Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Lineup Puts Hockney in the Turbine Hall and Brings Monet to the Museum for the First Time
Tate has revealed its 2027 program across its four English sites, mapping out a season that moves from Tudor portraiture to contemporary installation — and arrives as the institution changes leadership. Director Maria Balshaw is set to leave her post this month, with Karin Hindsbo stepping in as interim director.
The most high-profile commission lands at Tate Modern, where British artist David Hockney (b. 1937) will take over the Turbine Hall with a new multimedia installation. Tate said the project will build on Hockney’s long-standing fascination with opera and his history of theatrical set design, and it is scheduled to coincide with his 90th birthday.
Tate Modern will also mount a first in the museum’s history: an exhibition dedicated to French painter Claude Monet (1840–1926). The show is expected to gather rarely seen works and draw on new research into Monet’s relationship to time at the dawn of the industrial age — a framing that positions the artist’s late 19th- and early 20th-century practice against the accelerating tempo of modern life.
Other Tate Modern highlights include a career-spanning survey of Indian multimedia artist Nalini Malani (b. 1946), bringing together six decades of work in what Tate describes as her largest exhibition to date. The museum will also present Algerian painter Baya’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. In April 2027, Tate will stage its first exhibition devoted to the tradition of ink painting, and the fall season will include solo shows for American sculptor and visual artist Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) and Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944).
Across the river at Tate Britain, Hockney will be the subject of a large-scale exhibition marking his milestone birthday. Tate said the show will span seven decades and include more than 200 works, tracing the role of relationships in his life — from family and friends to lovers — as a structuring force in his art.
Tate Britain will also devote a major exhibition to British artist Sonia Boyce (b. 1962), surveying her practice across large-scale installations as well as photography, collage, drawing, film, and sculpture. Additional programming includes a landmark exhibition marking the 300th anniversary of Georgian artist Thomas Gainsborough’s birth, alongside a major presentation titled “The Tudors,” bringing together more than 150 objects across oil painting, sculpture, miniatures, and decorative arts.
Beyond London, Tate Liverpool is set to reopen in 2027 after a four-year refurbishment, with a career-spanning survey of British artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman (b. 1957). At Tate St. Ives, Kazakhstan-born, Berlin-based artist Gulnur Mukazhanova (b. 1990) will receive her first U.K. institutional survey, focused on textile works and large-scale installations. Tate St. Ives will also host the Turner Prize for the first time in October 2027.
In a statement, Hindsbo described the program as one that “only Tate could deliver,” emphasizing its geographic reach and its sweep from the 1500s to the present. Taken together, the 2027 slate signals an institution leaning into both canonical names and overdue institutional spotlights — while using its four venues to stage a deliberately expansive view of art history.
