London art exhibitions to look out for in 2027

London’s galleries are preparing for a year of ambitious exhibitions in 2027, bringing together some of the most influential names in modern and contemporary art alongside artists whose work is only now receiving wider recognition. From Monet and Munch to David Hockney, Sonia Boyce and Algerian artist Baya, the exhibitions will range across centuries, continents and disciplines, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation, film and design. Here are the major London art exhibitions to have on your radar in 2027.

Many galleries and institutions are yet to announce their 2027 programmes, so this listing will be updated as new exhibitions are announced.

Cao Fei: Your Future Is Not a Dream

Installation view of Duotopia in Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future, Kunstmuseum Basel, 2026. Photo Samuel Bramley. Courtesy of the artist.

#FLODown: The largest UK solo exhibition to date by the Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei will open in April, the second iteration of her first major European survey following Testimonies to the Near Future at Kunstmuseum Basel. Born in Guangzhou in 1978, Cao Fei works across film, photography and digital media, drawing on technology, video games, science fiction, pop culture and cinema to reflect a rapidly changing society. Her exhibitions are known for turning gallery spaces into environments such as recreated industrial warehouses, video arcades and vintage cinema foyers. Supported by the Huo Family Foundation.

Date: 20 April - 25 July 2027. Location: Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. Discover more.

Diane Severin Nguyen: Powerless

Diane Severin Nguyen, Powerless, 2026. Still. Co-commissioned by Haus der Kunst München; The Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York, The Vega Foundation, Toronto; the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich; LUMA Foundation; and Chisenhale Gallery, London. Produced by if… Productions Film GmbH. Courtesy of the artist.

#FLODown: For her first solo exhibition in the UK, the New York-based artist will present Powerless, a video installation filmed in the Bavarian Alps. Seen primarily through surveillance, drone and body-worn cameras, a child leaves home against her mother's wishes and travels through an idyllic landscape as a helicopter circles above. The helicopter carries an American folk band whose songs romanticise rescue, and offers at once an escape and a recruitment. Nguyen's practice explores how images shape identity and power, and the fantasies of nationhood and victimhood that underpin war and propaganda. Entry is free.
Date: 9 April - 13 June 2027. Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ. Discover more.

Punk to Pop

Promotional poster for Sex Pistols' single God Save The Queen, 1977. Jamie Reid. Artwork Jamie Reid, © Sex Pistols Residuals, Universal Music Group.

#FLODown: Punk to Pop will explore the creative explosion across music, art and fashion between 1972 and 1985. It will look at how glam rock and disco gave way to underground scenes and the DIY spirit of punk before those ideas filtered into the pop culture of the 1980s. Around 300 objects will feature, including stage costumes, photography, music videos and graphic design, with artists and groups including the Sex Pistols, The Slits, The Specials, Joy Division, Wham! and Eurythmics. The exhibition will also considers the austerity, political turbulence and technological change of the period, alongside changing ideas around individuality, sexuality and identity.

Date: 13 March 2027 – 2 January 2028, Location: V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. Discover more.

Jacqueline Marval

Jacqueline Marval, Les Odalisques, 1902 - 1903 C Ville de Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, J.L. Lacroix

#FLODown: A reassessment of the French painter Jacqueline Marval (1866-1932), and the first UK museum exhibition devoted to her. More than 40 paintings and selected lithographs will be brought together, many never exhibited before. Marval is believed to have created one of the earliest female nude self-portraits in the history of painting, and the exhibition will set out her contribution to early French Modernism and her representations of women and the female form. Highlights will include Odalisque au Guépard (1900) and Les Odalisques (1902-03).
Date: 2 February - 9 May 2027. Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD. Discover more.

Through Holes in the Clouds: Artists and the Postcolonial Imagination

Frank Bowling, Australia to Africa, 1971. © Frank Bowling. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2026. Courtesy the Frank Bowling Foundation. Image courtesy Haus de Kunst, Munich. Photo Max Geuter

#FLODown: A six-month presentation across the whole building, exploring the reverberations of British colonialism and its after-lives through two generations of artists from across the globe. It looks at the break in regimes of visual and political representation provoked by the struggles for independence, and at the artistic and poetic strategies artists used to make sense of changing identities. The title comes from a poem by Mahmoud Darwish. Artists include Frank Bowling, Mona Hatoum, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Nasreen Mohamedi, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Yinka Shonibare.

Date: 17 March - 5 September 2027. Location: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. Discover more.

Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili, The Great Beauty, 2020 - 2023, © Chris Ofili. Image courtesy Victoria Miro and David Zwirner

#FLODown: A major survey of the Turner Prize-winning artist, and his largest solo exhibition in London since 2010. It will cover three decades of his practice, bringing together seminal works from the 1990s alongside his most recent paintings. Curated by Yung Ma, Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery, with Curator Azusa Hashimoto, it closes the gallery's 2027 programme and continues into January 2028.
Date: 7 September 2027 - 9 January 2028. Location: Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. Discover more.

Sahara Longe

Sahara Longe in her London studio, June 2025. Image by Lily Bertrand-Webb. Courtesy Timothy Taylor

#FLODown: A solo one-room display of new commissions responding to the gallery's historic collection. Sahara Longe (b.1994) takes as her starting point Anthony van Dyck's Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed (1633), and will make a series of works exploring love and loss, grief and heartbreak. Longe is known for her luminous figurative works, which sit between portraiture and abstraction.
Date: 16 February - 13 June 2027. Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD. Discover more.

Matt Copson

Matt Copson, Webbed Landscape, 2026. Medium Laser projection on UV-reactive wall. Image credit: Useful Art Services

#FLODown: The artist's first major institutional solo exhibition in the UK, focused on Robin Hood. It will take the form of a labyrinth, drawing on his interest in theme park rides, with new work in laser projection, sculpture, animatronics and audio. Copson, born in Oxford in 1992, works across laser animation, sculpture, opera, film and performance, and has shown at the Serpentine before, with his play without actors, A Woodland Truce, staged in The Magazine at Serpentine North in 2016. He also co-created the opera Last Days with Oliver Leith, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2022, and is directing a feature film adaptation of it for MUBI.

Date: 16 March - 22 August 2027. Location: Serpentine North, Kensington Gardens, London. Price: free. serpentinegalleries.org

Monet: Painting Time

Claude Monet Nymphéas 1914-1917 Legs Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 6085 © Musée Marmottan Monet  / Studio Christian Baraja SLB

#FLODown: Tate Modern’s first major exhibition dedicated to Claude Monet will bring together many of his best-known paintings with rarely seen works. Drawing on new research, it will explore Monet’s lifelong interest in time during the Industrial Age, looking at fleeting moments, changing light, shifting seasons and the passage of years. Works from his Water Lilies series will offer another view of the artist’s fascination with the changing world around him.

Date: 25 February – 27 June 2027. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Discover more.

Watteau: Reverie and Realism

Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Halt during the Chase, about 1717–18 © The Wallace Collection

#FLODown: A major exhibition devoted to Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), the French artist celebrated for his fêtes galantes, scenes of lovers, actors and musicians idling in dreamlike settings. His work was also grounded in an earthy realism that came from his Flemish origins and his habit of drawing directly from the subject, and his paintings will be shown alongside the observational drawings that informed them. Ticketed.

Date: 12 March - 25 July 2027. Location: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN. Discover more.

Coumba Samba

Coumba Samba, research image, 2026. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist.

#FLODown: A new large-scale sculptural installation will open in July by Coumba Samba, an artist living between London and New York. Samba's work traces how power circulates through modernist abstraction and minimalism, drawing on everyday forms from the global built environment as evidence of the economic and political infrastructures that produce them. The installation extends her forensic approach to colour, continuing her investigation into labour, the movement of materials between regions, and how institutional structures shape individual and collective identity.
Date: 9 July - 5 September 2027. Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ. Discover more.

Peter Blake: Pop Art Life

Self-Portrait with Badges, 1961 © Peter Blake. All rights reserved, DACS 2027. Photo Tate.

#FLODown: The first major institutional show dedicated to the portraiture of Sir Peter Blake, now aged 94, curated in close collaboration with the artist. Portraits from eight decades will be brought together across a range of media, from found objects such as a military locker, a door and an album cover to realist portraits of friends from music, fashion and art. His shrines to figures including Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe reflect an interest in fandom and celebrity.
Date: 11 February - 23 May 2027. Location: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE. Discover more.

Frank Auerbach

Self-Portrait V, Acrylic on board by Frank Auerbach, 2022 Private Collection © Estate of the Artist, courtesy of Frankie Rossi Art Projects

#FLODown: The first major posthumous exhibition dedicated to Frank Auerbach, one of Britain's most significant post-war painters, opening in October. Curated by Dr Flavia Frigeri, Chief Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Global Initiatives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with an accompanying publication featuring essays by both curators.
Date: 14 October 2027 - 9 January 2028. Location: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE. Discover more.

Collected: Centuries of Art, Saved and Shared

Pablo Picasso, 'The Weeping Woman' 1937, Tate, London. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of tax with additional payment (Grant-in-Aid) made with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1987 © Succession Picasso/DACS 2026

#FLODown: More than 40 works acquired for the UK through the Arts Council's Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes will be gathered together for the first time. Brought from private hands into public care, they include paintings by Rembrandt, Renoir and Lucian Freud, painting and ceramics by Picasso, a glittering cup with a thousand-year history and an eighteenth-century goldfish bowl owned by an eccentric collector, alongside rare objects from across the UK. Entry is free.
Date: 22 May - 5 September 2027. Location: National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN. Discover more.

Paula Rego: Dog Woman

Paula Rego (1935-2022), Scavengers, 1994, pastel on canvas. Private Collection © Paula Rego Estate, courtesy Victoria Miro

#FLODown: The Courtauld's 2027 season begins in February with the first retrospective dedicated to the series of pastels Paula Rego (1935-2022) made between 1994 and 1995, and the most comprehensive presentation of the works since they were first exhibited over 30 years ago. The pictures depict monumental, physically powerful women in stripped-down settings, and the series was the first Rego made using pastel, the medium she became renowned for. The exhibition will reassess the place of the series within her practice. It is accompanied by Paula Rego: Pendle Witches, a display of etchings and aquatint prints in the Project Space on the same dates.
Date: 5 February - 23 May 2027. Location: The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Discover more.

Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca, The Nativity (early 1480s).Photo: The National Gallery, London

#FLODown: The largest exhibition ever devoted to Piero della Francesca (about 1407/11-1492), and the first fully monographic one, reuniting some of his most celebrated altarpieces for the first time in centuries. Around 25 paintings and manuscripts will be shown, including the double portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza from the Uffizi and the complete Sant'Antonio Polyptych from Perugia, alongside the gallery's own Baptism of Christ, Saint Michael and The Nativity. Co-curated by Laura Llewellyn and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls.
Date: 2 October 2027 - 30 January 2028. Location: National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN. Discover more.

Phillip King: Kamakura Ceramics

Phillip King, Blue Blaze, 1967, aluminium, 183 x 762 x 610 cm. 72 1/8 x 300 x 240 1/8 in. Image courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery/ the artist 

#FLODown: Camden Art Centre will look at a lesser-known chapter in the career of British sculptor Phillip King, focusing on ceramic works he produced in Japan during the 1990s following a residency in Kamakura. Influenced by Japanese ceramic traditions, King experimented with hand-built vessels and glazes, producing more than 70 works that have never been exhibited in the UK. The exhibition will highlight his interest in materials, form and artistic exchange between Britain and Japan.

Date: 29 January – 14 March 2027. Location: Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG. Discover more.

Deborah-Joyce Holman

Deborah-Joyce Holman, Rehearsal, 2026. Research image. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist.

#FLODown: Closing the 2027 programme, the London-based artist will develop a new video installation for their first solo exhibition in a UK institution. Holman works in painting and moving image, and their practice is informed by strategies of refusal, a term that describes the deliberate use of opacity and illegibility as counter-hegemonic positions that resist dominant systems of representation. The new work will extend their ongoing thinking into the psychic labour demanded of Black subjects by structures of recognition, drawing on Black poetics and theories of opacity. Entry is free.
Date: 1 October - 5 December 2027. Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ. Discover more.

Catharina van Hemessen: Signature Works

Catharina van Hemessen (1527/8 - after 1565). Portrait of a Woman, 1551, oil on wood, 22.8 × 17.6 cm. The National Gallery. Presented by Mrs D.E. Knollys, 1934. Photo © The National Gallery, London 

#FLODown: The National Gallery will present the first UK exhibition devoted entirely to Catharina van Hemessen, one of the earliest European women painters whose work can be identified with certainty. The exhibition will bring together signed paintings from international collections, focusing on her small-scale portraits and the importance of her name and signature at a time when few women worked as professional artists. 

Date: 4 March – 30 May 2027. Location: National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN. Discover more.

David Shrigley

Adriaen Brouwer, Interior of a Tavern, c.1630, DPG108 © Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

One of the historic paintings David Shrigley will respond directly to as part of the exhibition, through a series of new contemporary works.

#FLODown: Opening in May, a major exhibition placing the UK contemporary artist's practice in dialogue with 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting. New works by Shrigley will respond directly to Netherlandish paintings by Jan Steen, Adriaen Brouwer, Rembrandt van Rijn and others, exploring the comedic side of historic painting and how artists have used humour to observe everyday life. It will be Shrigley's first UK solo exhibition since his 2012 retrospective at the Hayward Gallery.
Date: 25 May - 5 September 2027. Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD. Discover more.

Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Circle, A Square, A Puzzle

Anwar Jalal Shemza, Square Composition 12, 1963 © Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza

#FLODown: The first major museum retrospective of the British Pakistani artist Anwar Jalal Shemza (1928-1985) in more than 30 years, featuring over 80 works. His style brought together geometric abstraction, calligraphic forms and references to place, from Lahore's Mughal architecture to rural English landscapes. Painting, printmaking, textiles, sketchbooks and archival material will trace a practice that also included poetry and literary fiction, with works including Blue Blue Jazz, Square Composition and the Roots series.
Date: 21 September 2027 - 16 January 2028. Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD. Discover more.

Baya

Baya L’âne bleu 1948. Gouache and watercolour on paper. 1000 × 1500 mm. Collection Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Geneva / Tunis © Baya Estate, Courtesy Mennour, Paris. Photo © AGUTTES – Rodolphe Alepuz

#FLODown: This will be the first solo exhibition of Algerian artist Baya in the UK. More than 100 gouache paintings will introduce her distinctive use of colour, geometric patterns and imagery drawn from the landscapes, flora and fauna of Algeria. The exhibition opening at Tate Modern will also examine Baya’s influence on twentieth-century artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso and André Breton, and her place in modern art history.

Date: 10 June – 17 October 2027. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Discover more.

Caroline Walker

Caroline Walker, Artist Portrait, 2025 ° Alix Mclntosh

#FLODown: New paintings documenting the daily life of Dulwich Picture Gallery will go on display in this solo presentation. Caroline Walker (b.1982) is known for paintings that give a window into the everyday lives of women and the often-overlooked jobs they perform. Over two years she has documented daily life across the gallery, turning attention away from the artworks and towards the staff and unseen moments that bring the institution to life.
Date: 12 October 2027 - 19 March 2028. Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD. Discover more.

South Asia Now: Fashion. Art. Design.

Amesh, Paddy Field Play, Evening Stroll, 2022. © Tavish Gunasena for AMESH.

#FLODown: South Asia Now: Fashion. Art. Design. will explore the contemporary creative landscape of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka through more than 200 works across fashion, art, architecture and design. The exhibition will focus on artists, designers, architects and makers working across the region today, moving beyond presentations based mainly on heritage and craft. Rare loans, new commissions and works being shown in the UK for the first time will look at creative practices shaped by shared histories, cultural exchange and generational knowledge.

Date: 24 April 2027 – 23 January 2028. Location: V&A East Museum, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London E20 3FR. Discover more.

Asante: Sacred Gold

Asante people, Ghana.Trophy Head, 18th or 19th century © The Wallace Collection.

#FLODown: A free display of the Asante gold regalia held by the Wallace Collection, looted from Kumasi by British forces during the Third Anglo-Asante War of 1873-74 and later acquired by Sir Richard Wallace. The centrepiece is a golden head, one of the largest historic gold objects from sub-Saharan Africa. Produced with the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi.

Date: 12 April - 22 August 2027. Location: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN. Discover more.

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, research image, 2026. Co-commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Kunstverein Braunschweig. Courtesy of the artist.

#FLODown: Chisenhale's 2027 programme of four new commissions begins in January with the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, a conceptual artist based in Berlin whose work negotiates relations of authorship, ownership and institutional agency. Celestino will revisit their personal family archive to investigate new labour configurations and modes of producing knowledge, extending that research into a series of contractual propositions that reconfigure Chisenhale's institutional functions and organisation, from the architecture to the terms of employment and the format of the commission itself.
Date: 16 January - 14 March 2027. Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ. Discover more.

German Expressionism: Modern Painting 1900–1918

Detail from Max Pechstein, 'Self-portrait, reclining', 1909. Private collection c/o Museum Wiesbaden, photo © Museum Wiesbaden

#FLODown: The National Gallery will bring together more than 50 works by German Expressionist artists from Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, including paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter. The exhibition will look at the period between 1900 and 1918, when artists in Germany challenged established ideas about painting through new approaches to colour, form and brushwork. It will also consider how the First World War changed the movement and the lives of its artists.
Date: 20 March – 1 August 2027. Location: National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN. Discover more.

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce (24 March - 22 August 2027, Tate Britain). Sonia Boyce, Untitled (Kiss), 1995. © 2026 Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS

#FLODown: Tate Britain will present a major retrospective of Sonia Boyce’s career, exploring more than four decades of an influential practice rooted in collaboration and improvisation. Across installation, photography, collage, drawing, film and sculpture, Boyce has explored questions of collective memory, identity and representation. The exhibition will examine her contribution to contemporary British art and the ways her work has helped reshape conversations around race, gender and cultural experience.

Date: 24 March – 22 August 2027. Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Discover more.

Thuy Tien Nguyen: Press, Release

Thuy Tien Nguyen, Press Club, 2025, stainless steel, metal, reclaimed wood, motors, speakers, collected objects, plastic gift wraps. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by Thailand Biennale, Phuket and Gasworks, London. Photo Thailand Biennale, Phuket / Wide Walker. 

#FLODown:Thuy Tien Nguyen’s first UK solo exhibition at Gasworks will feature a large sculptural installation built around a moving conveyor belt made from industrial steel and carved wooden fragments. Objects drawn from Vietnamese, Thai and British contexts, including ritual krathongs, will move along the conveyor in a repetitive and unresolved motion, set to reworked pop music. The work will consider how memory and identity are changed through movement, migration and global systems of production.

Date: 14 January – 21 March 2027. Location: Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH. Discover more.

Ink

Yuan Jai Jadeite Cabbage 1999. Ink and color on silk. 96 × 170 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Vitamin Creative Space

#FLODown: Tate’s first exhibition devoted entirely to the tradition of ink painting will explore how artists across mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan transformed an ancient practice into a modern form of expression during the twentieth century. The exhibition will bring together paintings and calligraphic works while considering history, philosophy, innovation and the continuing relationship between ink painting and the natural world.

Date: 22 April – 30 August 2027. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Discover more.

Sculpture in Clay: British Ceramics 1985 to Now

Monument, Clare Twomey. Photo by Andy Paradise.

#FLODown: Sculpture in Clay will examine how British artists have pushed clay beyond its traditional association with ceramics, establishing it as an important material for sculpture and installation. Work from the mid-1980s to the present will include pieces by Jacqueline Poncelet, Antony Gormley, Edmund de Waal, Richard Deacon and Clare Twomey. The exhibition will look at artists who have challenged conventional ceramic practices and experimented with clay in both fired and unfired forms.

Date: 29 May 2027 – 6 February 2028. Location: V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. Discover more.

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough Giovanna Baccelli exhibited 1782 Tate Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1975

#FLODown: Marking the 300th anniversary of Thomas Gainsborough’s birth, Tate Britain will bring together around 120 paintings and drawings by one of Britain’s leading eighteenth-century painters. Alongside his famous society portraits, the exhibition will explore his landscapes, experimental techniques and creative process, offering a closer look at the contrast between his finished paintings and the experimental work that went into creating them.

Date: 20 May – 10 October 2027. Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Discover more.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Ghost Ranch

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) Deer's Skull with Pedernal, 1936, Oil on canvas, 91.44 x 76.52 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of the William H. Lane Foundation, 1990.43

#FLODown: The Courtauld Gallery will bring together almost two dozen paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe made between the 1930s and 1950s, exploring her connection to Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. Desert skies, rock formations, Cerro Pedernal, flowers, bones and skulls will reveal how the landscape became an important source for her work. Many of the paintings have not previously been exhibited in the UK. A photographic display will also offer a glimpse into O’Keeffe’s life at Ghost Ranch through rare colour and previously unpublished photographs taken for Life magazine.

Date: 1 October 2027 – 30 January 2028. Location: The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Discover more.

Nalini Malani

In Search of Vanished Blood 2012–20 Artwork © Nalini Malani; Photo Johan Pijnappel

#FLODown: A major retrospective of Nalini Malani’s work at Tate Modern will cover six decades of her artistic practice and will be her largest exhibition to date. It will bring together multimedia installations, paintings, drawings and moving-image works, exploring how Malani uses mythology, literature and history to address conflict, injustice, displacement and gender.

Date: 1 July 2027 – 3 January 2028. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Discover more.

Chintz

Dress panel or bauw, made in Coastal southeast India, 18th century. Hand painted and dyed cotton. Karun Thakar Collection.

#FLODown: Chintz will explore the 400-year history of South Indian chintz, following the journey of a hand-drawn cotton textile that became one of the world’s most sought-after and widely copied fabrics. During the 1600s and 1700s, chintz travelled across continents and social classes, influencing fashion, interiors and design. The V&A will focus on the skill of the South Indian makers who created its intricate designs, with works from its collection shown alongside pieces from the private collection of Karun Thakar.

Date: 18 September 2027 – 4 June 2028. Location: V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. vam.ac.uk

Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh, Okwui, 2024. Bronze. 150.5 x 332.7 x 123.2 cm. © Simone Leigh, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo Timothy Schenck

#FLODown: The largest exhibition to date by the American sculptor, and her first major UK show, taking over the Main Galleries in autumn. Bronze and ceramic sculpture will be brought together with film in large-scale installations, including monumental new works made for the occasion and pieces shown in the UK for the first time. Leigh integrates architecture, video and performance into her practice, and her work presents Black womanhood at monumental scale. Curated by Tarini Malik.

Date: 18 September - 12 December 2027. Location: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD. Discover more.

Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis (30 September 2027 - 5 March 2028, Tate Modern). Lynda Benglis, Self 1970-6, printed 2010 (detail). Tate. Presented as part of the D. Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023 © Lynda Benglis

#FLODown: More than 50 works will chart Lynda Benglis’s career, from her poured latex works of the late 1960s to large sculptures in bronze, ceramics and glass. The exhibition will look at the ways Benglis challenged traditional ideas around sculpture and painting through her use of materials and form, and the influence her work has had on artists over the past 50 years.

Date: 30 September 2027 – 5 March 2028. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Discover more.

David Hockney

David Hockney (7 October 2027 - 20 February 2028, Tate Britain). David Hockney, My Parents, 1977. Tate. Purchased 1981

#FLODown: Marking the 90th birthday of the late artist David Hockney, this major exhibition at Tate Britain will bring together more than 200 works from across his career. It will explore the importance of family, friends and lovers in Hockney’s art, from his early depictions of queer love in the 1960s to portraits of his parents and recent paintings made at home. The exhibition will offer a personal look at Hockney’s interest in human connection, portraiture and storytelling. Hockney will be the subject of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall installation, with a multimedia work celebrating his lifelong passion for opera. The installation will bring his celebrated set and costume designs to life through vast-scale projections, music and animation.

Date: 7 October 2027 – 20 February 2028. Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Discover more.

Rembrandt: Radical Printmaker

Rembrandt, Self-portrait with wild eyes , 1630. Rembrandt, Self-portrait with wild eyes (detail), 1630. CC0 Paris Musées / Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Art and the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Paris Musées

#FLODown: The Royal Academy’s exhibition devoted to Rembrandt will focus on his printmaking and his use of line, tone and composition to create detailed studies of light, space and atmosphere. Developed with the Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, the exhibition will look at an important part of Rembrandt’s practice and his approach to print as a medium.

Date: 9 April - 19 September 2027. Location: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD. Discover more.

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch, The Sick Child 1907. Tate.

#FLODown: In late autumn 2027, Tate Modern will present a major exhibition dedicated to Edvard Munch, exploring his paintings through cinema and visual storytelling. Bringing together some of his most powerful works with contributions from contemporary filmmakers, the exhibition will highlight the cinematic qualities of Munch’s art, examining how his use of composition, colour, perspective and emotion created powerful visual stories about love, desire, longing, identity and loneliness, and how his distinctive visual language continues to resonate with contemporary film and storytelling.

Date: 11 November 2027 – 23 April 2028. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Discover more.

Matisse, Picasso, Klee: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude Skipping, 1952. Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Photo: Roman März. © 2026 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

#FLODown: An exhibition drawn from the celebrated collection of the Museum Berggruen in Berlin will open at the Royal Academy of Arts, featuring works by three defining figures of European modernism, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. Through their distinctive approaches to colour, form and composition, the exhibition will explore the ways these artists transformed the language of modern art, while revealing the unexpected connections and contrasts between their practices. Shown alongside Simone Leigh in autumn, this exhibition will also coincide with the reopening of Burlington Gardens, where a new double-height gallery designed by David Chipperfield Architects will house parts of the Royal Academy's permanent collection and increase free public access.

Date: 19 November 2027 - 19 March 2028. Location: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD. Discover more.

Merlin James

Hobby Horse, 2024-25. Mixed materials, 33 1/4 × 44 1/4 × 2 3/8 inches (84.5 × 112.5 x 6 cm). Image courtesy of Sikkem Malloy Jenkins.

#FLODown: More than forty years of work in painting, drawing and mixed materials will be brought together in Merlin James's most substantial London exhibition to date. James (b.1960, Cardiff) works in and around painting culture and history, refining and redefining pictorial language, with materiality and meaning treated as simultaneous and indivisible. Recurrent motifs in his work include sea and riverscapes, piers, doorways, trees, bridges, buildings, bandstands, intimate sexual scenes, birds and interiors.
Date: 29 January - 16 May 2027. Location: Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG. camdenartcentre.org

Mary Cassatt: Radical Impressionist

Woman in a Loge, 1879 © Philadelphia Museum of Art: Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright.

#FLODown: The first UK retrospective dedicated to the American artist, whose work played a central role in Impressionism and who has remained comparatively underrepresented in Britain. It brings together the women Cassatt represented, from family and friends to patrons, professional models and figures whose lives remain largely unknown. Organised with the Musée d'Orsay and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to mark the centenary of her death, with most of the works never seen in the UK before.
Date: 11 March - 13 June 2027. Location: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE. Discover more.

The Tudors

The Tudors (18 November 2027 - 23 April 2028). Unknown artist, A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton, 1569. Tate

#FLODown: Tate Britain’s first major exhibition devoted to Tudor art in more than 30 years will bring together more than 150 works, including oil paintings, miniatures, works on paper, sculpture and decorative objects. The exhibition will look at the period when modern Britain and British painting began to take shape, with portraits of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and other key figures alongside works that reveal the artistic achievements of the Tudor court.

Date: 18 November 2027 – 23 April 2028. Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Discover more.