Thaddaeus Ropac London
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965–66
Until Dec 18
Painting
The breakthrough Hero paintings, shown together in the UK for the first time
🇬🇧London
58 museums · 74 exhibitions on now · 32 coming soon
London is one of the world's great art capitals. Few cities cover as much ground: old master paintings at the National Gallery, decorative arts and design at the V&A, world antiquities at the British Museum, and contemporary work at Tate Modern, all within a few miles of each other. As with most major public museums in London, permanent collections are free to enter.
ON NOW
Ends in 9 daysSadie Coles HQ Savile Row
Nicole Eisenman
Until Nov 21
Painting
Seven new paintings where realism, abstraction and emotion share one canvas
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill
This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
Until Dec 12
PaintingSculpture
Magritte's icons meet contemporary art he inspired, from apples to bowler hats
Ends in 2 daysModern Art
Pope.L: Selected Works: 1978–2022
Until Nov 14
PerformanceVideo & Moving ImagePainting
A survey of Pope.L's paintings, text works and endurance performances
Ends in 10 daysSouth London Gallery
Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter
Until Nov 22
FreeInstallationSculpture
Monumental steel and concrete sculptures that unravel modernist architecture
Bernheim London
Flip In: Ebecho Muslimova
Until Nov 28
Painting
Fatebe, Muslimova's shameless alter ego, takes over rooms turned upside down
Somerset House
Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure
Until Nov 29
FreePerformanceVideo & Moving ImageInstallation
A newly commissioned film and immersive installation about doubles
Ends in 9 daysGRIMM London
Rosalind Nashashibi: Gaza Apollo
Until Nov 21
Painting
New paintings centred on an ancient bronze Apollo found off the coast of Gaza
Ends in 2 daysVictoria Miro London
Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)
Until Nov 14
Painting
New paintings of salesmen, shop floors and the theatre of suburban commerce
Ends in 2 daysWhite Cube Mason's Yard
Firenze Lai
Until Nov 14
Painting
Debut UK show of new paintings by Hong Kong-born artist Firenze Lai
Ends in 2 daysBethlem Museum of the Mind
Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem
Until Nov 14
FreeDrawing & Works on PaperPainting
Indian art on mental health, from 1950s Bangalore to contemporary Bengaluru
Ends in 3 daysThe Photographers' Gallery
Roots
Until Nov 15
FreePhotographyMixed Media
Eight photographers on trees as keepers of memory, heritage and belonging
Ends in 3 daysV&A
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Until Nov 15
TextilesDesign
The UK's first exhibition on the surrealist couturier and her fashion house
Ends in 3 daysYoung V&A
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Until Nov 15
Video & Moving ImageDesignSculpture
Behind the scenes of stop-motion, from clay models to finished films
ICA London
Autumn Knight: I Can't Complain
Until Nov 29
Sound ArtPerformanceVideo & Moving Image
Solo show exploring the pleasures and politics of everyday complaining
Burgh House
Women Artists of Hampstead
Until Dec 13
FreeDrawing & Works on Paper
Victorian illustrators who reached wide audiences as art opened up to women
Burgh House
Amongst the Trees and Terraces: Donald Chisholm Towner (1903 - 1985)
Until Dec 13
FreePainting
First show in decades for the Hampstead painter of postwar Britain
Burgh House
Burgh House Young Curators’ Club
Until Dec 13
FreeDrawing & Works on Paper
Home Guard archive papers, selected and labelled by local school students
Burgh House
Hampstead Artists, Residents, and History
Until Dec 13
FreePainting
Local residents and artists from the 19th to 21st century, women to the fore
Burgh House
Hampstead Vanished and Imagined
Until Dec 13
FreeDrawing & Works on Paper
Lost local landmarks and the Hampstead that was planned but never built
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ENDING SOON
Ends in 2 daysVictoria Miro London
Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)
Until Nov 14
Painting
New paintings of salesmen, shop floors and the theatre of suburban commerce
Ends in 2 daysWhite Cube Mason's Yard
Firenze Lai
Until Nov 14
Painting
Debut UK show of new paintings by Hong Kong-born artist Firenze Lai
Ends in 2 daysBethlem Museum of the Mind
Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem
Until Nov 14
FreeDrawing & Works on PaperPainting
Indian art on mental health, from 1950s Bangalore to contemporary Bengaluru
Ends in 2 daysModern Art
Pope.L: Selected Works: 1978–2022
Until Nov 14
PerformanceVideo & Moving ImagePainting
A survey of Pope.L's paintings, text works and endurance performances
Ends in 3 daysThe Photographers' Gallery
Roots
Until Nov 15
FreePhotographyMixed Media
Eight photographers on trees as keepers of memory, heritage and belonging
Ends in 3 daysV&A
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Until Nov 15
TextilesDesign
The UK's first exhibition on the surrealist couturier and her fashion house
Ends in 3 daysYoung V&A
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Until Nov 15
Video & Moving ImageDesignSculpture
Behind the scenes of stop-motion, from clay models to finished films
Ends in 9 daysGRIMM London
Rosalind Nashashibi: Gaza Apollo
Until Nov 21
Painting
New paintings centred on an ancient bronze Apollo found off the coast of Gaza
COMING SOON
Coming SoonGRIMM London
Angela Heisch: Soft Possession
Starting Nov 26
Painting
New abstract paintings where luminous orbs soften into biomorphic forms
Coming SoonWhite Cube Mason's Yard
Louise Giovanelli
Starting Nov 20
Painting
New paintings probing figuration, abstraction and the act of looking
Coming SoonVictoria Miro London
Alchemies: May Cockcroft, Nour Malas, Sarah Martin-Nuss
Starting Nov 13
Painting
Three emerging abstract painters turn colour and material into new languages
Coming SoonVictoria Miro London
Conrad Shawcross: Shadows of the Mechanism
Starting Nov 26
InstallationSculpture
Debut of the Time Pebble series and an immersive Slow Arc light installation
Coming SoonWhite Cube Bermondsey
Anselm Kiefer
Starting Nov 25
Painting
A solo show of recent paintings by the German artist
Coming SoonLisson Gallery London
Christopher Le Brun
Starting Nov 19
Painting
New modular paintings that push the boundaries of abstract form
Coming SoonLisson Gallery London
Dana Awartani
Starting Nov 19
Textiles
Darning holes in her work as an act of repair against violence
Coming SoonHayward Gallery
Andrius Arutiunian: They Tried to Count Us
Starting Nov 24
FreeSound ArtInstallationSculpture
A shrine to the cosmos where myth and radio astronomy share one orbit
FEATURED ARTISTS
Thaddaeus Ropac London
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965–66
Until Dec 18
Georg Baselitz
The breakthrough Hero paintings, shown together in the UK for the first time
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill
This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
Until Dec 12
René Magritte
Magritte's icons meet contemporary art he inspired, from apples to bowler hats
Coming SoonVictoria Miro London
Conrad Shawcross: Shadows of the Mechanism
Starting Nov 26
Conrad Shawcross
Debut of the Time Pebble series and an immersive Slow Arc light installation
Coming SoonWhite Cube Bermondsey
Anselm Kiefer
Starting Nov 25
Anselm Kiefer
A solo show of recent paintings by the German artist
PUBLIC ART
The wub / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Thomas J Price
A Place Beyond
2026 · V&A East Museum, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
A 5.5-metre bronze of a young woman in a T-shirt, jeans and trainers, phone in hand but gazing past it towards the horizon. Composited from found images, 3D scans and observation, it greets visitors at the entrance to V&A East Museum.
Photo: 14GTR / CC0 1.0
Antony Gormley
Alert
2022 · Imperial College London, London
A large angular slab of weathering steel leans at a precise angle on the Imperial College London campus, its surface slowly oxidising to deep rust. A meditation on material endurance and scientific inquiry.
Photo by The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0
Serge Attukwei Clottey
Tribe and Tribulation
2022 · Thames Path by The O2, Greenwich Peninsula, London
A totemic tower over five metres tall by Serge Attukwei Clottey, stacked from cubes of reclaimed wood including painted timber from Ghanaian fishing boats. An embedded sound piece carries recordings from former slave forts and the Meridian in Tema, Ghana.
Dominic James
Conrad Shawcross
Bicameral
2019 · Chelsea Barracks, Dove Place, London
Standing 8 metres tall with 693 anodised aluminium components joined without welding using Japanese joinery techniques, Bicameral's bifurcating and trifurcating branches evoke neural pathways, lungs, and a schematised tree. Commissioned for Dove Place, Chelsea Barracks, London.
Photo by Matt Brown, CC BY 4.0
Allen Jones
Head in the Wind
2019 · The Tide, Greenwich Peninsula, London
An eight-metre red steel sculpture by pop artist Allen Jones, commissioned for The Tide and designed to be seen from the elevated walkway as well as from street level. Its sweeping curved planes resolve into a profile face with windswept hair.
Photo by Robert Lamb, CC BY-SA 2.0
Morag Myerscough
Siblings
2019 · The Tide, Greenwich Peninsula, London
Morag Myerscough's bold geometric patterns in pink, green, yellow and blue wrap the Jubilee line ventilation shafts and service enclosures beneath The Tide, turning functional Underground infrastructure into a colourful gateway at the Peninsula Square end of the elevated park.
Photo: APK / CC BY 4.0
Tracey Emin
I Want My Time With You
2018 · St Pancras International, London
A large pink neon inscription in Emin's handwriting sweeps beneath the great Victorian clock at St Pancras International. A permanent commission for one of London's most romantic public spaces.
Photo by The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0
Damien Hirst
The Mermaid
2017 · Tide Square, Greenwich Peninsula, London
A bronze mermaid from Damien Hirst's Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, first shown in Venice in 2017. Rising from sculpted waves in Tide Square beside the Thames, she is encrusted with crabs, fish and a blue-ringed octopus.
Photo by Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
Conrad Shawcross
The Optic Cloak
2016 · Greenwich Peninsula Energy Centre, London
A 49-metre artwork by Conrad Shawcross wrapping the flue of the Greenwich Peninsula Energy Centre. Layers of folded, perforated aluminium panels set at different angles create a shifting moire effect, drawing on dazzle camouflage, Cubism and Op Art.
Photo by AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0
Damien Hirst
Hydra and Kali
2015 · East Greenwich Jetty, Greenwich Peninsula, London
Damien Hirst's coral-encrusted bronze of the Hindu goddess Kali, her many arms locked in battle with the multi-headed Hydra. Made for his 2017 Venice show Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, it stands on a riverside plinth by East Greenwich Jetty.
Photo by AndyScott, CC0 1.0
Damien Hirst
Demon with Bowl
2014 · London Cable Car terminal, Greenwich Peninsula, London
A towering headless giant cradling a bowl, its bronze body overgrown with sculpted coral and sea growth. From Damien Hirst's Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, it was installed in 2023 beside the London Cable Car terminal on the Thames.
Photo: Matt Brown / CC BY 2.0
Antony Gormley
Room
2014 · Beaumont Hotel, London
A monumental stainless steel room-form occupies the forecourt of the Beaumont Hotel in Mayfair, its interior clad in fumed oak and accessible as a bookable hotel suite. The work merges sculpture, architecture and hospitality in an unprecedented live-in artwork.
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
Tate Modern
Bankside, London
V&A
South Kensington, London
Tate Britain
Millbank, London
Royal Academy
Mayfair, London
Burgh House
Hampstead, London
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place, London
The Photographers' Gallery
Soho, London
Design Museum
Kensington, London
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London
Somerset House
Strand, London