Girls artists dominate the 2026 exhibition programme at Tate Trendy, with exhibits devoted to Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta lined up on the London establishment.
The Emin present (26 February 2026-31 August 2026), will embrace portray, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and set up. It caps a profitable interval for Emin, following exhibitions in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi (Tracey Emin. Intercourse and Solitude, till 20 July) and on the Yale Middle for British Artwork in New Haven, Connecticut which is because of open later this month (Tracey Emin: I Beloved You Till the Morning).
In keeping with a press release, the upcoming Tate present will show how Emin challenges boundaries, “utilizing the feminine physique as a strong instrument to discover ardour, ache, and therapeutic” and exhibit her “lifelong dedication to portray, displaying her current work because the fruits of the methods she has channelled her life into her artwork”.
Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon (25 June 2026-4 January 2027) will function greater than 130 works depicting the artist’s “many selves—the devoted spouse, the mental, the trendy artist, and the political activist”, says Tate. Work by greater than 80 of her contemporaries and different artists she impressed can even function together with paperwork, images and memorabilia from Kahlo’s archives.
One other essential girl, the late Cuban-US artist Ana Mendieta, can be the topic of a Tate Trendy present subsequent yr (9 July 2026-10 January 2027). The exhibition will embrace newly remastered movies, early work, and late sculptural items, a lot of which have by no means been seen within the UK earlier than. “[It] will proceed exterior the gallery partitions, embracing Mendieta’s deep relationship with the pure world,” says a Tate assertion.
Mendieta fell to her dying from the window of the Thirty fourth-floor condo she shared along with her husband, the late Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1985. Andre denied accusations that he killed his spouse, insisting that Mendieta’s dying was both an accident or a suicide. In 1988, Andre was tried and acquitted on a cost of second-degree homicide.
At Tate Britain, the UK artist Hurvin Anderson will get his first main museum present, comprising greater than 60 work (26 March 2026-23 August). Anderson is thought for his swimming pool work made quickly after leaving London’s Royal Faculty of Artwork within the late Nineteen Nineties and his nostalgic interiors of Birmingham’s Black barbershops.
Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant (12 November 2026-11 April 2027), additionally at Tate Britain, explores the legacy of the core members of the Bloomsbury Group by means of 250 works together with portraits, nonetheless lives, landscapes, ornamental works on furnishings, ceramics, textiles, and rather more. The present will incorporate “a once-in-a-lifetime restaging of Duncan Grant’s studio”, which can be relocated from Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse that has turn into a Bloomsbury shrine.
The Studio at Charleston
© The Charleston Belief, pictures Lee Robbins
Charleston’s director, Nathaniel Hepburn, says: “Caring for a historic assortment in a Sixteenth-century home on a farm comes with distinctive challenges, and our most up-to-date conservation survey has highlighted important work wanted to guard the studio’s construction and atmosphere. This partnership with Tate Britain is a uncommon alternative, not solely to share the studio with new audiences, however to hold out essential preservation work whereas its contents stay seen on a significant worldwide stage.
“Due to assist from Arts Council England, we will start pressing repairs this summer season whereas we safe grants and donations for additional works throughout the winter of 2026/27 when the studio is on show at Tate Britain. Throughout this era we’ll undertake work on the inside of the studio defending this particular room to encourage generations to return.”
Following a wave of exhibits about artwork of the Nineteen Eighties, The 90s (Tate Britain, 1 October 2026-14 February 2027), curated by the previous editor-in-chief of British Vogue, Edward Enninful, focuses on photographers together with Juergen Teller and Nick Knight, together with Younger British Artists of the period reminiscent of Damien Hirst. In the meantime, Zineb Sedira, the Franco-Algerian artist who represented France on the 2022 Venice Biennale, can even unveil a brand new fee within the Duveen Galleries.
Tate St Ives will current exhibitions devoted to the Lithuanian American artist Aleksandra Kasuba (2 Could 2026-4 October) and the British Twentieth-century artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (24 October 2026-11 April 2027). Whereas Tate Liverpool stays closed for renovations, its programme of assortment shows and public occasions will proceed at RIBA North.
