions supported by Hyundai Motor. Today, Tate and Hyundai Motor also announce a decade-long extension of this significant partnership, which encompasses support of both the Hyundai Commission and the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, until 2036.
Máret Ánne Sara was born in 1983 to a Sámi reindeer herding family in Guovdageaidnu in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, the traditional territory of the Sámi people which is today divided between the nation states of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, where she continues to work today. Through her multidisciplinary practice, Sara highlights the impact of Nordic colonialism on Sámi ways of life, exploring the importance of preserving Sámi ancestral knowledge and values to protect the environment for future generations. Often using materials and methodologies derived from reindeer herding, Sara creates powerful sculptures and installations which uphold the reciprocal relationship between animals, lands, waters, and humans.
Karin Hindsbo, Director of Tate Modern said: “Máret Ánne Sara is among a prolific group of Sámi artists who have received widespread international attention in recent years for making visible the issues facing Sápmi and Sámi people. By addressing the major social, ecological and political concerns of her community, Sara hopes not only to increase interest and awareness, but also to effect real change. I’m thrilled she will be creating her first work in the UK here at Tate Modern and I look forward to seeing how she will transform the Turbine Hall. I’m sure it will be both challenging and full of wonder.”
Hyundai Commission: Máret Ánne Sara is made possible by the partnership between Tate and Hyundai Motor. The partnership was founded in 2014 with the longest initial commitment from a corporate partner in Tate’s history, and has now been extended for another decade until 2036. Attracting over 18 million visitors since it began, the Hyundai Commission gives artists the chance to interpret the vast industrial space of the Turbine Hall, producing some of the most bold and memorable artworks of the past decade – from Kara Walker’s spectacular fountain to Anicka Yi’s floating artificial lifeforms. Hyundai Motor will additionally continue their support of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, established in 2019 to develop new perspectives on global art histories. The Centre has transformed how Tate develops and shares art historical knowledge around the world. Its research contributes to exhibitions, displays, acquisitions and events across Tate’s four galleries as well as with a wide network of local and international collaborators.
Main Image: Suodji mis jus sajáidagáimet dovdat (We´ll have shelter for as long as we know our place). Máret Ánne Sara (1983-) with her artwork at the exhibition “Environmental Injustice – Indigenous Peoples’ Alternatives” (2021-2022) at Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (MEG), Switzerland 2021 MEG Inv. ETHPH 90345 © Photo Johnathan Watts, MEG