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Tate Modern

The venue: Tate Modern

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The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds

Ai Weiwei · Tate Modern · London, United Kingdom · 12 Oct 2010 to 2 May 2011

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This exhibition has closed

It closed on 2 May 2011. The page stays because an exhibition history is evidence: where a work was shown, and when, is part of its provenance and this archive cites it.

On now at Tate Modern: Ana Mendieta.

Visiting Tate Modern

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Tate ModernShown: Tate Modern - not the exhibition
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  1. 26 Sep 2026 Listed from the artist page.
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