Exhibitions and events at galleries and art museums in London's West End.
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Thu 8 Oct - Sat 12 Dec 2026
34 Mortimer St, W1W 7JS, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
the first and most comprehensive solo exhibition in the UK of Karamustafa’s practice spans four decades of work across painting, textile, video, installation, and mixed media
Mon 12 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
16-17 Little Portland Street, W1W 8BP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
“works in the exhibition emerge through observation, documentation and other metabolizations of particular plant species in the Peruvian Amazon. The resulting sculptures … carry these experiences of particular beings and sacred places into another form”
Fri 9 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
22 Cork Street, W1S 3NG, London
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
new works by Little, “intricate paintings from carefully staged arrangements assembled in his studio using cut paper, found objects gathered from the streets around his home, friends posing as models”
Fri 9 Oct - Fri 20 Nov 2026
27 Cork Street, W1S 3NG, London
Mon-Fri 9am-6pm
not open today
large-scale paintings, displayed alongside drawings as well as complementary works from the gallery offer an insight into Head’s approach to painting, revealing the processes, themes and visual connections that underpin his work
Thu 8 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
31 Grosvenor Hill, W1K 3QU, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
the Aboriginal artist’s first London exhibition begins with a childhood memory of visits to Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria and questions who is represented in museums, who decides, and who is left out
Thu 1 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
Turner’s first solo gallery exhibition is a site-responsive installation of dark wool and horsehair, which fills the ground-floor galleries and continues twelve metres up the façade of the Georgian townhouse
Thu 1 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
in this exhibition curated by Paola Lucente three contemporary artists - Chloe Bonfield, Kate Lyddon and Zulfiya Spowart - explore memory, inheritance, and the traces experience leaves behind
Wed 14 Oct - Fri 4 Dec 2026
45 Davies Street, W1K 4LX, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
not open today
an exhibition of historical works of Broodthaers in dialogue with Kurant’s speculative experimentation
Thu 15 Oct - Thu 31 Dec 2026
47 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JW, London
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
six emerging Chinese artists selected from over a thousand open-call submissions make their debut on London's global art stage
Mon 7 Sep - Tue 17 Nov 2026
26 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
not open today
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
Wed 14 Oct - Wed 23 Dec 2026
43 Pall Mall, St. James’s, SW1Y 5JG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm
over twenty new works on paper by Gormley, some monumental in scale and each a direct trace of a place and a body, in an attempt to both subjectivise and universalise the question “where am I?”
Sat 10 Oct - Tue 10 Nov 2026
last week
2-4 King Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6QP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
the Dutch artist and designer continues his engagement in reinterpreting classical furniture - “sinuous, brushstroke-like shapes, which are created from sketches and rendered in patinated bronze, evoke the feeling of matter in flux”
Thu 5 Nov - Sat 19 Dec 2026
just opened
24 Grafton Street, W1S 4EZ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
an exhibition of new and historical prints from the workshop and publisher, highlighting the history and production of the Copenhagen-based studio from its modest beginnings to its present-day collaborations with leading international contemporary artists
Tue 13 Oct 2026 - Sun 17 Jan 2027
20 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QR, London
Thu-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm
furniture, found objects, figures, costumes, painted surfaces, and images are dismantled, altered and recombined, moving between domestic spaces, film sets, and installations, in the artist duo’s first exhibition with the gallery
Thu 8 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
23 Princes Street, W1B 2LY, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Zimmermann’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s London space brings together for the first time his most recent body of epoxy-on-canvas works
Fri 18 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
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
last week
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
Mon 12 Oct - Fri 18 Dec 2026
39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
the gallery’s first solo exhibition with one of the defining figures of British Pop Art presents a substantial body of new work alongside significant pieces from across his career
Mon 12 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
new and recent works on canvas by the multidisciplinary artist “whose approach is inspired by the visual fragments of everyday life, the energy of the city, and overlooked details within our surroundings”
Wed 28 Oct - Sat 28 Nov 2026
12 Saint George Street, 1st Floor, W1S 2FB, London
Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
works by Raymond Pettibon, Atticus Wakefield, and Susan Kellaway
Thu 24 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
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
Tue 13 Oct - Sat 21 Nov 2026
43a Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6DD, London
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
based around the 2013 discovery of the rare bronze sculpture Apollo, new paintings by Nashashibi in the first solo exhibition of her work in London since her 2020 National Gallery exhibition
Wed 7 Oct - Sat 19 Dec 2026
21 Woodstock Street, W1C 2AP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
an exhibition exploring the cultural exchange between Cuban communism and the French avant-garde in the 50s and 60s
the debut of works from Sherman’s new photographic series exploring identity as a continual process of construction over a lifetime
Tue 13 Oct - Wed 23 Dec 2026
23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
new large-scale paintings, multi-panel compositions, and sculpture by Simpson revealing the symbiotic relationship between her paintings, collages, and wider oeuvre
Thu 1 Oct - Fri 27 Nov 2026
38 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BB, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
not open today
an exhibition of works spanning over fifty years and three distinct phases of Riley’s career, revealing the remarkable evolution of her exploration of visual perception
Tue 17 Nov 2026 - Sat 27 Feb 2027
forthcoming
30 Cork St, W1S 3NG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
Thu 8 Oct - Sat 21 Nov 2026
32 St. George Street, W1S 2EA, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
a comprehensive exhibition of works on paper spanning fifty years of work by the Colombia-based artist whose fantastical drawings explore the subconscious, the body, and desire
Mon 12 Oct - Sat 12 Dec 2026
2 Savile Row, W1S 3PA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm
organised in collaboration with the artist’s estate and Gomide&Co, São Paulo - and exhibited in both the gallery space and Frieze Masters - an exhibition dedicated to Schendel’s unique material language
Wed 14 Oct - Fri 11 Dec 2026
2 Cork Street, W1S 3LB, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
not open today
looking the artist’s studio, new paintings by Freeman Bentley, presented in dialogue with 20th Century Masters including Braque, Dufy, de Chirico, Matisse, and Picasso
Fri 30 Oct - Sat 21 Nov 2026
9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
titled after the departed sun, and the light a body radiates, new works by four artists - Maitha Abdalla, Omar Kholeif, Mohamed Monaiseer, and Randa Maddah - who work across painting, spoken word and poetry, installation, mixed media, and sculpture
Fri 30 Oct - Sat 21 Nov 2026
9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
new paintings by Penny in an exhibition titled after the “feasts” we encounter throughout life - experiences, ideas, relationships, ambition, pleasure, success, and failure - and the instinct to survive one only to find an appetite for the next
Mon 12 Oct - Sun 6 Dec 2026
65-66 New Bond Street, W1S 1RW, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6.30pm, Sun 12-5pm
the first solo exhibition in London since 2015 of the celebrated Colombian artist has a scenography by Cécile Degos and presents a major selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures produced over almost six decades
Mon 12 Oct - Sun 8 Nov 2026
last week
65-66 New Bond Street, W1S 1RW, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6.30pm, Sun 12-5pm
titled after Adriana Cavarero’s philosophy of relational identity, Kafantari’s first solo exhibition in London presents new paintings exploring one of the most enduring questions of human experience - how identity is shaped through encounter
Fri 9 Oct - Fri 11 Dec 2026
25 Savile Row, W1S 2ER, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-3pm
curated in collaboration with Jane Alison, the gallery presents the first exhibition dedicated to Erica Brausen, a trailblazing gallerist of the post-war era, and founder of the legendary Hanover Gallery in London’s Mayfair
Tue 13 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
5 Hanover Square, W1S 1HQ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
new site-specific paintings in the first solo London exhibition by the New York-based artist - “Manning embraces an intensity of color and compositional movement to create works held at the apex of a tide, where one state has not yet yielded to the next”
Tue 6 Oct - Sat 19 Dec 2026
Claridge’s, Brook’s Mews, W1K 4HR, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Argote’s first exhibition at Perrotin London celebrates fifteen years of his eponymous paintings and sculptures originating from digital scribbles - exploring constraint and freedom while inviting the public to participate within the gallery space
Thu 10 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
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”
Sat 10 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
2 Savile Row, W1S 3PA, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
drawing on the gallery’s location, an exhibition of new paintings and performance making a connection between British military history and the histories of labour, craft, and production of Savile Row itself
Fri 9 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
6 Heddon Street, W1B 4BT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
the first European solo exhibition of the Mexican Surrealist painter and sculptor brings together paintings, works on paper, and painted ostrich eggs – the first time that this sculptural part of Bassi’s practice has been publicly presented
Thu 5 Nov - Sat 12 Dec 2026
just opened
74 Newman Street, W1T 3DB, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Thu 5 Nov - Sat 12 Dec 2026
just opened
74 Newman Street, W1T 3DB, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
“these pictures are not psychologically penetrative; the subjects are mostly unknowable and remote. They explore a pictorial iconography of mysterious regality, feminine guile and archetype”
Thu 15 Oct - Fri 18 Dec 2026
38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
not open today
a major survey of over 400 years of still life painting, tracing the changing essence and status of the genre from the 16th century to the present
Wed 14 Oct 2026 - Wed 20 Jan 2027
21 Conduit Street, W1S 2XP, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
the first ever recreation of the 2005 exhibition at the historic 12th-century Cistercian abbey, Abbaye de Silvacane, in France - “a renewed opportunity to consider Jenkins’s engagement with space, light, and process at a pivotal moment in his career”
Royal Academy of Arts
London West End
Thu 10 Sep - Thu 12 Nov 2026
last week
14 Bury Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6AL, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm
new paintings by Sujin Lee
works by Aziza, Erin Mommsen, Jordan Rubio, Julien Heintz, Maia Twombly, Nick Jensen, Nicholas Aliberti, Sage Schachter, and Zachary Merle - “across nine practices, personal histories are salvaged through deep engagement with material”
Thu 24 Sep - Sun 8 Nov 2026
last week
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
last week
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: Thu 10 Dec 2026
Exhibition: Thu 3 - Wed 9 Dec 2026
forthcoming
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
not open today
Auction: Wed 9 Dec 2026
Exhibition: Thu 3 - Wed 9 Dec 2026
forthcoming
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
not open today
Auction: Thu 10 Dec 2026
Exhibition: Thu 3 - Wed 9 Dec 2026
forthcoming
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
not open today
Wed 14 Oct - Fri 18 Dec 2026
23 Heddon Street, W1B 4BQ, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
not open today
organised in collaboration with Gió Marconi, Milan, an exhibition of fourteen works by Schifano dating from 1960 to 1967 when he was at the height of his expressive strength, “genuine masterpieces” - Marco Meneguzzo
Fri 6 Nov 2026 - Sat 23 Jan 2027
just opened
7a Grafton Street, W1S 4EJ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
new paintings placed in conversation with earlier works in Song’s first exhibition in the UK
Sat 10 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
12a Bourdon St, W1K 3PG, London
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
an exhibition of new work by the multidisciplinary artist which “challenges distinctions between the human and non-human, the present and the absent, the living and the dead”
Fri 13 Nov - Wed 16 Dec 2026
forthcoming
36 Newman Street, W1T 1PZ, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-4pm
new installation, sculpture, and moving image by the two artists
Tue 13 Oct - Fri 18 Dec 2026
Ely House, 37 Dover Street, W1S 4NJ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
an exhibition bringing together key works from Baselitz’ breakthrough series of his formative years, widely regarded as one of the defining achievements of his early career and a landmark in post-war European painting
Thu 5 Nov - Fri 18 Dec 2026
just opened
9 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AB, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm
not open today
exploring the profound transformation of vision in the age of artificial intelligence, robotic drawings, dye-sublimation digigraphs on aluminium engraved with laser technology, 3D-printed sculptures, video works on screen and an interactive installation
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
The Photographers' Gallery
London West EndWilliam Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed
Wed 14 Oct 2026 - Sun 21 Feb 2027
16-18 Ramillies Street, W1F 7LW, London
Mon-Wed & Sat 10am-6pm, Thu-Fri 10am-8pm, Sun 11am-6pm
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
Wed 4 - Sat 28 Nov 2026
just opened
11-12 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5LU, London
Mon-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 12-3pm (closed on Bank Holidays)
the gallery’s first exhibition of Lydia Corbett / Sylvette David's work presents the paintings, drawings, and sculpture of an extraordinary artistic life and career
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
Tue 17 - Sun 22 Nov 2026
forthcoming
67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT, London
Mon-Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 11am-4pm
The Wallace Collection
London West End
Tue 13 Oct - Sat 19 Dec 2026
11 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
the gallery presents a group assembled by Ligon of earlier and new works “which conspicuously inform, contextualise, re-contextualise, appropriate and, somehow, ‘prompt’ one another”
Tue 13 Oct - Sat 19 Dec 2026
3 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
a new single screen video installation by Pfeiffer - filmed across three interconnected sites the work traces the networks that sustain bullfighting, one of the world’s most enduring and contested public spectacles
Thu 5 Nov - Sat 12 Dec 2026
just opened
15 Bolton Street, W1J 8BG, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
nine luminous late monochromes from Soulages’s iconic series, reflecting the breadth of his sustained exploration of the interplay between darkness and light
Thu 8 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 2026
last week
64 Grosvenor Street, W1K 3JH, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Mon by appointment
Sat 7 Nov - Sat 19 Dec 2026
new today
7 Royalty Mews (Dean St), W1D 3AS, London
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
new paintings made in Tokyo, London, and Athens, over the past year
Mon 21 Sep - Sat 21 Nov 2026
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