The Tate’s four national museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain, in London, plus branches in Liverpool and St Ives—have announced their exhibition programming for 2027.
One of the more high-profile shows is “Monet: Painting Time,” Tate Modern’s first solo show dedicated to the French Impressionist. “Painting Time” is co-organized with Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie (where it opens on September 30, 2026) and will include several of Monet’s instantly recognizable paintings of water lilies, as well as loans from international museums and private collections. It will be on view at Tate Modern following the Orangerie, from February 25 to June 27, 2027.
Also coming up next year at Tate Modern is a multimedia installation in the museum’s cavernous Turbine Hall space dedicated to David Hockney’s opera designs (both sets and costumes) from the past half-century; a survey of some 200 works by Nalini Malani (July 1–January 3); and a show of Edvard Munch’s emotionally resonant “soul paintings” (November 11–April 23).
Tate Britain will also have a David Hockney show next fall (the British artist turns 90 next summer), this one made up of over 200 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, as well as examples of Hockney’s experiments with digital media (October 7–February 20), plus shows dedicated to Sonya Boyce (March 24–August 22), Thomas Gainsborough (May 20–October 10), and the Tudors (November 18–April 23).
Two hundred miles north, Tate Liverpool is finally set to re-poen in 2027, after a four-year closure. The first show in the revamped space will be a retrospective of Chila Kumari Singh Burman, a British-Indian artist who grew up in Liverpool. “[Chila] is renowned for creating irreverent pop and punk inspired works in kaleidoscopic colour, infused with glitter and neon, that draw on aspects of Indian and British cultural heritage,” said Tate Liverpool director Helen Legg in a statement, when the show was announced in May. “Her works are just as striking for their subversive treatment of gender, class and identity.”
Tate St Ives, located in the far southwestern tip of England, in Cornwall, has two big shows slated for 2027: recent work, including a new site-specific commission, by the Berlin-based Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova (May–September 26), and, in the fall, a show of work by the artists who will be nominated for next year’s Turner Prize, given annually to a British artist. Shortlisted artists will be announced in spring 2027, with the winner being named in December, after the show travels to Tate St Ives.
