PAD London is the only fair in the UK exclusively dedicated to historical and contemporary Design.
14 October 2025 - 19 October 2025 | Collectors Preview Tuesday 14 October 11am – 7pm VIP Opening Wednesday 15 October 11am – 7pm Public Opening Thursday 16 October 11am – 7pm Friday 17 October 11am – 7pm Saturday 18 October 11am – 7pm Sunday 19 October 11am – 6pm
Berkeley Square | ,
London W1J 6EN, , | Events, Fair
Paradigm Shift will transform 180 Strand’s vast subterranean spaces with a landmark exhibition spanning the most acclaimed moving image works from the 1970s to today
15 October 2025 - 21 December 2025 | Wednesday - Sunday 12 noon to 7pm
180 Studios | ,
180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA | Events, Exhibition
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to London for its 13th edition
16 October 2025 - 19 October 2025 | Thu–Sat 11am–7pm Sun 11am–6pm
Somerset House | ,
The Strand, London, WC2R 1LA | Events, Fair
An exhibition and interactive installation by Tom Sachs
14 October 2025 - 20 December 2025 | Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | ,
Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NJ | Events, Exhibition
Time and value are at once fleeting, elastic, distracting, and inevitable, and form the central subject of Ryan Gander’s latest exhibition,
15 October 2025 - 18 January 2026 | Wed-Fri 9am-3.30pm Sat-Sun 9am-4.30pm
Camden Arts Projects | ,
176 Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT | Events, Exhibition
Gagosian presents Says I, to Myself, Says I, Ed Ruscha’s first exhibition dedicated to his paintings on unprimed linen.
14 October 2025 - 19 December 2025 | Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Gagosian (Davies Street) | ,
17-19 Davies Street, London, W1K 3DE | Events, Exhibition
Gagosian presents an exhibition by Christopher Wool at its Grosvenor Hill location in London.
13 October 2025 - 19 December 2025 | Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Gagosian Gallery (Grosvenor Hill) | ,
20 Grosvenor Hill, London, W1K 3QD | Events, Exhibition
Experience a new site-specific work by Máret Ánne Sara in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
14 October 2025 - 06 April 2026 | Daily 10am-6pm
Tate Modern | ,
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG | Events, Exhibition
2025 marks 100 years since the invention of the photobooth in New York.
10 October 2025 - 22 February 2026 | Mon – Weds 10am – 6pm Thurs & Fri 10am – 8pm Sat 10am – 6pm Sun and bank holidays 11am – 6pm
The Photographers' Gallery | ,
16 - 18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW | Events, Exhibition
The fairs return to The Regent’s Park this October, spanning 6,000 years of historical art and today’s most pioneering artists.
15 October 2025 - 19 October 2025 | see website
Frieze London | ,
entrance off Park Square West, South of The Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4LL | Events, Fair
Newport Street Gallery, in association with HENI, will present an exhibition uniting three disruptive artists: Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader.
10 October 2025 - 29 March 2026 | Tuesday – Sunday, 10am-6pm
Newport Street Gallery | ,
Newport Street, London, SE11 6AJ | Events, Exhibition
This exhibition will premiere two significant new moving image works alongside several paintings, silkscreen works and cutouts.
10 October 2025 - 20 December 2025 | Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm
Sadie Coles (Kingly Street) | ,
62 Kingly Street, London, W1B 5QN | Events, Exhibition
October Gallery and Goodman Gallery, London, present ‘Go Back and Pick’, an exhibition in two parts by El Anatsui,
09 October 2025 - 29 November 2025 | Tuesday to Saturday 12:30 to 17:30 pm,
October Gallery | ,
24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL | Events, Exhibition
Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.
10 October 2025 - 08 February 2026 | Serpentine South Gallery | ,
Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA | Events, Exhibition
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery will be the first-ever museum show of Wayne Thiebaud’s work in the UK.
10 October 2025 - 18 January 2026 | Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:15)
The Courtauld Gallery | ,
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN | Events, Exhibition
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is the first exhibition dedicated solely to Beaton’s ground-breaking contributions to fashion and portrait photography.
08 October 2025 - 11 January 2026 | Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
National Portrait Gallery | ,
St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE | Events, Exhibition
An intervention by Sean Scully (b. Dublin, 1945), showcasing a body of his work alongside that of Italian master Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964).
08 October 2025 - 23 December 2025 | Wednesday - Saturday: 11.00 – 18.00 Sunday: 12.00 – 17.00
Estorick Collection | ,
39a Canonbury Square, London, N1 2AN | Events, Exhibition
Explore the macabre, melancholy and sometimes provocative themes that run through aspects of Nordic art.
09 October 2025 - 22 March 2026 | Daily: 10.00–17.00
British Museum | ,
Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3DG | Events, Exhibition
Explore the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
08 October 2025 - 10 May 2026 | Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–21.00
Tate Modern | ,
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG | Events, Exhibition
This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium.
07 October 2025 - 11 January 2026 | Tue – Fri, 10am – 6pm Sat, 10am – 8pm Sun, 10am – 6pm
Hayward Gallery | ,
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX | Events, Exhibition
Saatchi Yates is presenting an ambitious exhibition by renowned conceptual artist Marina Abramović at the gallery in St. James, London.
01 October 2025 - 31 October 2025 | Mon - Sat: 10-6pm Sun: 12-6pm
Saatchi Yates | ,
14 Bury Street, St James's, London, SW1Y 6AL | Events, Exhibition
The exhibition will present new photographic works made with and without the camera,
03 October 2025 - 20 December 2025 | Wednesday – Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
Maureen Paley (Herald Street) | ,
4 Herald Street, London, E2 6JT | Events, Exhibition
Artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley invites visitors into a post-apocalyptic world shaped by a single catastrophic event
30 October 2025 - 18 January 2026 | Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm
Serpentine North Gallery | ,
West Carriage Drive, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 2AAR | Events, Exhibition
The largest institutional exhibition of original prints by Howard Hodgkin to date.
01 October 2025 - 08 March 2026 | 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
Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery | ,
Mattock Lane, London, W5 5EQ | Events, Exhibition
A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller.
02 October 2025 - 15 February 2026 | Daily 10-6pm
Tate Britain | ,
Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG | Events, Exhibition
The exhibition features the European premiere of the Canadian artist’s multi-channel video installation, Birth of a Nation, and works from a new photographic series.
26 September 2025 - 01 November 2025 | Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm
Victoria Miro London | ,
16 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW | Events, Exhibition
Drawing has aways been a key component of Joan Jonas’s expansive practice
26 September 2025 - 01 November 2025 | Wednesday - Friday 12 noon - 6pm Saturday 12 noon - 5pm
Amanda Wilkinson Gallery | ,
1st Floor, 47 Farringdon Road, , London, EC1M 3JB | Events, Exhibition
Herald St presents a two-part exhibition of works by Lucia Di Luciano, taking place across the gallery’s premises in Bethnal Green and Bloomsbury.
23 September 2025 - 08 November 2025 | Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Herald Street | ,
2 Herald Street, London, E2 6JT | Events, Exhibition
The exhibition’s title is taken from a recent body of relief prints produced during a visit to Jamaica, where the artist’s father grew up.
12 September 2025 - 25 October 2025 | Tuesday-Saturday 1:00 - 17:00
Kate MacGarry | ,
27 Old Nichol Street, London, E2 7HR | Events, Exhibition
The Brown Collection presents Hoi Polloi, an exhibition curated by British artist Glenn Brown.
20 September 2025 - 08 August 2026 | Wednesday to Saturday, 10.30 am–6 pm.
The Brown Collection | ,
1 Bentinck Mews , London, W1U 2AF | Events, Exhibition
Tacita Dean shows in both Frith Street locations.
19 September 2025 - 22 November 2025 | Tuesday–Friday: 11–6 Saturday: 11–5 (during exhibitions)
Frith Street Gallery | ,
17-18 Golden Square, London, W1F 9JJ | Events, Exhibition
This autumn, domobaal gallery and Tension Fine Art are proud to collaborate on a joint exhibition of works by Dermot O’Brien (b. 1968), presented concurrently across both venues.
04 October 2025 - 15 November 2025 | thursday/friday/saturday noon to six pm
Domobaal | ,
3 John Street, London, WC1N 2ES | Events, Exhibition