Tracey Emin’s iconic and controversial installation My Bed will be on display alongside a collection of JMW Turner’s seascapes and stormy skies, loaned from Tate’s collection and chosen by the artist.
Tuesday - Sunday and public holidays 10am - 6pm
This Autumn Turner Contemporary presents Arp: The Poetry of Forms, the first exhibition in a public gallery of Jean Arp’s work in the UK since 1966.
Tuesday - Sunday and public holidays 10am - 6pm
An exhibition of Willem de Kooning’s late paintings including exceptional paintings created in the 1980s, during the last decade of de Kooning’s 60 year career.
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The first exhibition in London of the pioneering American Feminist filmmaker, performance and conceptual artist Eleanor Antin.
Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm
There’s seems to be more on than usual over August, partly due to a new trend for shows running July-September
2 August 2017
The largest exhibition devoted to the celebrated Victorian artist to be held in London since 1913, explores Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s fascination with the representation of domestic life in antiquity and how this interest related to his own domestic circumstances expressed through the two remarkable studio-houses that he created in St John’s Wood together with his wife Laura and daughters.
daily from 10am to 5pm except Tuesday
Explore the tradition of painting in black and white from its beginnings in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into the 21st century.
Daily 10am – 6pm, 10am – 9pm Fridays
A rare opportunity to see stunning paintings, pastels, and drawings by leading French Impressionist Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas on loan from the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.
Daily 10am – 6pm, 10am – 9pm Fridays
Spruth Magers reopens its London gallery with an expanded exhibition space occupying three floors on Grafton Street and a debut exhibition of new works by Gary Hume.
to be announced
Marking the tenth anniversary of the Zabludowicz Collection’s home at 176 Prince of Wales Road, the exhibition will be structured around the re-imagining of two major works by Haroon Mirza: The System, 2014 and Adam, Eve, others and a UFO, 2013.
Thursday – Sunday 12–6pm
Cosmology, suburbia, nudity, utopianism, catastrophe – these are some of the subjects that Thomas Ruff (b. 1958, Germany) addresses in his photographic series, which for almost four decades have investigated the status of the image in contemporary culture.
Tues-sun 11-6 Thurs until 9pm
British artist and filmmaker, and winner of the 2017 Artes Mundi prize, John Akomfrah has been commissioned to create a new work for the Curve. His most ambitious project to date, Purple is an immersive, six-channel video installation addressing climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness.
Sat–Wed 10am–8pm (last entry 6.30pm) Thu–Fri 10am–10pm (last entry 8.30pm) Bank holidays 12 noon–8pm (last entry 6.30pm)
American artist Wade Guyton uses digital technologies – iPhones, cameras, computers and consumer-grade Epson printers – as tools to create both large-scale paintings on linen and smaller compositions on paper.
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Torbjørn Rødland (born 1970, Stavanger, Norway) is a Los Angeles-based photographer who creates portraits, still lives and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit, defamiliarise and disrupt the realm of the everyday.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays
The Turbine Hall transformed by Danish collective Superflex known for their interests in unifying urban spaces and commenting on society with authenticity through art.
Daily 10-6
The story of the artists who fled to Britain to escape war in France. This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots.
Mon-Sun 10-6pm
Celebrating over 25 years of Rachel Whiteread’s internationally acclaimed sculpture. The most comprehensive exhibition to date of one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
For the first time, one of the most celebrated paintings in the National Gallery, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434), will be exhibited alongside works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and its successors.
10am–6pm (last admission 5pm)
For their first exhibition with Blain|Southern, Jake & Dinos Chapman present their newest body of sculptural work, expanding on their career-long preoccupation with Francisco Goya.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Theatres of memory is the first exhibition dedicated to Dubuffet’s Théâtres de mémoire series in over three decades.
Tues-Sat 10-6 and Fri 10-4
Focusing on the contribution made by the largest migrant community to 20th/21st Century British Art, this exhibition highlights the work of Polish artists who have worked and continue to work in Britain. Featured artists include: Jankel Adler, Janina Baranowska, Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, Stanislaw Frenkiel, Feliks Topolski and Alfred Wolmark, complemented by contemporary practitioners working in London now.
Mon–Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat–Sun 11am–5pm
Light, strong and versatile, plywood is the surprising material celebrated in this world-first exhibition.
Daily: 10.00 – 17.30 Last admission 16.15 Friday: 10.00 – 21.30 Last admission 20.15
Ten finalists from this annual art prize worth £2,500.
Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm
An Exhibition of Works by Members of Contemporary British Painting selected by Anna McNay
Tue - Sat: 11.00 - 18.00 or by appointment
Author/filmmaker: Barry Bliss and 10 contemporary female, London-based painters: Katrina Blannin, Jane Bustin, Rebecca Byrne, Claudia Carr, Emma Cousin, Sharon Drew, Roxana Halls, Selma Parlour, Carol Robertson and Yukako Shibata.
Thursday to Sunday 3pm - 7pm
Works on paper by Alighiero Boetti, one of the most important and influential Italian artists of the twentieth century
Mon - Fri 11am - 6pm Sat 10.30am - 2.30pm
Santiago Sierra’s large-scale, site-specific installation that continues the artist’s interest in borders and displacement.
Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm Saturday, 11am–5pm
A still life by Chardin, an exhibition organised by Maxwell Graham is a group exhibition that brings the patient, quiet and humble spirit of 18th-Century French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin to life through the work of contemporary artists.
Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm Saturday, 11am–5pm
First solo exhibition in London by the American artist Robert Longo.
The exhibition will feature over twenty new charcoal works exploring the volatility of today’s contemporary climate through the lens of Macbeth’s famed line: ‘let the frame of things disjoint’.
Tues-Sat 10-6
A mixed group exhibition showcasing a selection of sculptural ceramics and stone.
Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
A display by some of the gallery’s represented contemporary artists. Works on show will include wood and stone sculptures by Tim Pomeroy, enamel paintings by Geraldine Swayne, mixed media paintings and stainless steel sculptures by Nadim Karam, and recent three dimensional and printed photographic portraits by Chris Levine.
Mon to Fri 10 - 6pm
In bringing together a selection of paintings, prints, and drawings by James McNeill Whistler and Walter Sickert, the viewer will be able to consider the similarities, influences, and points of divergence between mentor and mentee.
Mon to Fri 10 - 6pm
