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In October 2016, Philippe Parreno transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an immersive experience, challenging visitors' perception of time and space with his Anywhen installation. Anywhen was a site-specific exhibition that changed throughout the day and that would evolve during the six-month period of the commission, until 2 April 2017. Visitors would have their senses activated and stimulated by a spectacular choreography of acoustics, sound lighting, flying objects and film, each connected to the other, and playing their part in a far bigger score. Tate’s Turbine Hall became a universe of inter-related and connected events and parallel realities. Events would unfold anywhen.

Hyundai Commission: Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, an installation that filled up Turbine Hall with sounds, films, movements, lights and many other elements, carried the idea of time and the essence of experiences. What story did Parreno want to tell with the word “Anywhen”? Why could people hardly leave his exhibition at the Turbine Hall? “We don’t to know what is happening here, but we have to trust that something is happening” says the artist and presenting a constantly changing and developing “new future” through his mesmerizing installation work.

The first commission at Tate after the opening of the Blavatnick Building, Philippe Parreno’s work transformed Turbine Hall into an experience that plays with time and space.