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Sat 19 - Sat 26 Sep 2026
last week
34 Mortimer St, W1W 7JS, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
an exhibition bringing together works from about twenty galleries and art spaces across Iran … the initiative creates a direct connection between artists, galleries and audiences inside and outside Iran
Wed 16 Sep - Wed 7 Oct 2026
just opened
16-17 Little Portland Street, W1W 8BP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
Dong’s meticulously crafted multi-panel paintings draw energy and influence from classical Chinese ink painting and systems of cultivating nature
the first UK solo show of new paintings by the American artist whose work centres on carefully painted interior spaces - “that are at once familiar and quietly estranged”
“bringing together artists from the United States, Britain and Europe, the exhibition traces how abstraction developed transnationally while pursuing that quintessential Modern ambition for a new kind of truth”
Thu 1 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026
forthcoming
16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
Thu 1 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026
forthcoming
16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
“Bruiseless is a state of collision that leaves no superficial marks on the skin. Yet it hints towards impact. Both in Ja Jess’ still lifes of an egg donation and in Andrea Marcellier’s masturbatory sculptures, a touch reaches inside”
Fri 18 Sep - Fri 30 Oct 2026
just opened
12 Brook’s Mews, W1K 4DG, London
Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10.30am-2.30pm
paintings by six British artists whose practices were forged in the London art world of the 1990s - “painters who, against the prevailing weather, declared that painting remained a medium adequate to its moment”
Sun 6 - Wed 30 Sep 2026
last week
47 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JW, London
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
sixteen international artists whose practices move between sculpture, object, and spatial gesture in a summer group exhibition running alongside London Design Week - “asking not what art depicts, but what it does within a space”
Mon 7 Sep - Tue 17 Nov 2026
26 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
spanning four millennia, a major exhibition bringing together ancient Egyptian artefacts with nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings, drawings, rare books, and photographs to examine how Egypt was made, buried, recovered, and repeatedly reimagined
Fri 4 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026
43 Pall Mall, St. James’s, SW1Y 5JG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm
works by Georg Baselitz, Jim Dine, Tom Hammick, Fernand Léger, Hew Locke, Humphrey Ocean, Julian Opie, Mimmo Paladino, Paula Rego, Yinka Shonibare, and Joe Tilson in an exhibition of artists who weave images of birds into their visual narratives
Fri 4 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026
43 Pall Mall, St. James’s, SW1Y 5JG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm
Kazim’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents new watercolours of solitary figures and circus acts alongside his first major portfolio of prints, illustrating the Urdu alphabet
Mon 12 Oct - Wed 11 Nov 2026
forthcoming
2-4 King Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6QP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
Fri 18 Sep - Sat 31 Oct 2026
just opened
24 Grafton Street, W1S 4EZ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
in the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in London, new paintings which expand his thematic repertoire, bringing his distinctive attention to the glorious and the everyday in both public and private life
Thu 3 - Sun 27 Sep 2026
last week
20 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QR, London
Thu-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm
not open today
interrogating the visual language of landscape - “expansive skies punctuated by stars unfold above architectural forms resembling boxes, walls or foundations, creating a tension between infinite space and structures of human making” - Anastasiia Fedorova
Fri 18 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
just opened
17-18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
curated by Ian Collins, this major exhibition includes rarely seen pieces from public and private collections as well as the first showing of Self’s eclectic multi-media installation of 365 wall-based works, ongoing since the year 2000
Thu 17 Sep - Wed 11 Nov 2026
just opened
41 Dover Street, W1S 4NS, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
in Ford’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s London space, paintings and accompanying studies which extend his career-long investigation into the relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world
Fri 17 Jul - Fri 25 Sep 2026
last week
39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
“working across batik, tapestry, Jacquard weaving, carpet inlay, embroidery, digital image-making and AI, the exhibition explores textiles not simply as a medium, but as a way of thinking: one built through connection, accumulation and transformation”
Wed 9 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026
12 Saint George Street, 1st Floor, W1S 2FB, London
Wed-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
presented with Polben’s Pigment - the artist-led project and pigment company - a collaborative exhibition exploring London through colour and material experimentation, showing what happens when pieces of the city itself become part of the work
Thu 24 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
forthcoming
26 Cork Street, W1S 3ND, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
alongside new drawings, sculptures, and editioned works on paper, the gallery presents the global premiere of Kentridge’s new stop-animation film, the twelfth in his globally acclaimed cycle of Drawings for Projection
Thu 3 Sep - Sat 10 Oct 2026
43a Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6DD, London
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
new paintings by the British artist, melding the contemporary and the classical, and capturing moments of suspension and transition to result in a palpable, physical experience that connects vision, film, memory, and matter
Wed 14 Oct - Fri 6 Nov 2026
forthcoming
35 Bury Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6AY, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
Tue 13 Oct - Wed 23 Dec 2026
forthcoming
23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Tue 13 Oct - Wed 23 Dec 2026
forthcoming
23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Tue 6 - Sat 24 Oct 2026
forthcoming
30 Cork St, W1S 3NG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
drawing from the Islamic devotional practices of Sufism and Wahhabism in his ongoing Forbidden Prayers project, sculptural works in glass and mixed media held in acrylic casts of the artist’s right hand
Thu 17 Sep - Fri 30 Oct 2026
just opened
76 Brewer Street, W1F 9TX, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat by appointment
Thu 8 Oct - Sat 21 Nov 2026
forthcoming
32 St. George Street, W1S 2EA, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
Wed 9 - Sat 26 Sep 2026
last week
13 Mason’s Yard, SW1Y 6BU, London
Wed-Sat 12-5pm
new paintings interrogating the power structures that manipulate and divide global society - in this case particularly the rise of neoliberalism - using the billionaire owned media as source material
Mon 12 Oct - Sat 12 Dec 2026
forthcoming
2 Savile Row, W1S 3PA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm
Thu 17 Sep - Sat 14 Nov 2026
just opened
47 Mortimer Street, W1W 8HJ, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
Wed 14 Oct - Fri 11 Dec 2026
forthcoming
2 Cork Street, W1S 3LB, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
Fri 11 - Sat 26 Sep 2026
last week
9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
curated by Péjú Oshin, paintings and mixed-media works made over more than a decade of practice in a career-spanning look at the work of Nigerian-British artist
Fri 11 - Sat 26 Sep 2026
last week
9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
a new body of work by Khatri presented alongside Chronicles by Kain
Mon 12 Oct - Sun 22 Nov 2026
forthcoming
65-66 New Bond Street, W1S 1RW, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6.30pm, Sun 12-5pm
Mon 12 Oct - Sun 8 Nov 2026
forthcoming
65-66 New Bond Street, W1S 1RW, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6.30pm, Sun 12-5pm
Fri 9 Oct - Fri 11 Dec 2026
forthcoming
25 Savile Row, W1S 2ER, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-3pm
Fri 4 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026
5 Hanover Square, W1S 1HQ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
new paintings, in the Kraków-based artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK, that explore the body as a construct, how it holds memories of past selves, and how those selves remain visible as we age
Tue 6 Oct - Sat 19 Dec 2026
forthcoming
Claridge’s, Brook’s Mews, W1K 4HR, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Thu 10 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
51 Conduit Street, W1S 2YT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
new work which “approaches painting as a form of enquiry into consciousness … Ramsden treats the act of painting as a way for the mind to reflect on itself”
Thu 3 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026
2 Savile Row, W1S 3PA, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
new works by Ragna Bley, Sabine Moritz, Carrie Moyer, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, Tschabalala Self, Lina Iris Viktor, Georg Wilson, and Vivien Zhang in the second instalment of this thematic exhibition at the gallery’s Savile Row space
Fri 4 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026
event today
6 Heddon Street, W1B 4BT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
new paintings by the London-based artist portraying a fictional Jewish family and their social circle, based at their imagined home in Gunnersbury Park, London
Fri 11 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026
74 Newman Street, W1T 3DB, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Barnes’ paintings - large-scale, monumental, realistically-rendered female heads - are isolated against flat colour-field backgrounds and depicted with a thorough coating of viscous liquid like a sudden immersion
Thu 15 Oct - Fri 18 Dec 2026
forthcoming
38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
Thu 11 Jun - Wed 30 Sep 2026
last week
21 Conduit Street, W1S 2XP, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
all-new works by the Brooklyn-based artist who operates at the intersection of painting, sculpture and craft, uprooting conventional distinctions between medium, surface and structure
Royal Academy of Arts
London West End
Thu 10 Sep - Thu 12 Nov 2026
14 Bury Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6AL, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm
new paintings by Sujin Lee
Thu 10 Sep - Sat 10 Oct 2026
2 Bourdon Street, W1K 3PA, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
the London-based painter’s first solo exhibition with the gallery showcases how he mixes a cultural lexicon of symbols with an individual process of grieving following the death of his brother
Thu 24 Sep - Sun 8 Nov 2026
forthcoming
94 New Bond Street, W1S 1SJ, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11.30am-6pm
an exhibition of gouaches, drawings, lithographs, and tapestry work by one of the central figures in twentieth-century modernism
Thu 10 Sep - Tue 10 Nov 2026
9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG, London
Sun-Tue 8am-midnight, Wed-Sat 8am-2am
for its annual celebration of art, design and hospitality, the internationally acclaimed artist and designer known for her use of colour, geometry, and immersive environments reimagines sketch in a way only she can
13 Jan -
9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG, London
Sun-Tue 8am-midnight, Wed-Sat 8am-2am
Baldock’s immersive installation is centered around eighty-four wall-based clay masks and brings his “blend of craft, humour and joy” to India Mahdavi’s luminous interiors
Auction: Wed 16 - Wed 23 Sep 2026
Exhibition: Fri 18 - Wed 23 Sep 2026
auction today
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
Mon 29 Jun - Fri 25 Sep 2026
last week
23 Heddon Street, W1B 4BQ, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
“the exhibition begins with a simple question: what happens when the body becomes both subject and surface? … whether approached directly or obliquely, the works explore the body through drawing, mark, fragment, and presence”
Fri 18 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026
just opened
7a Grafton Street, W1S 4EJ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Dodd’s exhibition centers on the goddess Diana and, having relocated from upstate New York to Scotland’s Moray Coast, uses materials from her new home like peat, copper ink, spirulina, cochineal, local herbs and powdered meteorite
in his first exhibition with the gallery, new work by the American artist - “sculptures … not defined by formal transformation, but rather by the repositioning of recognisable materials through acts of selection, displacement, and framing”
Thu 3 Sep - Thu 1 Oct 2026
Ely House, 37 Dover Street, W1S 4NJ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
an exhibition of eight contemporary artists working across painting and sculpture - Benjamin Orlow, Emil Sands, Galli, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Kira Freije, Suleman Aqeel Khilji, Tanoa Sasraku, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Wed 9 Sep - Fri 30 Oct 2026
9 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AB, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm
the gallery pairs Michael Landy’s 1991 sculpture with paintings by the late John Tweddle, produced in New York between 1966 and 1970 and from the legendary Scull collection
The Photographers' Gallery
London West EndJapanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now
Wed 24 Jun - Sun 27 Sep 2026
last week
16-18 Ramillies Street, W1F 7LW, London
Mon-Wed & Sat 10am-6pm, Thu-Fri 10am-8pm, Sun 11am-6pm
TPG
Soho Photography Quarter
London West EndNINAGAWA Mika: Captive Blooms
Wed 24 Jun 2026 - Tue 1 Jun 2027
Ramillies Place, W1F 7LW, London
All day, every day
Wed 16 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026
just opened
11-12 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5LU, London
Mon-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 12-3pm (closed on Bank Holidays)
celebrating the life and work of the artist, zoologist, and author with works from across his extraordinary eight-decade artistic career - including his monumental multi-panelled magnum opus The Gathering
including both historic figures and the contemporary generation, an exhibition bringing together artists whose work has been shaped by Cornwall across nearly one hundred years
The Wallace Collection
London West End
Fri 4 Sep - Thu 1 Oct 2026
11 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
in collaboration with Corbett vs. Dempsey, an exhibition of Wright’s flower paintings, alongside works on paper, made from 1992 onwards
Tue 13 Oct - Sat 19 Dec 2026
forthcoming
3 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
Thu 17 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026
just opened
15 Bolton Street, W1J 8BG, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Pozanti - “she builds forms that shift fluidly between flower, body, and current, resisting fixed identity in favour of continuous transformation”
Thu 20 Aug - Sat 26 Sep 2026
last week
64 Grosvenor Street, W1K 3JH, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Mon by appointment
Fri 11 Sep - Sat 31 Oct 2026
7 Royalty Mews (Dean St), W1D 3AS, London
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
the current Turner Prize nominee presents new sculptures exploring the relationship between tropical leisure, militarism and colonial memory
Mon 21 Sep - Sat 21 Nov 2026
just opened
11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT, London
Mon 2-7pm, Tue-Fri 10.30am-7pm, Sat 11am-6pm
a survey exhibition celebrating the remarkable breadth of Davenport’s career from the late 1980s to the present
Fri 4 Sep - Sun 4 Oct 2026
31 Windmill Street, W1T 2JN, London
Thu-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
an ambitious group exhibition curated by the cross-disciplinary initiatives Teaspoon Projects and Wyn, with photography, sculpture, painting, and video works by Margherita Pedrotta, Natalie Sasi Organ, Linnea Skoglösa, Danae Stratou, and Kusukazu Uraguchi