Tate’s four national museums – Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, as well as branches in Liverpool and St Ives – have announced exhibition plans for 2027.
One of the more high-profile exhibitions is Monet: Painting Time, Tate Modern’s first solo exhibition of the French Impressionist painter. “Painting Time”, organized in conjunction with the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris (opening on September 30, 2026), will feature several of Monet’s instantly recognizable water lily paintings, as well as works on loan from international museums and private collections. The work will be on display at Tate Modern from 25 February to 27 June 2027, following the Orangerie.
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Next year, Tate Modern will also present a multimedia installation in the museum’s vast Turbine Hall space dedicated to David Hockney’s operatic designs (sets and costumes) from the past half century; a survey of some 200 works by Nalini Malani (1 July to 3 January); and an exhibition of Edvard Munch’s emotionally resonant Soul Paintings (11 November to 23 April).
Tate Britain will host an exhibition on David Hockney next autumn (the British artist turns 90 next summer), consisting of more than 200 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, as well as examples of Hockney’s digital media experiments (7 October to 20 February), as well as works dedicated to Sonia Beuys (24 March to 22 August), Thomas Gainsborough (20 May to 20 October) Exhibitions held on 10), and The Tudors (18 November to 23 April).
Tate Liverpool, 200 miles north, finally reopens in 2027 after four years of closure. The first exhibition in the revamped space will be a retrospective of British-Indian artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, who grew up in Liverpool. “(Chila) is known for creating irreverent pop and punk-inspired works that are kaleidoscope-colored, filled with glitter and neon, and which draw on aspects of Indian and British cultural heritage,” Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool, said in a statement when the exhibition was announced in May. “Her works are equally compelling for their subversive treatment of gender, class and identity.”
Tate St Ives, in Cornwall, England’s far southwest, plans two major exhibitions in 2027: recent work, including a new site-specific commission from Berlin-based Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova (May to September 26), and an autumn show of work nominated for next year’s Turner Prize, awarded annually to a British artist. Shortlisted artists will be announced in spring 2027, with the winners confirmed in December following the exhibition at Tate St Ives.
