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Gwen John: Strange Beauties
Until Jun 28
A once-in-a-generation retrospective marking Gwen John's 150th birthday
Back Again
Until Aug 30
Baselitz's final paintings series, a posthumous career summation
M.C. Escher. The Exhibition
Until Sep 6
Over 150 original works: illusions, impossible buildings and tessellations
Henry Moore: Monumental Nature
Until Jan 31, 2027
30 monumental sculptures by Moore spanning his 70-year career
James McNeill Whistler
Until Sep 27
First major European Whistler retrospective in 30 years at Tate Britain
Michaelina Wautier
Until Jun 21
Rediscovering the 17th-century Flemish artist called the greatest artistic find of the century
Zurbarán
Until Aug 23
First ever UK exhibition of Zurbarán: altarpieces, still lifes and monastic robes from Seville
Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige
Until Nov 15
Unmissable ukiyo-e prints including The Great Wave, still radically modern after 200 years
Wes Anderson: The Archives
Until Jul 26
First retrospective of Wes Anderson's cinematic archive — 700+ objects across 30 years
Hurvin Anderson
Until Aug 23
First major solo show of over 80 paintings spanning Anderson's full career
Genuine Fake Premium Economy: Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory
Until Jul 5
Three US artists dissect class, capitalism and wealth inequity post-2008
Holy Pop!
Until Aug 9
Contemporary shrines exploring fan devotion to pop icons and celebrities
Farewell Sweet Innocence
Until Aug 29
Sculptural environment exploring domestic objects, memory and cultural identity
Donald Locke: Resistant Forms
Until Aug 30
London's first survey of Windrush Generation sculptor Donald Locke
Cecily Brown: Picture Making
Until Sep 6
Cecily Brown's first major UK institutional solo in 20 years at Serpentine South
Tracey Emin: A Second Life
Until Aug 31
40-year Tracey Emin retrospective: 90+ works including My Bed and new paintings
IN BLOOM: How Plants Changed Our World
Until Aug 16
Global stories behind beloved blooms, from exploration to trade.
David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting
Until Aug 23
Hockney's 90-metre Normandy frieze and new paintings at Serpentine North
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait
Until Sep 6
Monroe's centenary explored through portraits by Warhol, Beaton, Avedon and 20+ photographers
Julio Le Parc
Until May 3, 2027
Immersive retrospective of kinetic sculptures, op art and interactive installations by Le Parc
Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations
Until Jun 14
A 40-year survey of Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan's sculpture, textiles and drawing
Konrad Mägi
Until Jul 12
First major UK show of Estonia's pioneering modernist: 60+ vivid landscapes and portraits.
Delcy Morelos: origo
Until Jul 31
Morelos' first major UK show: a monumental immersive soil installation
British Landscapes: A Sense of Place
Until Nov 1
A landmark survey of artistic responses to British landscapes from the 18th to 20th centuries
Nancy Holt: MoonSunStarEarthSkyWater
Until Nov 1
First major UK presentation of pioneering land artist Nancy Holt, featuring site-responsive installations and work on light, space, and language.
Summer Exhibition 2026
Starting Jun 16
Annual open exhibition coordinated by Ryan Gander on Interconnectedness
THESE THOUGHTS MAY DISAPPEAR
Until Sep 13
Jack White's debut art show: found-object sculpture and installations
Senga Nengudi: Performance Works 1972-1982
Until Jun 14
Rare archival survey of pioneering Black avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi
Kindred: The Loneliness of Suffering and the Community of Lived Experience
Until Jun 20
Artists from the Bethlem collection explore community, isolation, and mental health
Lara Scobie: Incised
Until Jun 20
Precise slip-cast porcelain vessels where off-centre form and incised surface are inseparable
John Riddy: Winter Landscape
Until Jun 25
Winter photographs exploring Thames landscapes and contemporary London architecture
Refrain | 復沓
Until Jun 27
Ethereal ink works on rice paper exploring time, nature and Daoist transformation
Joan Eardley | The Nature of Painting
Until Jun 28
Eardley's expressive oils in dialogue with Constable, Monet and Tàpies — a fresh look at her wider world
PAT SUET-BIK HUI & THE THREE PERFECTIONS
Until Jun 28
Ink, calligraphy, and poetry unite in Hui's Three Perfections dialogue.
Sue Mundy: The Tactile Form
Starting Jun 25
Hand-built white stoneware exploring fragility and strength drawn from the natural world
Yuko Shiraishi: Brief Encounter – Gazebo
Until Jul 18
A luminous gazebo installation exploring iridescent light and fleeting encounter
Ken Price
Until Jul 25
First UK solo show in nearly a decade for Ken Price's ceramics and drawings
Shahzia Sikander: High Seas; Closed Skies
Until Jul 31
Animation and works on paper exploring imperial trade and power
The Sky in the Cave
Until Jul 31
Resonance Paintings connecting Palaeolithic cave acoustics to contemporary art
Steven Shearer: My Moody Muse
Until Jul 31
New figurative oil paintings on bodily fragility, mortality, and transformation
NS Harsha: Camel and the tent times
Until Jul 31
NS Harsha explores encroachment and disruption through experimental visual thinking
Mandy El-Sayegh: Jewel Tones
Until Jul 31
Site-specific show colliding luxury aesthetics with war reportage
Roni Horn
Until Aug 1
First London show in a decade — new drawings and a rare cast-glass sculpture
Francis Picabia
Until Aug 1
Five decades of Picabia — from Dada and Transparencies to late abstractions
Louise Lockhart: Cake Crumbs and Lemonade
Until Aug 2
Folk-inspired collage and print celebrating the rituals of British everyday life
From Bawden to Hockney: The Dennis Andrews and Christopher Whelen Collection
Until Aug 9
Prints spanning Bawden to Hockney, shaped by collectors' artistic friendships
TARWUK
Starting Jul 9
Artist duo TARWUK debut a major site-specific installation at Mason's Yard
Christo: Air
Until Aug 21
First presentation of Christo's 1968 unrealized air installation
Ugo Rondinone: more light
Until Aug 22
New paintings by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone
Lisson Street: Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska – Zanzibar
Until Aug 22
Nine diptychs and a sound libretto evoking memory, loss and belonging
Lisson Street: Daniel Buren – Pages in situ
Until Aug 22
Six decades of Buren's iconic stripe across print and publications
Yu Nishimura: Dislocation
Until Aug 22
Yu Nishimura's layered paintings of memory, displacement, and uncertain space
Young Artists' Summer Show 2026
Starting Jul 14
Free open-submission exhibition for UK students aged 4–18, now in its 8th year
Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good
Until Aug 30
Late painter Milly Thompson reclaims the female gaze through sun-drenched, irreverent canvases
Where You End And I Begin
Starting Jun 28
Ceramic hybrid sculptures exploring love, co-dependency, and body horror
Tai Shani: The Spell or The Dream
Until Sep 1
Turner Prize-winner's luminous sleeping sculpture breathes in Jupiter's orchard, dreaming of resistance
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
Until Sep 6
First major survey of Pan-Africanism's influence on visual art, 1920s–now
Gabriel Chaile: Archaeology of Memory
Until Sep 6
Monumental adobe sculptures by Argentine artist exploring indigenous cultural memory
Hepworth in Colour
Until Sep 6
First exhibition dedicated to Hepworth's pioneering use of colour in sculpture
Helen Marten - This Weather
Until Sep 12
Five-film meditation on life stages, with animation and composed sound
John Currin: Opening Credits
Until Sep 12
John Currin returns with new paintings of women in Arcadian landscapes
LR Vandy: Rise
Until Sep 13
Rope, maypoles and resistance — Vandy's first solo museum show explores trade and power
Nicola Turner: Time's Scythe
Until Sep 27
Wool and horsehair tendrils cascade through YSP's 18th-century Chapel
Emma Reyes
Starting Sep 4
Solo survey of Colombian self-taught painter Emma Reyes (1919–2003)
Aleksandra Kasuba: Shelters For Senses
Until Oct 4
First UK museum show of visionary Lithuanian American artist spanning six decades
NIGO: From Japan with Love
Until Oct 4
First UK retrospective of NIGO — streetwear pioneer, KENZO director and cultural polymath
Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography
Starting Jul 28
A century of American urban life through 34 photographers, from Stieglitz and Lange to Arbus and Davidson.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
Starting Jun 25
44th edition of the UK's most prestigious contemporary portrait painting prize
Angel Otero
Until Oct 18
Otero's UK debut — oil skin paintings born from a Somerset residency
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Until Oct 18
First UK institutional show — lush, queer, multi-sensory commission celebrating Blackness and healing
Anish Kapoor
Starting Jun 16
Kapoor fills the Hayward Gallery with mirror sculptures, Vantablack works and three new monumental installations
Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
Starting Jul 25
Dadd's intricate Victorian fairy paintings made during 42 years in Bethlem and Broadmoor
The Art and Life of Henry Moore
Until Oct 25
Retrospective tracing Moore's evolution across 80+ sculptures and maquettes
Lewis Hammond
Until Nov 1
Hammond's first UK museum show — dark, mythological oil paintings exploring home, belonging and dislocation
Mrinalini Mukherjee
Until Nov 1
First UK retrospective of Indian modernist sculptor Mukherjee — fibre, bronze, ceramic across 40 years
ASHMOLEAN NOW: SOMA SUROVI JANNAT
Until Nov 1
Soma Surovi Jannat maps climate crisis through new Ashmolean works.
Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees
Until Nov 1
Haroun Hayward blends abstract expressionism with British landscape tradition
Ha Chong-Hyun
Starting Sep 24
Six-decade survey of Korean abstract painter Ha Chong-Hyun's Conjunction series
Pop and the Figure
Until Nov 3
Pop Art exploring celebrity, consumer culture, and social commentary
Gabriel Orozco
Starting Sep 18
Major solo show of 100+ works spanning sculpture, painting and photography
Firenze Lai
Starting Oct 13
Debut UK show of new paintings by Hong Kong-born artist Firenze Lai
Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven
Starting Jul 10
Eight artists from Korea, India and UK weave new commissions with 400 years of textile history
Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon
Starting Jun 25
Centenary retrospective: 30 Kahlo works alongside 200+ objects tracing Fridamania
Gwen John | Strange Beauties
Starting Aug 1
First major Gwen John retrospective in 40 years — intimate portraits and rarely seen works on paper
Salman Toor: Someone Like You
Starting Oct 2
Toor's first European solo: 20 paintings on queer identity, belonging and community
Louise Giovanelli
Starting Nov 20
New paintings probing figuration, abstraction and the act of looking
Hokusai: Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Starting Oct 20
The complete Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji shown in the UK for the first time, including The Great Wave.
Ana Mendieta
Starting Jul 15
Major Mendieta retrospective with remastered films and UK premieres at Tate Modern
Painting the French Riviera
Starting Oct 2
160+ works showing how the Côte d'Azur shaped modern art from Monet to Klein
Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends
Starting Oct 8
Walker's five-year portrait project celebrating queer identity and LGBTQ+ trailblazers
Renoir and Love
Starting Oct 3
40 Impressionist paintings showing Renoir at his peak, including Bal au Moulin de la Galette
Amar Kanwar
Starting Sep 1
Lyrical film installation by New Delhi artist on decolonisation, memory and displacement
Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Fox, the Mole, the Horse... And You
Starting Nov 3
Never-before-seen sketches and originals from the creator of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
The 90s
Starting Oct 8
Edward Enninful curates fashion, art and photography from Britain's defining decade
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing
Starting Oct 8
First major UK Ryman retrospective in 30 years — 60+ works
Rhythm, Dance and Everything: The Body and Performance from Hepworth to Now
Until Mar 1, 2027
Hepworth's iconic sculptures in dialogue with contemporary artists exploring body, movement and identity
Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector
Starting Nov 21
Works from Guggenheim Jeune's pioneering 1938 London exhibitions reunited at the RA
Ida Ekblad: WORLD'S LARGEST METAPHOR
Starting Nov 21
Ekblad's first major UK solo — layered oil paintings and monumental glass and bronze sculptures
Marc Chagall: The Circus
Starting Nov 21
Chagall's celebrated circus lithographs alongside paintings — acrobats as metaphor for human joy and sorrow
Performing Trees
Until Apr 4, 2027
50+ works from the Whitworth collection reimagining trees as active storytellers across art history
Ffasiwn
Until Apr 4, 2027
Anti-fashion photography celebrating South Wales youth identity and DIY style
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Starting Oct 24
First full retrospective of one of Britain's most innovative 20th-century abstractionists
Es Devlin
Starting Sep 18
First UK show dedicated to Es Devlin's 30 years of stage sculpture and light installations
Van Eyck: The Portraits
Starting Nov 21
All nine of van Eyck's known portraits together for the first time in history
APHRODITE: THE MAKING OF A GODDESS
Starting Oct 8
A 3,000-year journey of Aphrodite's evolving image and power.
Hold to this Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection
Until Apr 18, 2027
Unprecedented European showcase of 60+ works by 30+ Indigenous North American artists
The Manifold of Memory: Detail Within Detail, Bagri Commission
Starting Nov 20
Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova's first UK show — giant felt environment from nomadic Central Asia
Still Care
Starting Aug 1
Creative work by NHS midwives caring for bereaved parents, art as witness to emotional labour
Reflections: Sangat and the Self
Starting Aug 1
New works by Jasmir Creed and Roo Dhissou on Sikh concepts of community and collective healing
The Nue Black Aesthetic
Starting Nov 6
Landmark show celebrating Black British designers reshaping furniture, fashion and architecture
William Morris: Common Paradise
Starting Dec 12
Major survey of Morris's radical 'art for all' legacy — 100+ textiles, wallpapers, ceramics and more