Tate announces major David Hockney, Edvard Munch and Sonia Boyce exhibitions for 2027 – The Art Newspaper

Reveals devoted to Lynda Benglis and Edvard Munch will open subsequent 12 months at Tate Trendy, together with a Sonia Boyce retrospective at Tate Britain and two reveals targeted on the work and legacy of David Hockney marking his ninetieth birthday.

Tate’s assertion saying the 2027 programme, introduced on the eve of director Maria Balshaw’s departure, reveals the exhibitions and occasions to be held throughout Tate’s 4 websites subsequent 12 months. “There are many firsts in [2027]: Tate Trendy’s first Monet present, Tate’s first present of Asian ink portray, the UK’s first solo present for Algerian artist Baya, and the primary time the Turner Prize travels to the West Nation [to Tate St. Ives, 23 October-23 January 2028],” says a Tate spokesperson.

“Tate Trendy will current greater than 50 extraordinary works from the late Sixties to the current, showcasing the creative aesthetic that has cemented Lynda Benglis’s position as probably the most influential artists of our time,” says a press release (30 September 2027-5 March 2028). Benglis, who posed bare with a big double-headed dildo in Artforum in 1974, has been celebrated for her vibrant color and process-oriented summary artwork, which incorporates poured latex flooring work, totemic wax work, tubular knots and biomorphic mounds or spheres in bronze, lead and glass.

The Monet present at Tate Trendy, Monet: Portray Time (25 February-27 June 2027) focuses on “Monet’s profound and evolving relationship with time” by works akin to Arrival of the Normandy Practice, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877). The exhibition is organised by Tate Trendy and Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. The Munch present (11 November 2027-23 April 2028) explores his ‘soul work’ by the lens of cinema and visible storytelling, unpicking points round identification and need.

In a daring transfer, Tate Trendy additionally presents the UK’s first ever solo exhibition of the work of Algerian artist Baya (Mahieddine) from 10 June 2027 to 17 October. In accordance with author Rawaa Talass, Baya’s physique of labor contributed to the sector of Modernism in North Africa and gained acclaim from European pioneers. Self-taught, Baya created a world of her personal impressed by her childhood reminiscences and environment, in addition to her wealthy Algerian and indigenous Amazigh origins.

A survey of works from the previous 60 years by the Mumbai-based artist Nalini Malani—who made key items akin to Mom India: Transactions within the Development of Ache (2005) and In Search of Vanished Blood (2012-20)—additionally launches at Tate Trendy (1 July-3 January 2028). 

Ink portray will get a platform additionally at Tate Trendy within the present Ink (22 April-30 August 2027) which incorporates round 80 works organised round three themes: Life, the Backyard, and Breath. “The present focuses on key artists in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan who helped reinvent [ink painting] for the 20th century,” says Tate.

As Hockney hits 90, Tate Trendy will stage a multimedia set up in Tate Trendy’s Turbine Corridor in the summertime whereas Tate Britain will open a career-spanning exhibition in autumn 2027 that includes greater than 200 works (7 October-20 February 2028). The latter present options “trailblazing Sixties explorations of queer love and need to tender depictions of his mother and father and up to date works exploring personal moments in Hockney’s dwelling and studio”, Tate says.

Sonia Boyce’s work and legacy will probably be introduced in a survey at Tate Britain drawing on her large-scale installations, images, collage, drawing, movie and sculpture (24 March-27 August 2027). Boyce, who gained the Golden Lion on the 2022 Venice Biennale, will present works such because the Devotional sequence, her archive created in dialogue with the general public. “Within the broadest sense, my analysis pursuits lie in artwork as a social observe and the essential and contextual debates that come up from this burgeoning area,” Boyce writes.

Different reveals deliberate for Tate Britain embrace a blockbuster presentation of greater than 120 work and drawings by the society portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, marking the three hundredth anniversary of his delivery (20 Might-10 October 2027). The Tudors (18 November-23 April 2028) in the meantime shines a light-weight on “the age that witnessed the delivery of recent Britain, and in flip, that of British portray”, that includes vital works by Hans Holbein, Nicholas Hilliard, and Isaac Oliver, amongst others.

The long-awaited renovation of Tate Liverpool can also be scheduled for completion subsequent 12 months, launching with a significant exhibition of works by the British-Indian artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman. The gallery was initially resulting from reopen in 2025 following an overhaul which was beforehand forecast to price £29.7m (the mission is now costed round £35m).

Nevertheless, problem in elevating the funds led the gallery to postpone its relaunch till subsequent 12 months. “A brand new artwork corridor will showcase large-scale installations, whereas new areas for play, leisure and studying will provide spectacular views throughout the Mersey,” says Tate.