Tate Modern will open the extension by HdeM in June 2016

London - The London National Museum of Modern Art Tate Modern will expand its exhibition space by 60 percent next year. The museum announced that the new extension with exhibition spaces will officially open on June 17, 2016.
    "The world's most popular gallery with new space will showcase works from more than 250 artists from 50 countries. It will reveal how art has evolved, show the studios where modernity was born, as well as live, interactive, and socially engaged projects reflecting the contemporary world," the museum stated on its website.
    The new building will take the form of a modern pyramid 70 meters tall. It was designed by the famous Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, who are also the authors of the museum's main building, which was created from the reconstruction of a former power plant.
    The current spaces were built for two million visitors a year, but the museum has recorded up to 5.7 million visitors in recent years, and the exhibitions have begun to feel cramped. The expansion will cost £260 million (approximately 9.5 billion CZK), clarified the Tate Gallery group, which includes Tate Modern in addition to Tate Britain, Tate St. Ives, and Tate Liverpool.
    In September 2011, contemporary Czech art was presented for the first time in the prestigious Tate Modern gallery - the project by Kateřina Šedá titled From I Don't See to I Don't See.