The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection (OFT) was a strategic partnership between Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Frieze Art Fair and Tate to buy important works of art by emerging artists at the fair for the National Collection. Each year OFT invited two to three international curators to work with the Tate curatorial team as part of the selection panel for the Fund and to complement the collection strategy. Over the course of twelve years, 100 works by significant international artists have been acquired for the permanent collection.
The following artists’ works were acquired:
in 2003: Anri Sala, Fikret Atay, Olafur Eliasson, Yutaka Sone.
Selection panel: Susanne Ghez, Director, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director, Trussardi Foundation, Milan; Jan Debbaut, Director, Tate Collection.
in 2004: Frank Nitsche, Henrik Olesen, Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, Jesper Just, Mark Leckey, Martin Boyce, Pae White, Pawel Althamer, Roman Ondák, Scott Myles, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad.
Selection panel: Richard Flood, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kasper König, Director, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Jan Debbaut, Director, Tate Collection.
in 2005: Alexandre da Cunha, Anri Sala, Daria Martin, David Lamelas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Matthew Monahan, Stanley Brouwn, Zoe Leonard.
Selection panel: Jan Debbaut, Director, Tate Collection; Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Suzanne Pagé, Director, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Tate curatorial team: Ann Gallagher, Curator, Head of British Art from 1900, Tate; Jessica Morgan, Curator, Contemporary Art, Tate.
in 2006: Anna Barriball, Bruno Serralongue, Catherine Sullivan, Christopher Williams, Dan Perjovschi, David Shrigley, Gabriel Kuri, Philippe Parreno, Rivane Neuenschwander / Cao Guimaraes, Simon Starling, Thomas Hirschhorn, Trisha Donnelly.
Selection panel: Douglas Fogle, Curator, Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum Of Art, Pittsburgh; Éric Troncy, Director, Le Consortium, Dijon; Tate curatorial team: Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Jessica Morgan, Curator, Contemporary Art, Tate and Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate.
in 2007: Andreas Slominski, Armando Andrade Tudela, Mauro Restiffe, Pawel Althamer.
Selection panel: Lisette Lagnado, Curator, NeMe: 27 Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; Udo Kittelmann, Director, MMK: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Mann, Germany; Tate curatorial team: Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Jessica Morgan, Curator, Contemporary Art, Tate and Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate.
in 2008: Andrea Fraser, Akram Zaatari, Bela Kolárová, Hurvin Anderson, Lorna Simpson, Tris Vonna-Michell.
Selection panel: Sabine Breitwieser, Independent Curator and General Secretary of CIMAM; Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, Studio Museum, Harlem; Tate curatorial team: Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Jessica Morgan, Curator, Contemporary Art, Tate and Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate.
in 2009: Alice Channer, Artur Zmijewski, David Maljkovic, Gareth Moore, Marwan Rechmaoui, Zbigniew Libera.
Selection panel: Hou Hanru, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, San Francisco Art Institute; Joanna Mytkowska, Director, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art; Tate curatorial team: Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Jessica Morgan, Curator, Contemporary Art, Tate and Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate.
in 2010: Jimmie Durham, Július Koller, Lorna Simpson.
Selection panel: Helen Legg, Director, Spike Island, Bristol; Professor Daniel Birnbaum, Director, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate curatorial team: Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate.
in 2011: Alina Szapocznikow, Helena Almeida, Melanie Smith.
Selection panel: Adam Szymczyk, Director of the Kunsthalle Basel; José Roca, Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010 and Curator of Mercosul Biennial 2011; Tate curatorial team: Tanya Barson, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern; Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate; Sir Nicholas Serota.
in 2012: Caragh Thuring, Hideko Fukushima, Jack Whitten, Nicholas Hlobo.
Selection panel: Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Franklin Sirmans, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum; Tate curatorial team: Tanya Barson, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern; Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate; Clarrie Wallis, Curator, Contemporary British Art, Tate.
in 2013: Christina Mackie, Elaine Sturtevant, James Richards, Terry Adkins.
Selection panel: Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich; Tobias Ostrander, Chief Curator, Miami Art Museum; Tate curatorial team: Tanya Barson, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern; Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate; Clarrie Wallis, Curator, Contemporary British Art, Tate.
in 2014: Bernardo Ortiz, Harun Farocki, Lubaina Himid, Slavs and Tatars, General Idea.
Selection panel: Agustín Pérez Rubio, Artistic Director, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires; Laurence Rassel, Director, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Tate curatorial team: Tanya Barson, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern; Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art, Tate; Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate; Clarrie Wallis, Curator, Contemporary British Art, Tate.
The initiative was funded by the generosity of Outset’s Core Patrons and Capital Patrons Circles as well as our corporate partners Tiffany & Co., Leviev, McLaren and Le Meridien.
OFT is now continuing with the generous sponsorship by WME-IMG.
