From Friday 5 to Sunday 7 June, over 120 galleries across London, including nine first-timers and several with new or expanded spaces, will open their doors for a vibrant three days of exhibitions, events, and engaging public programmes. Open and free for all, London Gallery Weekend (LGW) offers a wonderful chance to experience London’s world-class gallery scene.
Each of London Gallery Weekend’s three days focuses on one area: starting with Central London on Friday, followed by South London on Saturday and culminating on Sunday in the East End. Participating galleries are open across all three days, from 11am-6pm on Friday and Saturday and 12pm-5pm on Sunday.
CENTRAL
Focus Day: Friday 5 June
The heart of London’s contemporary art scene kicks off the weekend on Thursday 4 with over 20 exhibition openings from 6pm. Highlights include:
Gagosian showcases rare early works by Christo alongside a large-scale unrealised indoor installation in an exhibition organised around the theme of air.
Niru Ratnam presents a major exhibition by the leading British artist Keith Piper, a founding figure in the emergence of Black British art in the early 1980s
Sadie Coles HQ presents five new films by Helen Marten, an extension of the artist’s ambitious opera performance, 30 Blizzards., presented by Miu Miu at Palais d’Iéna for Art Basel Paris in October 2025
Pilar Corrias showcasing a solo exhibition of new paintings by Kurdish-Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman that explore the psychic and spiritual effects of displacement
Cristea Roberts Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Yinka Ilori MBE, the British Nigerian artist and designer’s first solo gallery exhibition in his home city
TINA presents an exhibition of installation, prints and painting by Katie Shannon, exploring how desire, labour and rest fail to align in a produced landscape shaped under pressure
Alison Jacques presents the British pioneer of surrealism Eileen Agar
Lisson Gallery will be showing Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska where this artistic partnership present a newly reimagined iteration of Zanzibar (1999-2022)
SOUTH
Focus Day: Saturday 6 June
South London’s programme offers opening celebrations, curator-led tours, and exhibition walkthroughs throughout the weekend. Highlights include:
For his third solo exhibition at Copperfield, Oscar Santillán will present one his largest installations Solaris, a series of 35 photographs of the Atacama Desert, taken with a photographic lens made from its melted sand
For his debut at The Sunday Painter, Dominic Watson presents Vinegar & Piss a large-scale sculptural installation centred around a galleon constructed from reclaimed wooden children’s playhouses
Sid Motion Gallery and artist Rose Davey present their second collaborative exhibition, This and That
William Hine presents a solo exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia, whose large scale works on washi paper are installations in their own right
Sim Smith presents a duo show by Melissa Joseph and Sutapa Biswas, reflecting how spaces embed histories and memories and reimagines identity through the evolving notion of home
EAST
Focus Day: Sunday 7 June
Explore East London through openings, studio visits, performances, and unique behind-the-scenes experiences. Highlights include:
Victoria Miro presents High Seas; Closed Skies, the gallery’s first exhibition by Shahzia Sikander since announcing representation of the New York-based artist.
Herald St showcases new paintings and sculptures by Naotaka Hiro at the gallery in Bethnal Green (and also Museum St in Bloomsbury)
Emalin presents a solo show by Alvaro Barrington whose paintings mobilise the material references of geography, pop-culture, socioeconomic conditions, and the formalist references of art history
Kate MacGarry presents Mark Corfield-Moore a painter who utilises textile techniques to reflect on his Thai and British heritage to investigate themes of transience and cultural memory
ALMA PEARL presents No Vehicles, a solo exhibition of new work by London–based Nigerian American artist Unyimeabasi Udoh
Pi Artworks opens its new gallery at Perseverance Works, Shoreditch, with Skin, a solo exhibition by Mehmet Ali Uysal
Performances, Live Events and Curated Routes
Specially programmed artist performances activating galleries across the city include:
Russell Perkins at Public Gallery, Caroline Aguirre at Palmer Gallery and Yijia Wu at KRUPA amongst others.
Artist-led exhibition walkthroughs include Dale Lewis at Edel Assanti, Patricia Piccinini at Ames Yavuzand John Riddy at Frith Street Gallery.
Beyond the galleries, artist studio visits include Winston Branch (Goodman Gallery) and Ana Viktoria Dzinic (Nicoletti) + more.
Talks and in-conversation events include:
Ravelle Pillay and Dr. Zoé Whitley in conversation at Goodman Gallery, Oliver Beer and singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright at Thaddaeus Ropac, Lisa Jahovic and Gem Fletcher at Flowers Gallery, and Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska in conversation with Rosie Cooper, Director of Wysing Arts Centre, at Lisson Gallery.
Other events include Indie Art Pop band This Is The Deep performing live at Cedric Bardawil, Patrick Heide hosting an opening reception and BBQ, and a Literary Gathering inspired by the Roni Horn & Francis Picabia exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth.
Curated routes through galleries selected by prominent cultural figures include Giles Deacon (Designer and Creative Director), Kelly Lee Owens (Producer, Songwriter and Vocalist), Lauren Cuthbertson (Principal Dancer, Royal Ballet, London), Sally Tallant (Director, Hayward Gallery), and Sumayya Vally(Architect and founder, Counterspace).
Live Tours
Following the success of the Live Tours – launched in 2023 and comprising in-person tours to enable the public to explore the event in an exciting way – the initiative returns in 2026. Available alongside the online Curated Routes, the in-person tours will run at specific times during the weekend, and are open to all. Visitors will be led from one gallery to the next by a dedicated team of Event Assistants employed by London Gallery Weekend via ArtFund’s Students Opportunities bursary. Further information is available on the London Gallery Weekend website here.
New and Expanded Galleries
Since last year’s edition, the gallery sector has demonstrated its commitment to London as a leading international arts hub with the opening of a number of new and expanded spaces. These include Sadie Coles HQ, with a new space on Mayfair’s Savile Row; Maureen Paley, with a fourth space on 4 Herald Street; Modern Art, with a new gallery in St James’s; Emalin, which has shifted its main premises from Shoreditch to a 5,000 sq ft space in Clerkenwell; Edel Assanti, with an intimate second space in St. James’s; Lehmann Maupin, with a 2026 programme at Frieze’s No.9 Cork Street; Annely Juda Fine Art,with a larger space in Hanover Square; Haricot Gallery with a larger space in Camden; and GRIMM, expanding to a new gallery space in St James’s.
Galleries joining LGW for the first time that have opened new spaces in recent years include Matt Carey-Williams on Porchester Place, NORITO and TINA both in Soho, DES BAINS which has relocated to Fitzrovia, General Assembly in Mayfair, Sundaram Tagore Gallery which inaugurated their London space in May 2026, and Pale Horse which joins as London Gallery Weekend’s newest gallery, having opened a space in Fitzrovia last year. New joiners also include Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in Fitzrovia and piloto pardo in Farringdon.
Targeted Initiatives to Support the City’s Gallery Sector
Since its inception, London Gallery Weekend has welcomed more than 250,000 visitors across five editions, while introducing targeted initiatives to strengthen the city’s gallery sector.
New this year, the LGW x ACC Under 40 Acquisition Fund — launched with the Arts Council Collection — will see a group of under-40 collectors acquire works by exciting UK-based contemporary artists. The inaugural acquisition will enter the Arts Council Collection and circulate nationally, expanding public access to art while supporting artists at pivotal career moments. In 2026, both the LGW x Art Fund Bursary for UK Curators and the LGW x Paul Mellon Centre Grant Scheme for International Curators return, bringing the number of curators welcomed to London Gallery Weekend through these partnerships to over 100 to date. An overview of this year’s curator cohort is here.
LGW x Government Art Collection partnership returns for its third year, following the acquisition of two works from Maximillian William’s show by Ro Robertson in 2025. This partnership saw the curatorial team engage with 42 galleries presenting work by British artists during LGW 2025.
The LGW x Henry Moore Foundation x Tia Collection Commissioning Fund also returns following its successful launch in 2025, when £20,000 was awarded to The Holburne Museum to realise a project with artist Francis Upritchard, following her presentation by Kate MacGarry.
VIP Programme and Citywide Audience Engagement
London Gallery Weekend’s VIP programme attracts leading collectors from around the world through a carefully curated series of tours and engagement events, offering in-depth insight into the breadth and diversity of the capital’s gallery landscape. The programme builds on the capital’s rich cultural offering, with major blockbuster institutional shows on view during the Weekend, such as Tracey Emin at Tate Modern, Henry Moore at Kew Gardens, Whistler at Tate Britain, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait at National Portrait Gallery, and Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at V&A, adding to the global draw of the city.
Full list of participating galleries:
Ab-Anbar, ai. gallery, Albion Jeune, Alice Amati, Alison Jacques, ALMA PEARL, Amanda Wilkinson, Ames Yavuz, Annely Juda Fine Art, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, Ben Hunter, Bernheim, Bluerider ART, Blue Shop Gallery, Canopy Collections, Cecilia Brunson Projects, Cedric Bardawil, Cob, Cooke Latham Gallery, Copperfield, Cristea Roberts Gallery, David Zwirner, DES BAINS, Edel Assanti, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Emalin, Flowers Gallery, Frith Street Gallery, Gagosian, Galerie Max Hetzler, Gallery 1957, Gazelli Art House, General Assembly, Goodman Gallery, GRIMM, Grosvenor Gallery, Hales, Hannah Barry Gallery, Haricot Gallery, Harlesden High Street, Hauser & Wirth, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Herald St, Hollybush Gardens, Holtermann Fine Art, Ilenia, IMT Gallery, Indigo+Madder, IONE & MANN, JD Malat Gallery, Josh Lilley, Kate MacGarry, Kearsey & Gold, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, KRUPA, LAMB Gallery, Larkin Durey, lbf contemporary, Lehmann Maupin, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Lisson Gallery, Lungley, Luxembourg + Co., Lyndsey Ingram, MAMOTH, MASSIMODECARLO, Matt Carey-Williams, Maureen Paley, Maximillian William, Modern Art, mother’s tankstation, Nahmad Projects, New Art Projects, Nicoletti, Niru Ratnam, No.9 Cork Street, NORITO, Opera Gallery, Pace Gallery, Pale Horse, Palmer Gallery, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, Perrotin, Pi Artworks, Pilar Corrias, piloto pardo, Pipeline, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Public Gallery, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Rose Easton, Sadie Coles HQ, Salon by IMPORT EXPORT, Seventeen, Sid Motion Gallery, Sim Smith, SLQS Gallery, Soft Opening, Soup, Sprovieri, Sprüth Magers, Studio/Chapple, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Sylvia Kouvali, Thaddaeus Ropac, The Approach, The Mayor Gallery, The Sunday Painter, Thomas Dane Gallery, Timothy Taylor, TINA, Tiwani Contemporary, Union Pacific, Vardaxoglou Gallery, Victoria Miro, Vigo Gallery, Waddington Custot, White Cube, William Hine, Workplace, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
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