London Art Guide
The curated gallery guide for world-class exhibitions at London’s leading galleries and museums. Browse or filter to find artists, galleries and exhibitions happening right now across the city.
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- Achille Salvagni AtelierLondon West End
Apollo 15 Mar - 7 Sep 2018 the Atelier is transformed into a sumptuous retro-futuristic space capsule inspired by iconic 1960s science fiction set designsAlan Cristea GalleryLondon West End
forthcoming:Julian Opie 26 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 a major exhibition of the celebrated artist’s sculptures, prints and animationsAlison Jacques GalleryLondonAlmine Rech Gallery LondonLondon West End
just openedMatthias Bitzer: Sequences from a Volatile Now 17 Apr - 19 May 2018not open todaynew sculptural and wall works form an installation in Bitzer’s first solo exhibition in LondonAnnely Juda Fine ArtLondon West EndYuko Shiraishi: Floworld 15 Mar - 2 May 2018Annely Juda Fine ArtLondon West EndMania Akbari & Douglas White, Phil Coy & Frances Scott, Golden Family: Islands, curated by The Russian Club 15 Mar - 2 May 2018Annka Kultys GalleryLondon
last weekSigne Pierce: Metamirrorism 28 Mar - 28 Apr 2018not open todayPierce takes the gallery’s visitors as her raw material to create an immersive, reflected, refracted and abstracted universe of the ephemeralAriadne GalleriesLondonATLAS GalleryLondonRichard Caldicott 1 Mar - 5 May 2018BarbicanLondon, PublicBarbicanLondon, PublicBartha ContemporaryLondon West EndBen Brown Fine Arts LondonLondon West Endno current exhibitionBlain|Southern, Hanover SqLondon West End
Wim Wenders: Early Works: 1964 - 1984 23 Mar - 5 May 2018 Polaroids and black-and-white photographs from Wenders’ archive, many never shown beforeBlain|Southern, Hanover SqLondon West End
Gabriella Boyd: Help Yourself 23 Mar - 5 May 2018 new series of paintings in which dream logic appears to dominate and the atmosphere is suffused with both eroticism and threatno current exhibition
just openedIslamic and Indian Art including Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art Auction: 24 Apr 2018
Exhibition: 19 Apr - 23 Apr 2018British MuseumLondon, PublicCabinetLondonCamden Arts CentreLondon, PublicCamden Arts CentreLondon, PublicCampoli PrestiLondonCardi Gallery, LondonLondonno current exhibitionCarl Freedman GalleryLondonno current exhibitionCarl KostyálLondonCarlos/IshikawaLondonChisenhale GalleryLondon, PublicChristie’sLondon West Endno current exhibitionChristie’s London, King StreetLondon West Endno current exhibitionCortesi Gallery, LondonLondon
Angela Lyn: floating gardens 2 Mar - 10 May 2018 “I see floating gardens not only reflecting my observations of nature but also as a metaphor for our human existence within the great unknown” LynCorvi-MoraLondonDavid Zwirner, LondonLondon West EndDelfina FoundationLondon, Public
forthcoming:Alex Mirutziu: Between Too Soon and Too Late 26 Apr - 2 Jun 2018 newly commissioned and existing works, exploring the 'tiny space' identified by novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, where meaning stays tacit, where being and not being are the sameDrawing RoomLondon, Public
forthcoming:A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings 13 Jun - 5 Aug 2018not open todayEstorick Collection of Modern Italian ArtLondon, Publicjust openedRationalism on Set: Glamour and Modernity in 1930s Italian Cinema 18 Apr - 24 Jun 2018not open todayFrith Street Gallery, Golden SquareLondon West EndGagosian Britannia StLondonGagosian Davies StLondon West Endjust openedJohn Chamberlain: ENTIRELYFEARLESS 17 Apr - 26 May 2018not open todaylarge-scale floor sculptures and wall-mounted works made over the course of four decades of Chamberlain’s careerGagosian Grosvenor HillLondon West End
Richard Serra: Rifts 6 Apr - 25 May 2018not open todayI use black because it is a color that doesn’t transport elusive emotions - Richard Serra
just openedJoseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag Monuments 17 Apr - 16 Jun 2018not open todaycurated by Norman Rosenthal, a retrospective of Beuys’ masterpieces, including early drawings, sculptures and early photographs from the late 40s and early 50s
just openedAlvaro Barrington: A Taste of Chocolate 17 Apr - 16 Jun 2018not open todaya site-specific installation curated by Norman Rosenthal which actively reproduces the energy found in the artist’s studioGasworksLondon, PublicgreengrassiLondonHamiltonsLondon West End
Robert Frank 28 Mar - 11 May 2018 rarely seen prints, including pictures from Frank’s seminal 1953 visit to a Welsh coal-mining village, and a selection from his travels in London, Paris and America during the 50s and 60sHauser & Wirth Savile RowLondon West EndHauser & Wirth Savile RowLondon West EndHayward GalleryLondon, PublicHerald StLondonHollybush GardensLondon
Every Object is a Thing but not every thing is an object 13 Apr - 19 May 2018not open todayseven artists who work with industrially produced materials, functional objects, personal effects and performative situations - dislocated, re-appropriated, re-contextualised, translated and transformedHollybush GardensLondon
Upstairs: Cameo by Bruno Pacheco 13 Apr - 19 May 2018not open todayPacheco employs a circulating set of ideas and conditions that become reaffirmed and deconstructed through repetitionICALondon, PublicImperial War MuseumLondon, PublicAge of Terror: Art since 9/11 26 Oct 2017 - 28 May 2018kamel mennour, LondonLondon
Liam Everett: The Listeners 11 Apr - 12 May 2018 “In the little black chair an idiot waits under the heat of the lamp”Kate MacGarryLondonKÖNIG Archiv & SouvenirLondonno current exhibitionLarge GlassLondon
last week‘A Coin In Nine Hands’ Part 5: Alice Channer (Carapaces) 23 Mar - 28 Apr 2018not open todayLaure Genillard GalleryLondon
just openedGraeme Todd 21 Apr - 16 Jun 2018not open todayspanning the last ten years, paintings of dense and complex landscapes meticulously scrutinising and warping preconceptions of the material worldLévy Gorvy LondonLondon West End
last weekSource and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing 5 Mar - 28 Apr 2018not open todaylaunching the gallery’s remodelled London space, an exhibition inspired by Sigmar Polke, Roy Lichtenstein, and Gerald Laing’s use of the Ben-Day dot in their paintings from the 1960sLisson GalleryLondonLisson GalleryLondonLuxembourg & Dayan LondonLondon West End
René Magritte (Or: The Rule of Metaphor) 27 Feb - 12 May 2018not open todayan exhibition dedicated to the development of Magritte’s word-pictures during his years in Paris between 1927-30Marian Goodman GalleryLondon
Christian Boltanski: Éphémères 12 Apr - 12 May 2018not open todayconceived as a complete installation, comprising new works including a number of film installations in the artist’s first solo London exhibition since 2010Marlborough ContemporaryLondon West EndMarlborough Fine ArtLondonMassimo De Carlo, LondonLondon West End
Hermann Nitsch: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater 11 Apr - 25 May 2018not open todaya mini retrospective of Nitsch’s work, presenting a vast series of signature large canvases spanning from the 1980’s to more recent work created specifically for the show along with performance documentationMaureen PaleyLondon
Anne Hardy 10 Apr - 20 May 2018not open todaythe UK debut of a new film presented in a specially created cinema setting, together with a large photo-structure in the upstairs spaceMazzoleniLondon West End
MORE THAN WORDS... 23 Feb - 12 May 2018 an exhibition exploring the use of text and the written word in the practice of major Post-War Italian artistsMichael Werner Gallery, MayfairLondon West End
forthcoming:Marküs Lupertz: Tent Paintings 27 Apr - 30 Jun 2018not open todaya rare opportunity to see key early works of this important artistModern ArtLondonNational Portrait GalleryLondon, PublicVictorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography 1 Mar - 20 May 2018National Portrait GalleryLondon, PublicTacita Dean: PORTRAIT 15 Mar - 28 May 2018Newport Street GalleryLondon, Public
Rachel Howard: Repetition is Truth – Via Dolorosa 21 Feb - 28 May 2018not open todaythe first UK exhibition of Howard’s series of semi-abstract paintings referencing the Stations of the Cross and the universality of human rights abusesNewport Street GalleryLondon, Public
John Copeland: Your Heaven Looks Just Like My Hell 21 Feb - 28 May 2018not open todayCopeland’s first UK solo exhibition features twenty-five paintings dating from 2009 to 2017Olivier MalingueLondon
Surrealism: A Conversation 2 Mar - 12 May 2018 rare and iconic works by some of the most significant figures within the Surrealist movement - including Hans Arp, Salvador Dalí, Óscar Domínguez, Max Ernst, René Magritte and Yves TanguyOrdovasLondon West End
last weekLondon Painters 22 Feb - 28 Apr 2018not open todayworks by the core proponents of the so-called “School of London”: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj and Leon KossoffPace, Burlington GardensLondon West EndParasol unit foundation for contemporary artLondon, Public
Carlos Garaicoa 13 Apr - 3 Jun 2018not open todayexploring a diverse body of work, the exhibition reflects upon the city – its limitations as well as its potentials and possibilities – as a physical infrastructure, social network and political spacePaul Stolper GalleryLondonPi Artworks LondonLondon West End
forthcoming:Fahrettin Örenli: Money Without Nationality 10 May - 9 Jun 2018not open todayseries of works which examine the psychological and physical aspects of cities as living organic structures, perceiving them as control towers for the distribution of mass informationPilar CorriasLondon West EndPippy Houldsworth GalleryLondon West EndRepetto GalleryLondonCarol Rama: Works on paper 1946 - 2005 5 Apr - 4 May 2018Richard Nagy Ltd.Londonno current exhibitionRichard SaltounLondon
Paulo Bruscky: The Gallery will be fumigated of art 6 Apr - 26 May 2018not open todayin his first solo exhibition in London, a unique opportunity to explore Bruscky’s radical language through a major display of works created from the late 1960s to todayRobilant + Voena, LondonLondon West End
Marino Marini: Horses, Horsemen and Female Nudes 27 Feb - 18 May 2018 curated by Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi, an exhibition exploring the main sculptural themes that Marini concentrated on from the 1930s to the 1950srosenfeld porciniLondonRoyal Academy of ArtsLondon West End, PublicSaatchi GalleryLondon, PublicKnown Unknowns 21 Mar - 24 Jun 2018
Nudes 11 Apr - 26 May 2018not open todaythe exhibition considers the versatile and paradoxical power of the body and its representation in artSadie Coles HQ Kingly StreetLondon West EndSerpentine GalleryLondon, Public
Lee Ufan: Relatum - Stage 6 Feb - 29 Jul 2018not open todaythe Serpentine continues its exploration of public art with a sculptural commission by Lee Ufan, installed outside the gallery in Kensington GardensSerpentine GalleryLondon, Public
Ian Cheng 6 Mar - 28 May 2018not open todayCheng works with sentient artworks named BOB (Bag Of Beliefs) - to transform the Serpentine into a sort of animal sanctuary for new forms of 21st century lifeSerpentine Sackler GalleryLondon, Public
Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on 6 Mar - 20 May 2018not open todaythe first European solo exhibition of the American artist who explores the intersection of black identity, digital culture and power structures through video, media, installation and performanceSimon Lee LondonLondon West End
Eric N. Mack: Misa Hylton-Brim 12 Apr - 12 May 2018 a new body of the artist’s signature large-scale assemblages, which oscillate between painting, sculpture, the readymade and performance, at the same time initiating a dialogue between fashion and artSimon Lee LondonLondon West End
just openedViewing Room: Joel Mesler: The Alphabet of Creation (for now) 20 Apr - 26 May 2018 in his first solo exhibition in the UK, new paintings from Mesler’s ongoing body of work where each painting is devoted to a single letter, drawing on memories from his childhood and his hometown of Los AngelesSir John Soane's MuseumLondon, PublicSir John Soane's MuseumLondon, Publicforthcoming:The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture 16 May - 27 Aug 2018not open todaySkarstedt, LondonLondon West End
Eric Fischl: Presence of an Absence 1 Mar - 26 May 2018not open today“my paintings are only ‘about’ something when they’ve missed their mark. When they are successful, it is because they embody the ‘thing’ itself” FischlSophia Contemporary GalleryLondon West End
Iva Gueorguieva / Dona Nelson: Portal 16 Mar - 2 May 2018 the American duo’s first two-person exhibition provides an inter-generational visual dialogue through works including Gueorguieva’s vibrant acrylic and collage works and Nelson’s signature double-sided freestanding paintingsSotheby‘s LondonLondon West EndSotheby‘s S|2 GalleryLondon West End
forthcoming:Signals 27 Apr - 13 Jul 2018 an exhibition bringing together works by the network of artists involved with the fluid and shifting 60s gallery Signals LondonSouth London GalleryLondon, PublicSouthard ReidLondonSprovieriLondon West End
last weekFrancesco Arena: Due ritratti con persona 2 Mar - 28 Apr 2018not open todayan exhibition centred around the first work of a new series by the artist, which deals with two of their most recurring themes: portrait and timeSprüth Magers, Grafton St.London West End
Karen Kilimnik 13 Apr - 26 May 2018not open todayworks from four decades in Kilimnik’s career as one of the most important representatives of figurative painting, sculpture and installationStair SaintyLondon West Endno current exhibitionStephen Friedman GalleryLondon West EndStudio VoltaireLondon, PublicTate BritainLondon, PublicTate BritainLondon, PublicTate BritainLondon, PublicTate ModernLondon, PublicJoan Jonas 14 Mar - 5 Aug 2018Tate ModernLondon, PublicTenderpixelLondon
last weekPakui Hardware: The Return of Sweetness 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018not open todayan entirely new site-specific project, exploring metabolism both as a metaphorical device and as a physical and biological processThe ApproachLondonThe ApproachLondonThe Courtauld GalleryLondon, Public
