Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Program Brings Monet to Tate Modern, Plus Major Shows for Lynda Benglis, Edvard Munch, Sonia Boyce, and David Hockney
Tate has announced a wide-ranging 2027 program across its four sites, a slate that pairs canonical names with overdue firsts — and arrives on the eve of director Maria Balshaw’s departure. Among the headline projects: Tate Modern’s first exhibition devoted to Claude Monet, a substantial survey of American sculptor and painter Lynda Benglis, and a new look at Edvard Munch framed through cinema and visual storytelling. Tate Britain, meanwhile, will mount a retrospective of Sonia Boyce and two presentations focused on the work and legacy of David Hockney as he turns 90.
A Tate spokesperson emphasized the number of milestones in the year ahead, citing “Tate Modern’s first Monet show,” “Tate’s first show of Asian ink painting,” and “the UK’s first solo show for Algerian artist Baya,” as well as the Turner Prize traveling to the West Country at Tate St. Ives (October 23, 2027 to January 23, 2028).
At Tate Modern, the Benglis exhibition (September 30, 2027 to March 5, 2028) will bring together more than 50 works from the late 1960s to the present. Tate describes the presentation as a concentrated view of the artist’s “inventive aesthetic,” spanning the process-driven vocabulary that has defined her practice: poured latex floor works, totemic wax paintings, tubular knots, and biomorphic mounds and spheres realized in materials including bronze, lead, glass, and wax. Benglis, who has long tested the boundaries of sculpture, painting, and performance, remains a pivotal figure in postwar American art.
Monet: Painting Time (February 25 to June 27, 2027) will mark Tate Modern’s first show dedicated to the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). Organized by Tate Modern with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the exhibition will trace what Tate calls Monet’s “profound and evolving relationship with time,” and will include works such as “Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare” (1877).
Later in the year, Tate Modern will open an Edvard Munch exhibition (November 11, 2027 to April 23, 2028) centered on the Norwegian artist’s (1863–1944) so-called “soul paintings.” The show will approach Munch through the lens of cinema and visual storytelling, with Tate indicating it will probe questions of identity and desire.
The museum will also stage the UK’s first solo exhibition of Algerian artist Baya (Mahieddine) (1931–1998), on view June 10 to October 17, 2027. Self-taught, Baya developed a distinctive pictorial world shaped by childhood memory and her Algerian and indigenous Amazigh origins. Writer Rawaa Talass has noted the artist’s contribution to Modernism in North Africa and her recognition among European pioneers.
Two additional Tate Modern projects extend the program’s geographic and medium-based reach. “Ink” (April 22 to August 30, 2027) will assemble around 80 works organized under three themes — Life, the Garden, and Breath — focusing on artists in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan who helped reinvent ink painting in the 20th century. A survey of the Mumbai-based artist Nalini Malani (b. 1946) will follow (July 1, 2027 to January 3, 2028), spanning six decades and including key works such as “Mother India: Transactions in the Construction of Pain” (2005) and “In Search of Vanished Blood” (2012–20).
At Tate Britain, a survey of British artist Sonia Boyce (b. 1962) will run March 24 to August 27, 2027, drawing on large-scale installations as well as photography, collage, drawing, film, and sculpture. Boyce, who won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, will present works including her “Devotional” series, an archive developed in dialogue with the public. “In the broadest sense, my research interests lie in art as a social practice and the critical and contextual debates that arise from this burgeoning field,” Boyce has written.
Hockney’s 90th birthday will be marked with two Tate projects: a multimedia installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in summer 2027, and a career-spanning exhibition at Tate Britain in autumn featuring more than 200 works (October 7, 2027 to February 20, 2028). Tate says the latter will range from Hockney’s “trailblazing 1960s explorations of queer love and desire” to portraits of his parents and recent works depicting private moments in his home and studio.
Taken together, Tate’s 2027 program signals an institution balancing crowd-drawing names with a deliberate expansion of art-historical narratives — a mix of firsts and reframings that will shape the museum’s public face as it moves into a new leadership chapter.
