Tate announces major David Hockney, Edvard Munch and Sonia Boyce exhibitions for 2027

This article was first published by The Art Newspaper.

Shows dedicated to Lynda Benglis and Edvard Munch will open next year at Tate Modern, along with a Sonia Boyce retrospective at Tate Britain and two shows focused on the work and legacy of David Hockney marking his 90th birthday.

Tate’s statement announcing the 2027 programme, announced on the eve of director Maria Balshaw’s departure, reveals the exhibitions and events to be held across Tate’s four sites next year. “There are lots of firsts in [2027]: Tate Modern’s first Monet show, Tate’s first show of Asian ink painting, the UK’s first solo show for Algerian artist Baya, and the first time the Turner Prize travels to the West Country [to Tate St. Ives, 23 October-23 January 2028],” says a Tate spokesperson.

“Tate Modern will present more than 50 extraordinary works from the late 1960s to the present, showcasing the inventive aesthetic that has cemented Lynda Benglis’s role as one of the most influential artists of our time,” says a statement (30 September 2027-5 March 2028). Benglis, who posed naked with a large double-headed dildo in Artforum in 1974, has been celebrated for her vibrant colour and process-oriented abstract art, which includes poured latex floor paintings, totemic wax paintings, tubular knots and biomorphic mounds or spheres in bronze, lead and glass.