Art Movements

Explore exhibitions on now and coming soon through a chronological journey across the major movements of art history.

Showing 52 exhibitions on now and 43 coming soon in London and the rest of the UK.

Renaissance & Baroque

Renaissance

c. 1300–1600

Humanism & classical revival

1 exhibition on now and 3 coming soon.

Early Netherlandish drawings
Van Eyck: The Portraits
Catharina van Hemessen: Signature Works

Mannerism

c. 1520–1600

Sophisticated distortion

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Baroque

c. 1600–1750

Drama, grandeur, emotion

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Enlightenment & Romanticism

Rococo

c. 1720–1780

Playful lightness & ornament

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Neoclassicism

c. 1750–1850

Reason, civic virtue, antiquity

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Romanticism

c. 1780–1850

Emotion, nature, the sublime

3 exhibitions on now and 0 coming soon.

Constable in Hampstead
The Hay Wain: Walking Constable's Landscape
British Landscapes: A Sense of Place

The 19th-Century Shift

Realism

c. 1840–1880

Ordinary life, unidealized

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Pre-Raphaelites

c. 1848–1860

Medieval colour, modern scandal

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Impressionism

c. 1860–1890

Light, perception, the moment

1 exhibition on now and 2 coming soon.

James McNeill Whistler
Renoir and Love
Monet: Painting Time

Post-Impressionism

c. 1886–1905

Structure, symbol, expression

2 exhibitions on now and 2 coming soon.

Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint
Gwen John: Strange Beauties
Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer

Art Nouveau

c. 1890–1910

Nature, ornament, total design

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Modernism

Fauvism

c. 1905–1910

Pure colour as emotion

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Expressionism

c. 1905–1930

Inner anguish made visible

2 exhibitions on now and 2 coming soon.

Emma Reyes
Lynn Chadwick at Houghton Hall
Marc Chagall: The Circus

Cubism

c. 1907–1920

Fragmented perspective

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Futurism

c. 1909–1918

Speed, machines, and noise

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Dada

c. 1916–1924

Anti-art, absurdism, protest

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

De Stijl

c. 1917–1931

Pure abstraction, universal harmony

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Bauhaus

c. 1919–1933

Form follows function, taught

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Art Deco

c. 1920–1940

Luxury, geometry, and chrome

No exhibitions on now or coming soon.

Surrealism

c. 1920–1950

The unconscious made real

No exhibitions on now and 2 coming soon.

This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
Inji Efflatoun: The Poetics of Justice

Abstract Expressionism

c. 1943–1965

Gesture, scale, raw emotion

2 exhibitions on now and 1 coming soon.

Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees
Henry Moore: Monumental Nature
Ha Chong-Hyun

Late Modern & Contemporary

Pop Art

c. 1955–1970

Mass culture as high art

1 exhibition on now and 1 coming soon.

Pop and the Figure
Colin Self: Unseen

Minimalism

c. 1960–1975

Pure form, no narrative

No exhibitions on now and 1 coming soon.

Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

Op Art

c. 1960–1975

Optical illusion as pure sensation

2 exhibitions on now and 0 coming soon.

M.C. Escher. The Exhibition
Julio Le Parc

Conceptualism

c. 1965–present

Idea over object

2 exhibitions on now and 1 coming soon.

Ai Weiwei: Button Up!
Ana Mendieta
Gabriel Orozco

Contemporary Art

c. 1970–present

Pluralism, politics, identity

36 exhibitions on now and 28 coming soon.

Cecily Brown: Picture Making
Debjani Banerjee: Jalsaghar
Elisa Giardina Papa: She Flickered In and Out of History