Serpentine has revealed its 2027 programme: five major exhibitions across the year, all with free entry, spanning eight decades of painting, conceptual practice and one of the most talked-about new art prizes in Britain.

The year opens with Pierre Alechinsky (11 February–18 April 2027), the last surviving member of the postwar Cobra movement. The Belgian artist gets a show pairing rarely seen Indian ink drawings with monumental all-over acrylic compositions — a portrait of a radical experimentalist still working across painting and works on paper after more than eighty years.

Spring brings Matt Copson (19 March–22 August 2027), who takes Robin Hood — the folkloric outlaw who robbed the rich — as the anchor for a labyrinth of new works. True to Copson's fascination with theme-park rides, visitors will move through laser projections, sculpture, animatronics and sound in what promises to be one of the year's most immersive London shows.

Adrian Piper follows with "I'm This Space: Selected Works 1967–2027" (22 May–5 September 2027), a six-decade survey of the American artist whose work uses irony and play to unsettle assumptions about race, gender, truth and how value gets assigned. Audience participation is built into the exhibition, making visitors co-authors of its multiple meanings.

Autumn belongs to two debuts of a different kind: Gozo Yoshimasu (24 September 2027–January 2028), the radical Japanese poet and inventor of the gozoCiné moving-image form, stages the inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize exhibition — the £200,000 award billed as the UK's largest contemporary art prize. The year closes with Lisa Brice (8 October 2027–6 February 2028), whose paintings recast women as active, self-possessed protagonists across four chapters set in a park, a studio, a bar and a fight arena.