Events - Tate Modern Case Study


When Vamp Concepts (www.vampconcepts.com) were organising a launch event at The Tate Modern art gallery they struck on the idea of filling the turbine hall with blossom laden cherry trees. Semi mature specimens were sourced at a major UK nursery but they still had to get the trees from the ground floor entrance to the floor of the turbine hall 30 feet below. They also needed to find a way of anchoring and stabilising the trees which would meet the venues strict health and safety requirements.

Civic Trees were called in to provide the answers to these and other questions that this unique combination of ambitious design and complicated space produced.

One of the major challenges facing the project was the timescale involved. The hall would be made available for the installation for just 12 hours overnight and only 8 hours were allowed for the removal of the trees, a huge lighting rig, video wall and stage set once the event had finished.


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Works commissioned by Vamp for a launch in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern 2006. Some images on this webpage were photographed by Alberto Venzago. © UBS 2006. All rights reserved.


Thanks to you and your team we were able to meet everyone's expectations handsomely. Please pass on my thanks – I thought you all did an excellent job with the perfect 'can-do' attitude

Thank you so much for your help, wisdom and willingness to get involved with the momentary woodland at the Turbine Hall.

Thank you and all you team for doing such an excellent job on the event at the Tate and being a pleasure to work with.