Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Lineup Puts Monet’s Water Lilies and Hockney at the Center
Tate has unveiled its 2027 exhibition program across its four national museums — Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, plus Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives — with a slate that leans into both canonical names and sharply contemporary perspectives.
The headline announcement is “Monet: Painting Time,” Tate Modern’s first solo exhibition devoted to French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). Co-organized with Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie, the show opens there on September 30, 2026, before traveling to London, where it will be on view at Tate Modern from February 25 to June 27, 2027. The exhibition will bring together several of Monet’s instantly recognizable water lily paintings, alongside loans from international museums and private collections.
Tate Modern’s 2027 calendar also includes a multimedia installation in the museum’s vast Turbine Hall focused on British artist David Hockney’s (b. 1937) opera designs — sets and costumes spanning the past half-century. The museum will also mount a survey of roughly 200 works by Indian artist Nalini Malani (b. 1946), running July 1, 2027, through January 3, 2028. Later in the year, Tate Modern will turn to Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944) with an exhibition centered on his emotionally charged “soul paintings,” scheduled for November 11, 2027, through April 23, 2028.
Across the river, Tate Britain is planning a major Hockney presentation timed to a milestone: the artist turns 90 in summer 2027. Opening October 7, 2027, and running through February 20, 2028, the exhibition will assemble more than 200 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, alongside examples of Hockney’s experiments with digital media. Tate Britain’s program also includes exhibitions dedicated to British artist Sonya Boyce (b. 1962) from March 24 to August 22, 2027; English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) from May 20 to October 10, 2027; and a show focused on the Tudors, opening November 18, 2027, and continuing through April 23, 2028.
In northwest England, Tate Liverpool is set to reopen in 2027 after a four-year closure. The first exhibition in the renovated museum will be a retrospective of British-Indian artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman (b. 1957), who grew up in Liverpool. When the show was announced in May, Tate Liverpool director Helen Legg described Burman as “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,” adding that the works are “just as striking for their subversive treatment of gender, class and identity.”
Farther southwest, Tate St Ives in Cornwall has two major projects slated for 2027. The museum will present recent work — including a new site-specific commission — by Berlin-based Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova (b. 1989), on view from May through September 26, 2027. In the fall, Tate St Ives will host an exhibition of work by the artists nominated for the Turner Prize, the annual award for a British artist. The shortlisted artists will be announced in spring 2027, with the winner named in December after the exhibition travels to Tate St Ives.
Taken together, Tate’s 2027 program sketches a year of big-name drawing power — Monet and Hockney foremost — while also foregrounding artists whose practices press on questions of identity, politics, and the museum’s role in shaping cultural memory.
