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The Brown Collection presents Hoi Polloi, an exhibition curated by British artist Glenn Brown. Hoi Polloi is derived from the Greek for ‘the people’, or the many, most often used as
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The Brown Collection presents Hoi Polloi, an exhibition curated by British artist Glenn Brown.
Hoi Polloi is derived from the Greek for ‘the people’, or the many, most often used as an insult for the “great unwashed masses”. The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the sixteenth century to the present. It explores how artists have represented, resisted, or reimagined the ordinary man through the lens of the spiritual. From the grandeur of the Baroque line to fractured modern visions, Hoi Polloi considers the human form as both spectacle and subject, inviting viewers to encounter ‘the people’ in ways that are at once striking, intimate, and unsettling.
Organised across four floors, the exhibition unfolds thematically: The Ecstatic Mark, The Spiritual Human/Portrait, and The Sublime Body/Flesh. The Ecstatic Mark anchors the show, presenting works charged with energy, emotion, and desire, from Annie French’s confetti-like marks to Roger Hilton’s bold gestures, Hendrick Goltzius’s precise engravings, and Carmen Dionyse’s textured clay surfaces.
Alongside major figures such as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Bernardo Strozzi, Austin Osman Spare, Anya Gallaccio, and Gillian Wearing, the exhibition highlights underrepresented artists, including Gertrude Hermes, Carmen Dionyse, Ann Churchill, Annie French, and Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov.
By combining historic and contemporary material, Hoi Polloi celebrates the vitality of artistic mark-making in its many forms. From Baroque brushstrokes to the psychological and spiritual intensity of modern drawing, the exhibition affirms the ecstatic mark as a force that transcends time, shaping how artists give form to people or the masses and their own experiences.
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
Aegidius Sadeler II (Flemish, 1570–1629)
Cornelis van Haarlem (Dutch, 1562–1638)
Jan Harmensz Muller (Dutch, 1571–1628)
Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581–1644)
Juan de Mesa (Spanish, 1583–1627
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
Gilles Demarteau (Flemish, 1722–1776)
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804)
Ubaldo Gandolfi (Italian, 1728–1781)
Francesco Corneliani (Italian, 1740–1815)
Annie French (Scottish, 1872–1965)
Thomas William Wilkinson (British, 1875–1950)
Austin Osman Spare (British, 1886–1956)
Pavel Tchelitchew (Russian-born, later American, 1898–1957)
Gertrude Hermes (British, 1901–1983)
Stanley William Hayter (British, 1901–1988)
Anna Zinkeisen (Scottish, 1901–1976)
Hans Bellmer (German, 1902–1975)
Roger Hilton (British, 1911–1975)
Carmen Dionyse (Belgian, 1921–2013)
Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (Russian, 1927–1998)
Ann Churchill (British, born 1944)
Anya Gallaccio (British, born 1963)
Gillian Wearing (British, born 1963)
Glenn Brown (British, born 1966)
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Delve into Wes Anderson’s extensive archive in this first retrospective exhibition devoted to his distinctive cinematic output, produced in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française. The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented
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Delve into Wes Anderson’s extensive archive in this first retrospective exhibition devoted to his distinctive cinematic output, produced in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française.
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, which the filmmaker has built up over three decades. This is the first time most of these objects will be displayed in Britain.
This landmark exhibition will chart the evolution of Wes Anderson’s films from early experiments in the 1990s to recent productions as well as collaborations with key long-standing creative partners. Explore the design stories behind award-winning and iconic films such as ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ and ‘Isle of Dogs’.
From the melancholic charm of The Royal Tenenbaums to the youthful adventure of Moonrise Kingdom, discover how Anderson’s unique vision and dedication to detail have created some of the most visually and emotionally compelling films of recent times.
Over 700 objects will bring together the director’s meticulous craft of filmmaking through original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, paintings, handwritten notebooks, puppets, miniature models, dozens of costumes worn by much-loved characters, and more.
Location
224 – 238 Kensington High Street London W8 6AG
+44 20 3862 5900 bookings@designmuseum.org
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Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends goes behind the scenes of stopmotion animation to explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life. Created primarily for children and
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Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends goes behind the scenes of stopmotion animation to explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life.
Created primarily for children and families, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the world of Aardman – creators of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, Morph, and more – and unpacks the making of some of the most well known and loved characters of all time.
Coinciding with the studio’s 50th anniversary year, Inside Aardman explores the storytelling and craft that brings their familiar and fantastical worlds from the sketchbook to the screen. The exhibition takes visitors behind the scenes of the animation process, from idea development and storyboarding to model making, filming and production, and post-production. Over 150 items will be on show, including Aardman’s early character sketches, concept art, puppets, character ‘bibles’, props, scripts, set models, as well as several optical illusion toys and early examples of stop-motion animation from the V&A’s collection.
There will be interactive activities for children including storyboarding, designing characters, experimenting with lighting a set, creating Live Action Videos, and ‘touch’ objects, that showcase the techniques, skills, and materials used by Aardman animators and filmmakers.
£12.50 (concessions apply)
Advance booking recommended
Daily: 10.00 – 17.45
Location
Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London
+44 (0)20 8983 5200 young@vam.ac.uk
Tracey Emin: A Second LifeTate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG27feb(feb 27)1:11 pm31aug1:11 pm
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This landmark exhibition traces 40 years of Tracey Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to
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This landmark exhibition traces 40 years of Tracey Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain, and healing.
Dame Tracey Emin is one of the most important contemporary artists of her generation. She was catapulted into the public eye in the 1990s with iconic works like her Turner Prize nominated My Bed, which sparked fierce critical and public debate, challenging what art could be. Emin’s disregard for any separation of the personal and the public, along with her commitment to unapologetic self-expression, came to define a historic moment in British culture and global art history.
Broadening Emin’s story, this exhibition celebrates her raw and confessional approach as she poses profound questions on love, trauma, and autobiography. It also demonstrates her lifelong commitment to painting, showing her recent work as the culmination of the ways she has channelled her life into her art.
£20
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00
Friday to Saturday 10.00–21.00
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‘Jock McFadyen with Jem Finer: Underground (and Surface)’ brings together Jock McFadyen’s large-scale Tube station paintings, revisiting his Underground series from the late 1990s, with a layered soundscape by Jem
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‘Jock McFadyen with Jem Finer: Underground (and Surface)’ brings together Jock McFadyen’s large-scale Tube station paintings, revisiting his Underground series from the late 1990s, with a layered soundscape by Jem Finer of The Pogues, composed from field recordings on the Northern and Central lines.
Image and sound combine to transform familiar stations, signage and everyday noises into an immersive experience, encouraging visitors to see and listen to the Underground anew.
The exhibition then opens out into a sequence of works, presenting McFadyen’s expansive cityscapes and earlier paintings featuring people.
Set above ground, these works offer a striking counterpoint to the enclosed spaces of the subway, shifting the focus from subterranean movement to the broader rhythms and human presence of the city.
Daily 10am to 5pm
Admission: Pay What You Can
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300 years after his death, a major new exhibition exploring one of the UK’s greatest architects – Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) opens at Sir John Soane’s Museum. Hailed as ‘The Rockstar
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300 years after his death, a major new exhibition exploring one of the UK’s greatest architects – Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) opens at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
Hailed as ‘The Rockstar of the English Baroque’ and ‘The original starchitect’, Vanbrugh designed some of the UK’s most admired and loved country houses, including Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, with each one featuring his signature ability to exploit the emotional impact of architecture by making exciting and dramatic use of light and shadow, recessions and projections. Sir John Soane (1753-1837) cited Vanbrugh as one of his great influences, remarking that he had “all the fire and power of Michelangelo and Bernini”.
Curated by Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE and architect Roz Barr, the exhibition will feature never-before-exhibited drawings from the V&A and Sir John Soane’s Museum, including many in Vanbrugh’s own hand, and is an opportunity to see a selection of Vanbrugh’s drawings for major projects like Castle Howard, but also smaller, more experimental plans for schemes such as the housing estate he envisaged at Greenwich.
Perhaps overshadowed by contemporaries Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir Christopher Wren, the emotional impact and imagination of Vanbrugh has continued to be admired, particularly by architects, in the centuries since. The exhibition will highlight Vanbrugh’s enduring architectural ideas and influence, including on two of the most influential architects of the 20th century, Robert Venturi (1925-2018) and Denise Scott Brown (b.1931). A new short film by filmmakers Anita Naughton and Jim Venturi, their son, will explore this connection and will be shown on loop in the Museum’s Foyle Space.
Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture will introduce new audiences to the work of an English Baroque architect, adventurer, playwright and spy 300 years after his death.
Free
Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm (last admission 4:30)
Location
13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP
+ 44 (0) 20 7405 2107 admin@soane.org.uk
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One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney invites viewers to slow down and notice the extraordinary within the everyday in his first exhibition at Serpentine. Created
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One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney invites viewers to slow down and notice the extraordinary within the everyday in his first exhibition at Serpentine. Created specifically for this presentation, Hockney’s new paintings extend his lifelong fascination with the act of looking, affirming his belief that simple beauty is worth celebrating.
The exhibition is conceived in close collaboration with the artist and brings Hockney’s celebrated ninety-metre-long frieze A Year in Normandie to London for the first time. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, which will be on display at the British Museum in 2026, this monumental work captures the changing seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy. In the context of the exhibition at Serpentine, it opens a dialogue with the surrounding nature of Kensington Gardens.
Free but booking required
Tickets for March–May are available now. Tickets for June–August will be released at a later date.
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Location
West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
020 7402 6075 information@serpentinegalleries.org
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This exhibition explores Marthe Armitage’s distinctive approach to pattern making in wallpaper and fabric design. The child of Dutch parents, Marthe is renowned for her hand-drawn, hand-printed patterns created in
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This exhibition explores Marthe Armitage’s distinctive approach to pattern making in wallpaper and fabric design. The child of Dutch parents, Marthe is renowned for her hand-drawn, hand-printed patterns created in her Chiswick studio. Now aged 95, she is one of Britain’s most beloved designers and is celebrated for the intricate and imaginative detail that still imbues her work, and the expert craftmanship of her practice.
As the title suggests, Pattern Maker traces Armitage’s artistic process — from initial sketches, tracings and lino blocks to finished wallpapers and textiles — revealing the journey behind each work.
Her designs are rooted in the landscapes, riverbanks, and architectural details of her local Chiswick surroundings — where she and her family have lived since 1939 — and translate the familiar, such as a chestnut tree or an angelica plant into the fantastical, transforming everyday scenes into immersive decorative worlds.
This focused exhibition brings together original drawings and tracings, prints, archival material, and large-scale installed wallpapers and fabric, offering an intimate insight into the life and work of an artist whose designs have quietly shaped British interiors for more than half a century. At Pitzhanger, Armitage’s celebration of craft and place finds an appropriate, resonant setting, echoing Sir John Soane’s own passion for pattern, narrative, and the handmade.
General Admission: £15.40 with gift aid donation or £14 without
Wednesday – 10am–5pm
Thursday
First Thursday of the month – 10am–8pm
Pay-what-you-can for Ealing Borough residents 5pm–8pm
Other Thursdays – 10am–5pm
Friday -10am–5pm
Saturday – 10am–5pm
Sunday -10am–5pm
Pay-what-you-can for Ealing Borough residents 10am–noon
Enjoy flexible admission during the following times:
Unlimited access for Members at all times.
Pay-what-you-can: Sundays 10am–noon and First Thursdays 5–8pm for Ealing Borough residents. Pre-booking required, subject to availability.
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Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art is a free exhibition that tells the story of London during the Second World War, as seen by artists. As bombs rained down in 1940s
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Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art is a free exhibition that tells the story of London during the Second World War, as seen by artists.
As bombs rained down in 1940s London, artists responded. See art that presents a city both familiar and strange in over 45 paintings and drawings alongside photographs, film, objects and oral histories.
Londoners faced loss, displacement, overcrowding and shortages. Amid exhaustion and trauma, people showed an astonishing degree of adaptability. See the work that brings their world to life, from the iconic resilience of St Paul’s Cathedral to the devastation of the Docklands.
Free
10am – 6pm daily.
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Leighton House presents the first major exploration of its extraordinary Arab Hall, one of London’s most iconic interiors, through a specially commissioned short film, three site-specific art installations and an exhibition and new
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Leighton House presents the first major exploration of its extraordinary Arab Hall, one of London’s most iconic interiors, through a specially commissioned short film, three site-specific art installations and an exhibition and new publication containing extensive new research.
This collaborative and interdisciplinary project examines the space’s remarkable history and its continued relevance today. The exhibition forms a central part of the celebratory programme of 100 Years of Leighton House, which marks the museum’s anniversary as a public museum, under the governance of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Created by Victorian artist Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) following extensive travels across North Africa and the Middle East, the Arab Hall was conceived as a spectacular extension to his Kensington studio-house – a blend of Islamic, Mediterranean and Victorian craft traditions, the centre piece of which is the collection of antique tiles from Damascus, Turkey and Iran which line its walls. Since its completion in 1881, the Arab Hall has become an important place for discovery and debate, for contemplation and creativity that continues to resonate with visitors, researchers and creatives today.
£14
The short film and the three site-specific installations are included within admission ticket. The exhibition in the Tavolozza Drawings Gallery is free to visit. The admission ticket includes access to the historic house.
Leighton House is open Wednesdays to Mondays, 10am – 5:30pm. Last entry 4:30pm. The museum is closed on Tuesdays.
Location
12 Holland Park Road London W14 8LZ
020 7361 3783 museums@rbkc.gov.uk
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The first major UK exhibition of Konrad Mägi (1878–1925). A pioneer of Estonian modernism, yet little known in the UK, this landmark exhibition brings together over 60 of Mägi’s most captivating
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The first major UK exhibition of Konrad Mägi (1878–1925).
A pioneer of Estonian modernism, yet little known in the UK, this landmark exhibition brings together over 60 of Mägi’s most captivating works for the first time in the UK. From radiant skies to psychologically charged portraits, each work pulses with energy and experimentation, revealing a short but astonishingly inventive career shaped by travel and his own personal struggles.
Throughout his short but brilliant career, Mägi constantly reinvented his style. This exhibition traces that journey: from the radiant Norwegian landscapes that first brought him acclaim, to striking portraits that reveal his bold use of colour and expressive brushwork.
You’ll see Mägi’s breakthrough works from the Baltic islands, painted during summers in Saaremaa and Vilsandi, where wild flora and vast seas inspired some of his most vibrant canvases. The final room brings you to Southern Estonia, where Mägi’s late landscapes capture shimmering lakes and dramatic skies, reflecting his fascination with nature, rhythm, and the mystical.
Along the way, discover how Mägi absorbed influences from Cubism and German Expressionism, while forging a style that was entirely his own: intense, experimental, and deeply connected to the world around him.
Alongside Mägi’s masterpieces, you’ll encounter a new commission by contemporary Estonian artist Kristina Õllek. Created during a residency in the Saaremaa islands, her sculptural installation uses sea salt, limestone, and cyanobacteria to explore the living, evolving nature of landscape, placing past and present in powerful dialogue.
Adults from £18, free for members
Tuesday—Sunday 10am – 5pm
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The Symptomatic Surreal will be the first institutional exhibition dedicated to Leonora Carrington’s drawings from her Santander sketchbooks, offering a unique vantage point from which to reconsider the artist’s wartime
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The Symptomatic Surreal will be the first institutional exhibition dedicated to Leonora Carrington’s drawings from her Santander sketchbooks, offering a unique vantage point from which to reconsider the artist’s wartime output.
British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the most celebrated figures associated with Surrealism. She was a painter, novelist, and visionary whose sustained enquiry into the psyche informed her interests in mythology, psychology, alchemy, tarot, and other esoteric traditions.
Told through her sketchbook drawings and letters from 1938 to 1941 prior to her permanent emigration to Mexico, this exhibition follows Carrington’s flight from Nazi occupied France, her hospitalisation in Sanatorium Morales in Santander, Spain, and her journey through Madrid to New York, where she was reunited with the Surrealists in exile in 1941. It was then that she entrusted the Santander sketchbooks to collector Julien Levy, which were held in his collection for over sixty years, until the sketchbook drawings were sold in 2004 and dispersed into various private collections.
This exhibition brings together material from Carrington’s stay in Santander, placing her recurring motifs of horses and the underworld in dialogue with Sigmund Freud’s collection of antiquities devoted to these themes. The exhibition is anchored by the presentation of Down Below (1940), a seminal early painting produced during Carrington’s hospitalisation in Santander, offering a rare opportunity to view the work as it has never been exhibited in London before.
Lead image: Leonora Carrington, Down Below, 1940. Private Collection, Mia Kim. Image Courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco © 2026 Estate of Leonora Carrington / ARS, NY and DACS, London
Adults: with Donation £16.50/without £14.50
Wednesday – Sunday 10:30 – 17:00
Location
20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX
+44 (0)20 7435 2002 info@freud.org.uk
Hurvin AndersonTate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG26mar(mar 26)10:27 am23aug(aug 23)10:27 am
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Hurvin Anderson’s first major solo show brings together more than 80 of his vibrant paintings, spanning the artist’s entire career, from his days as a student to new, never-before-seen paintings. Through colour-drenched
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Hurvin Anderson’s first major solo show brings together more than 80 of his vibrant paintings, spanning the artist’s entire career, from his days as a student to new, never-before-seen paintings.
Through colour-drenched landscapes and interiors, Anderson meanders back and forth across the Atlantic, between the UK and the Caribbean. The youngest of eight children, he was the first to be born in the UK after his family left Jamaica for Birmingham in the 1960s. As a result, Anderson’s work reflects on his experiences of belonging and diaspora.
His works often feature family members, experiences from his youth and places of individual and cultural significance like the barbershop. By revisiting elements and sometimes layering one location onto another, he engages with the unreliability of memory and tension around cultural heritage.
Thanks to his profoundly atmospheric use of composition to explore the markers of identity, and his deep-rooted engagement with the traditions of British landscape painting, this exhibition confirms Anderson’s standing as one of the most important contemporary painters of his generation.
£18
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
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Known for her vigorous brushwork, vivid colour and dynamic compositions, Cecily Brown presents paintings inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist. Themes
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Known for her vigorous brushwork, vivid colour and dynamic compositions, Cecily Brown presents paintings inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist.
Themes of nature and park life have long shaped Brown’s formal explorations. She experiments with scale, colour and recurring motifs, such as amorous couples, woodland scenes, and uncanny nature walks.
New works made specifically for the exhibition are shown alongside a selection of key paintings dating back to 2001, in addition to recent monotypes and drawings. The exhibition gestures to Brown’s early memories of the English landscape, her fascination with children’s book illustrations, and the darker undercurrents of cautionary tales.
Picture Making marks Brown’s first major solo presentation of paintings in a UK institution since her 2005 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford and represents a homecoming for the British artist who has worked in New York for the past thirty years.
Free
Monday 12-6pm, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm
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The Textiles of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell. Presenting a diverse range of material from the Collier Campbell Archive, Paint! Pattern! Print! invites us into the exuberant world of pioneering designers Susan Collier
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The Textiles of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell.
Presenting a diverse range of material from the Collier Campbell Archive, Paint! Pattern! Print! invites us into the exuberant world of pioneering designers Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell. Discover their creative journey from the first strokes of the paintbrush to the finished artworks and translation from design to textiles, fashion and homeware.
Sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell worked alongside each other for over 50 years, creating vibrant painterly patterns that transformed printed fabric and the world of interiors. Their highly successful and prolific partnership as Collier Campbell brought British design to global audiences collaborating with brands such as Liberty’s, Heals and Jaeger.
Experimental and innovative from the start, the sisters became pioneers, taking control of the whole process from raw to finished printed cloth as designer converters. As a result, they were able to retain the rights to their own designs as well as develop their own colours and control the quality of both the cloth and the printing. For two women to enter the world of manufacture, approaching companies and making deals was groundbreaking. It was also a bold move at a time when Britain was facing a recession.
Today Sarah Campbell continues this process in her independent creative journey inspired as always by her passion for painting, pattern and print.
Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11.00 – 18.00 (last entry 17.15)
£12.65 (Concessions may apply)
Location
83 Bermondsey St, London SE1 3XF
+44 (0)20 7407 8664 fashiontextilemuseum@newham.ac.uk
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The UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence. It traces the fashion house’s groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative
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The UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence. It traces the fashion house’s groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry.
Spanning the late 1920s to today, the exhibition charts the history and impact of one of fashion’s most innovative houses. Drawing on new research, the exhibition places founder Elsa Schiaparelli at the centre of a creative network across Paris, London, and New York, highlighting her role as a pioneering female entrepreneur. The show will trace the house’s remarkable trajectory, from its first, paradigm-shifting garments, through to its present-day incarnation under Creative Director, Daniel Roseberry. Over 200 objects—garments, accessories, jewellery, artworks, perfumes and archival material— will showcase the house’s boundless creativity. Highlights include the V&A’s ‘Skeleton’ and ‘Tears’ dresses, the surreal Shoe hat made with Salvador Dalí, and artworks by Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Man Ray. Elsa Schiaparelli’s vision transformed ordinary objects into bold statements, and Daniel Roseberry continues that legacy at the original headquarters of 21 Place Vendôme, creating a contemporary oeuvre that continues to shape and inspire global culture today.
Weekdays £28 / Weekend £30
Concessions apply.
Advance booking is recommended
Daily 10.00 – 17.45
Friday 10.00 – 22.00
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London’s first comprehensive survey of Guyanese-British ceramicist, painter and sculptor Donald Locke. A post-war artist of the Windrush Generation, Donald Locke (1930-2010) played a pivotal role in 20th century British sculpture.
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London’s first comprehensive survey of Guyanese-British ceramicist, painter and sculptor Donald Locke.
A post-war artist of the Windrush Generation, Donald Locke (1930-2010) played a pivotal role in 20th century British sculpture. This exhibition, presenting over 80 works across five decades, offers a long-overdue exploration of the artist, whose significance has gone under-recognised in the UK.
Always experimenting, Locke’s practice is characterised by his evolving approach to different media and his formal ingenuity, alongside a constant exploration of history, identity and subjugation.
Resistant Forms charts this evolution of Locke’s work across his life as he moved between homes in Guyana, the UK and the United States – influenced by the people and places he encountered along the way.
Commencing with his early ceramics works, evocative of human and natural forms, the exhibition traces the artist’s move to mixed-media sculpture and the monochromatic black paintings from his Plantation Series in the 1970s. Also presented are his large-scale paintings from the 90s, which continued Locke’s assemblage practice, through their incorporation of found images and ceramic, metal and wood. The final section of the show presents a selection of experimental works made by Locke during the final years of his life in Atlanta – mixing memory and mythologies, which were deeply influenced by the vibrant art scene and assemblage traditions of the American South.
A singularly prolific and heterodox artist, this exhibition represents the most comprehensive survey to date of the range of materials and styles adopted by Donald Locke across his life, reflecting his unwavering pursuit to give form and visibility to the “unique and hybrid contributions of Black culture to modernity.”
Free
Tuesday-Sunday: 11am-6pm
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Discover the remarkable style of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, through clothing worn in all ten decades of her life – from birth to adulthood, from princess to queen,
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Discover the remarkable style of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, through clothing worn in all ten decades of her life – from birth to adulthood, from princess to queen, and from off-duty style to dressing for the global stage for momentous occasions in Britain’s history.
Featuring approximately 200 items, many on display for the first time, this is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the late Queen’s fashion ever mounted.
Alongside clothing, jewellery, hats, shoes and accessories, explore never-before-seen design sketches, fabric samples and handwritten correspondence that reveal the behind-the-scenes process of dressing the most famous woman in the world and shed new light on the late Queen’s close involvement in the creation of her wardrobe.
Highlights include her bridesmaid dress, wedding dress, Coronation dress and the ensemble worn for the wedding of Princess Margaret.
£22
Daily 10am – 5.30pm
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In 1942, with the museum’s treasures evacuated for safety, Hertford House became an unlikely stage for cultural diplomacy. Two exhibitions transformed the empty galleries into a forum for Anglo-Soviet friendship
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In 1942, with the museum’s treasures evacuated for safety, Hertford House became an unlikely stage for cultural diplomacy. Two exhibitions transformed the empty galleries into a forum for Anglo-Soviet friendship at a critical moment in the conflict.
Artists Aid Russia brought together over 900 works by living artists, from Augustus John to Jacob Epstein, with proceeds supporting Clementine Churchill’s Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund. Twenty-Five Years of Progress, designed by Ernő Goldfinger, filled the galleries with bold photomontages and banners celebrating Soviet achievements and Allied unity.
Launched by Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky and his wife Agniya, these exhibitions reveal how art, propaganda and architecture were mobilised to strengthen wartime alliances.
This free display draws on newly revisited archives, surviving catalogues and artworks actually shown in 1942 to illuminate how the Wallace Collection contributed to Britain’s wartime cultural front.
Free
daily from 10.00–17.00
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In the 1400s and 1500s, the Low Countries were a powerhouse of artistic innovation. This was a transformative period for Netherlandish drawings, as they evolved from preparatory studies to works
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In the 1400s and 1500s, the Low Countries were a powerhouse of artistic innovation. This was a transformative period for Netherlandish drawings, as they evolved from preparatory studies to works of art in their own right.
Featuring around 120 works by artists including Rogier van der Weyden, Lucas van Leyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hendrick Goltzius, this exhibition charts the development of drawing in the Low Countries (present-day Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) before 1600. The exceptional breadth and quality of the British Museum’s holdings provides a unique opportunity to present a comprehensive account of drawing from this region.
Early Netherlandish drawings are extremely rare, as they were made as functional objects in the workshop and were not typically retained. This was unlike Italy or the German-speaking lands, where the taste for collecting drawings in the 1500s ensured the survival of a higher number of works from this period. Drawings were central to the design and production of works of art in different media, including tapestries, paintings, stained glass and prints – and surviving examples shed light on the creativity and collaboration of Netherlandish artists.
Room 90
Free
Daily: 10.00–17.00
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125 years of Black music-making in Britain. This landmark exhibition will reveal how Black British music has shaped British culture. Spanning four continents and 12 decades, this is a story
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125 years of Black music-making in Britain. This landmark exhibition will reveal how Black British music has shaped British culture. Spanning four continents and 12 decades, this is a story of excellence and struggle, resilience and joy.
The Music is Black: A British Story traces the roots of music descended from African musical practices that have influenced and transformed British identity over the past 125 years. Tracing an ever-evolving sound shaped by British colonialism, transatlantic enslavement, migration and innovation, this exhibition is a celebration of resilience, creativity and joy. It reveals how British-born Black music genres – from lovers rock and Brit funk, to 2 tone, jungle, drum & bass, trip hop, UK garage, grime and beyond – have inspired and impacted lives across the UK and around the world.
Divided into four powerful acts, the exhibition brings together an evocative sound experience and multimedia installations with over 200 objects from 1900 to today. Spanning fashion, photography, musical instruments and technology, personal writings, song sheets, sculpture, paintings and more, objects include over 60 newly acquired items to the V&A collection.
Weekday £22.50 / Weekend £24.50
Concessions apply.
Advance booking is recommended.
10:00-18:00, seven-days-a-week, with late night openings to 22:00 every Thursday and Saturday.
Location
107 Carpenters Rd, London E20 2AR
+44 (0)20 7942 2000 hello@vam.ac.uk
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“A gazebo is usually located in a garden or a park where you can take in the view around you – a view capturing a moment of time and of
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“A gazebo is usually located in a garden or a park where you can take in the view around you – a view capturing a moment of time and of space. It’s like you are in a little concentrated cosmos. I’ve been interested in sky, space, light, and clouds, and for this project – another in my Imaginary Architecture series – I chose to explore iridescent clouds, sometimes known as “rainbow clouds,” a meteorological phenomenon characterised by vibrant, colourful bands appearing on thin, semi-transparent clouds. John Constable was always very interested in clouds, and did so many studies and paintings of them. Within a gazebo you see clouds and a sky that is never exactly the same as it is at any other time; wherever you stand and at whatever time, you never see the same view. There is a word in Japanese philosophy, “Ichigo
Ichie,” meaning “a single meeting in a lifetime” or “one life, one encounter.” It’s a concept that encourages the appreciation of every moment and encounter as unique and precious, recognising that each one will never be exactly the same as another. It also applies to people, that you should appreciate the moments of meeting and being with people” – Yuko Shiraishi, 2025
Alongside her painting practice, Yuko Shiraishi is also known for her architectural and conceptual works, reflecting her fascination with cosmology and the liminal space between dream and reality. Her installation works include Space Elevator Tea House (2009) which merges notions of a traditional Japanese teahouse with the speculative vision of space travel. Netherworld (2013) draws parallels between the layered chambers of ancient Egyptian tombs and the cyclical nature of birth and death and Bunk Bed Odyssey – Parallel Lullaby (2024) was shown at Annely Juda Fine Art in London – the work investigates the dreamlike distance between two individuals sleeping in bunk beds. Shiraishi draws on visionary imagery, influenced by the imaginative realm of science fiction.
Shiraishi’s newest piece Brief Encounter – Gazebo (2025) will be shown in the Project Room at Annely Juda Fine Art’s new Hanover Square premises – the work featured in her 2025 exhibition at Ani Molnar (AM Projects) Gallery in Budapest and this is the first time it has been seen in London.
Free
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5.30pm. Saturday 11am – 5pm.
Location
16 Hanover Square London W1S 1HT
+44 (0) 207 629 7578 ajfa@annelyjudafineart.co.uk
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Explore the vision and legacy of Japanese designer and creative director NIGO – from street style to music and beyond, in the first UK exhibition showcasing his multifaceted creative work,
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Explore the vision and legacy of Japanese designer and creative director NIGO – from street style to music and beyond, in the first UK exhibition showcasing his multifaceted creative work, alongside vintage objects and traditional crafts from his personal collection.
From the back streets of Harajuku, Tokyo, to the global stage, this is the first-ever museum retrospective and exhibition outside of Japan that will chart the career and life of the Japanese creative director, NIGO, one of the first creatives to bridge the worlds of streetwear and luxury fashion. Over a 30-year career, NIGO has helped define some of the most influential trends in contemporary fashion, successfully crossing fashion, music, architecture and interior design.
This landmark exhibition will feature over 700 objects, with highlights including a recreation of NIGO’s teenage bedroom, rare designs, ceramics hand-thrown by NIGO himself, and a life-size glass tea house made especially for the exhibition. His work draws on influences spanning vintage Americana, streetwear, hip-hop, traditional Japanese craft and growing up in 1980s Tokyo.
Working across street style, fashion, music, and more, NIGO has been behind some of the most influential designs, ideas and trends in recent streetwear and fashion history. From founding his first fashion brand, A Bathing Ape, in the ‘90s to his current role as artistic director of KENZO, his impact remains as wide-reaching and relevant as ever.
The exhibition will give visitors a glimpse into NIGO’s world, from his personal collection of vintage clothing and objects to his close network of collaborators, and showcase his practice and ability to draw on wide-ranging disciplines and cultural references, which have given rise to some of the most iconic brands.
Adult: From £15.29
10:00 – 17:00 Monday to Thursday
10:00 – 18:00 Friday to Sunday
Location
224 – 238 Kensington High Street London W8 6AG
+44 20 3862 5900 bookings@designmuseum.org
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Paulo Nimer Pjota is a Brazilian artist who predominantly works in oil, tempera and acrylic on canvas. His large-scale paintings draw on art history, popular culture, mythology and folk tales, merging multiple references to create new, imaginary
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Paulo Nimer Pjota is a Brazilian artist who predominantly works in oil, tempera and acrylic on canvas. His large-scale paintings draw on art history, popular culture, mythology and folk tales, merging multiple references to create new, imaginary scenarios. His approach borrows from the sampling and remixing practices adopted in Brazilian hip-hop and rap music, as well as on his experience as a graffiti artist as a teenager.
This exhibition in the Main Gallery showcases a new series of paintings against an expansive mural painted directly onto the gallery walls. Magical environments are populated by mythical characters, animals and imaginary beasts. The sun, stars and moon are recurring motifs in Pjota’s practice, as are vases, shells and other vessels, often brimming with flowers and plants. The presence of music is also implied, with a three-headed beast in one work playing the trumpet, horn, drum and sax all at the same time.
Bringing together disparate elements from the past, present and an imaginary world, Pjota introduces us to a new universe where established ideas of value are dismantled and redefined, making way for an alternative future. Unlike a story book in which a clear narrative unfolds, Pjota’s works leave the viewer to make their own sense of his fantastical scenes.
Free
Wednesday
12pm – 9pm
Thursday
12pm – 6pm
Friday
12pm – 6pm
Saturday
12pm – 6pm
Sunday
12pm – 6pm
Late opening: 12pm–9pm every Wednesday
Location
65-67 Peckham Rd, London, SE5 8UH
+44(0)20 7703 6120 mail@southlondongallery.org
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In collaboration with Matthew Marks Gallery, Lisson presents an exhibition of work by the influential LA-based artist, Ken Price (Los Angeles, 1935-2012). Price was a relentlessly inventive artist who challenged
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In collaboration with Matthew Marks Gallery, Lisson presents an exhibition of work by the influential LA-based artist, Ken Price (Los Angeles, 1935-2012). Price was a relentlessly inventive artist who challenged forms through sculpture, painting and drawing throughout his five-decade career. As the first solo presentation of his work in the UK in nearly a decade, the exhibition brings together both sculpture and drawing, several of which are on view in London for the first time.
At Lisson Gallery, the exhibition showcases Price’s mastery of ceramics and expansion of the possibilities of the medium. As early as the 1960s and 70s, Price created diminutively scaled works whose innovative and outlandish shapes subverted the functionality of traditional ceramics. Works such as Prone (1997), Itself (2003), Yin (2009) and Amazon (2003) – formed from fired and painted clay – represent Price’s biomorphic, often erotic, sculptural creations. Speaking inherently to the viewer’s body, these fluid compositions play with form and balance, intimacy and seclusion. Through processes of layering and sanding pigment, Price achieves surfaces of depth and luminosity, transforming clay into objects that appear almost otherworldly.
Price was committed to utilising clay as a tool to explore his unique place and time in history. Deeply informed by the vernacular traditions of Mexican pottery and the improvisational rhythms of jazz and Pop culture, Price’s work is characterised by its vibrant palette, organic forms and tactile surfaces. His forms are also inspired by his experiences in Venice, California and New Mexico. Price witnessed the burgeoning contemporary art scene across Los Angeles, with the birth of a profusion of cultural institutions and artistic movements. He was a key figure in the LA artistic movements that originated in southern California in the 1960s, alongside other prominent artists. Following his first solo show at the Ferus Gallery in 1960, at the age of just 25, Price’s work was profiled on the cover of Artforum (1963), and his first solo presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opened in 1969. In later years Price had significant exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, the Menil Collection in Houston, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
Free
Opening Times:
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:00pm
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The first major monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664). Along with Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Zurbarán was one of the leading painters of 17th-century Spain. His
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The first major monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664).
Along with Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Zurbarán was one of the leading painters of 17th-century Spain. His paintings, which include stunning life-size depictions of saints, soaring altarpieces and contemplative still lifes, are celebrated for their naturalism, directness and deep emotional power.
This exhibition of almost fifty paintings will span the chronological and iconographic breadth of the artist’s career. It will unite exceptional works from public and private collections, including the Musée du Louvre (‘Saint Bonaventure on His Bier’ and ‘Saint Apollonia’) and the Art Institute of Chicago (‘The Crucifixion’, ‘Saint Romanus of Antioch’ and ‘Saint Barulas’ and Juan de Zurbarán’s ‘Flowers and Fruit in a Chinese Bowl’), the two partner museums to which the exhibition will travel between October 2026 and June 2027, and from the collection of the National Gallery (including Saint Margaret of Antioch and Juan de Zurbarán’s Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket).
£20 (off-peak, Sunday-Thursday)
£22 (Friday and Saturday)
daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm
Location
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
020 7747 2885 hello@nationalgallery.org.uk
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Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert presents its second solo exhibition of work by Patrick Heron (1920–1999), focusing on a pivotal period between 1950 and 1954 when the artist negotiated his own path between
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Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert presents its second solo exhibition of work by Patrick Heron (1920–1999), focusing on a pivotal period between 1950 and 1954 when the artist negotiated his own path between figuration and abstraction. Featuring paintings from the artist’s estate – including several never before exhibited – alongside loans from museums and private collections, the exhibition offers fresh insight into a formative chapter of Heron’s development. During these years, Heron’s practice was animated by sustained engagement with the masters of the School of Paris, particularly Braque, Matisse, and Bonnard, whose preoccupations with plastic and spatial values, and above all colour as space, became the foundation of his own emerging visual language.
Free
Monday – Friday 10:00-18:00
Saturdays 11:00-17:00
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Kew Gardens in London will showcase a once-in-a-generation presentation of artworks by Henry Moore, one of the most influential and internationally recognised artists of the 20th century. Monumental Nature represents
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Kew Gardens in London will showcase a once-in-a-generation presentation of artworks by Henry Moore, one of the most influential and internationally recognised artists of the 20th century. Monumental Nature represents the largest and most comprehensive showcase of Moore’s work to date, featuring 30 works across Kew’s varied landscape and inside the iconic Temperate House, the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse in the world.
This major exhibition, the largest of its kind on Moore anywhere in the world to-date, will offer a fresh perspective on his lifelong engagement with natural forms and materials, creating new opportunities for visitors to encounter his monumental sculptures alongside Kew’s iconic vistas and historic glasshouses. Throughout Moore’s career, this connection to nature remained a constant theme, reflected in his ability to transform its complexity and beauty into abstract forms that feel profoundly human. Moore believed that landscapes provided the perfect setting for his sculptures, where the natural architecture of the environment could amplify their visual and emotional impact.
Alongside the works across the Gardens, visitors will also be able to enjoy a comprehensive exhibition in Kew’s Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, featuring over 90 works including bronzes, stone and wood carvings, prints and drawings, exploring Moore’s unique process of ‘thinking through nature’.
10am to 7pm (last entry 6pm)
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery closes at 5pm daily
£27.50
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Zineb Sedira has transformed Tate Britain’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries into an immersive installation drawing on the rich legacy of 1960s and 70s African cinema with When Words Fall Silent, Cinema
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Zineb Sedira has transformed Tate Britain’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries into an immersive installation drawing on the rich legacy of 1960s and 70s African cinema with When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks… The commission centres on Algeria following its independence in 1962, when it became one of the hubs for activist filmmakers from Africa, Asia, South and Central America to share political ideas and envision alternative futures. Exploring the role of cinema in shaping collective memory and global solidarity, Sedira’s commission reanimates historical film techniques and narratives in a celebration of cultural resilience.
Visitors are greeted by the commission’s title in bright red lettering in the style of Hollywood cinema signs of the 1940s and 50s. Sedira infuses the visual language of Hollywood’s Golden age with the radical energy of ‘Third Cinema’, a term coined in the 1960s for the anti-imperialist movement which rejected elements of both Hollywood and European art cinema. Sedira has recreated a cinema to show her newly commissioned film, staged in four acts to mirror the key stages of filmmaking: scriptwriting, shooting, editing and screening. It features the voice of Boudjema Kareche, the director of the Cinémathèque Algérienne from 1973 to 2004, an institution showcasing revolutionary films from Africa and the Global South. Kareche’s memories of the period are woven together with archival imagery and scenes of Sedira both behind and in front of the camera, celebrating the activist spirit embedded in cinematic history.
At the centre of the gallery, Sedira has installed a 1960s Parisian café complete with a bar, tables, chairs, and books. Visitors are invited to sit, read and immerse themselves in this atmospheric set, which pays homage to the cafés that served as vital spaces for political conversation and solidarity for Algerians living in exile during the War of Independence. To one side of the café stands a customised Scopitone, a video jukebox once popular with migrant workers. The Scopitone has been re‑engineered by Sedira to play excerpts from Agnès Varda’s Salut les Cubains 1963, where animated still images pulse to Afro‑Cuban rhythms, capturing dance, civil society and cultural expression as forms of collective resistance.
In the North Duveen, a cinema sign in Arabic stands over a sculptural display of vintage camera equipment, highlighting the material presence of film. An interview with film critic and historian Ahmed Bedjaoui, recounting how Algeria became a global centre for militant cinema following independence from France, is projected from a 1960s French van reimagined as a ‘Ciné Pop’. The history of these mobile projection units, used by the French army to distribute propaganda and later reappropriated by the Algerian state to bring revolutionary and anti‑colonial cinema to rural communities, is central to Sedira’s commission. Bedjaoui reflects on his decades-long career and the power of cinema to preserve cultural memory.
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A landmark collaboration between the V&A and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane. Rising Voices will offer an unparalleled view of the Asia Pacific region’s dynamic
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A landmark collaboration between the V&A and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane.
Rising Voices will offer an unparalleled view of the Asia Pacific region’s dynamic creative landscape. Foregrounding First Nations perspectives and diverse artistic approaches, the exhibition will feature rare works by over 40 pioneering creatives.
Across geographies and communities, and reflecting on a changing relationship with the past, Rising Voices reveals both diversity and commonality in art-making across the region, marking a pivotal moment in the dialogue between the local and the international that the Asia Pacific Triennial has championed for over three decades.
The exhibition draws on the Triennial’s legacy, arranged across an introduction and three thematic sections. Re-Visioning History demonstrates how artists respond to political conditions, from histories of migration to domestic conflicts and social upheaval. Enduring Knowledge explores artistic heritage and ways of making with local materials. The exhibition concludes with Evolving Faith, which considers how spirituality and systems of faith are expressed in contemporary practices.
£17.00
Daily 10:00-17:45
Friday until 22:00
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Gagosian presents exhibition of works by Christo, and a large-scale indoor installation conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968. Organised around the theme of air—invisible, intangible, and essential—the exhibition unites
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Gagosian presents exhibition of works by Christo, and a large-scale indoor installation conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968. Organised around the theme of air—invisible, intangible, and essential—the exhibition unites the historic, unrealized project with rare early works that distill the conceptual foundations of the artist’s practice.
In the 1960s, Christo and Jeanne-Claude developed a series of works exploring wrapped air, sealing it within transparent polyethylene packages bound with rope. These intimate sculptural gestures render their invisible subject tangible, thereby proposing a radical shift in perception which suggests that value and meaning might emerge not from an object itself, but from the act of its containment. Such works foreshadow the artist’s later interventions at environmental scale, in which buildings, landscapes, and public spaces are temporarily redefined through acts of wrapping that reveal latent sculptural qualities while obscuring function and identity.
As throughout Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s practice, the works on view foreground the ephemeral, echoing philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of perception as a lived, shifting experience grounded in the immediacy of encounter. The exhibition is centred on Air Package on a Ceiling, a vast, internally illuminated and suspended form. Originally conceived in 1968 for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the installation remained unrealized due to technical constraints. Installed here for the first time, in collaboration with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, it fully occupies the space—measuring 16 meters long and 10 meters wide, and descending to just above head height. Both architectural and atmospheric, it compels visitors to move beneath and around it.
Location
Gagosian Gallery Grosvenor Hill
20 Grosvenor Hill London W1K 3QD
+44 20 7495 1500 london@gagosian.com
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For her first solo exhibition in London in a decade, Roni Horn will present never before exhibited works on paper from her new Seizure of Hope series, which explores Horn’s
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For her first solo exhibition in London in a decade, Roni Horn will present never before exhibited works on paper from her new Seizure of Hope series, which explores Horn’s preoccupation with repetition and the utilisation of the written word as a medium. Accompanying her drawings is one of her renowned glass sculptures; taking the form of a cube, the work is a rare example of Horn’s cast objects.
Underpinning her wider practice, drawing is a primary activity that has been integral to Horn’s oeuvre for nearly 40 years. Featuring throughout the works on view, the phrase ‘I am paralysed with hope’ comes from a monologue by the stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, which Horn describes as a ‘poignant connection to our time with regards to politics and the environment and now, of course, in relation to the pandemic.’ Bamford’s quote was first used by the artist in her 2021 work ‘LOG (22 March 2019 – 17 May 2020),’ a large-scale installation comprised of 406 individual works on paper that function as a record of the world around her, and evolved into the Seizure of Hope series on view.
Evoking water damaged ink, the text is at once legible and blurred. Her cast-glass sculpture ‘Untitled (“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”)’ (2022) similarly balances solidity and fluidity, its glossy top recalling the crystal-clear surface of an undisturbed pool of water. Water is a constant theme for Horn, stating she is ‘fascinated by this idea of water as a form of perpetual relation, not so much a substance but a thing whose identity was based on its relation to other things.
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Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) is one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century. His career and worldview were marked by ceaseless experimentation, and his oeuvre
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Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) is one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century. His career and worldview were marked by ceaseless experimentation, and his oeuvre demonstrated a rapid progression through various artistic movements, which included Impressionism, Fauvism, Dadaism and Cubism.
Organised in collaboration with the Comité Picabia, this wide-ranging overview covers five decades of creative output, from his early landscapes, Dada works and Transparencies through to his radical nudes, realist works made during World War II and textural abstract paintings created in his final years. Shedding light across every area of the artist’s practice, this exhibition highlights his fluid movement between figurative art and abstraction, affirming Picabia’s reputation as one of art history’s most ingenious shape shifters.
Offering a rare glimpse into Francis Picabia’s practice before he began his many self-reinventions, his 1902 landscape—the earliest work on view—attests to his Impressionist period at the start of his career. His approach began to shift as early as 1908, albeit subtly, towards Neo-impressionism and he broadened his horizon to encompass Fauvism and Cubism. This spirit of creative renewal is encapsulated in ‘Le Zèbre (The Zebra)’ (ca. 1909 – 1933), which presents a Neo-impressionist coastal scene in the background. This was later superimposed with a playful line drawing in the 1930s, emblematic of the artist’s tendency to revisit and revise canvases across decades. ‘Untitled’ (ca. 1911) sees Picabia’s landscapes moving even further from Impressionism, with simplified forms bordering on abstraction.
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Sokari Douglas Camp CBE opens a new solo exhibition of striking sculptures at October Gallery. Titled Fashion and Fortune, the artist brings together large and smaller scale steel sculptures alongside
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Sokari Douglas Camp CBE opens a new solo exhibition of striking sculptures at October Gallery. Titled Fashion and Fortune, the artist brings together large and smaller scale steel sculptures alongside selected prints. Douglas Camp, as in previous exhibitions, mines the historical records of earlier visual artists to examine power, commerce and colonialism within a broad Caribbean and, by extension, African context.
Drawing inspiration from Robert S. DuPlessis’ book The Material Atlantic, Douglas Camp explores clothing, commerce and emblems of wealth as reflected in fashion and dress. Through intricate metal figures, elaborate headdresses, and the incorporation of coins, the artist highlights both the oppression embedded in colonial systems and the creativity with which marginalized people reasserted identity and status. Furthermore, by delving into her own Nigerian family’s complex dress code, Douglas Camp deftly plays upon imbuing fabrics and modes of dress with new meanings. With these exhilarating new works presenting an impressive selection of motifs including dazzling displays of flowers and fruit, including a lively depiction of the tropical pineapple, she observes how people of diverse ethnicities, social positions and occupations impacted the emergence of a distinctive sartorial culture across the Atlantic world.
These latest sculptures tease out the complex intertwining histories of trade, colonialism and lineage, while simultaneously celebrating the resilience of the people of Africa and the African diaspora throughout the globe.
Location
24 Old Gloucester St, London WC1N 3AL
+ 44 (0)20 7242 7367 gallery@octobergallery.co.uk
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A truly global figure, Whistler re-wrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist. He pioneered new and innovative techniques, creating astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life
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A truly global figure, Whistler re-wrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist. He pioneered new and innovative techniques, creating astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life that would earn him a place as one of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
This retrospective – the first major European exhibition of Whistler’s work in 30 years – brings together the artist’s world-famous paintings alongside rarely, or never seen, works. It includes exquisite portraits, drawings, prints, and designs, from as early as his teens in St. Petersburg to the enigmatic late self-portraits.
The exhibition presents both a boldly experimental artist and cosmopolitan celebrity, disrupting the conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of truth, beauty, and progress.
£24
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
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Liam Young’s imaginary worlds take over various locations in the Barbican, inviting us to imagine what the future of humanity could look like, and the challenges and adventures to come. Through an
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Liam Young’s imaginary worlds take over various locations in the Barbican, inviting us to imagine what the future of humanity could look like, and the challenges and adventures to come.
Through an immersive experience, created in collaboration with leading voices from film, TV, literature and science, comes a display of films, audio stories, tapestries, soundscapes and costumes. In Other Worlds constructs a series of imagined futures for our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities.
This is the first major UK solo exhibition of the filmmaker and speculative architect. Operating in the spaces between design, fiction and futures, these works immerse us in the consequences and opportunities of the decisions we make today. It is about stepping away from dystopia, asking: what if the future could actually be… hopeful?
£20.50
Tue-Wed 11am-7pm
Thur-Sat 10am-9pm
Sun 10am-7pm
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Standpoint presents a solo exhibition of new work by Clara Hastrup (b. Århus, Denmark), winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2025/26. The exhibition Polyrhythms and Multigrain Vibrations brings together a
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Standpoint presents a solo exhibition of new work by Clara Hastrup (b. Århus, Denmark), winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2025/26.
The exhibition Polyrhythms and Multigrain Vibrations brings together a new body of work developed since receiving the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award in 2025. It extends the artist’s ongoing investigation into sculpture as a dynamic system, connecting external forces, sound, image, and disparate materials to generate new rhythms and relationships.
Clara works in a variety of media that often combines analogue and digital technologies to reconfigure everyday objects, domestic materials, and animate forms. Through playful transformation and material experimentation, her works invite imaginative ways of encountering the seemingly familiar.
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White Cube presents the first UK exhibition of Beijing-based artist Shao Fan (also known as Yu Han, b. 1964), featuring his meticulously rendered ink-on-rice-paper paintings. Shao Fan’s practice is informed by
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White Cube presents the first UK exhibition of Beijing-based artist Shao Fan (also known as Yu Han, b. 1964), featuring his meticulously rendered ink-on-rice-paper paintings.
Shao Fan’s practice is informed by a deep engagement with traditional Chinese culture, whilst also referencing elements of Western art history. Mixing past with present, his ethereal works explore the interconnectedness of humanity and nature.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) was one of the great statesmen of the twentieth century – the UK’s Prime Minister during the Second World War, and a Member of
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) was one of the great statesmen of the twentieth century – the UK’s Prime Minister during the Second World War, and a Member of Parliament for 62 years. He was also a passionate and prolific painter. In painting, he found respite from public pressures, and a lifelong source of joy.
The first major retrospective of Sir Winston Churchill’s paintings since his death, this exhibition brings together more than 50 of his works. More than half are from private collections, rarely accessible to the public.
Encounter sombre wartime scenes and radiant Mediterranean views, carefully composed still-lifes and portraits, luminous Moroccan cityscapes, and deeply personal paintings of Chartwell, Churchill’s beloved home and garden.
During Churchill’s lifetime, some were exhibited at the Royal Academy, or given as tokens of friendship or diplomatic gifts. But most were painted purely for the pleasure and challenge of the creative process.
£18 (£20 including donation)
daily from 10.00–17.00
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Helen Marten presents This Weather, a film in five chapters, at Sadie Coles HQ. Originally conceived as part of Marten’s ambitious opera performance, 30 Blizzards., presented by Miu Miu at Palais d’Iéna
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Helen Marten presents This Weather, a film in five chapters, at Sadie Coles HQ. Originally conceived as part of Marten’s ambitious opera performance, 30 Blizzards., presented by Miu Miu at Palais d’Iéna for Art Basel Paris in October 2025, This Weather is restaged here as a singular work.
Each of the five new films of This Weather references an underlying sequence of symbolic roles from youth to older age, detailed through successional chapters: childhood, community, sexuality, interiority, loss. Five distinct monologues form crucial narrative threads, all instilled with their own temperament, a unique, emotional weather. These monologues are voiced by women, but they are not literal representations, rather they mark a space for metaphor, translation and plurality. The “mother”, for instance, speaks suggestively to an atmosphere of care, but the symbolism is never explicit, and the implications might be those of chosen family or empowerment through reciprocal dialogue and exchange. The voice of the child has a buoyant naivety, but also a hint of violence or the sense of potential rupture that accompanies abstract play or chance. The patient speaks of analytical self-reflection and the absurd comedy of solipsistic “diagnosis”. The widow maintains a powerful position of futurity rather than ultimate grief; and the lover is an elastic cipher, a character whose subjects of intimacy are the granular quality of the material world, in friction with deliberate libidinal affirmation. Concrete identity is irrelevant to an ideology of more generalized and radical human optimism.
Marten’s video scripts extend outwards to draft a fully “molecular” universe: animals, weather, material conditions, existential emotions, and narrative archetypes, with the great vastness of physical space held in juxtaposition to the similar vastness of psychic space. The intensive figurative linkage between voiced text and material tactility suggests that the empirical architecture of the built world is continually held against the thickness of desire and visibility.
This Weather becomes a meta-model of the larger world, a fragmented system of interlocking lenses of criticality, domesticity and importance: the world, inside the world, inside the world. Each is character defiant and intent, like a little planet dropping its own singular crumbs.
The work is made with animation by Adam Sinclair, and with sound and composition by Beatrice Dillon. The monologue actors are, in order of appearance, Laura Green, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Eve Esfandiari-Denney, Sophia Al-Maria and Kathryn Hunter.
Tuesday – Saturday
11am-6pm
Free
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Emalin presents Hungry for Trash, a solo exhibition of new works by American artist Kembra Pfahler, the artist’s fourth at the gallery and her first at the Clerk’s House.
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Emalin presents Hungry for Trash, a solo exhibition of new works by American artist Kembra Pfahler, the artist’s fourth at the gallery and her first at the Clerk’s House.
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The Clerk’s House 118½ Shoreditch High Street London E1 6JN
+44 (0)20 3951 4541 info@emalin.co.uk
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For over 25 years, the foundation of Paul P.’s practice has been a series of portraits of anonymous young men, their images appropriated from gay erotic magazines produced between the
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For over 25 years, the foundation of Paul P.’s practice has been a series of portraits of anonymous young men, their images appropriated from gay erotic magazines produced between the late 1960s and the early 1980s; a period bracketed by the beginning of gay liberation and the onset of the AIDS crisis. The head-and-shoulders format he favours constricts the libidinal pull of the source material, directing attention instead toward the models’ expressions of youthful reticence and self-knowledge.
P. has written, “beyond the gay images from the 1970s, I look further back to Whistler, Sargent, Montesquiou, and Proust to locate the atmosphere in which to portray this physicality.” These defiant dandies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought to represent queerness under repressive law, deploying inflection, allegory, and inference as formal strategies (and forms of resistance), and it is these coded visual languages that he draws upon.
Alongside portraits, there are works including bats emerging from dense clouds, laundry strung against a hazy sky, and a wave slipping into shore at night: subjects in which fading light renders beauty both transient and luminous. These paintings are organised around moments of threshold: twilight scenes in which deep shadows and silvery light coexist.
The artist’s methodology considers desire, refinement and beauty, yet these considerations are edged with unease. The men depicted existed within a narrow period of freedom, and their individual fates remain unknown. In bringing together the coded visual languages of the Victorian era and the archive of post-Stonewall erotic culture, P. reminds us that certain freedoms remain cyclical, not assured.
Free
Wednesday – Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
London Gallery Weekend hours:
Friday 5 to Sunday 7 June, 11 am – 6pm
Location
Maureen Paley Three Colts Lane
60 Three Colts Lane London E2 6GQ
+44 (0)20 7729 4112 info@maureenpaley.com
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‘Tenderness and Rage’ explores HIV and AIDS through stories of protest and care, from the height of the UK’s AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s to global experiences of
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‘Tenderness and Rage’ explores HIV and AIDS through stories of protest and care, from the height of the UK’s AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s to global experiences of HIV today.
Through photography, film and archival materials, the display connects everyday acts of care with activists’ fights for dignity, rights and equitable access to treatment.
At its centre are two photographic series created with artist Gideon Mendel. ‘The Ward’ documents the lives of patients on AIDS wards at Middlesex Hospital in London, while ‘Through Positive Eyes’ – a project led by the Art & Global Health Centre at UCLA – shares the perspectives of HIV activists worldwide.
‘Tenderness and Rage’ amplifies voices often marginalised, with a particular focus on women living with HIV in the UK and around the world.
The exhibition is curated by Adam Rose.
Free
Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 – 18:00
Location
183 Euston Road London NW1 2BEhttps://wellcomecollection.org/
+44 (0)20 7611 2222 info@wellcomecollection.org
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Amanda Wilkinson will present the first exhibition of Andrew Heard’s paintings in the United Kingdom in more than three decades. Heard’s post-pop paintings of the 1980s and early 1990s often
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Amanda Wilkinson will present the first exhibition of Andrew Heard’s paintings in the United Kingdom in more than three decades. Heard’s post-pop paintings of the 1980s and early 1990s often integrated ‘low’ cultural references from British and American TV, film and music hall, with biting, sardonic textual components. His most characteristic paintings of the 1980s centre iconic but already passé or parochial personae from British popular culture: Charles Hawtrey, Terry-Thomas, Kenneth Williams and Benny Hill; or stars of ‘Golden Era’ British cinema, like Rita Tushingham, Deborah Kerr, and Albert Finney.
Art critic Louisa Buck wrote of Heard that ‘no artist has been as successful in capturing the tawdry Carry-On culture of Britain in the late Fifties and Sixties with its forgotten jingles, minor celebrities and suburban sitcoms. Yet there is nothing whimsical about Heard’s sharply witty, hard-edged paintings.’ They are suffused with a melancholic attachment to a lost Britishness deemed both hallowed and ridiculous. This attachment is sincere and derisive, nostalgic and pejorative, and his wry humour is also attached to other orders of images, including gay-coded objects of attraction, like male pinups, boxers, and skinheads.
In 1988, after the death of his friend and former partner David Robilliard, Heard’s aesthetic sensibility took a more melancholic turn. His later paintings, including I Want to be Good (1992), which gives this exhibition its title, are shaped by the structures of feeling associated with HIV/AIDS, including fear, stigma, loss and grief.
Heard was born in Hertford, England in 1958, and studied at Chelsea School of Art (1979-80). He was highly regarded by major contemporary artists including David Hockney, Gilbert & George, John Stezaker, and Derek Jarman, all of whom supported and/or wrote about his work. Heard died from an AIDS-related illness in London in January 1993.
The exhibition will feature a selection of Heard’s large, powerful, virtuosic paintings, spanning the full scope of his career from 1981 to his last work. This exhibition is guest curated by Dominic Johnson, and supported by the artist’s estate, which is now represented by Amanda Wilkinson. It is accompanied by a publication and a panel discussion at Tate Modern on 12 June 2026.
Free
Wednesday – Friday 12 noon – 6pm and Saturday 12 noon – 5pm
Join art historian Dominic Johnson and guest speakers at Tate Modern on Friday 12 June to explore the world of Andrew Heard (1958-1993), whose queer perspective transformed British post-pop art in the 1980s and 1990s. Examining queer identity, visual culture and artistic legacy, this conversation will illuminate an important but little-discussed artist.
Book tickets here
Location
1st Floor, 47 Farringdon Rd, London EC1M 3JB
+44 203 621 7955 info@amandawilkinsongallery.com
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A major exhibition of works by the American artist, Jack White, will open at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in association with HENI on 29 May 2026. The exhibition marks
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A major exhibition of works by the American artist, Jack White, will open at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in association with HENI on 29 May 2026. The exhibition marks White’s first public showing of his art.
Exhibition highlights will include sculptures made with found objects including interactive works, installations and furniture design products.
The exhibition will also include a remake of Jack White’s 2015 sculpture The Red Tree preserving the original concept of transforming a decaying tree into a striking artwork.
Born in Detroit in 1975 and currently living in Nashville, Jack White is an interdisciplinary artist, equally conversant in sculpture and furniture design products as he is in music and songwriting. Taking inspiration from both mid-century modern design and local Detroit Cass Corridor artists such as Gordon Newton and Robert Sestok as well as his background in upholstery. White opened his own upholstery shop, Third Man Upholstery, in 1996.
While White’s sculpture and upholstery have largely been confined to private work over the past twenty years, he has further explored his design muse via his Third Man Records umbrella. Whether interiors, visuals for print, photography, industrial, film, White designs with purpose, conviction and passion.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am-6pm
Admission: Free
Lead image: Jack White in the Studio Photographed by David James Swanson © The Artist
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Herald St presents Others, the second solo exhibition of works by Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) which takes place across Herald Street’s
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Herald St presents Others, the second solo exhibition of works by Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) which takes place across Herald Street’s premises in Bethnal Green and Bloomsbury.
Including new paintings and bronze sculpture, Others will continue Hiro’s motivation to uncover his notion of ‘unknowability’. In his uniquely corporeal approach to making, he works as both artist and subject to map the body and its psychological depths, connecting aspects of postwar Japanese body-based practices with the performance-oriented environment of Los Angeles, where he now resides. The exhibition follows prominent recent institutional exhibitions featuring Hiro’s work at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (both 2025); Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA, New York (both 2024) and precedes his participation in the Toronto Biennial of Art, this autumn.
Naotaka Hiro’s practice is centrally concerned with the ‘unknown’ – the parts of the body he cannot see and therefore cannot fully confirm. As he says, the ‘body is fully perceivable only through mediated forms – mirrors, cameras, recordings, shadows, or traces’. When Hiro moved from Japan to the United States to become a filmmaker, he would film himself with a camera on a tripod, assuming the role of both actor and director – a duality that held huge influence in his art-making. ‘It comes from a simple dilemma. I cannot directly see my own body with my own eyes,’ he says. ‘There’s an anxiety in this condition but also a kind of wonder, so the artwork is a way to approach the gap – which I call the unknown.’ Beginning by photographing and filming himself, Hiro’s practice later shifted to be more physical: casting his body, rubbing himself against unstretched canvas, and throwing himself onto wood panel to leave impact traces.
Hiro’s painting practice is grounded in drawing, through which he originally traced his body and bodily movements, sometimes at scales of up to six feet. These works naturally progressed to more durable canvases, which he would wrap around himself while painting, and later to hard wooden boards, through which he became able to push his body more directly against the surface from both above and below. ‘If canvas is like a full-body scanner, a wood board is like a flatbed scanner,’ he says. Influenced by his original interest in film, Hiro also makes storyboard diagrams that visually communicate the movements central to his work. Some canvases, such as Crossing, Volume 1 and Crossing, Volume 2 (both 2026), are perforated with grommets that allow rope to weave in and out of them, enabling Hiro to create restrictive three-dimensional structures that he pulls himself into and out of while applying oil stick and spraying dye.
Hiro’s paintings are produced in intense two-hour timed periods that he names ‘sessions,’ which take place over numerous consecutive days. ‘I like to have all these kinds of rules and limitations, making obstacles intentionally so I can react to the material like it’s fresh,’ he says. ‘I have tons of rules, you know, but then I always break the rules like in sports or games.’ Although the process operates intuitively, colours, motifs and forms recur throughout the works, appearing simultaneously as ‘graphics, maps, diagrams or anatomical indexing systems,’ with certain colours corresponding to particular movement across the surface, stillness, or sustained physical contact. Describing works like Untitled (Lifted) and Untitled (Dome) (both 2026), Hiro observes that ‘over time, scale-like patterns emerge across the surface, forming a skin-like structure that records both protection and exposure’ as well as leaf-like forms but ‘rather than representing natural imagery, they often emerge from concentrated points of bodily pressure and and function almost like punctuation within the larger surface.’ The exhibition also includes a stainless steel sculpture, Lump 1 (2026), made by reconfiguring a previous wax-cast body mold that has been compressed, folded, and rearranged into a configuration that would be impossible for a living body to sustain, shifting from a ‘document of bodily presence toward a structure shaped through intervention, distortion, and reconstruction.’
About his newest body of work, Hiro observes: ‘The exhibition continues my exploration of shifting position – actor/director, inside/outside, subjective/objective, immersion/observation. Across the wood panels, canvases, and sculptures, multiple perspectives and orientations coexist within a single body of work. Rather than resolving these contradictions into a stable whole, the works preserve the tension between them. Through repetition, restriction, movement, and revision, the exhibition constructs a space where distinctions remain unstable and several positions can exist simultaneously.’
– Text by Laurie Barron
Herald St | 2 Herald St, London, E2 6JT
Museum St | 43 Museum St, London, WC1A 1LY
Free
11-6 Tuesday-Saturday
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Herald St presents Others, the second solo exhibition of works by Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) which takes place across Herald Street’s
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Herald St presents Others, the second solo exhibition of works by Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) which takes place across Herald Street’s premises in Bethnal Green and Bloomsbury.
Including new paintings and bronze sculpture, Others will continue Hiro’s motivation to uncover his notion of ‘unknowability’. In his uniquely corporeal approach to making, he works as both artist and subject to map the body and its psychological depths, connecting aspects of postwar Japanese body-based practices with the performance-oriented environment of Los Angeles, where he now resides. The exhibition follows prominent recent institutional exhibitions featuring Hiro’s work at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (both 2025); Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA, New York (both 2024) and precedes his participation in the Toronto Biennial of Art, this autumn.
Naotaka Hiro’s practice is centrally concerned with the ‘unknown’ – the parts of the body he cannot see and therefore cannot fully confirm. As he says, the ‘body is fully perceivable only through mediated forms – mirrors, cameras, recordings, shadows, or traces’. When Hiro moved from Japan to the United States to become a filmmaker, he would film himself with a camera on a tripod, assuming the role of both actor and director – a duality that held huge influence in his art-making. ‘It comes from a simple dilemma. I cannot directly see my own body with my own eyes,’ he says. ‘There’s an anxiety in this condition but also a kind of wonder, so the artwork is a way to approach the gap – which I call the unknown.’ Beginning by photographing and filming himself, Hiro’s practice later shifted to be more physical: casting his body, rubbing himself against unstretched canvas, and throwing himself onto wood panel to leave impact traces.
Hiro’s painting practice is grounded in drawing, through which he originally traced his body and bodily movements, sometimes at scales of up to six feet. These works naturally progressed to more durable canvases, which he would wrap around himself while painting, and later to hard wooden boards, through which he became able to push his body more directly against the surface from both above and below. ‘If canvas is like a full-body scanner, a wood board is like a flatbed scanner,’ he says. Influenced by his original interest in film, Hiro also makes storyboard diagrams that visually communicate the movements central to his work. Some canvases, such as Crossing, Volume 1 and Crossing, Volume 2 (both 2026), are perforated with grommets that allow rope to weave in and out of them, enabling Hiro to create restrictive three-dimensional structures that he pulls himself into and out of while applying oil stick and spraying dye.
Hiro’s paintings are produced in intense two-hour timed periods that he names ‘sessions,’ which take place over numerous consecutive days. ‘I like to have all these kinds of rules and limitations, making obstacles intentionally so I can react to the material like it’s fresh,’ he says. ‘I have tons of rules, you know, but then I always break the rules like in sports or games.’ Although the process operates intuitively, colours, motifs and forms recur throughout the works, appearing simultaneously as ‘graphics, maps, diagrams or anatomical indexing systems,’ with certain colours corresponding to particular movement across the surface, stillness, or sustained physical contact. Describing works like Untitled (Lifted) and Untitled (Dome) (both 2026), Hiro observes that ‘over time, scale-like patterns emerge across the surface, forming a skin-like structure that records both protection and exposure’ as well as leaf-like forms but ‘rather than representing natural imagery, they often emerge from concentrated points of bodily pressure and and function almost like punctuation within the larger surface.’ The exhibition also includes a stainless steel sculpture, Lump 1 (2026), made by reconfiguring a previous wax-cast body mold that has been compressed, folded, and rearranged into a configuration that would be impossible for a living body to sustain, shifting from a ‘document of bodily presence toward a structure shaped through intervention, distortion, and reconstruction.’
About his newest body of work, Hiro observes: ‘The exhibition continues my exploration of shifting position – actor/director, inside/outside, subjective/objective, immersion/observation. Across the wood panels, canvases, and sculptures, multiple perspectives and orientations coexist within a single body of work. Rather than resolving these contradictions into a stable whole, the works preserve the tension between them. Through repetition, restriction, movement, and revision, the exhibition constructs a space where distinctions remain unstable and several positions can exist simultaneously.’
– Text by Laurie Barron
Herald St | 2 Herald St, London, E2 6JT
Museum St | 43 Museum St, London, WC1A 1LY
Free
11-6 Tuesday-Saturday
Silvia Ziranek BY A THREAD incorporating UNSUNG SONGSMOCA London, 113 Bellenden Road31may05jul
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MOCA London presents new work by Silvia Ziranek, a well-established multi-media artist with a strong performance art focus. She has performed across the UK, Europe, the Americas, Australia and New
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MOCA London presents new work by Silvia Ziranek, a well-established multi-media artist with a strong performance art focus. She has performed across the UK, Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, including at the Venice Biennale; Tates Modern and Britain; Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris; Modern Art Oxford and Plug-In, Winnipeg.
Trigger Warning: BY A THREAD and UNSUNG SONGS contain allusions to physical and emotional abuse.
BY A THREAD is a monumental mobile (over 10’ diameter) suspended from the gallery
ceiling, making ingenious use of everyday materials, combining text with textiles (carpet
tiles, wallpaper, picture frames). BY A THREAD contains textile panels containing single
words and phrases taken from UNSUNG SONGS, a collection of the artist’s poems; a
wall text ‘THE MY SCAR’; and an audio recording of the 16 SONGS which play
continuously.
Through poetry, text-in-textiles, and installation Silvia Ziranek addresses violent,
abusive behaviour towards women and girls and focuses on offering strength through
solidarity and acknowledging others’ experiences by finding words and ways of
opposing emotional and physical abuse. Derived from personal experience Ziranek’s
poems, always spoken – never sung – address vulnerability, aggressive male hierarchy
and emotional un/intelligence. Ziranek hopes to empower women and girls by creating a
provocative arena for contemplation.
At the launch of BY A THREAD and the first ever public reading of UNSUNG SONGS at
Moca 31/5/26 Ziranek appeared in an extraordinary outfit: a skirt of acid pink with
musical motifs over a swirling shift of (mainly red) Beijing Olympics 2008 fabric, topped
by ‘millinery’ (some might say oversized pink lampshade) festooned with many shiny
CDs and flapping coloured hair curlers. “I don’t hate men” she said, “this work is not
against men, it is against abuse.” Then the poetry: “VERY POWERFUL” “MOVING”
“REMARKABLE” VERY SPECIAL” “HEARTSTOPPING POETRY” are some reactions.
The London installation travels to The House of Smalls, Edinburgh, launching on
November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women,
which nationally addresses violence against women and girls. It also aims to engage
perpetrators to unlearn aggressive traits. www.thehouseofsmalls.com @thehouseofsmalls
Ziranek has been featured in numerous artists’ publications including VERY FOOD (London: Book Works), Recipe for Artists’ Cook Book (Berlin: Druckwerkstatt), ‘PINK SHOES ARE BETTER’ in Raised Awareness (A portfolio publication: Tate) and the timeless I ARE OR, the illustrated publication for Ziranek’s performance in the Imperial War Museum’s Camouflage programme. It is no surprise to those who know her that Ziranek’s favourite colour is pink.
Free
MOCA is open Thursday and Friday 2-6pm and Saturday 12-4pm
Closing event Sunday 5 July 2026 2 – 4 pm, Performance reading 3.15 pm
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For the new annual commission, Zimbabwean movement artist nora chipaumire brings her boundary-breaking work to the Tanks. The second Infinities Commission artist, nora chipaumire, is known for her powerful and thought-provoking
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For the new annual commission, Zimbabwean movement artist nora chipaumire brings her boundary-breaking work to the Tanks.
The second Infinities Commission artist, nora chipaumire, is known for her powerful and thought-provoking explorations of political identity and personal storytelling. For this visionary new work for the Tanks, chipaumire will unite dance, theatre, music, film, and sculpture to create an immersive experience.
By all means necessary, the artist’s work draws on influences ranging from punk to Shona spirituality, bringing to bear everything she has experienced in her life so far. Through rigorous attention to movement and space, chipaumire’s practice asks: What is the meaning of balance? How do we find equilibrium? Are these even the right questions for our time?
For her upcoming commission with Tate Modern, chipaumire will invite audiences to join her in grappling with these essential questions in a space where work is humanising and ennobling.
Performances will take place in the space at 19.00 on 26 June and 15.00 on 27 and 28 June.
Free
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The Mayor Gallery presents Happy Birthday America!, a group exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together a wide-ranging selection of artists, the exhibition offers a focused reflection
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The Mayor Gallery presents Happy Birthday America!, a group exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together a wide-ranging selection of artists, the exhibition offers a focused reflection on the vitality and diversity of American post-war and contemporary art.
Spanning movements from assemblage and Pop to conceptual and figurative practices, the exhibition includes works by Billy Apple, Billy Al Bengston, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Roy Ferdinand, Joe Goode, Robert Graham, Jann Haworth, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Robert Mallary, Ed Paschke, Ken Price, Kurt Seligmann, Julian Stanczak, Richard Stankiewicz, Paul Thek, John Tweddle, Robert Watts, and Tom Wesselmann.
Free
Monday – Friday, 10am – 5.30pm
Location
9 Bury Street, St James's SW1Y 6AB
+ 44 (0) 20 7734 3558 info@mayorgallery.com
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As part of the ongoing Lisson Street programme, the multidisciplinary artistic partnership of Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska present a new iteration of Zanzibar (1999-2023). Reflecting on themes of memory and movement,
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As part of the ongoing Lisson Street programme, the multidisciplinary artistic partnership of Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska present a new iteration of Zanzibar (1999-2023). Reflecting on themes of memory and movement, loss and belonging, this immersive and evocative mixed-media installation comprises nine diptychs painted by Himid in 1999, paired with a 38-minute multi-layered “libretto” composed by Stawarska in 2023.
This historical series of canvases floats throughout the gallery – anchored by colourful cuboid forms and recurring zigzag patterns. It represents an anomalous passage of abstract painting and a decisive break from Himid’s distinctly figurative, narrative-rich practice, being quite unlike “anything I made before or since,” as she has noted. Entitled Zanzibar, this major suite of diptychs was created as an homage to Himid’s East African birthplace and an evocation of memories associated with the archipelago. The paintings reference early events in her life that led up to her coming to London in 1954, hastened by her father’s untimely death aged just 33 (her mother was 26 at the time and Himid was just 3 months old). Subsequent trips back to Zanzibar undertaken by the artist are also suggested in depictions of fishing or mosquito nets, shells, tiles, closed shutters and dripping tears.
One pair of works, with the title Never Harm a Clever Man, seems to be a lament for the time lost with her father, while aesthetically suggesting a desert landscape or an architectonic aggregation of terracotta buildings. Sprinkled Rosewater is Always Pink, inspired by Himid’s recollection of a silver perfume dispenser, sees the surface of both paintings showered with blush petals and spatters of translucent rose-coloured acrylic. Many of the tessellating boxes in Cloves Numbing Warming Soothing Strong contains a single clove, also seemingly representing the smell emitting from a local industry, as much as any visual or symbolic memory.
The eight-channel collaged soundtrack of songs and voices, scored by Stawarska, is layered over and woven through the paintings in the same way as they have been hung throughout the space, in a freeform configuration. The sonic composition leads viewers through the installation and incorporates Taraab music from Zanzibar, snippets of opera, as well as narrated sections of a guidebook given to Himid’s mother by her father. Vignettes of life on the island and in the town of Zanzibar in east Africa are juxtaposed with archival BBC radio clips, orchestral music and Himid’s own voice. Describing her collagist style, Stawarska called the process ‘a meticulous choreography of technical layering, specifically of keeping time, to maintain the intimacy of emotion.’
Channelling both artists’ sense of relative belonging, displacement and loss from their native countries, the overall effect is of a multi-dimensional, fluctuating landscape that evokes past journeys, present desires and future possibilities, spanning more than one lifetime of thought and experience.
This installation mirrors the prolific and ongoing artistic partnership between Himid and Stawarska that is also in evidence throughout this summer at the British Pavilion of the 2026 Venice Biennale. Their almost two-decade working relationship and their ongoing artistic collaboration – combining elements of painting, sculpture, printing, photography and sound – was first realised in exhibition form in 2020 at WIELS in Brussels and has more recently been showcased at Tate Modern, London (2021); the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2022); Sharjah Art Foundation (2023); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2025); Mudam, Luxembourg (2025) and the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2025).
Free
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska in conversation with Rosie Cooper, Director of Wysing Arts Centre: Friday 5 June 3pm, rsvp@lissongallery.com
Location
67 Lisson Street London NW1 5DA
+44 (0)20 7724 2739 contact@lissongallery.com
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In celebration of the Hollywood star’s 100th birthday and in association with the Marilyn Monroe estate, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait will explore the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe through portraits
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In celebration of the Hollywood star’s 100th birthday and in association with the Marilyn Monroe estate, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait will explore the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe through portraits created by some of the greatest photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Bringing together works by Andy Warhol, Pauline Boty, Marlene Dumas, James Gill, Rosalyn Drexler and Audrey Flack, alongside over 20 era-defining photographers, including Cecil Beaton, Philippe Halsman, Bernard of Hollywood, André de Dienes, Eve Arnold, Inge Morath, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Milton Greene, Sam Shaw, Richard Avedon and George Barris, the exhibition will foreground Monroe’s collaborative approach to image making and her creative agency.
The exhibition will also include personal belongings such as scripts and clothes to enrich understanding of the woman behind the image.
From the earliest ‘cheesecake’ pin-ups made when she was a young model named Norma-Jeane, to the most poignant final photographs taken on the beach in Santa Monica in 1962, Marilyn Monroe was one of the most photographed people in the world. A defining presence in popular culture, she captivated audiences with performances in much loved films such as Some Like it Hot.
In the 1950s and 60s, Marilyn Monroe’s popularity secured her starring roles in the work of artists including Richard Hamilton, Pauline Boty and Andy Warhol, whose ‘Marilyn’ portraits are among the most highly prized works of art in the world. She continues to fascinate artists, drawn to her iconic presence and fascinating life.
£25–27 / £27.50–30 with donation
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00
Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
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John Currin’s show at the Savile Row gallery focuses on a new series of paintings that set pairs or triplets of women with exaggerated physiques in ornamental, Arcadian landscapes. In the
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John Currin’s show at the Savile Row gallery focuses on a new series of paintings that set pairs or triplets of women with exaggerated physiques in ornamental, Arcadian landscapes.
In the sequence of twelve mid-size paintings, performative models, reinterpreted from the pages of 1970s clothing catalogues, are poised in a confident display that provides Currin with the means to explore classical painting. In his rendering of the tension of fabric stretched tight across breasts, the light on feathered leaves and gnarled trunks, the radiant softness of flesh and hair, and the self-conscious assembly of limbs, these tableaus allow Currin to make masterful paintings that replace a disappointing contemporary world, with a ‘lost golden world’ that holds his nostalgia for the past. A group of five new drawings in ink on washed paper interpret the paintings in a new medium and sketches from his process are shown alongside the finished works.
Currin was the opening exhibition of the gallery in 1997, and in the nearly thirty years since, his combination of academic virtuosity and contemporary fetish has unapologetically progressed his painterly agenda. His male and female figures are an endlessly exciting architecture for paint; these new works show bodies that are various and imperfect, that perhaps suggest the ageing process and remind us that Currin has always made works that are in some way autobiographical. There is surprise in the dimensions of these bodies, an affectionate gag on the changing physiognomy of age, when shapes slip from the ideal to the fantastic. However, these imagined inhabitants of Arcadia present the easy confidence of maturity, of serenity and luxury, and capture the mutual misunderstanding of a child’s view of adults and an adult’s view of childhood. Pairing an imaginary landscape familiar in Poussin or in Watteau’s romanticised and fantastical Journey to the Isle of Cythera, 1717, with the reality of Acadia National Park in Maine, Currin gives us an ornamental landscape bearing the animated actors, hilltops, weather and clouds of both the idealised past and the current self.
Free
Tuesday – Saturday
11am-6pm
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Thaddaeus Ropac London presents Jewel Tones, an immersive, site-specific exhibition by Mandy El-Sayegh, coinciding with London Gallery Weekend. Featuring a new body of paintings, installation and performance, the exhibition explores
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Thaddaeus Ropac London presents Jewel Tones, an immersive, site-specific exhibition by Mandy El-Sayegh, coinciding with London Gallery Weekend. Featuring a new body of paintings, installation and performance, the exhibition explores the machinations of consumerism and perceptions of luxury in the contemporary world.
Known for her use of print and digital media as source material, El-Sayegh has in recent years created works that examine the collision of dissonant realities in published matter: between the reportage of violent geopolitical events on the one hand, and the promotion of luxury goods on the other. These juxtapositions appear side by side in the newspapers she collects, collages and silkscreens into her paintings, where advertisements for diamonds sit next to headlines reporting on unfolding wars and humanitarian crises. Through material processes of layering, fragmentation and assemblage, El-Sayegh considers not only the proliferation of this information, but also the unseen networks of influence and capital through which it circulates.
Free
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
Friday 5 June, 5pm
Red Lady is a new performance conceived by Mandy El-Sayegh for her exhibition, Jewel Tones. Performed by El-Sayegh together with artist and medium, Alice Walter, the piece employs collage as methodology, drawing on fragments from film, editorial fashion, and post-war theatre. As language and gesture unravel into states of crisis, they invite the audience into a position of uncertain participation. A performance of exaggerated self-presentation, disruptive dialogue, and unsolicited intimacy, Red Lady sustains a tension between composure and collapse.
To reserve your place e-mail rsvp.london@ropac.net
Location
37 Dover Street London W1S 4NJ
+44 (0) 203 813 8400 london@ropac.net
Eileen AgarAlison Jacques Gallery, 22 Cork St, London W1S 3NG05jun(jun 5)8:19 am25jul(jul 25)8:19 am
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Alison Jacques presents an exhibition of Eileen Agar (b.1899, Buenos Aires; d.1991, London), one of the most distinctive figures associated with British Surrealism. Agar was among the few women included
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Alison Jacques presents an exhibition of Eileen Agar (b.1899, Buenos Aires; d.1991, London), one of the most distinctive figures associated with British Surrealism. Agar was among the few women included in the landmark 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London. She participated in defining international exhibitions, including Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1937), 31 Women at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century, New York (1943), and The Art of Assemblage at MoMA (1961). In 2021, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, presented Angel of Anarchy, a major retrospective of Agar’s work comprising over 150 works, curated by Laura Smith.
Throughout her career, Agar developed an artistic language that resisted fixed stylistic categories, moving fluidly between Surrealism and Abstraction, both of which she found fundamentally intertwined: ‘Abstract art and Surrealism were the two movements that interested me most, and I see nothing incompatible in that, indeed we all walk on two legs, and for me, one is abstract, the other surreal – it is point and counterpoint.’ Whether dancing on the rooftops in Paris, sharing ideas with Pablo Picasso, or gathering starfish on the beaches of Cornwall, Eileen Agar transformed the everyday into an otherworldly beauty. Outside of her legacy as a pioneering figure in the Surrealist movement, which is firmly established, her identity as a singular artist continues to grow, and this exhibition seeks to show how she evolved beyond Surrealism per se, redefining the world around her through imaginative power.
This exhibition brings together paintings, collages, and mixed-media works spanning almost 30 years of Agar’s career (1957–1985). The show explores her lifelong engagement with nature, Surrealism, and Abstraction, revealing the experimentation and freedom that defined her practice. Transformation is a key theme, a recurring idea throughout Agar’s work, ordinary things becoming strange, poetic, and alive through imagination. As her friend, writer Andrew Lambirth observed, her work ‘is not the spontaneous outpouring of the surrealist unconscious, but a very conscious and highly structured process. It is the Agar way.’ Play, intuition, and imaginative freedom remained fundamental to Agar’s practice. As she reflected in 1988, ‘Life’s meaning is lost without the spirit of play. In play all that is lovely and soaring in the human spirit strives to find expression.’
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Across performance, sculpture, painting and film, Anne Imhof’s work returns relentlessly to the body: how it moves through space, how it is observed, what it can and cannot occupy—and how fleeting
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Across performance, sculpture, painting and film, Anne Imhof’s work returns relentlessly to the body: how it moves through space, how it is observed, what it can and cannot occupy—and how fleeting experience might be translated into enduring form.
On the occasion of London Gallery Weekend, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present Citizen, a solo exhibition that evolves the ideas explored in Imhof’s recent projects DOOM: House of Hope and Fun ist ein Stahlbad at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (both 2025). The show is anchored by new large-scale Wave paintings, joined by a four-channel film, site-specific crowd barrier sculptures, oil pastel drawings on canvas, and her latest bronze reliefs. An impressive diptych depicting a head, enlarged from a previous drawing and rendered through accumulative mark-making, pushes her figurative work into new territory. Among the art-historical currents running through these figures, one reaches back to the danse macabre, the medieval death dance in which figures from all walks of life are led toward their end. In Imhof’s hands, this tradition opens onto the question: how to give form to what will not stand still.
Free
Tue–Sat, 10am–6pm
Location
7A Grafton Street London, W1S 4EJ
+44 20/7408 1613 info@spruethmagers.com
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Victoria Miro presents High Seas; Closed Skies, the gallery’s first exhibition by Shahzia Sikander since announcing representation of the New York-based artist. A focal point of High Seas; Closed Skies is Shahzia
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Victoria Miro presents High Seas; Closed Skies, the gallery’s first exhibition by Shahzia Sikander since announcing representation of the New York-based artist.
A focal point of High Seas; Closed Skies is Shahzia Sikander’s acclaimed new animation, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles. The work is a radiant cinematic tableau that navigates the enduring currents of power and trade that have shaped the global landscape from the nineteenth century to the contemporary era.
Animated from hand-painted images, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles traces the entangled histories linking the British East India Company, Mughal India and Qing China through objects and symbols that signal how authority was constructed, distributed and contested. The work interrogates Britain’s opium cultivation in India, its coercive trade with China and the First Opium War, exposing the mechanisms of imperial extraction and the deep power asymmetries between Britain and China at the time. Its title refers to the incremental expansion of territorial waters: the legal zone between three and twelve nautical miles from any coastline where sovereignty can be asserted, contested and enforced.
Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel and presented by UBS, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles received its debut this spring in Hong Kong (where it is on view until 21 June), transforming the exterior of M+ into an immersive screen within the cityscape, and in doing so aligning subject with setting, past with present. The work now comes to London, the city in which the East India Company was chartered, where decisions that turned Bengal into an opium production system were ratified, and through which Hong Kong was seized as a colonial outpost. Here, the work will be heard for the first time with its score, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun. The exhibition also features new mosaics and works on paper.
Free
Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm
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A major retrospective dedicated to Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis Escher) is coming to London for the first time this summer. Bringing together more than 150 original works, the
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A major retrospective dedicated to Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis Escher) is coming to London for the first time this summer.
Bringing together more than 150 original works, the exhibition introduces a new generation of Londoners to the artist whose impossible staircases, shifting perspectives and intricate geometric worlds continue to shape contemporary visual culture.
Featuring iconic works including Relativity, Drawing Hands and Ascending and Descending, it traces the full development of M.C. Escher’s artistic career – from his earliest landscapes through to the tessellations, metamorphoses, and the visual paradoxes of his impossible constructions. Alongside these, the exhibition will feature interactive installations allowing visitors to explore the conceptual mechanisms underlying his work.
Escher was a one-off, a one-man art movement who created some of the most enduringly influential images of the 20th century, informing films such as Labyrinth, Inception and Squid Game, as well as countless album and book covers and video games. Yet while much of his work is instantly recognisable it is seldom on view in the UK. Seen in person, the intricacy and meticulous detail of Escher’s lithographs, etchings, mezzotints and woodcuts astonishes, his technical mastery demonstrating a grasp on reality so strong that he was able to turn it on its head and play with it.
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The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial is a major exhibition exploring how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity, and belief throughout
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The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial is a major exhibition exploring how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity, and belief throughout human history and across different cultures. Occupying two floors of the Gallery and spanning nine major exhibition spaces, the show presents artworks, installations, and objects that reveal how artists have responded to the Sun and the Moon. The exhibition features the works by established artists, by emerging talent and archival material throughout.
The exhibition unfolds as a journey through a complete 24-hour cycle, moving from dawn through daylight, into the depths of the night. The exhibition includes two major installation works: Helios, a monumental sculpture of the Sun created by artist Luke Jerram, and Massless Suns and Dark Suns by teamLab, an immersive installation that will envelop visitors with spheres of light.
The first four chapters of the exhibition focus upon the Sun. The journey begins with Dawn which reveals how the Sun and the Moon were integral to early belief systems and mythologies. A second chapter, The Sun Rising, reflects on time, seasons, and rituals. The exhibition continues with Zenith where we look at how artists respond to the sun at its highest and its relationship to our bodies. Setting Sun follows, with a focus on transformation, including a section about tarot and a presentation of Nancy Holt’s film Sun Tunnels.
At the halfway point of the exhibition, you see Helios by Luke Jerram. This enormous reproduction of the sun as a globe in a double-height gallery features a collage of over 400,000 photographs of the surface of the sun.
The second half of the exhibition focuses upon the Moon. Evening considers the Moon’s enduring fascination for artists and introduces us to some of its qualities and influence. The room features Saad Qureshi’s large-scale split moon is presented, suspended in the space. Walking on the Moon focuses on the cultural impact of the Apollo missions and the lesser-known stories behind space exploration, including the contributions of craftswomen and designers who helped make the missions possible. At its centre is Moon Landing, a collaborative work by Margo Selby and composer Helen Caddick.
The penultimate chapter, Midnight, delves into the Moon’s long association with folklore, magic, dreams and the ‘witching hour’. The exhibition concludes with the Darkest Hours, featuring Massless Suns and Dark Suns and Massless Sun and Surface of the Sky by the internationally renowned teamLab. This immersive installation will invite viewers to reflect upon the majesty of the universe in which we live.
Featured artists include: Akiko Hirai, Aleksandra Mir, Alexander Mackenzie, Álvaro Barrington, Álvaro Petritoli, Anders Scrmn Meisner, Andrew Millar, Anna Sampson, Annelie Solis, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Anwar Saeed, Arthur Rackham, Audrey Large, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Drury, Ben Edge, Bernard Cheese, Billy Childish, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Bridget Riley, Bunmi Agusto, Camile Sproesser, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Carol Bramley, Carol Puruntatameri, Carolein Smit, Cecil Collins, Christiane Baumgartner, Christopher Le Brun, Dan Hillier, Darcey Fleming, Dave McKean, David Shrigley, Dindga McCannon, Dora Maar, Douglas Gray, Elisabeth Deane, Elisabeth Vellacott, Elizabeth Loveday, Ellie Davies, Ellis O’Connor, Else Alfelt, Emilie Pugh, Evelyn De Morgan, Evelyn Dunbar, Francis Edwin Hodge, Frank Bernard Dicksee, Freya Pocklington, fuchsia, Fumie Onuki, Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurriwiwi, Gareth Cadwallader, George Jardine, George Méliès, George Turner, Gill Button, Harry Adams, Helen Caddick, Henrietta Hoyer Millar, Henry Hudson, Henry Moore, Ilma Savari (Ugiobari), Isobel Church, Ithell Colquhoun, Jack Coutu, Jaclyn Conley, Jai Khanna, James Heath, Jamie Hewlett, Jem Finer & Jimmy Cauty, Jim Lambie, Jitish Kallat, Joan Miró, Joe Webb, John Russell, John Titchell, Joseph Wright of Derby, Kate Montgomery, Katie Paterson, Kay Gasei, Kimberley Gundle, Klaus Janson, Leonora Carrington, Lian Zhang, Lucy Mahon, Luke Jerram, LunaTronix, Malcolm Dakin, Maqbool Fida Husain, Marcel Dzama, Marcos Kueh, Margo Selby, Marguerite Carnec, Marj Bond, Mark Connolly, Maro Gorky, Martha Rosler, Martyn Cross, Michael Rothenstein, Monica Sjöö, Muzae Sesay, Nancy Holt, Oliver McConnie, Orla Kane, Otto Piene, Owain Kirby, Patrick Caulfield, Paula Rego, Paula Turmina, Peter Doig, Rabia S. Akhtar, Raqs Media Collective, Richard McVetis, Roya Bahram, Rune Christensen, Russell-Hawkes Company, Rusty Peters, S. Drinot, Saad Qureshi, Sam Douglas, Sam Riley, Sanmu Kunisada, Sekai Machache, Shanti Panchal, Shezad Dawood, Sigrid Holmwood, Sinta Tantra, Sky Glabush, Sophie Crockett, Sophie Smorczewski, Stanislav Filko, Stanley Donwood, Su Blackwell, Sue Thatcher, Sunju Jin, Susan Derges, Suzanne Treister, Syotatsu Ekaki, teamLab, Terry Frost, Thelma Ayre, Thomas Hooper, Tom Davidson, Tom Hammick, Valentine Dobrée, Whatshisname, William Hogarth, William John Charles Pitcher, Yinka Ilori, Zak Ové.
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Camden Arts Projects presents Allen Jones: Taking Shape, a major exhibition of new and recent work by Allen Jones, organised in collaboration with Almine Rech. One of the most influential figures
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Camden Arts Projects presents Allen Jones: Taking Shape, a major exhibition of new and recent work by Allen Jones, organised in collaboration with Almine Rech.
One of the most influential figures in British Pop Art, Allen Jones helped shaped contemporary visual culture for over six decades. His bold, graphic style and provocative exploration of the human form have made him a defining voice in the contemporary art world. This exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, alongside a major piece created specifically for this presentation.The show celebrates the artist’s remarkable practice and offers a timely opportunity to engage withJones’s ongoing practice and his continued dialogue with colour, form, and diverse approach to exploring the human figure.
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Wednesday to Sunday 11am – 6pm,
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‘a serpentine’ by LANZA atelier, founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo LANZA atelier emphasises the role of design in everyday interactions and identifies the pursuit of beauty as a recurring
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‘a serpentine’ by LANZA atelier, founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo
LANZA atelier emphasises the role of design in everyday interactions and identifies the pursuit of beauty as a recurring theme in their work. The Mexico City-based architecture studio founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, has anchored the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion on the English architectural feature known as a serpentine, or crinkle-crankle, wall. The wall derives its stability from its curving form, requiring fewer bricks than a straight wall. The name of the Pavilion, a serpentine, is inspired by this feature, which makes up the Pavilion’s south wall and subtly references the nearby Serpentine Lake, whose gentle curve evokes the form of a serpent.
The north wall of the structure is in dialogue with the surrounding landscape, curving around the nearby tree canopy. A translucent roof allows light and air to permeate the space, softening the boundary between enclosure and openness. The roof rests lightly on brick columns which evoke a grove of trees.
LANZA atelier chose brick as the primary material to celebrate the distinctly English garden tradition and establish a conversation with the existing brick façade of the Serpentine South Gallery, which was originally built as a tea pavilion. The Pavilion is constructed from a rhythmic repetition of brick columns that transform the wall from opaque to permeable.
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Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Brunnen) is recognised as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing
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Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Brunnen) is recognised as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. The breadth and generosity of his vision of human nature have resulted in a wide range of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects, installations, videos and performances. His hybridised forms, which borrow from ancient and modern cultural sources alike, exude pathos and humour, going straight to the heart of the most pressing issues of our time, where modernist achievement and archaic expression intersect.
Free
Tuesday – Saturday
11am-6pm
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Georg Baselitz’s (1938–2026) solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey takes its title from one of the artist’s final paintings, ‘Back Again’, a now poignant testament to the artist’s drive to
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Georg Baselitz’s (1938–2026) solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey takes its title from one of the artist’s final paintings, ‘Back Again’, a now poignant testament to the artist’s drive to return, distil and resolve those motifs that consumed him during a career that spanned more than 60 years.
One of the very last exhibitions Baselitz conceived before his passing in April 2026, the artist elected to bring together those subjects that defined his practice, including the eagle, the figure of the Hero and his longtime muse, wife and partner, Elke Kretzschmar.
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Wed-Sun 12-6pm
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Discover seven decades of joyful works by the late Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, which turns visitors into active participants. Playful and mesmerising, this immersive exhibition celebrates the visionary work of Julio
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Discover seven decades of joyful works by the late Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, which turns visitors into active participants.
Playful and mesmerising, this immersive exhibition celebrates the visionary work of Julio Le Parc. Featuring his striking interactive installations, shimmering light sculptures, and large-scale geometric paintings, the show spans an extraordinary career from the late 1950s to the 2020s.
He is best known for his pioneering kinetic sculptures, which use light, movement and mirrored surfaces to surprise and draw in the viewer. Le Parc wants to make viewers feel active, with their acts of looking and experiencing bringing each artwork to life. He wants to make more democratic art that everyone can easily enjoy.
The show also explores the depth and diversity of Le Parc’s talent, with trailblazing installation art plus canvases and works on paper experimenting with colour combinations and dynamic visual effects.
£15
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00
Friday to Saturday 10.00–21.00
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Explore the impact of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present, through over 300 works – from paintings and installations to posters, journals, and film. The term Pan-Africanism
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Explore the impact of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present, through over 300 works – from paintings and installations to posters, journals, and film.
The term Pan-Africanism refers to a broad spectrum of political and philosophical movements advocating anti-colonial resistance and transnational solidarity amongst peoples of African descent. While it has long been recognised as a galvanising force in 20th-century global history, Project a Black Planet is the first major exhibition to consider both its influence on visual art and culture, and the critical role of artists in shaping Pan-African visions.
The exhibition presents work produced across Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe, from artists including Chris Ofili, Marlene Dumas and Claudette Johnson. The symbolic site of Panafrica is presented not as a fixed territory but as a conceptual terrain where rupture, dissent, and collective imagination converge in the pursuit of emancipatory futures.
Participating artists include:
El Anatsui, Fatma Arargi, Liz Johnson Artur, Kader Attia, Farid Belkahia, Christopher Cozier, Marlene Dumas, Inji Efflatoun, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Benedict Enwonwu, Dumile Feni, Samuel Fosso, Coco Fusco, Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Sonia Gomes, David Hammons, Lubaina Himid, Nicholas Hlobo, Claudette Johnson, William Kentridge, Wifredo Lam, Simone Leigh, Bertina Lopes, Ernest Mancoba, Sabelo Mlangeni, Ronald Moody, Azikiwe Mohammed, Kawira Mwirichia, Abdias do Nascimento, Iba N’Diaye, Grace Ndiritu, Malangatana Ngwenya, Everlyn Nicodemus, Magdalene Odundo, Chris Ofili, Colette Omogbai, Ingrid Pollard, Samir Rafi, Ibrahima Sanlé Sory, Gerard Sekoto, Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, Papa Ibra Tall, The Otolith Group and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
£19
Tue–Wed 10am–6pm (last entry 5pm)
Thu–Fri 10am–8pm (last entry 7pm)
Sat–Sun 10am–6pm (last entry 5pm)
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of iconic Suffolk-born artist John Constable, Burgh House presents John Constable in Hampstead, a new exhibition exploring the artist’s profound connection to
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of iconic Suffolk-born artist John Constable, Burgh House presents John Constable in Hampstead, a new exhibition exploring the artist’s profound connection to Hampstead Heath and the surrounding area where he lived and worked for almost twenty years.
Opening on 11th June, the anniversary of Constable’s birth, John Constable in Hampstead brings together key works from the artist’s Hampstead years, revealing how the area became both a creative inspiration and a refuge from London life. Through rarely seen paintings, mezzotints, portraits, and personal letters, this exhibition traces Constable’s deep engagement with the landscape, weather, and people of Hampstead during a pivotal and deeply personal period in his life.
Wednesday – Friday and Sundays, 10am-4pm
Free
Location
New End Square, London, NW3 1LT
020 7431 0144 info@burghhouse.org.uk
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This exhibition, curated by graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge, charts Daniel Buren’s expanded use of the 8.7cm stripe over almost six decades, from the street to the gallery walls and from the
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This exhibition, curated by graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge, charts Daniel Buren’s expanded use of the 8.7cm stripe over almost six decades, from the street to the gallery walls and from the canvas to the printed page. Exploring the legacy of the artist’s famous motif – through art works, archival objects and his prodigious publishing and printed matter output – the display attempts an entire history of the stripe as subversive interruption within books, magazines and publications. It begins with Buren’s anonymous contribution to the Prospect 68 catalogue at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf – a double-page spread of green stripes – and ends with a new version of an off-site exhibition of vertically pasted stripes first staged on a billboard in central London in 1972.
Bringing together more than 100 printed items, Pages in situ spans interventions in books, magazines and newspapers, often presented “without name or explanation”, alongside invitations, posters and group and solo exhibition catalogues, as well as dedicated artist books. Variations in colour, sequencing, cut-outs and format all play a role in shaping each item. Across these diverse formats, Buren’s consistent “visual tool” operates as a powerful graphic element, threading through each publication while continually shifting in form and intent. It also features numerous examples of printed material that adhere to the 8.7cm principle, without explicitly displaying stripes, using the same width for columns of printed text or for the dimensions of reproduced images.
Free
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Location
67 Lisson Street London NW1 5DA
+44 (0)20 7724 2739 contact@lissongallery.com
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“Materials are the basis for my work that can be 2 or 3 dimensional, using layering, bending or folding, to determine the shape to emphasise a corner or to remake
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“Materials are the basis for my work that can be 2 or 3 dimensional, using layering, bending or folding, to determine the shape to emphasise a corner or to remake one. The work can cling to the wall or spring away or the structure of a piece is created by the tension of the fixing points.”
Lesley Foxcroft uses simple and everyday materials for her works, with them being made up of MDF, galvanized metal and copper, the latter a new element in Foxcroft’s oeuvre. Her choice of materials carries with it a deliberate honesty, like Brutalist architecture, which insists on leaving materials exposed and unadorned, their nature made visible rather than concealed. The surfaces of MDF sit in juxtaposition with the harder qualities of galvanized metal and copper, each making the other more apparent. The use of these simple materials, with their absence of colour, diminishes interpretative interference for the viewer, allowing form to take precedence.
The works can be understood as drawings in space, the line of MDF or metal in place of a pencil line, tracing the edges and corners of the room. Most pieces are comprised of thin layers flexible enough to bend, fold, wrap and layer, transforming into the required shape. All the materials, as Foxcroft has noted, “have to be of a certain density, in that they need to be bendable to some extent, sometimes easily, but often with a good deal of pressure.” The folds, creases and knots of the works carry the evidence of this process. This is a method driven both of intention and chance, “I know what shape I need and how the piece is bent, folded or stuck,” Foxcroft has said, “but occasionally a shape happens by accident, sometimes a lucky one.”
By methods of folding, cutting, pressing and stacking, Foxcroft’s sculptures unfurl from the wall or corner of the room, arranging material on the floor and up walls, creating a dialogue between the two. One of the works in the exhibition sees a sculpture extend from the wall and turn into the corner of the exhibition space, connecting two walls through the tension of its own structure. The sculptural forms are thus rooted in the environments they find themselves in, responding to corners, ceilings and floors. For Foxcroft, “the architecture of the building where the work is to be shown can become a catalyst to enhance a piece or initiate an idea.”
Free
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5.30pm. Saturday 11am – 5pm.
Location
16 Hanover Square London W1S 1HT
+44 (0) 207 629 7578 ajfa@annelyjudafineart.co.uk
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The Courtauld Gallery will present the first exhibition devoted to Barbara Hepworth’s lifelong fascination with colour, shedding light on an unexpected and unexplored aspect of the work of one of
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The Courtauld Gallery will present the first exhibition devoted to Barbara Hepworth’s lifelong fascination with colour, shedding light on an unexpected and unexplored aspect of the work of one of the most celebrated British artists of the 20th century.
Barbara Hepworth (1903 – 1975) is best known for her abstract sculptures inspired by nature and the rugged seaside landscapes of Cornwall where she lived and worked from 1939. Throughout her life she emphasised the primacy of direct carving and adhered to the ethos of ‘truth to materials’. Discussing her innovative use of colour with her son-in-law, the art historian Sir Alan Bowness, she said: “In a way my colour has been accepted but never understood.”
Bringing together some 20 sculptures and 30 drawings and paintings, The Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen Exhibition: Hepworth in Colour will be the first exhibition to focus on this important but often overlooked aspect of her work. Hepworth’s early interest in colour dates to the mid-1930s, when she and her future husband, Ben Nicholson, formed part of the European avant-garde. When in 1939, days before the outbreak of the Second World War, she left London for Cornwall with her three young children, Hepworth took with her a single sculpture – her first study for a sculpture with colour. Over the coming years, the landscape of Cornwall inspired her to develop this initial experiment, taking her work in new directions and establishing a lifelong fascination with colour.
Tickets from £18
Opening hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (last entry 17:15).
Location
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
+44 (0)20 3947 7777 galleryinfo@courtauld.ac.uk
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An exhibition of new fin sculptures by Alex Israel. The four sculptures on view, enlarged versions of those found on surfboards, allude to both Southern California surf culture and postwar Los
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An exhibition of new fin sculptures by Alex Israel.
The four sculptures on view, enlarged versions of those found on surfboards, allude to both Southern California surf culture and postwar Los Angeles art history. Carved from Plexiglas and rendered in varying degrees of reflectivity and transparency, the works’ sleek production and emphasis on physical and perceptual experience invite dialogue with the region’s Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements of the 1960s. The sculptures’ pop-inflected colors evoke the commercial aesthetics employed by surf brands to convey the freedom and optimism long associated with Southern California’s coastal lifestyle. Each work is titled after a beloved pop song, adding to its aura of collective longing and nostalgia.
The new fins, related to those first exhibited at Gagosian Rome in 2023, are here inverted and suspended from the gallery ceiling. This unexpected positioning recalls surfers performing a “turtle roll,” going “over the falls” (being caught on the lip of a wave before plunging upside down), or simply the orientation of the fins beneath the water as board riders paddle out. The installation also lends the gallery, with its street-facing windows, a fish tank–like appearance, positioning viewers at an “underwater” vantage.
Israel’s inspiration for using the fin as an artistic motif may be traced back to his feature-length teen surf film SPF-18 (2017). Since then, it has appeared on his Louis Vuitton Artycapucines handbag design (2019), in his official logo for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and on the temples of the sunglasses he produced in collaboration with Oliver Peoples to support victims of the Los Angeles wildfires (2025). In April, Israel also designed the fin-shaped statuette presented to recipients of the inaugural California Arts Council Awards in Sacramento.
Free
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Location
17–19 Davies Street London W1K 3DE
+44 20 7493 3020 london@gagosian.com
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Pangolin London presents an exhibition focusing on the prints of celebrated sculptor Lynn Chadwick. Featuring screenprints and lithographs created throughout his illustrious career, the exhibition highlights Chadwick’s adept control of
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Pangolin London presents an exhibition focusing on the prints of celebrated sculptor Lynn Chadwick. Featuring screenprints and lithographs created throughout his illustrious career, the exhibition highlights Chadwick’s adept control of line and form in two dimensions and his skill at creating strong graphic images where he could experiment with colour and composition.
This is the first exhibition of its kind in London and explores the depth of Lynn Chadwick’s visual thinking by presenting his print oeuvre alongside related sculptures.
In 1956, the year Lynn Chadwick represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, he chose to exhibit as many drawings as he did sculptures. This was also the year Chadwick first produced a print for sale. Created to accompany a monograph by Swiss publisher Jürg Janett, with a text by art historian Herbert Read, Chadwick produced a limited-edition lithograph, Teddy Boy and Girl (1956), derived from the 1955 welded sculpture of the same name. This lithograph – with its pair of angular figures in pleated coats – brings out the sculpture’s fashion-plate quality and its title references and quietly celebrates the emergence of the first distinctive postwar youth subculture of the 1950s.
Chadwick’s graphic work carries the same visual language as his sculpture with their sharp edges and triangular, spindly limbs.
Free
Wednesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 18:00
Location
Kings Place 90 York Way London N1 9AG
020 7520 1480 gallery@pangolinlondon.com
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The Royal Academy of Arts presents the 258th Summer Exhibition, a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community. The exhibition will
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The Royal Academy of Arts presents the 258th Summer Exhibition, a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community.
The exhibition will feature over 1500 artworks, the majority of which will be available to buy. Sales will directly support the exhibiting artists and the RA’s charitable work, including training the next generation of artists at the Royal Academy Schools.
Internationally acclaimed artist and Royal Academician Ryan Gander has co-ordinated this year’s Summer Exhibition and, with the Summer Exhibition Committee, will explore the theme of ‘Interconnectedness’. This year, the Royal Academy is celebrating 20 years of Insight Investment sponsoring the Summer Exhibition. In line with the theme, art works in different media, including architecture, print, painting and sculpture, will be integrated throughout the exhibition, creating conversations with each other rather than being confined to their own spaces. Gander has introduced an exhibition device to connect each room in the exhibition and create cohesion; a horizontal line that travels at eye level around the walls of the galleries. This line will sit two metres above the floor, with artworks being placed above or below it.
£23.50-£25.50 (including donation)
Tues-Sun 10am-6pm
Fri: 10am-9pm
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One of the most influential artists of our time, Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery, where he staged his first major UK survey almost 30 years ago. Kapoor’s exhibition fills
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One of the most influential artists of our time, Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery, where he staged his first major UK survey almost 30 years ago.
Kapoor’s exhibition fills the entire gallery building with a series of immersive works, many of which press against the gallery walls and floors or descend from the ceiling to create an uncanny sensation of awe and wonder.
The exhibition features works from many of Kapoor’s most iconic series: flawless steel mirror sculptures that warp, distort and disorient; mysterious objects coated in Vantablack – the blackest known substance in the world – that mystify us with their extraordinary light-absorbing properties; and seemingly depthless voids opening within the gallery, drawing us in with a thrilling sense of vertigo.
The exhibition also introduces dramatic recent works: visceral paintings and sculptures that confront us with the fragility of human existence.
In addition, the artist presents several new works that appear to turn the world inside out and upside down, including a pair of monumental installations in the artist’s signature red.
Part of Hayward Gallery’s 75th anniversary celebrations, the exhibition is curated by Ralph Rugoff, marking his final show as Director of the Hayward Gallery after 20 years in the role.
Over his decades-long career, Kapoor has become known for ambitious, large-scale works such as the breathtaking Sky Mirror and Chicago’s Cloud Gate (known as The Bean).
£22
Tue – Fri, 10am – 6pm
Sat, 10am – 8pm
Sun, 10am – 6pm
Location
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
020 3879 9555 hello@southbankcentre.co.uk
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The artist’s first UK solo exhibition offers a poetic meditation on the urgent link between climate change and agricultural crises. Through an installation of film and paintings, Indian artist Kulpreet Singh
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The artist’s first UK solo exhibition offers a poetic meditation on the urgent link between climate change and agricultural crises.
Through an installation of film and paintings, Indian artist Kulpreet Singh draws upon his life as a farmer, choreographing the ritual of stubble-burning – the practice of setting fire to straw remnants to prepare the fields for a new crop cycle.
In the film, performers move through burning fields dragging massive canvases behind them. The accompanying soundscape oscillates between a sense of urgency and a call to slow down, reflecting ecological emergency.
A five-panel abstract painting created with fire and stubble ash, accompanies the film.
Together, the installation carries the physical and metaphorical traces of the land, recording its exploitation and foregrounding the resilience of those who tend to it.
Free
Tue – Fri, 10am – 6pm
Sat, 10am – 8pm
Sun, 10am – 6pm
WhatnotVestry Street, 6-8 Vestry St, London N1 7RE19jun(jun 19)1:09 pm01aug(aug 1)1:09 pm
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Jo Addison, Leigh Clarke, Frances Drayson, Mark Harris, Bob Matthews,, Andrew Miller, Michael Samuels, Stella Whalley, Ellie Wyatt Curated by Mark Harris To be shelved can refer to objects, people, or ideas
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Jo Addison, Leigh Clarke, Frances Drayson, Mark Harris, Bob Matthews,, Andrew Miller, Michael Samuels, Stella Whalley, Ellie Wyatt
Curated by Mark Harris
To be shelved can refer to objects, people, or ideas that have been left behind, forgotten, or set aside. However, it can also speak to things that are carefully stored, awaiting a future moment of relevance or a space of reverence and presentation. These contrasting positive and negative readings serve as a central motif for the show.
The shelf has long fascinated writers and thinkers. Foucault saw it as an “ordered surface,” while Bachelard cast it as an extrovert compared to the drawer—a vertical element that organizes space from the grounded and practical to the elevated and imaginative. For Perec, shelves mapped the domestic psyche and for Walter Benjamin, they marked a pause in Unpacking My Library, when books are “not yet touched by the mild boredom of order”. As a result, the shelf is embedded in our cultural vocabulary: on the shelf (set aside or neglected), off the shelf (ready-made), shelf life (a measure of consumables and ideas).
It is formal space that change’s function and reading depending on domestic, commercial or institutional settings. Domestically it can act as an altar where each placement is deliberate, a transformational space when a functional object can be turned into art. Institutionally it can be closed or restrictive (archive) or an open stack (lending library) recoding the shelf from vault to marketplace. Commercially it provides desired prime real estate for the golden zoned merchandise at eye level.
The artist’s selected for this show refer to the ideas/themes of being shelved through a variety of approaches, those working with institutional archives (Bob Matthews, Mark Harris), personal collections (Leigh Clarke, Ellie Wyatt), and the presentation and materiality of art and everyday objects (Stella Whalley, Jo Addison, Andrew Miller, Frances Drayson, Micheal Samuels).
Free
Thursday 12-5pm – Friday 12-5pm – Saturday 12-5pm
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The Treasure House Fair is held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea at the height of London’s summer season each year. The Fair brings together a curated blend of art, antiques
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The Treasure House Fair is held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea at the height of London’s summer season each year. The Fair brings together a curated blend of art, antiques and design from the world’s foremost galleries. They present the widest range of disciplines available with every piece meticulously vetted by independent experts.
£25
25-26 June 11am-8pm
27-28 June 11am-7pm
29-30 June 11am-8pm
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Frida: The Making of an Icon will showcase over 30 of Kahlo’s most iconic works that introduce her ‘many selves’ – the dedicated wife, the intellectual, the modern artist, and the
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Frida: The Making of an Icon will showcase over 30 of Kahlo’s most iconic works that introduce her ‘many selves’ – the dedicated wife, the intellectual, the modern artist, and the political activist. Alongside treasured garments, jewellery, photographs and memorabilia, there are over 200 works by her contemporaries and the artists she inspired from later generations, celebrating her lasting impact on those who continue to reimagine and reclaim her remarkable story.
The show will culminate by exploring ‘Fridamania’. Kahlo’s transformation into a global brand will feature more than 200 commercial objects that encompass her art, image, style and persona.
Encounter a journey entirely unique to this fearless, revolutionary artist, one that offers a fascinating insight into the transformative power of Frida’s life and work, the intriguing notion of fandom and the diversity of communities who claim her as their own.
£25
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00
Friday to Saturday 10.00–21.00
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This summer, the Royal Drawing School presents Frank Bowling: Driven to Draw, an exhibition dedicated to the drawing practice of Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA, one of the most significant
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This summer, the Royal Drawing School presents Frank Bowling: Driven to Draw, an exhibition dedicated to the drawing practice of Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA, one of the most significant artists of his generation.
Spanning more than sixty years, the exhibition brings together works drawn from the artist’s personal archive, offering a rare and intimate insight into the role drawing has played throughout his life and practice.
Widely celebrated for his monumental abstract paintings, Bowling has consistently used drawing as a vital means of thinking, experimenting and recording ideas. As his son Ben Bowling recently reflected, drawing is for Bowling a “first order activity” — a fundamental human need, akin to eating and breathing, and a primary way of communicating. This exhibition reveals that instinctive and lifelong relationship with drawing, tracing the development of his visual language from his student years to the present day.
Free entry, or £7.50 donation welcome. Booking required
Mon–Fri 10am–5pm & Sat 10am–4pm
June
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This summer, the Royal Drawing School presents Frank Bowling: Driven to Draw, an exhibition dedicated to the drawing practice of Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA, one of the most significant
Event Details
This summer, the Royal Drawing School presents Frank Bowling: Driven to Draw, an exhibition dedicated to the drawing practice of Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA, one of the most significant artists of his generation.
Spanning more than sixty years, the exhibition brings together works drawn from the artist’s personal archive, offering a rare and intimate insight into the role drawing has played throughout his life and practice.
Widely celebrated for his monumental abstract paintings, Bowling has consistently used drawing as a vital means of thinking, experimenting and recording ideas. As his son Ben Bowling recently reflected, drawing is for Bowling a “first order activity” — a fundamental human need, akin to eating and breathing, and a primary way of communicating. This exhibition reveals that instinctive and lifelong relationship with drawing, tracing the development of his visual language from his student years to the present day.
Free entry, or £7.50 donation welcome. Booking required
Mon–Fri 10am–5pm & Sat 10am–4pm
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Frida: The Making of an Icon will showcase over 30 of Kahlo’s most iconic works that introduce her ‘many selves’ – the dedicated wife, the intellectual, the modern artist, and the
Event Details
Frida: The Making of an Icon will showcase over 30 of Kahlo’s most iconic works that introduce her ‘many selves’ – the dedicated wife, the intellectual, the modern artist, and the political activist. Alongside treasured garments, jewellery, photographs and memorabilia, there are over 200 works by her contemporaries and the artists she inspired from later generations, celebrating her lasting impact on those who continue to reimagine and reclaim her remarkable story.
The show will culminate by exploring ‘Fridamania’. Kahlo’s transformation into a global brand will feature more than 200 commercial objects that encompass her art, image, style and persona.
Encounter a journey entirely unique to this fearless, revolutionary artist, one that offers a fascinating insight into the transformative power of Frida’s life and work, the intriguing notion of fandom and the diversity of communities who claim her as their own.
£25
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00
Friday to Saturday 10.00–21.00
