by The director of the Tate blamed Brexit for a severe decline in the gallery of the gallery.
Maria Balshaw said she left the European Union and Covid pandemic and left the institution to attract young European visitors.
Visits to London’s Tate Modern and Great Britain has dropped by 27 percent since 2019 – a decline of 2.2 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading the Visitor Attractions (ALVA).
“The numbers speak for themselves,” said Ms. Balshaw of the art newspaper and added: “Tate Modern alone welcomed 609,000 visitors from Europe between 16 and 24 years in 2019-20, but then in 2023-24 357,000.
“And if you think about this age of the person, you are profound of the combination of the Brexit change of your educational and job opportunities and then deeply the end of your studies and the way you choose your life. They are generally less of.”
Some critics of the act have blamed curatorial decisions for the overwhelming footpiece in recent years. It attracted controversy with an “inclusive” rehang in 2023, which the estimated landscapes and portraits for paintings were associated with slavery and colonialism, with labels that made visitors aware of historical injustices.
The boss of Tate Maria Balshaw says that domestic visitor numbers have recovered to 95 percent of the pre -kovid level – Tereza Červeňová
Ms. Balshaw, who has headed the institution since 2017, said that the internal research of the act of exit surveys and data from her galleries showed that domestic visitor numbers had recovered to 95 percent of the pre -kovid level, but international visitors were only 61 percent.
The internal research of Tate showed that the average number of visitors in the three financial years before the pandemic at 7.4 million Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate St. Ives was 7.4 million. Around 3.8 million of them came from Great Britain.
The average number of visitors in the first two full years after the Kovid was 5.8 million, of which 3.6 million were domestic. The number of visitors outside of Great Britain has dropped considerably, from around 3.6 million to around 2.2 million.
After announced, the attendance figures come to dismiss 7 percent of his workforce in order to conclude a financing deficit that is left of pandemic.
The program of the next year includes exhibitions of the works by Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo, while Tate Britain will organize a “Grand Face-Off” between Turner and Constable in November.
