If you have any time off work this summer, please visit these art exhibitions, which are due to close in August. All the exhibitions have been singled out by the Artlyst team as well worth a visit.
14 July 2025
For thirty years, Darren Almond has explored the nature of time through several distinct yet mutually reinforcing streams of work.
2 April 2024
Christian Marclay’s highly anticipated ten-year project video installation ‘Doors’ (2022), alongside a new series of sculptures…
3 September 2023
‘This Earth, This Passage’ brings together Noguchi’s work from the 1920s to the 1980s
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
Les Lalanne, the late French wife and husband artistic duo, are the dreamers who re-enchant.
23 May 2022
The German painter Magnus Plessen tends to paint in thematic groups: in 2016, he showed his ‘1914-1918’ series in London
23 November 2021
Ibrahim Mahama came to international attention for his monumental installation of jute sacks at the Venice Biennale in 2015
28 September 2021
Rachel Kneebone, “I am excited and delighted to be showing 399 Days in the YSP Chapel, a space that resonates in a special way with my work
28 June 2021
Once upon a time in modernism, the interlacing of art and religion was rendered invisible. Art was not just for art’s sake but was exclusively about art. For Clement Greenberg and his followers, art that was pure and autonomous was art that was self-critical and self-defining.
11 October 2020
In his new paintings, Baselitz creates striking images of hands that emerge out of dark backgrounds and hang open and limp.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm
The first of the London mega galleries have announced they are to reopen after a three-month lockdown period. White Cube and Gagosian will open by timed appointment to comply with social distancing measures from next week.
8 June 2020
White Cube, in this instance, seems the perfect place for this exhibition. So perfect I feel it is over-designed. The perspex boxes of wires, cables are too perfectly matching, autumnal; this could be a fashion collection doesn’t Vogue recommend this kind of palette at this time of year, in tweed? Browns, rusts with a splash of turquoise? Nothing vulgar. Nothing synthetic. Organic colours.
25 November 2019
Burnt-out domesticity. Chicken-wire with burnt-black wood wedged inside in the shape of the chair.
29 September 2019
Damien Hirst’s show Mandalas, at White Cube Mason’s Yard, has already attracted indignant commentary in The Times. Rachel Campbell-Johnson’s review
22 September 2019
Damien Hirst’s first major solo exhibition in London in seven years, comprised of new paintings from his ‘Mandalas’ series.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Featuring large-scale paintings from two new series of works, it marks Zhou Li’s first solo exhibition in the UK.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Featuring paintings, films, a site-specific wall painting as well as the artist’s first sculptural work, the exhibition reflects Morris’s interest in networks, typologies, architecture and the city, articulated through colour and geometric abstraction.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Featuring two new video works by Christian Marclay that reconsider the relationship between image and text, the exhibition foregrounds the role of collage, the readymade and the poetics of chance encounter within Marclay’s wide-ranging practice.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
I visited the white, white cube for the Emin show a day after the people-jammed preview opening. I’m a little allergic to crowds so rely on the Facebook grapevine for a feel of how sardine-packed the gallery felt. With queues stretching around the block.
7 February 2019
‘Random Access Memory’ by Miroslaw Balka at Mason’s Yard is a new work that links and transforms each of the gallery spaces.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
A solo exhibition by Tracey Emin of new paintings, photography, large-scale bronze sculptures and film.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Tracey Emin has a new show titled ‘A Fortnight of Tears’ opening in early 2019 at White Cube Bermondsey.
13 December 2018
Darren Almond’s diverse practice incorporates film, installation, sculpture and photography, to produce evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
White Cube presents a new sculpture by Anselm Kiefer in 9 x 9 x 9 at Bermondsey.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
A solo exhibition of new paintings by Julie Mehretu. Based on events ranging from the Charlottesville riots to the Catalonian election, the new works radiate a sense of urgency in troubled times through Mehretu’s signature abstract language.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Memory Palace, an anthology exhibition currently occupying both White Cube spaces, the big one in Bermondsey and the smaller one in Mason’s Yard St James’s
1 August 2018
Located across White Cube’s London galleries at Bermondsey and Mason’s Yard, Memory Palace is articulated by an architectural framework that leads the viewer through six broad themes of memory: Historical, Autobiographical, Traces, Transcription, Collective and Sensory.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
A survey exhibition of South Korean artist Seung-taek Lee, one of the first generation of South Korean artists to embrace radical experimentation in art.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
An exhibition of works by Pier Paolo Calzolari. One of the most respected artists involved with Arte Povera, this is the first major UK exhibition of his sculpture.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Anything but a conventional artist, Eddie Peake is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint
20 February 2018
A survey exhibition of works by Korean artist Minjung Kim at White Cube Mason’s Yard gallery.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
A solo exhibition by Eddie Peake, featuring new paintings, sculpture, installation and sound. Peake will be working and performing in the gallery throughout the show.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
