2025 promises to see another full and varied programme of art exhibitions in London. Artlyst has put together this month-by-month guide to help you navigate your choice of where to spend your free time in the capital’s major galleries and museums. Solo exhibitions to look out for include Mickalene Thomas at the Hayward Gallery, Noah Davis at the Barbican, Edvard Munch Portraits at the NPG, Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Yoshitomo Nara at the Hayward, Jenny Saville at the NPG, Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy and Millet at the National Gallery. Group shows include Brasil! Brasil! at the Royal Academy, The Face Magazine at the NPG, Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery and the birth of art photography at Tate Modern. The list will be updated as new information becomes available.
January
Brasil! Brasil! the Birth of Modernism
28 January – 21 April 2025
Royal Academy of Arts
A major exhibition featuring over 130 works from the 1910s to the 1970s by ten important Brazilian artists capturing the diversity of Brazilian art at this time.
The ten featured artists will include pioneers of early Brazilian Modernism, a movement spearheaded by Anita Malfatti followed by Vicente do Rego Monteiro, the Jewish Lithuanian emigré Lasar Segall, Candido Portinari and Tarsila do Amaral, now internationally celebrated as a leading female figure of Brazilian Modernism. The exhibition will also include the self-taught artists Alfredo Volpi and Djanira da Motta e Silva, an artist of indigenous descent, Afro-Brazilian artist Ruben Valentim, the early Neo-Concrete polymath Geraldo de Barros, and the artist and architect Flávio de Carvalho, who was also one of Brazil’s first performance artists.
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February
Noah Davis
Barbican Art Gallery
6 February – 11 May 2025
In February 2025, Barbican Art Gallery will host the largest institutional survey to date of the work of late American artist Noah Davis (1983 – 2015). Bringing together over 50 works spanning the artist’s career, this major touring exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Davis’ extraordinary practice in painting as well as his work in curating and community-building as co-founder of The Underground Museum.
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Linder: Danger Came Smiling
11 February – 5 May 2025.
Hayward Gallery
The first London retrospective from the acclaimed British artist, offering an illuminating overview on Linder’s 50 year-long career. The exhibition will present the full trajectory of Linder’s artistic production, from her early work involved in the punk scene of 1970s Manchester, to new works yet to be displayed.
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Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
11 February – 5 May 2025.
Hayward Gallery
The pioneering artist’s first solo presentation in a UK public art gallery, having previously collaborated with Dior and Solange Knowles. Renowned for her large-scale paintings drawing on the tenets of Black feminist theory, Mickalene is the first Black femme artist to have a scholarship in her name at the Yale School of Art.
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Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker
12 February – 4 May 2025
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Following acclaimed presentations at both Spike Island (Bristol) and Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham), Whitechapel Gallery brings this major survey exhibition of the late British multi-media artist Donald Rodney (b.1961, West Bromwich; d.1998, London) to London.
Visceral Canker encompasses the majority of Rodney’s surviving works from 1982 to 1997 including large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures as well as his sketchbooks and rare archival materials. The exhibition showcases the extraordinary breadth and influence of Rodney’s work, confirming him as a vital figure in British art, and introducing him to a new generation of audiences.
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Goya To Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
14 February – 26 May 2025
The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery will present an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. This exhibition will be a unique opportunity to see some of its masterpieces – including works by Goya, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Cezanne among others.
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift
20 February – 18 May 2025
National Portrait Gallery
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, a trail-blazing youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain and beyond. From 1980 to 2004, The Face played a vital role in creating contemporary culture. Musicians featured on its covers achieved global success and the models it championed – including a young Kate Moss – became the most recognisable faces of their time. The magazine also launched the careers of many leading photographers and fashion stylists, who were given the creative freedom to radically reimagine the visual language of fashion photography and define the spirit of their times. Relaunched in 2019, the magazine continues to provide a disruptive and creative space for image-makers, championing fresh talent in photography, fashion, music and graphic design. This exhibition will bring together the work of over 80 photographers, including Sheila Rock, Stéphane Sednaoui, Corinne Day, David Sims, Elaine Constantine and Sølve Sundsbø, and will feature over 200 photographs – a unique opportunity to see many of these images away from the magazine page for the first time.
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Leigh Bowery!
27 Feb – 2 Sep 2025
Tate Modern
Organised by Tate Modern in collaboration with Nicola Rainbird, Director and Owner of the Estate of Leigh Bowery
Tate Modern’s first exhibition of 2025 will focus on the boundary-pushing career of artist, performer, model, designer and musician Leigh Bowery. The show will span his emergence in London’s 1980s club scene through to his outrageous performances in galleries, theatres and the street, using the body as a shape-shifting tool in ways that would go on to inspire Alexander McQueen, Lady Gaga and many more.
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March
Alison Watt – From Light
5 March – 1 June 2025
Pitzzhanger Manor & Gallery
The exhibition features a new series of paintings which resonate with the architecture and collection of Sir John Soane, the architect of Pitzhanger Manor. Watt’s practice, rooted in a fascination with light, echoes strongly with Soane’s innovative manipulation of light to shape space and create atmosphere.
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Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300 – 1350
8 March – 22 June 2025
National Gallery
Paintings by some of the greatest Italian artists of the 14th century will be reunited at the National Gallery in 2025 – having been dispersed throughout the world for centuries. Some of the most innovative works in the Western painting tradition, many of which were part of larger ensembles before they were separated, are being brought back together. These influential and precious paintings, many in gold ground, will be among the highlights of a rarely staged exhibition of art of the first half of the 14th century. Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300‒1350, which marks the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery and celebrates the earliest pictures in its collection, will open in spring 2025.
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Edvard Munch Portraits
13 March – 15 June 2025
National Portrait Gallery
Widely regarded as one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th centuries, Edvard Munch consistently produced intimate portraits of family, friends, lovers, writers, artists, patrons and collectors, together with an extraordinary range of self-portraits. With energetic brushstrokes, bold colour and a direct sense of engagement with the sitter, these works have had a strong influence on the portrait genre.
Edvard Munch Portraitswill be the first exhibition in the UK to focus on this important, but sometimes overlooked, aspect of the artist’s work. The exhibition will show how Munch painted portraits as commissions and for personal reasons, with many pictures doubling up as icons or examples of the human condition despite being based on the direct observation of named individuals.
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Arpita Singh: Remebering
20 March – 27 July 2025
Serpentine North
The first solo exhibition of Arpita Singh outside India featuring key works selected in close collaboration with the artist from her prolific career spanning more than six decades.
Singh’s paintings draw on Indian miniatures and narratives, interwoven with immediate experiences of social upheaval and international humanitarian crises. The exhibition will explore the full breadth of her practice, ranging from large-scale oil paintings to more intimate watercolours and ink drawings.
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José María Velasco: A View of Mexico
29 March – 17 August 2025
National Gallery
The first monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to José María Velasco (1840–1912), Mexico’s most celebrated 19th-century painter, will take place at the National Gallery early next year. José María Velasco: A View of Mexico coincides with the 200th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UK and Mexico. Velasco is famed for his monumental paintings of the Valle de México, the area surrounding Mexico City, the nation’s capital. Painted during decades of tremendous social change, his precise yet lyrical works depicted Mexico’s magnificent scenery and rapid industrialisation.
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Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
21 March – 29 June 2025
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries,
Royal Academy of Arts
Victor Hugo was a leading public figure in 19th century France. His books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame were printed worldwide. As both a poet and a politician, and during his near twenty-year exile in the Channel Islands, he came to symbolise the ideals of the French Republic: equality and freedom. In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many artists including the Surrealists. Vincent van Gogh compared them to “astonishing things”.
In March 2024, the Royal Academy of Arts will present a comprehensive survey of Hugo’s rarely seen works on paper, which were last exhibited in the UK over 50 years ago. The exhibition will follow Hugo’s preoccupation with drawing, from his early caricatures and travel drawings to his dramatic landscapes and his experiments with abstraction.
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April
Ed Atkins
2 Apr – 25 Aug 2025
Tate Britain
For over a decade, Atkins has been making videos and animations that trace the dwindling gap between representation and embodied experience. This career-spanning exhibition will assemble paintings, writing, embroideries, and drawings alongside his acclaimed moving-image works in a succession of large-scale installations.
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Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots
3 April – September 2025
Serpentine South
A solo exhibition by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone spanning over five decades. This will be the most comprehensive survey of his practice in a major London institution, featuring sculptures and works on paper from 1977 to today. A leading figure in Arte Provera, Penone experimented with a wide range of materials, including wood, iron, wax, bronze, terracotta, and plaster, bringing their individual physical qualities to the fore.
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The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making
10 April – 6 July 2025
National Gallery
Coinciding with the re-hang of our collection, the National Gallery will present the Carracci cartoons (about 1599) in Room 1. This is a rare chance to see these works which, at nearly four metres wide and two metres tall and in the delicate medium of charcoal and white chalk, are not often displayed. The works came into the National Gallery collection in 1837 as part of a gift by Lord Francis Egerton. They were initially made in preparation for the painted ceiling in the gallery of one of Rome’s greatest Renaissance palaces, the Palazzo Farnese.
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May
Hiroshige: artist of the open road
1 May – 7 September 2025
British Museum
Join Hiroshige on a lyrical journey through Edo Japan, exploring the natural beauty of the landscapes and the bustle of urban life. The exhibition also considers his lasting influence on modern and contemporary artists.
Born into a humble home during an unsettled time in Japan’s history, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797– 1858) went on to become one of Japan’s most talented, prolific and popular artists.
The exhibition will explore Hiroshige’s art and legacy through a significant gift and loan of prints from a major US collector of Hiroshige’s work, as well as prints, drawings, illustrated books and paintings from the British Museum collection, and additional important loans.
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Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia. Photography by Jessica Maurer. © Do Ho Suh
The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh
1 May – 26 Oct 2025
Tate Modern
In partnership with Genesis The creation and repurposing of artworks in the exhibition has been made possible with the generous support of Genesis.
In the summer, The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh will invite visitors into the captivating world of this Korean-born, London-based artist. Do Ho Suh’s immersive fabric installations, life-size replicas of his past homes, videos and delicate works on paper ask timely questions about belonging and connection, and explore the intricate relationship between architecture and the body.
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Encounters: Giacometti
8 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
Barbican Centre
Three groundbreaking exhibitions position historic sculptures by Alberto Giacometti with new works by contemporary artists, in an intimate new space.
One of the most significant European sculptors of the 20th century, Giacometti is known for his distinctive, elongated sculptures which experiment with the human form. Responding to the pain and devastation caused by the Second World War, his works proposed a new perspective on humanity and the collective psyche.
Organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, this year-long series launches in May with an exhibition of works by Huma Bhabha, followed by Mona Hatoum in September and Lynda Benglis in February 2026. Their artworks resonate with and respond to Giacometti’s sculptures, opening up new intergenerational dialogues through the timeless themes of death, fragmentation, the domestic, memory, trauma, the erotic, horror and humour. This is the first time that their sculptures will be seen alongside Giacometti’s works.
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Ancient India: living traditions
22 May – 12 October 2025
British Museum
Where does the image of the beloved and playful god Ganesha, with his elephant head and rounded belly, originate? What inspired the depictions of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain deities and enlightened teachers in the forms we are still familiar with today?
Through the lens of the exceptional South Asian collection at the British Museum, as well as generous loans from national and international partners, this will be one of the first major exhibitions in the world to look at the early sacred art of India from a multi-faith, contemporary and global perspective.
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June
Yoshitomo Nara:
10 June – 31 August 2025.
Hayward Gallery
The first UK solo exhibition at a public institution by the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist, also marking his first major European retrospective spanning four decades of Nara’s work. Nara is widely known for his bold images of characters with large heads and wide eyes, challenging the viewer with their direct gaze and defiant stance.
Right: Ithell Colquhoun Scylla 1938 Tate Purchased 1977 © Spire Healthcare, © Noise Abatement Society, © Samaritans
Edward Burra / Ithell Colquhoun
13 Jun – 19 Oct 2025
Tate Britain
Two renowned modern artists – Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun – will each be the subject of solo exhibitions, giving visitors the chance to see the breadth of their vivid and enigmatic paintings. Both artists took surrealism in different directions from the 1930s onwards, as Burra’s lively scenes of urban subcultures developed into brooding images of war and landscape, while Colquhoun’s treatment of sexual, mythological and dreamlike imagery reflected her fascination with the occult.
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RA Summer Exhibition 2025
17 June – 17 August 2025
Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition, the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show, will be in its 257th year. It will provide a unique platform for emerging and established artists to showcase their works to an international audience, comprising a range of media from painting, printmaking and photography, to sculpture, architecture and film. It has been held each year without interruption since 1769. Around 1200 works will go on display, the majority of which will be for sale offering visitors an opportunity to purchase original work. Funds raised support the exhibiting artists, the postgraduate students studying in the RA Schools and the work of the Royal Academy.
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Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting
20 June – 7 September 2025
National Portrait Gallery
Opening in summer 2025, Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting will be the first major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to the work of one of the world’s foremost contemporary artists. Saville rose to prominence in the early 1990s, following her acclaimed degree show at the Glasgow School of Art. In the years since she has played a leading role in the reinvigoration of figurative painting – a genre that she continues to test the limits of to this day. Her unique ability to create visceral portraits from thick layers of paint reveals an artist with a deep passion for the process itself, an act that she experiences as both energetic and bodily.
Bringing together 50 works made throughout the artist’s career, Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting will trace the development of her practice from the 1990s to today, spotlighting key artworks from her career and while exploring her lasting connection to art history. From charcoal drawings to large-scale oil paintings of the human form, this broadly chronological display will include works that question the conventional and historical notions of female beauty, as well as the monumental nudes that launched Saville to acclaim in 1992 and new ‘portraits’ made for the twenty-first century. Rendered in fluorescent, saturated tones, this pioneering series interrogates the connections between the physical and virtual in our image saturated age.
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Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after Millet), 1890
Oil on canvas. 72.1 cm x 92 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Kiefer/ Van Gogh
28 June – 26 October 2025The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries
Royal Academy of Arts
Vincent van Gogh has had an enduring influence on Anselm Kiefer Hon RA, from his early years to the present day. Kiefer/Van Gogh will feature work by both artists side by side for the first time. The exhibition will bring together paintings and drawings by Van Gogh from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, with works by Kiefer which have been inspired by Van Gogh, including new work that has never been shown before. Kiefer first encountered Van Gogh’s work aged 17 when he received a travel grant to follow in his footsteps, starting in the Netherlands, through to Belgium, Paris and Arles, in the south of France. Over Kiefer’s 60-year career, the pioneer of Post-Impressionism has informed the subjects and techniques of his monumental paintings and sculptures which draw on history, mythology, literature, philosophy and science.
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July
Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award
10 July – 12 October 2025
National Portrait Gallery
The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award is a prestigious painting competition that celebrates the very best in contemporary portraiture. 2025’s exhibition will display captivating works from around the world, by both self-taught and more established painters, that provide a snapshot of portrait painting today. Since its inception, the long-standing competition has attracted over 40,000 entries from more than 100 countries and has been seen by over 6 million people. Artists demonstrate an impressive range and complexity of skill, with artworks exploring both classical and innovative techniques that show the enduring relevance of portraiture today. A new publication, including all works exhibited as part of the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, will be available from July 2025.
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National Gallery of Australia. © Estate of Emily Kam Kngwarray / DACS 2024
Emily Kam Kngwarray
10 Jul 2025 – 13 Jan 2026
Tate Modern
Presented in The Eyal Ofer Galleries. Organised in collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia
The first major exhibition of work by Emily Kam Kngwarray ever held in Europe. One of Australia’s greatest artists, Kngwarray was a senior Anmatyerr woman, a community from the Utopia region (north-east of Mparntwe/Alice Springs), whose paintings reflected her ritual, spiritual and ecological engagement with her homelands. Tate Modern will tell her powerful story and showcase the monumental, shimmering canvases she created in her late 70s and early 80s, many of which have never been shown outside Australia.
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August
Millet: Life on the Land
7 August – 19 October 2025
National Gallery
The first UK exhibition in nearly 50 years dedicated to Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) will open at the National Gallery in autumn 2025. The show coincides with the 150th anniversary of Millet’s death – by which time his works were well known in the UK and beginning to be eagerly collected by an enthusiastic group of British collectors, resulting in a significant body of his work in UK public collections. Millet: Life on the Land will present around 13 paintings and drawings from British public collections. It will include the National Gallery’s The Winnower (about 1847‒8), and the exceptional loan of L’Angelus (1857‒9) from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
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September
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists National Gallery
13 September 2025 – 8 February 2026
National Gallery
The first-ever exhibition dedicated to the Neo-Impressionist art movement at the National Gallery will take place in the autumn of 2025. Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists will show works largely drawn from the outstanding collection of the German art collector Helene Kröller-Müller (1869‒1939), at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, in the Netherlands. The exhibition will show radical works of French, Belgian and Dutch artists, painted from 1886 to the early 20th century. These include Anna Boch (1848‒1936), Jan Toorop (1858‒1928), Théo van Rysselberghe (1862‒1926) and Paul Signac (1863‒1935) and Georges Seurat (1859–1891) himself. One of the first great women art patrons of the 20th century, Kröller-Müller, assembled what is probably the world’s greatest and most comprehensive collection of Neo-Impressionist paintings just two decades after these works were painted.
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Kerry James Marshall
20 September 2025 – 18 January 2026
Royal Academy of Arts
In September 2025, the Royal Academy of Arts will mark the 70th birthday year of the celebrated American artist Kerry James Marshall Hon RA with a major solo exhibition. The exhibition will explore Marshall’s expansive career to date and it will be his first institutional presentation in the UK for almost 20 years. Kerry James Marshall will feature around 70 works, including a new series of paintings made especially for the show and his commemorative sculpture Wake, 2003 – ongoing, which evolves each time it is exhibited.
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Tate. © Succession Picasso / DACS 2024
Picasso: The Three Dancers
17 Sep 2025 – Spring 2026
Tate Modern
Presented in the George Economou Gallery. Supported by the Picasso: Three Dancers Supporters Circle, Tate Americas Foundation and Tate Members
Marking 100 years since this iconic painting was made. Foregrounding Picasso’s fascination with dance, sex and death, this deep dive will put a pivotal work of modern art in dialogue with its historic context and with contemporary dance.
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October
Lee Miller
2 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
Tate Britain
Lee Miller will be given the most extensive retrospective of her photography ever staged in the UK. A trailblazing surrealist and an acclaimed fashion and war photographer, Miller’s extraordinary career will be explored through 250 images, including some never previously displayed.
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Peter Doig – House of Music.
3 October 2025 to February 2026
Serpentine
Presenting Doig’s paintings with sound for the first time, the exhibition will highlight the significance of other disciplines to the artist’s practice, including music and film, alongside the importance of sites of communal gathering and creative exchange.
Doig has accumulated a substantial vinyl archive and in-depth knowledge of musical genres over decades. For House of Music, Doig will bring his archive to life through a sculptural installation of rare, restored analogue speakers. During the exhibition Doig will invite a roster of musicians and other music enthusiasts to animate this ‘high fidelity’ equipment with their own selection of vinyl through a series of residencies.
Envisaged as a multi-sensory environment, Doig will present new and recent paintings alongside the sound installation, inviting visitors to pause and linger as they listen, transforming the gallery into place of contemplation, reflection and conversation.
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Gilbert & George:
7 October 2025 – 4 January 2026.
Hayward Gallery
A landmark exhibition from the pioneering London-based artists. Set to be their largest exhibition to date, this presentation will focus on their new pictures from the start of the millennium as well as pictures that have never been seen in the UK, inviting audiences to embark on a multifaceted exploration of the human experience.
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Nigerian Modernism
8 Oct 2025 – Spring 2026
Tate Modern
The show will celebrate the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria before and after national independence in 1960, combining African and European traditions to create new, multidisciplinary forms across painting, sculpture, textile, literature and poetry.
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Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
9 October 2025 – 11 January 2026
National Portrait Gallery
Renowned as a fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist and writer, Cecil Beaton – ‘The King of Vogue’ – was an extraordinary force in the 20th century British and American creative scenes. Elevating fashion and portrait photography into an art form, his era-defining photographs captured beauty, glamour, and star power in the interwar and early post-war eras. No previous exhibition has exclusively spotlighted his ground-breaking fashion work, a pivotal aspect of his career that laid the foundation for his later successes. With this in mind, Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World will showcase Beaton at his most triumphant – from the Jazz Age and the Bright Young Things, to the high fashion brilliance of the Fifties and the glittering, Oscar-winning success of My Fair Lady. In between, he endured the hardship of war as a photographer of the home front and of the Western Desert campaign and beyond. From 1939 as a royal photographer, by appointment to the House of Windsor, he propelled the monarchy into the modern age.
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Mrinalini Mukherjee Archive. Courtesy of Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation and Asia Art Archive. Photo: Ranjit Singh.
A Story of South Asain Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle
24 October 2025 – 25 January 2026
Royal Academy of Arts
This exhibition will present an important network of South Asian artists working alongside the Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949-2015). Featuring drawings, paintings and sculptures by Mukherjee’s peers and teachers, including her parents Benode Behari Mukherjee and Leela Mukherjee who taught at the influential Bhavana art school in Santiniketan; as well as pioneers of modernist art in India such as KG Subramanyan; and prominent artists such as Nilima Sheikh and Jagdish Swamitnathan, the exhibition will also include works from Mukherjee’s prolific 40-year career. Mukherjee’s intricate artworks fuse abstraction with the human form, drawing influence from nature, South Asian traditions of architecture and craft, and international modernist art and design.
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November
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize
13 November 2025 – 8 February 2026
National Portrait Gallery
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize showcases the work of talented young photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography. The competition celebrates a diverse range of images and tells the fascinating stories behind the creation of works, from formal commissioned portraits to more spontaneous and intimate moments capturing friends and family. The selected images, many of which are on display for the first time, explore both traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic portrait whilst capturing a range of characters, moods and locations. The annual In Focus display will also highlight new work by an established photographer. The 2025 edition will see the unveiling of a new commission for the Gallery’s Collection, to be announced in November 2024. A new publication, including all works exhibited as part of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, will be available from November 2025.
© The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr
Turner & Constable
27 Nov 2025 – 12 Apr 2026
Tate Britain
Turner & Constable will bring together Britain’s most famous artistic rivals, marking the 250th anniversary of their births. These two great artists vied for success through very different but equally bold approaches, transforming landscape painting in the process. This exhibition will be an unmissable chance to directly compare their spectacular works and see how their rivalry changed the course of British art.
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December
Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography
4 Dec 2025 – 25 May 2026
Tate Modern
Discover how pictorialism, the first international art photography movement, developed across the world from the 1880s to the 1960s
Bringing together over 50 artists from Shanghai to Sydney, New York to Cape Town and Brazil to Singapore, this truly international exhibition takes a fresh and inclusive look at the history of art photography.
Featuring never-before-seen works from around the world alongside pieces from Tate’s Collection, Light and Magic highlights the vast and varied artistic possibilities of photography as a medium.
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