What’s on at London galleries and art museums. Use the to save and favourite exhibitions.
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an exhibition of artists whose works challenge the intrinsic hierarchies and biases of language
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a monumental summer exhibition celebrating London, its artists and institutions, with works by Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Paula Rego, Lucian Freud, Gilbert & George, Neil Stokoe, Tracey Emin, …
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21 May - 18 Jul 2025
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early paintings, drawings, and prints from public and private collections, many not seen together since the 1960s, in the first in-depth exploration of this pivotal period in Hockney’s career
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responding directly to the architecture of the building, a monumental new site-specific work, alongside works in glass, on paper, and three-dimensional objects, in the Turner Prize-winning artist’s first solo exhibition at a London institution
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“the research-led practices of three transnational artists – Riya Bhagat, Victor Guerin and Elina Yumasheva, whose artworks – film, sculpture and painting - engage ecological interdependence, technological mediation, and material intelligence”
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the inaugural presentation of new paintings by Stingel - “in these works I’m leaving rigorous conceptual process behind and allowing myself to paint”
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17 Apr - 13 Sep 2025
Wed & Fri 11am-6pm, Thu 11am-9pm, Sat 12.30-6pm
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three decades of photographs in the first comprehensive retrospective of Perrier’s work
London
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12 Jun - 29 Aug 2025
Tue-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm
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lithography, silkscreen, inkless intaglio, and embossing in the first exhibition dedicated solely to the complete print portfolios of Albers
London
6 Jun - 11 Jul 2025
Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
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a two-part presentation of Jarman’s work tracing the development of his most significant series of paintings
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artwork for the two great gothic novels by renowned illustrator Angela Barrett
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3 Apr - 7 Sep 2025
Mon 12-6pm, Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat-Sun 10am-7pm
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extending beyond the gallery to include outdoor sculptures, this is the most comprehensive institutional exhibition of the leading figure in the Arte Povera movement to be presented in the UK
London West End
London West End
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6 Jun - 26 Oct 2025
Mon 12-6pm, Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat-Sun 10am-7pm
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this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is by Marina Tabassum, celebrated for her work in establishing an architectural language that is both contemporary and deeply connected to a specific place, climate, context, culture, and history
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hosted by the gallery, Errant Echoes presents a selection of work from the seventeen artists of the 2027 cohort at the RA Schools
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Ozwyn’s debut solo exhibition transforms the gallery with an immersive installation to examine concepts of belonging and “otherness”
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new paintings by the Los Angeles-based Pecis - “kaleidoscopic compositions drawn from the artist's daily excursions”
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for their presentation at the debut edition of Africa Basel, painting, sculpture, photography and ceramic works by James Barnor, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Alexis Peskine, Zana Masombuka, LR Vandy, Owusu-Ankomah, and Xanthe Somers
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in partnership with the British Museum, a rare collection of large and precious metal sculptures paired with Dürer’s drawing - “a remarkable fusion of traditional silversmithing techniques and cutting-edge production processes” - Alastair Walker
London
10 Jun - 31 Aug 2025
Tue-Fri & Sun 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-8pm
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new image-based works, sculpture, video and found objects in a multi-layered exhibition exploring language and the vocabulary of corporate finance, debt and development
London West End
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a powerful exhibition of the era-defining and thought-provoking works by one of the most prominent Magnum photographers of the postwar era, and the first to focus almost exclusively on peacetime
London
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17 Apr - 13 Sep 2025
Wed & Fri 11am-6pm, Thu 11am-9pm, Sat 12.30-6pm
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new portraits of herself and her young son where Minnicucci explores how vulnerability and discomfort in front of the camera can become self-discovery and collaboration
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6 - 29 Jun 2025
Tue-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm
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three architectural exhibitions, by the collectives Citizen Architects, Black Females in Architecture, and Somali Architecture - with participatory installations, film, photography, and live events
London West End
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5 Jun - 20 Sep 2025
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
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Chihota blends screen-printing with drawing and painterly gestures, producing works which explore themes of intimacy, kinship, bereavement, faith, and transformation
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23 May - 28 Jun 2025
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
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“a series of paintings that blur the boundary between the intimate and the archetypal, the legible and the encrypted”
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the ten paintings in the French-Iranian artist’s debut solo exhibition in London explore “identity transformation and the paradoxes of contemporary existence in our hyper-connected age”
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taking the colour grey as their starting point, works by Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Günther Förg, Hans Josephsohn, KAWS, Albert Oehlen, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren, Grace Weaver, and Toby Ziegler
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“a new body of work that looks back to the Midwestern winters of Clarke’s childhood” in the first UK solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based painter
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“semantic transparency is a theoretical construct. It refers to the extent to which the constituents of multi-morphemic words contribute to the meaning of the whole word” - Charlie Burtenshaw
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the second instalment in the gallery’s curatorial series Figurative Impressions is “an exploration of figurative painting as a medium for expressing the complexities of the lived experience”
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featuring works by Issi Nash, Tom Hardwick Allan, Arthur Poujois, Thomas Pellerey Grogan, Eva Yates, Archie Fooks-Smith and Sofya Shpurova, shown alongside Leonard Beck, Christoph Nathe, Edmund Kesting, Jean Fautrier, and Luise Danker
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supporting International World Bee Day and in support of Bee:wild unique artworks inspired by and created in support of bees and pollinator conservation
London
22 May - 30 Aug 2025
Tue-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Sat 10am-9.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm, Mon by appointment
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new pieces by the multidisciplinary artist and designer known for using flowers and other organic matter to explore decomposition, preservation and the passage of time
London West End
5 Jun - 20 Sep 2025
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
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an installation of charcoal drawings influenced by the evidential and documentary values of photography to examine the history of settler-colonial Rhodesia and contemporary challenges in Zimbabwe
London West End
London
22 May - 30 Aug 2025
Tue-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Sat 10am-9.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm, Mon by appointment
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new pieces by the Dutch designer continuing his series of video “clocks” - “Baas invites viewers to experience the movement of time as art, reinterpreting how they perceive and reconstruct the moments that pass”
London
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16 May 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
Tue-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Sat 10am-9.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm, Mon by appointment
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one of Prouvé’s models of the 6×6 house from 1944, which will be a permanent installation in the garden of the gallery space
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transforming the gallery into a theatrical and unsettling “Circus of The Art Market”, the first solo exhibition in the upstairs space by the Spanish artist takes its title from the ancient Greek term for the act of speaking truthfully, openly, and without
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21 Mar - 29 Jun 2025
17 Jun - 17 Aug 2025
28 Jun - 26 Oct 2025
20 Sep 2025 - 18 Jan 2026
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm (Fri 10am-9pm)
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22 May - 30 Aug 2025
Tue-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Sat 10am-9.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm, Mon by appointment
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a series of works by the internationally acclaimed British designer known for pushing the boundaries of materials and technology, producing “innovative design infused with a sense of joy and wonder”
London
22 May - 30 Aug 2025
Tue-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Sat 10am-9.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm, Mon by appointment
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including work shown in London for the first time, ceramic vessels and jewellery from the Paris-based designer that draw inspiration from both flora and fauna
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a new exhibition by Argentinian duo - “an immersive and deeply sensorial encounter with the artists’ kinetic sculptures and light-based installations”
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in Gallace’s first exhibition across both of the gallery’s London locations, new paintings drawing on the American landscape and still life traditions of her home
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4 Oct 2024 - 28 Sep 2025
Mon 12-6pm, Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat-Sun 10am-7pm
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Mahlangu’s first public work in the UK is a monumental, site-specific mural in the garden at Serpentine North
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in Gallace’s first exhibition across both of the gallery’s London locations, new paintings drawing on the American landscape and still life traditions of her home
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2 Apr - 25 Aug 2025
13 Jun - 19 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025 - 15 Feb 2026
Daily 10am-6pm
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6 Jun - 17 Aug 2025
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
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18 Sep 2024 - 31 Jan 2026
All day, every day
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27 Feb - 31 Aug 2025
1 May - 19 Oct 2025
10 Jul 2025 - 11 Jan 2026
17 Sep 2025 - 12 Apr 2026
9 Oct 2025 - 11 May 2026
Daily 10am-6pm
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8 Mar - 22 Jun 2025
29 Mar - 17 Aug 2025
Daily 10am-6pm, Fri 10am-9pm
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16 Jul - 13 Sep 2025
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27 Jun - 28 Sep 2025
27 Jun - 28 Sep 2025
Mon-Wed & Sat 10am-6pm, Thu-Fri 10am-8pm, Sun 11am-6pm
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a major group exhibition and event programme curated by Lubaina Himid in celebration of forty years since the groundbreaking ICA show of young Black and Asian women artists
London West End
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26 Jun - 23 Sep 2025
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
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fifty drawings and paintings from important public and private collections around the world in the UK’s first major museum exhibition dedicated to one of the world’s foremost contemporary artists
London
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10 Jul - 12 Oct 2025
Daily 10.30am-6pm (Fri-Sat until 9pm)
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13 Nov 2025 - 8 Feb 2026
Daily 10.30am-6pm (Fri-Sat until 9pm)
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7 Oct 2025 - 4 Jan 2026
Tue-Fri & Sun 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-8pm
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17 Jul 2025 - 17 Jan 2026
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm
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“an exciting milestone in Pichillá’s ongoing exploration of Maya heritage, cultural resistance, and the intricate relationships between Indigenous traditions and contemporary art practices”
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large-scale photographs alongside textile pieces in an exhibition juxtaposing the two artists’ collaborative approach and their exploration of specific local conditions
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HM + G
An inspiring, surprising, family-friendly, free Museum and Gardens in South London's Forest Hill.
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