Making money ... A detail of Andy Warhol's dollars painting

Andy Warhol's declaration that "good business is the best art" has inspired Tate Modern's autumn exhibition, Pop Life: Art in a Material World. Co-curator Catherine Wood talks us through some of the highlights

Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin

The Shop, 1993

During the last recession, when many artists were running galleries, Tracey and Sarah took on a disused shop space and had fun performing as shopkeepers, selling ashtrays, badges and mugs (which we're including in the show). They highlighted how commercial galleries are in denial about essentially being shops that sell art, and how artists can engage with commercialism to distribute their work in different ways.

Damien Hirst

Ingo, Torsten. Installation at Unfair, Cologne, 1992

Dots have become Hirst's brand signature, plastered on everything from his paintings to the Tate boat, and this early dot work really helped Damien get noticed. In it he sat different pairs of identical twins in front of two dot paintings. Performance works normally expose something of the artist's inner self but this was all about surface, in a very Warholian way. We're currently looking for twins to appear in our recreation.

Jeff Koons

Made in Heaven, 1989

Koons has cultivated a persona which is impossible to unpick. Where Warhol's look, with the wig and the clothes, was clearly constructed, Koons never slips outside of his. We'll be exploring this in a recreation of his very risque Made in Heaven exhibition, a series comprising a film poster, paintings and sculptures in which Koons and his then wife, the Italian porn star Cicciolina, consummated their marriage - very explicitly!

Ashley Bickerton

Tormented Self-Portrait (Susie at Arles), 1988

A big name in America's neo-geo art movement in the 1980s, Bickerton made work about inhabiting different personas and not being a product of your biological origins. In this collage painting he presents an agglomeration of logos as a self-portrait, suggesting that in contemporary society it's the things you consume that create you. He rubbishes the idea of the individual having any inner essence.