Tate Modern

Bankside, London 🇬🇧

Britain's national gallery of international modern and contemporary art, Tate Modern occupies the former Bankside Power Station on the South Bank, transformed by Herzog & de Meuron into one of the world's most visited art museums. The Turbine Hall hosts annual large-scale commissions, while the collection spans Picasso, Rothko, Bourgeois, and major figures of the 21st century. A second building, the Blavatnik Building, opened in 2016.

Showing 12 exhibitions on now and coming soon at Tate Modern.

Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon

Until Jan 3, 2027

Mixed MediaContemporary ArtFrida Kahlo

Centenary retrospective: 30 Kahlo works alongside 200+ objects tracing Fridamania

2.8/5 from 4 ratings

"Tate's blockbuster show about this rightly beloved artist asks how and why she became an "icon". But I've never seen an exhibition about how Picasso got famous or the cultural invention of Rembrandt. We know they are great artists and how they were historically recognised is for scholars."

Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta

Until Jan 17, 2027

PhotographyPerformanceVideo & Moving ImageConceptualismAna Mendieta

Major Mendieta retrospective with remastered films and UK premieres at Tate Modern

4.3/5 from 6 ratings · 8 reviews total

"With its evocation of woman as nature, the work reinforces the woman-nature/man-culture dichotomy"

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

Starting Oct 14

Over 50 artists trace pictorialism from the 1880s to the 1960s

Gathering Ground

Gathering Ground

Until Mar 7, 2027

Mixed MediaInstallationContemporary Art

Art from Tate's Collection on the ecological and social justice crisis

Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

Starting Oct 13

FreeSound ArtPerformanceInstallationSculptureContemporary Art

A new sound commission for the Turbine Hall

Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc

Until May 3, 2027

Video & Moving ImageInstallationSculptureOp ArtJulio Le Parc

Immersive retrospective of kinetic sculptures, op art and interactive installations by Le Parc

3.5/5 from 2 ratings

"That's the trouble with art. It may set out to change the world, as Le Parc and his pals in GRAV did, but ends up as entertainment. This is a very enjoyable exhibition but its revolutionary impulse gets lost in the light."

Monet: Painting Time

Monet: Painting Time

Starting Feb 25, 2027

PaintingImpressionismClaude Monet

Tate's first Monet show, on time, speed and the modern age

Ink

Ink

Starting Apr 22, 2027

Drawing & Works on PaperPainting

Around 80 works reinventing ink painting in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Baya

Baya

Starting Jun 10, 2027

CeramicsPainting

The UK's first solo show for the Algerian modernist, 100+ works

Nalini Malani

Nalini Malani

Starting Jul 1, 2027

Digital ArtVideo & Moving ImageInstallationPaintingContemporary Art

Her largest survey to date: six decades, almost 200 works

Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis

Starting Sep 30, 2027

PhotographyVideo & Moving ImageInstallationSculptureContemporary Art

50+ works from the poured latex floor pieces to now

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

Starting Nov 11, 2027

PhotographyPrintsPaintingExpressionismEdvard Munch

The Frieze of Life seen through cinema and visual storytelling

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Saturday10am–9pm

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Past Exhibitions

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Ended Aug 31

InstallationPaintingContemporary ArtTracey Emin

40-year Tracey Emin retrospective: 90+ works including My Bed and new paintings

3.7/5 from 7 ratings

"Walking into Tate Modern's huge Tracey Emin retrospective is like walking in on her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you have stumbled into something painfully private. Don't come here looking for a good time – you won't find it. But come looking for pure, unapologetic, undiluted, full-frontal love, grief, heartache and sadness, and you will end up feeling more feelings than you've probably felt for years."

Nigerian Modernism

Nigerian Modernism

Ended May 10

PaintingSculpture

50+ Nigerian artists redefine modernism before and after independence in 1960

3/5 from 2 ratings · 3 reviews total

"Nigerian Modernism is a complicated, contrary exhibition, tracing the development of modern art in Nigeria from the period of British colonial rule to the end of the 20th century. Terrors and tremors are threaded through Nigerian Modernism, along with conflicting aspirations and the mess of history. It''s fascinating but frustrating."

Theatre Picasso

Theatre Picasso

Ended Apr 12

Mixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperPaintingCubismPablo Picasso

Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary

3.5/5 from 2 ratings · 4 reviews total

"This exhibition is an egregious case of "have your cake and eat it". Tate is happy to use Picasso's name to pull in the punters. At the same time, it holds its nose, by implying he's beyond the pale. Is there a glimmer of positivity about any of the manifestly gorgeous and skilful artworks on display? If you find one, let me know."

Emily Kam Kngwarray

Emily Kam Kngwarray

Ended Jan 11

First European exhibition of 80 works by the celebrated Aboriginal Australian artist

4/5 from 1 rating

"Her pictures describe her place in a complex web of relations that includes people, animals, plants and place"