In February 2024, Tate Modern will present the UK's largest exhibition dedicated to the work of artist and activist Yoko Ono.

Yoko Ono is a pioneer of early conceptual art, film and performance art, a celebrated musician and a prominent activist for world peace. Spanning seven decades of the artist's powerful interdisciplinary practice from the mid-1950s to the present day, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind will trace the development of her work and its enduring influence on contemporary culture.

Conceived in close collaboration with Yoko Ono's studio, the exhibition will bring together more than 200 works, including instructions and scores, installations, films, music and photographs, revealing a radical approach to the language of her art that continues to be discussed today.

The exhibition will begin by introducing her key role in the experimental avant-garde circles of New York and Tokyo, including the development of written “instructions.” Some of them exist as a single verb, such as FLY or TOUCH. Others range from short phrases (“Listen to the heartbeat” and “Walk through all the puddles of the city”) to imagination tasks such as “A picture to build in your head.”

The exhibition centers on the radical works of Yoko Ono, created during her five-year stay in London from 1966. Here she entered a countercultural network of artists, musicians and writers, meeting her future husband and longtime collaborator John Lennon.

It will also feature key installations from Ono's influential exhibitions at Indica and Lisson Gallery, including Apple (1966) and the poignant half-house installation Half-A-Room (1967). The banned film It No. 4 from 1966–1967, which she created as a “petition for peace,” will be shown along with material from her influential talk at the Destruction in the Arts symposium.

Visitors will be able to take part in a game of White Chess, which involves only white chess pieces on a board of white squares, with the instructions "Play as long as you remember where all your pieces are." This work, first realized in 1966, demonstrates Ono's anti-war stance.

In addition, Yoko Ono's work will extend beyond the exhibition space into the Tate Modern building and landscape. The gallery's windows overlooking the Thames will reflect the artist's powerful work PEACE IS POWER, first shown in 2017 and translated into several languages, while the interactive piece The Wishing Tree from 1996 will greet visitors at the entrance to Tate Modern, inviting them to join ever

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