My Bed to feature in Tate's Showcase of Emin's 40-year career

Tracey Emin will open her biggest ever exhibition at Tate Modern next spring, showcasing the best from her 40-year career.

- Emine Sinmaz

A Second Life will include some of Emin's most famous works, including the headline-grabbing and Turner prize-nominated My Bed from 1998, alongside never before seen pieces.

"I'm very excited about having a show at Tate Modern, for me it's one of the greatest international contemporary art museums in the world and it's here in London," Emin said. "I feel this show will be a benchmark for me. A moment in my life when I look back and go forward. A true celebration of living."

The artist, most famous for Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 (The Tent) and My Bed, has opened her own art school and embarked on a new body of work since she was diagnosed with aggressive bladder cancer five years ago.

The exhibition will chart Emin's work from her "first life" through to her second, post-illness and surgery.

The confessional visual artist has spoken candidly about surviving cancer, the surgery she underwent and how she now has a stoma (an opening in her abdomen) and relies on a urostomy bag to collect her urine.