Coming SoonICA London
Jesse Glazzard: The Sound of Dirt and Beauty
Starting Sep 12
Photography
An evolving photographic archive reimagining family and intimacy
Exhibitions coming soon in London
See what's opening soon at London's museums and galleries and plan your visit.
Showing 78 exhibitions
Coming Soon
Coming SoonSomerset House
Reviving Craft: Reflection of the Mind
Starting Sep 16
FreeCeramicsTextilesDesign
China’s living craft heritage, from stoneware and silk to digital immersion
Coming SoonBurgh House
Heathbound
Starting Sep 16
FreePhotographyMixed MediaTextilesPrintsPaintingSculpture
Seventeen artists respond to Hampstead Heath, London's urban wilderness
Coming SoonContemporary Ceramics
Peter Beard: The Long Practice of Change
Starting Sep 17
Ceramics
New porcelain work born from two ceramic residencies in China
Coming SoonVictoria Miro London
Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)
Starting Sep 17
Painting
New paintings of salesmen, shop floors and the theatre of suburban commerce
Coming SoonDavid Zwirner London
Louis Fratino
Starting Sep 18
Painting
New paintings expanding Fratino's intimate, queer-centered figuration
Coming SoonFrith Street Gallery
Colin Self: Unseen
Starting Sep 18
CeramicsMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperPrintsInstallationPaintingSculpture
First London retrospective of Pop artist Colin Self since 1986
Coming SoonWhite Cube Bermondsey
Gabriel Orozco
Starting Sep 18
PhotographyMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperPaintingSculptureGabriel Orozco
Major solo show of 100+ works spanning sculpture, painting and photography
Coming SoonDesign Museum
Es Devlin
Starting Sep 18
Drawing & Works on PaperPerformanceDesignInstallationSculpture
First UK show dedicated to Es Devlin's 30 years of stage sculpture and light installations
Coming SoonBarbican Art Gallery
Zifzafa
Starting Sep 23
FreeSound ArtVideo & Moving ImageInstallation
Video works on sound, wind turbines and resistance in the Golan Heights
Coming SoonSaatchi Gallery
British Art Fair 2026
Starting Sep 24
Digital ArtPaintingSculpture
Modern and contemporary British art from leading specialist dealers
Coming SoonDavid Zwirner London
Daichi Takagi: Suchness
Starting Sep 24
Painting
New paintings blurring figuration and abstraction through everyday motifs.
Coming SoonLisson Gallery Bell Street
Ha Chong-Hyun
Starting Sep 24
Mixed MediaPaintingHa Chong-Hyun
Six-decade survey of Korean abstract painter Ha Chong-Hyun's Conjunction series
Coming SoonLisson Gallery London
Carmen Herrera: Pulse, Pause, Repeat
Starting Sep 24
Drawing & Works on PaperPaintingSculpture
Late drawings, paintings and sculpture spanning Herrera's final decade
Coming SoonSomerset House
Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure
Starting Sep 24
FreePerformanceVideo & Moving ImageInstallationSculpture
A newly commissioned film and immersive installation about doubles
Coming SoonGagosian Grosvenor Hill
This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
Starting Sep 24
PaintingSculptureRené Magritte
Magritte's icons meet contemporary art he inspired, from apples to bowler hats
Coming SoonICA London
Autumn Knight: I Can't Complain
Starting Sep 29
Sound ArtPerformanceVideo & Moving ImageInstallation
Solo show exploring the pleasures and politics of everyday complaining
Coming SoonBurgh House
Experiencing Together: Daphne Moncrieff Cousins 1946 - 2025
Starting Sep 30
FreePainting
Four decades of paintings built on colour harmony and tonal subtlety
Coming SoonAnnely Juda Fine Art
Nicola Turner: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
Starting Oct 1
InstallationSculpture
Debut solo show tracing a Georgian townhouse's hidden history of shame
Coming SoonBarbican Art Gallery
Yuko Mohri: In Concert
Starting Oct 1
FreeSound ArtInstallationSculpture
A site-responsive commission of light, sound and kinetic sculpture
Coming SoonCourtauld Gallery
Salman Toor: Someone Like You
Starting Oct 2
Drawing & Works on PaperPainting
Toor's first European solo: 20 paintings on queer identity, belonging and community
Coming SoonRoyal Academy
Painting the French Riviera
Starting Oct 2
Painting
160+ works showing how the Côte d'Azur shaped modern art from Monet to Klein
Coming SoonFashion and Textile Museum
Ossie Clark / Celia Birtwell
Starting Oct 2
TextilesDesign
Ossie Clark's rock-and-roll fashion paired with Celia Birtwell's iconic prints
Coming SoonNational Gallery
Renoir and Love
Starting Oct 3
PaintingPierre-Auguste Renoir
40 Impressionist paintings showing Renoir at his peak, including Bal au Moulin de la Galette
Coming SoonWilliam Morris Gallery
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK
Starting Oct 3
PhotographySound ArtPainting
Two centuries of British art, activism, and unconventional homes
Coming SoonWhitechapel Gallery
This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery
Starting Oct 7
FreePainting
Twenty-four international painters, all works for sale to support the gallery
Coming SoonWhitechapel Gallery
Inji Efflatoun: The Poetics of Justice
Starting Oct 7
Drawing & Works on PaperPainting
First UK survey of art and radical activism by Egyptian artist Inji Efflatoun
Coming SoonWhitechapel Gallery
Cecilia Vicuña: Foraging Quipu
Starting Oct 7
FreeMixed MediaInstallationCecilia Vicuña
A participatory installation woven from plant matter foraged by the public
Coming SoonWhitechapel Gallery
Cecilia Vicuña
Starting Oct 7
PhotographyPerformanceTextilesVideo & Moving ImageInstallationPaintingCecilia Vicuña
First major UK survey of Vicuña's six-decade practice spanning art and activism
Coming SoonVictoria Miro London
Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns
Starting Oct 8
Mixed MediaPainting
New paintings drawn from a Brooklyn artist's family photo archive
Coming SoonGarden Museum
Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures
Starting Oct 8
Drawing & Works on PaperPainting
Her first UK museum show, on memory and the natural world
Coming SoonSerpentine South Gallery
Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing
Starting Oct 8
FreeSound ArtVideo & Moving ImagePrintsInstallationPaintingSculpture
Thermochromic paintings and ringing bronze bells transform Serpentine South.
Coming SoonNational Portrait Gallery
Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends
Starting Oct 8
Photography
Walker's five-year portrait project celebrating queer identity and LGBTQ+ trailblazers
Coming SoonTate Britain
The 90s
Starting Oct 8
Mixed Media
Edward Enninful curates fashion, art and photography from Britain's defining decade
Coming SoonBarbican Art Gallery
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing
Starting Oct 8
PaintingRobert Ryman
First major UK Ryman retrospective in 30 years — 60+ works
Coming SoonWhite Cube Mason's Yard
Firenze Lai
Starting Oct 13
Painting
Debut UK show of new paintings by Hong Kong-born artist Firenze Lai
Coming SoonThaddaeus Ropac London
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965–66
Starting Oct 13
PaintingGeorg Baselitz
The breakthrough Hero paintings, shown together in the UK for the first time
Coming SoonHauser & Wirth London
Cindy Sherman
Starting Oct 13
Photography
New photographic works from her Fabric Matrons series
Coming SoonHauser & Wirth London
Lorna Simpson: Previous & Ongoing
Starting Oct 13
PaintingSculpture
New paintings, collages and sculpture drawing on archival photography
Coming SoonTate Modern
Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui
Starting Oct 13
FreeSound ArtPerformanceInstallationSculpture
A new sound commission for the Turbine Hall
Coming SoonCourtauld Gallery
Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer
Starting Oct 14
Drawing & Works on PaperPrintsPainting
An overlooked innovator of the Bloomsbury group and Omega Workshops
Coming SoonThe Photographers' Gallery
Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers
Starting Oct 14
Photography
The history of children as photographers, from clubs to cameras
Coming SoonThe Photographers' Gallery
Sanlé Sory: Colour Years
Starting Oct 14
Photography
A rare survey of Sanlé Sory's colour photographs documenting Burkina Faso
Coming SoonTate Modern
Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography
Starting Oct 14
Photography
Over 50 artists trace pictorialism from the 1880s to the 1960s
Coming SoonThe Photographers' Gallery
William Eggleston
Starting Oct 14
PhotographyWilliam Eggleston
Fifty years of Eggleston's democratic eye on everyday American colour
Coming SoonSaatchi Gallery
FOCUS Asian Contemporary Art: Cultural Dialogue
Starting Oct 15
Mixed Media
A global art fair of artists from across Asia and the Asian diaspora
Coming SoonContemporary Ceramics
Akiko Hirai: Things that disappear when touched
Starting Oct 15
Ceramics
Fragile, imperfect forms exploring quiet equilibrium and delicate imbalance
Coming SoonDesign Museum
LAIKA presents Wildwood: The Exhibition
Starting Oct 15
DesignSculpture
Behind-the-scenes props, puppets and sets from LAIKA's Wildwood film
Coming SoonDulwich Picture Gallery
Hokusai: Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Starting Oct 20
PrintsKatsushika Hokusai
The complete Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji shown in the UK for the first time, including The Great Wave.
Coming SoonDulwich Picture Gallery
Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Fox, the Mole, the Horse... And You
Starting Nov 3
Drawing & Works on Paper
Never-before-seen sketches and originals from the creator of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
Coming SoonDavid Zwirner London
No Plan at All: Prints from BORCH Editions
Starting Nov 5
Prints
New and historical prints from Copenhagen's BORCH Editions workshop
Coming SoonNational Portrait Gallery
Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026
Starting Nov 5
Photography
Shortlisted portraits from young, amateur and professional photographers.
Coming SoonSomerset House
Through our Eyes: Sámi Art and Culture
Starting Nov 6
FreePhotographyPerformanceVideo & Moving ImageSculpture
The first UK group show of contemporary Sámi art, across five galleries
Coming SoonDesign Museum
The Nue Black Aesthetic
Starting Nov 6
TextilesDesignInstallation
Landmark show celebrating Black British designers reshaping furniture, fashion and architecture
Coming SoonTate Britain
Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury
Starting Nov 12
CeramicsTextilesDesignPainting
Bloomsbury’s celebrated duo, with their Charleston studio restaged
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 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 SoonWhite Cube Mason's Yard
Louise Giovanelli
Starting Nov 20
Painting
New paintings probing figuration, abstraction and the act of looking
Coming SoonRoyal Academy
Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector
Starting Nov 21
Mixed Media
Works from Guggenheim Jeune's pioneering 1938 London exhibitions reunited at the RA
Coming SoonNational Gallery
Van Eyck: The Portraits
Starting Nov 21
PaintingJan van Eyck
All nine of van Eyck's known portraits together for the first time in history
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
Coming SoonHayward Gallery
Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong
Starting Nov 24
PhotographyVideo & Moving ImageNan Goldin
Five decades of unflinching photography, plus four recent films
Coming SoonWhite Cube Bermondsey
Anselm Kiefer
Starting Nov 25
PaintingAnselm Kiefer
A solo show of recent paintings by the German artist
Coming SoonVictoria Miro London
Conrad Shawcross: Shadows of the Mechanism
Starting Nov 26
InstallationSculptureConrad Shawcross
Debut of the Time Pebble series and an immersive Slow Arc light installation
Coming SoonSomerset House
WONDER: Why We Believe in Magic
Starting Feb 4, 2027
Mixed MediaInstallation
Magic across time, from ancient rituals and alchemy to WitchTok and AI
Coming SoonTate Modern
Monet: Painting Time
Starting Feb 25, 2027
PaintingClaude Monet
Tate's first Monet show, on time, speed and the modern age
Coming SoonNational Gallery
Catharina van Hemessen: Signature Works
Starting Mar 4, 2027
FreePainting
The only Flemish woman painter known to have signed her own work
Coming SoonNational Portrait Gallery
Mary Cassatt: Radical Impressionist
Starting Mar 11, 2027
Painting
The first UK retrospective devoted to the pioneering American Impressionist
Coming SoonTate Britain
Sonia Boyce
Starting Mar 24, 2027
PhotographyMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperVideo & Moving ImageInstallationSculpture
Forty years of fierce experimentation, from collage to installation
Coming SoonTate Modern
Ink
Starting Apr 22, 2027
Drawing & Works on PaperPainting
Around 80 works reinventing ink painting in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Coming SoonTate Britain
Thomas Gainsborough
Starting May 20, 2027
Drawing & Works on PaperPainting
120 paintings and drawings marking 300 years since the artist's birth
Coming SoonTate Modern
Baya
Starting Jun 10, 2027
CeramicsPainting
The UK's first solo show for the Algerian modernist, 100+ works
Coming SoonTate Modern
Nalini Malani
Starting Jul 1, 2027
Digital ArtVideo & Moving ImageInstallationPainting
Her largest survey to date: six decades, almost 200 works
Coming SoonTate Modern
Lynda Benglis
Starting Sep 30, 2027
PhotographyVideo & Moving ImageInstallationSculpture
50+ works from the poured latex floor pieces to now
Coming SoonTate Britain
David Hockney
Starting Oct 7, 2027
PhotographyDrawing & Works on PaperVideo & Moving ImagePrintsPaintingDavid Hockney
Seven decades of love, friendship and portraiture in over 200 works
Coming SoonTate Modern
Edvard Munch
Starting Nov 11, 2027
PhotographyPrintsPaintingEdvard Munch
The Frieze of Life seen through cinema and visual storytelling
Coming SoonTate Britain
The Tudors
Starting Nov 18, 2027
Drawing & Works on PaperPaintingSculpture
Dive into the artistic opulence of Tudor England