It’s hard to believe Tate Modern is only ten years old, given its status as a London landmark and a major player in the city’s art scene (it’s the world’s most visited modern art gallery).

To celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, the gallery will host ‘No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents’. For this free arts festival, Tate Modern is inviting 70 of the world’s most innovative independent art spaces to take over the Turbine Hall. The festival will fill the iconic space with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film on 14 – 16 May 2010.

No Soul For Sale is a festival that brings together the most exciting non-profit centres, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and underground enterprises from around the world. The participants are encouraged to show whatever they choose, be it art, performance, video, publications, or simply themselves. Neither a fair nor an exhibition, No Soul For Sale is a convention of individuals and groups who devote their energies to art they believe in, beyond the limits of the market and other logistical constraints – it is a celebration of the independent forces that animate contemporary art. The festival is an exercise in coexistence: organisations exhibit alongside one another without partitions or walls, creating a pop-up art village.

The gallery will stay open until midnight on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May for free late night performances by artists and musicians.

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