The Coolest Art Exhibitions To Look Forward To In 2027

Few artists have captured anxiety and emotional turmoil quite like Edvard Munch. Best known for The Scream, the Norwegian artist explored love, loss, loneliness and desire throughout his career. Organised in collaboration with Oslo's Munch museum, this exhibition will look at his work through the lens of cinema and visual storytelling, bringing together major paintings, prints, photographs, experimental film and archival material.

11th November 2027-23rd April 2028

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Claude Monet's paintings are synonymous with changing light, water lilies and the fleeting beauty of the natural world. Tate Modern's first exhibition devoted exclusively to the Impressionist painter will bring together works from international collections, including rarely seen pieces from private collections. Looking at Monet's relationship with time, it will explore how he captured the pace of modern life, the changing seasons and the same landscapes at different moments.

25th February-27th June 2027

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The three giants of modern art will come together in an exhibition drawing on Berlin's Museum Berggruen. The collection includes major works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, whose radical approaches to colour, form and composition helped redefine modern art. Assembled over four decades by collector Heinz Berggruen, these works offer a rare opportunity to see some of Europe's most celebrated modern masterpieces together in London.

19th November 2027-19th March 2028

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Best known for his contribution to British sculpture, Phillip King also spent time exploring ceramics in Japan during the 1990s. This exhibition will focus on work made following a residency in Kamakura, where he experimented with Japanese ceramic traditions, hand-built forms and glazes. More than 70 works, previously unseen in the UK, will offer a different perspective on the late artist's practice.

29th January-14th March 2027

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Known for his deadpan humour and distinctive drawings, David Shrigley will take inspiration from an unexpected source: 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting. Through a series of specially commissioned works, the artist will enter into conversation with painters including Rembrandt, Jan Steen and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The exhibition will explore how humour has been used across the centuries to comment on everyday life and human behaviour.

25th May-5th September 2027

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To mark David Hockney's 90th birthday, Tate Britain will present a major exhibition spanning seven decades of his career. More than 200 works will explore the artist's depictions of love, friendship and intimacy, from his early explorations of queer relationships to portraits of family and friends and more recent scenes from his home and studio. Painting, drawing, photography and digital media will showcase the range of one of Britain's most celebrated and beloved artists.

7th October 2027-20th February 2028

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Stemming from the idea that what we wear can reveal as much about a person as what they say, this Barbican exhibition will explore the relationship between fashion and literature, looking at how writers have used clothing to develop characters and express their own identities. Expect rarely seen garments, accessories, manuscripts, letters and photographs alongside designs by fashion houses including Dior, Erdem, Prada and Comme des Garçons. Literary figures and fictional characters from Orlando to Frankenstein will also feature.

15th April-29th August 2027

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Tate Modern will present the first UK solo exhibition dedicated to Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine. Featuring more than 100 vivid gouache watercolours alongside ceramic sculptures, the show will explore her distinctive use of colour, pattern and imagined worlds. Drawing on the landscapes, storytelling and musical traditions of her homeland, Baya also developed a striking modernist style that resisted easy categorisation and influenced artists including Pablo Picasso and André Breton.

10th June-17th October 2027

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