Ends tomorrowJapan House London
Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai
Until Oct 18
FreePhotography
Two generations of Japanese photography, from postwar history to diaspora life
🇬🇧United Kingdom
90 museums · 118 exhibitions on now · 48 coming soon
Britain's art world extends well beyond London, and that's part of what makes it interesting. The regional institutions aren't outposts: Tate St Ives, the Hepworth Wakefield, the Baltic in Gateshead, and the Whitworth in Manchester run ambitious, independently minded programmes. Turner Contemporary in Margate has helped put the Kent coast on the map, a town with a long connection to J.M.W. Turner.
EXPLORE BY CITY
ON NOW
Ends tomorrow
Ends tomorrowHayward Gallery
Anish Kapoor
Until Oct 18
InstallationSculpture
Kapoor fills the Hayward Gallery with mirror sculptures, Vantablack works and three new monumental installations
Ends tomorrowHayward Gallery
Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation
Until Oct 18
FreeVideo & Moving ImageInstallation
Four works of humour and critique on urban life and technology
Ends in 8 daysRoyal Academy
Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
Until Oct 25
Drawing & Works on PaperPainting
Dadd's intricate Victorian fairy paintings made during 42 years in Bethlem and Broadmoor
Pallant House Gallery
British Landscapes: A Sense of Place
Until Nov 1
PrintsPaintingSculpture
A landmark survey of artistic responses to British landscapes from the 18th to 20th centuries
Ends in 8 daysHenry Moore Studios & Gardens
The Art and Life of Henry Moore
Until Oct 25
Drawing & Works on PaperSculpture
Retrospective tracing Moore's evolution across 80+ sculptures and maquettes
Ends in 8 daysHenry Moore Studios & Gardens
The Shelter Drawings
Until Oct 25
Drawing & Works on Paper
Thirty rarely seen drawings of Londoners sheltering from the Blitz.
Ends tomorrowHauser & Wirth Somerset
Angel Otero
Until Oct 18
Video & Moving ImageInstallationPainting
Otero's UK debut — oil skin paintings born from a Somerset residency
Ends tomorrowThe Whitworth
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Until Oct 18
CeramicsMixed MediaDrawing & Works on Paper
First UK institutional show — lush, queer, multi-sensory commission celebrating Blackness and healing
Ends tomorrowSaatchi Gallery
FOCUS Asian Contemporary Art: Cultural Dialogue
Until Oct 18
Mixed Media
A global art fair of artists from across Asia and the Asian diaspora
Ends tomorrowJupiter Artland
Sgàire Wood: In Pride, In Piety, In Vigilance
Until Oct 18
InstallationSculpture
Heraldic beasts and pop iconography in a new large-scale commission
Ends in 8 daysArnolfini
Besides the Sea
Until Oct 25
Photography
Six young photographers on growing up in a seaside town
Ends in 8 daysScottish National Portrait Gallery
Wendy McMurdo: The Digital Mirror
Until Oct 25
PhotographyVideo & Moving Image
Two decades of McMurdo's pioneering digital photography on childhood and technology
Ends in 8 daysPallant House Gallery
Tom Hammick: The Making of Poetry
Until Oct 25
FreePrints
Woodcuts retracing Wordsworth and Coleridge's year in the Quantock Hills
Ends in 14 daysDavid Zwirner London
Louis Fratino
Until Oct 31
Painting
New paintings expanding Fratino's intimate, queer-centered figuration
Ends in 14 daysAviva Studios
Portrait of Black Britain
Until Oct 31
FreePhotography
Portraits asking what it means to be Black and living in the UK
Ends in 14 daysDavid Zwirner London
Daichi Takagi: Suchness
Until Oct 31
Painting
New paintings blurring figuration and abstraction through everyday motifs.
The Hepworth Wakefield
Lewis Hammond
Until Nov 1
Painting
Hammond's first UK museum show — dark, mythological oil paintings exploring home, belonging and dislocation
The Hepworth Wakefield
Mrinalini Mukherjee
Until Nov 1
CeramicsDrawing & Works on PaperTextiles
First UK retrospective of Indian modernist sculptor Mukherjee — fibre, bronze, ceramic across 40 years
Ashmolean Museum
ASHMOLEAN NOW: SOMA SUROVI JANNAT
Until Nov 1
Drawing & Works on PaperInstallationPainting
Soma Surovi Jannat maps climate crisis through new Ashmolean works.
COLLECTIONS
The Best London Shows This Weekend
The best critic-reviewed shows open this Saturday and Sunday.
Free Exhibitions in London
Free art exhibitions on now across London museums and galleries.
Major Artists On Now in London
Current and upcoming London exhibitions by major named artists.
London Exhibitions Opening This Month
Art exhibitions opening in London this month, from major museums to independent galleries.
London Exhibitions Closing This Month
Art exhibitions closing in London this month, so you can catch them before they end.
Blue Chip Galleries in London
What's on now at London's major commercial galleries, including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace, David Zwirner and more.
Mayfair Art Crawl
Shows on now in Mayfair, including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace, White Cube and more.
Art Weekend Away from London
The best museums and galleries outside London, worth a weekend trip.
ENDING SOON
Ends tomorrowHauser & Wirth Somerset
Angel Otero
Until Oct 18
Video & Moving ImageInstallationPainting
Otero's UK debut — oil skin paintings born from a Somerset residency
Ends tomorrowThe Whitworth
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Until Oct 18
CeramicsMixed MediaDrawing & Works on Paper
First UK institutional show — lush, queer, multi-sensory commission celebrating Blackness and healing
Ends tomorrowHayward Gallery
Anish Kapoor
Until Oct 18
InstallationSculpture
Kapoor fills the Hayward Gallery with mirror sculptures, Vantablack works and three new monumental installations
Ends tomorrowJapan House London
Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai
Until Oct 18
FreePhotography
Two generations of Japanese photography, from postwar history to diaspora life
Ends tomorrowSaatchi Gallery
FOCUS Asian Contemporary Art: Cultural Dialogue
Until Oct 18
Mixed Media
A global art fair of artists from across Asia and the Asian diaspora
Ends tomorrowHayward Gallery
Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation
Until Oct 18
FreeVideo & Moving ImageInstallation
Four works of humour and critique on urban life and technology
Ends tomorrowJupiter Artland
Sgàire Wood: In Pride, In Piety, In Vigilance
Until Oct 18
InstallationSculpture
Heraldic beasts and pop iconography in a new large-scale commission
Ends in 8 daysRoyal Academy
Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
Until Oct 25
Drawing & Works on PaperPainting
Dadd's intricate Victorian fairy paintings made during 42 years in Bethlem and Broadmoor
COMING SOON
Coming SoonIkon Gallery
Locations: No11 Arts
Starting Oct 28
FreeMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperTextiles
Older Birmingham residents map memories of their neighbourhoods in art
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 SoonWhite Cube Mason's Yard
Louise Giovanelli
Starting Nov 20
Painting
New paintings probing figuration, abstraction and the act of looking
Coming SoonDulwich Picture Gallery
Hokusai: Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Starting Oct 20
Prints
The complete Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji shown in the UK for the first time, including The Great Wave.
Coming SoonNational Portrait Gallery
Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026
Starting Nov 5
Photography
Shortlisted portraits from young, amateur and professional photographers.
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
FEATURED ARTISTS
Ends tomorrowHayward Gallery
Anish Kapoor
Until Oct 18
Anish Kapoor
Kapoor fills the Hayward Gallery with mirror sculptures, Vantablack works and three new monumental installations
Ends in 8 daysHenry Moore Studios & Gardens
The Art and Life of Henry Moore
Until Oct 25
Henry Moore
Retrospective tracing Moore's evolution across 80+ sculptures and maquettes
Ends in 8 daysHenry Moore Studios & Gardens
The Shelter Drawings
Until Oct 25
Henry Moore
Thirty rarely seen drawings of Londoners sheltering from the Blitz.
Coming SoonDulwich Picture Gallery
Hokusai: Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Starting Oct 20
Katsushika Hokusai
The complete Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji shown in the UK for the first time, including The Great Wave.
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.
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: 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: Y.ssk / CC BY-SA 4.0
Antony Gormley
Look II
2017 · West Hoe Pier, Plymouth
At over three metres tall, this oversized cast iron figure stands at West Hoe Pier gazing out over Plymouth Sound, marking the city's long relationship with the sea. Commissioned by The Box and Plymouth City Council, it is among Gormley's largest public sculptures in England.
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.
Photo by Matt Brown, CC BY 4.0
Damien Hirst
The Diver
2014 · Design District, Greenwich Peninsula, London
Raised on a tall column at building A4 in the Design District, Damien Hirst's female figure reaches skyward, her bronze body encrusted with sculpted coral and barnacles. It comes from Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, first shown in Venice in 2017.
Photo: The wub / CC BY-SA 4.0
Antony Gormley
Another Time XVI
2012 · Limehouse Reach, London
A cast iron body-form stands at the tidal margin of Limehouse Reach, one of Gormley's series of figures placed at the meeting point of land and water. The work engages the industrial heritage of London's docklands and the rhythmic pull of the Thames.
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
Tate Modern
Bankside, London
Tate Britain
Millbank, London
The Whitworth
Manchester
Royal Academy
Mayfair, London
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays, Gateshead
Burgh House
Hampstead, London
Pallant House Gallery
Chichester, West Sussex
The Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre, London