Art News: Art Events in 2027, the Fairs, Biennials and Major Shows

2027 is the summer the art world goes to Germany. documenta, held every five years, and Skulptur Projekte Münster, held every ten, open a day apart in June, as they do once a decade, with the Berlin Biennale and the Liverpool Biennial opening the same month. Art Basel, Frieze and TEFAF have published most of their dates, and London has a year of big exhibitions, from Monet at Tate Modern to Gainsborough's 300th anniversary and David Hockney's 90th birthday. Here is the year's calendar so far.

The 2027 art calendar

Event	Where	When
London Art Fair	Business Design Centre, London	20–24 January
Sharjah Biennial 17	Sharjah	21 January – 13 June
Art Basel Qatar	Doha	28–30 January
Frieze Los Angeles	Santa Monica Airport	25–28 February
TEFAF Maastricht	Maastricht	13–18 March
Art Basel Hong Kong	Hong Kong	25–27 March
Venice Architecture Biennale	Venice	8 May – 21 November
Frieze New York	The Shed, New York	12–16 May
TEFAF New York	New York	14–18 May
Liverpool Biennial	Liverpool	5 June – 12 September
Berlin Biennale	Berlin	From June
documenta 16	Kassel	12 June – 19 September
Skulptur Projekte	Münster	13 June – 3 October
Art Basel	Basel	17–20 June
Istanbul Biennial	Istanbul	18 September – 14 November
Frieze London and Frieze Masters	Regent's Park, London	Usually October, dates to come
Art Basel Paris	Grand Palais, Paris	Usually October, dates to come
Turner Prize	Tate St Ives	21 October 2027 – 23 January 2028
Art Basel Miami Beach	Miami Beach	Usually December, dates to come

Dates are as announced by the organisers in October 2026.

documenta 16 and Skulptur Projekte

documenta 16 runs in Kassel from 12 June to 19 September, directed by Naomi Beckwith, chief curator of the Guggenheim in New York. It is the first documenta since 2022, and its traditional home is the Fridericianum on the Friedrichsplatz, where the first documenta was held in 1955.

Skulptur Projekte opens in Münster the next day and runs until 3 October. It is the sixth edition and the fiftieth anniversary of the show, which fills the city with sculpture and public projects every ten years. This time it is directed by the Zagreb curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW), and Hew Locke and Oscar Murillo are among the first artists named.

The 14th Berlin Biennale, curated by Vasyl Cherepanyn, opens in June as well, so Berlin, Kassel and Münster can be seen in one trip.

Is there a Venice Biennale in 2027?

Yes, but it is the architecture exhibition. The 20th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by the Chinese architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, runs from 8 May to 21 November. The art exhibition alternates with it, so the next art biennale is due in 2028.

Art fairs in 2027

Art Basel opens the year in Doha with Art Basel Qatar, 28 to 30 January, then Hong Kong, 25 to 27 March, and Basel itself, 17 to 20 June. Paris, usually at the Grand Palais in October, and Miami Beach, usually in December, have not yet given their 2027 dates.

Frieze is in Los Angeles from 25 to 28 February and at The Shed in New York from 12 to 16 May. Frieze London and Frieze Masters are usually held in Regent's Park in October; their 2027 dates are still to come.

TEFAF Maastricht, the leading fair for Old Masters, antiques and works of art, runs from 13 to 18 March, and TEFAF New York from 14 to 18 May.

In London, the year starts with the London Art Fair, for modern and contemporary art, at the Business Design Centre in Islington from 20 to 24 January.

Biennials around the world

Sharjah Biennial 17, What remains, sits restive, runs from 21 January to 13 June across eleven venues in the emirate, curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento.

The Liverpool Biennial, from 5 June to 12 September, is co-curated by Lucía Sanromán and Aimee Harrison and takes childhood and youth as its theme.

The 19th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu, runs from 18 September to 14 November.

Exhibitions in London

Claude Monet, The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903. National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Tate Modern opens its year with Monet: Painting Time, from 25 February to 27 June, the gallery's first exhibition devoted to Claude Monet. It ends the year with Edvard Munch, from 11 November to 16 April 2028, looking at his paintings through cinema, with his own experimental films.

David Hockney turns 90 on 9 July, and Tate marks it twice: a summer installation in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall built from projections of his designs for the opera, and a retrospective at Tate Britain from 7 October to 20 February 2028. Our page on David Hockney covers his market.

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews, about 1750. National Gallery, London.

Tate Britain has Thomas Gainsborough from 20 May to 10 October, for the 300th anniversary of his birth, with some 120 paintings and drawings in the first major survey of his work for more than twenty years. Before it comes Sonia Boyce, from 26 March to 22 August, and after it The Tudors, from 18 November.

Rembrandt, Self-portrait with wild eyes, 1630, etching.

The Royal Academy shows Rembrandt: Radical Printmaker from 9 April, organised with the Petit Palais in Paris. The Summer Exhibition runs from 18 May to 15 August, three weeks longer than usual; Simone Leigh's first major UK exhibition follows in the Main Galleries from 18 September; and Matisse, Picasso, Klee: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen opens on 19 November.

The National Gallery has German Expressionism: Modern Painting 1900–1918 from 18 March to 1 August, with Van Eyck: The Portraits until 11 April. Across Trafalgar Square, the National Portrait Gallery shows Peter Blake: Pop Art Life from 11 February, Mary Cassatt from 11 March, and Frank Auerbach from 14 October.

The Turner Prize goes to Tate St Ives for the first time, with the exhibition from 21 October.

If you are thinking of selling in 2027

The fairs and the big exhibitions set the rhythm of the art market. The main auction weeks are built around them: Hong Kong in March, New York in May and November, London in March, June and October, and Paris around Art Basel Paris. A major museum show also puts an artist in front of collectors for months at a time. If you own a work by an artist with a big exhibition in 2027, from Hockney and Gainsborough to Monet, Munch or Rembrandt's prints, it is worth thinking about timing now, as the leading spring and summer sales are planned months in advance.

If you own a work by one of these artists and are thinking of selling, send us photographs for a free valuation. There is no obligation to sell, and we act for you rather than for the saleroom.

Cover: the Fridericianum in Kassel, the main venue of documenta, in January 2026. Photo: Paul Broeker, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.