This landmark exhibition traces 40 years of Tracey Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain, and healing.

Dame Tracey Emin is one of the most important contemporary artists of her generation. She was catapulted into the public eye in the 1990s with iconic works like her Turner Prize nominated My Bed, which sparked fierce critical and public debate, challenging what art could be. Emin’s disregard for any separation of the personal and the public, along with her commitment to unapologetic self-expression, came to define a historic moment in British culture and global art history.

Broadening Emin’s story, this exhibition celebrates her raw and confessional approach as she poses profound questions on love, trauma, and autobiography. It also demonstrates her lifelong commitment to painting, showing her recent work as the culmination of the ways she has channelled her life into her art.

£20

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00

Friday to Saturday 10.00–21.00

Catherine Opie: To Be Seen will showcase photographic portraits by the American artist Catherine Opie. The exhibition, curated in collaboration with the artist, will be the first major museum exhibition of her work in the UK.

Opie’s work questions representations of home, intimacy and family, politics, identity and power structures.

Over the past 30 years, Opie has explored and positioned the portrait in numerous contexts and visual formats. Conceptually rigorous and formally executed, her photographs make visible queer communities, mentors and collaborators, children, surfers, high school footballers, political crowds and Opie herself through self-portraiture.

Works featured in the exhibition will span her first major work, Being and Having (1991), her portraits of LGBTQ+ friends inspired by court painter Hans Holbein, through to her Baroque-like portraits of artists. Portraits work in dialogue with one another to create new narratives, challenging viewers to reflect on the figures most commonly portrayed in art and those who go unseen.

In addition to this exhibition, a series of interventions will place Opie’s photographs in dialogue with the permanent Collection, probing further representation in the context of the National Portrait Gallery.

£19.50

Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00
Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney invites viewers to slow down and notice the extraordinary within the everyday in his first exhibition at Serpentine. Created specifically for this presentation, Hockney’s new paintings extend his lifelong fascination with the act of looking, affirming his belief that simple beauty is worth celebrating.

The exhibition is conceived in close collaboration with the artist and brings Hockney’s celebrated ninety-metre-long frieze A Year in Normandie to London for the first time. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, which will be on display at the British Museum in 2026, this monumental work captures the changing seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy. In the context of the exhibition at Serpentine, it opens a dialogue with the surrounding nature of Kensington Gardens.

Free but booking required

Tickets for March–May are available now. Tickets for June–August will be released at a later date.

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Hurvin Anderson’s first major solo show brings together more than 80 of his vibrant paintings, spanning the artist’s entire career, from his days as a student to new, never-before-seen paintings.

Through colour-drenched landscapes and interiors, Anderson meanders back and forth across the Atlantic, between the UK and the Caribbean. The youngest of eight children, he was the first to be born in the UK after his family left Jamaica for Birmingham in the 1960s. As a result, Anderson’s work reflects on his experiences of belonging and diaspora.

His works often feature family members, experiences from his youth and places of individual and cultural significance like the barbershop. By revisiting elements and sometimes layering one location onto another, he engages with the unreliability of memory and tension around cultural heritage.

Thanks to his profoundly atmospheric use of composition to explore the markers of identity, and his deep-rooted engagement with the traditions of British landscape painting, this exhibition confirms Anderson’s standing as one of the most important contemporary painters of his generation.

£18

Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00

Known for her vigorous brushwork, vivid colour and dynamic compositions, Cecily Brown presents paintings inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist.

Themes of nature and park life have long shaped Brown’s formal explorations. She experiments with scale, colour and recurring motifs, such as amorous couples, woodland scenes, and uncanny nature walks.

New works made specifically for the exhibition are shown alongside a selection of key paintings dating back to 2001, in addition to recent monotypes and drawings. The exhibition gestures to Brown’s early memories of the English landscape, her fascination with children’s book illustrations, and the darker undercurrents of cautionary tales.

Picture Making marks Brown’s first major solo presentation of paintings in a UK institution since her 2005 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford and represents a homecoming for the British artist who has worked in New York for the past thirty years.

Free

Monday 12-6pm, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm

The UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence. It traces the fashion house’s groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry.

Spanning the late 1920s to today, the exhibition charts the history and impact of one of fashion’s most innovative houses. Drawing on new research, the exhibition places founder Elsa Schiaparelli at the centre of a creative network across Paris, London, and New York, highlighting her role as a pioneering female entrepreneur. The show will trace the house’s remarkable trajectory, from its first, paradigm-shifting garments, through to its present-day incarnation under Creative Director, Daniel Roseberry. Over 200 objects—garments, accessories, jewellery, artworks, perfumes and archival material— will showcase the house’s boundless creativity. Highlights include the V&A’s ‘Skeleton’ and ‘Tears’ dresses, the surreal Shoe hat made with Salvador Dalí, and artworks by Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Man Ray. Elsa Schiaparelli’s vision transformed ordinary objects into bold statements, and Daniel Roseberry continues that legacy at the original headquarters of 21 Place Vendôme, creating a contemporary oeuvre that continues to shape and inspire global culture today.

Weekdays £28 / Weekend £30

Concessions apply.
Advance booking is recommended

Daily 10.00 – 17.45

Friday 10.00 – 22.00

The first major monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664).

Along with Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Zurbarán was one of the leading painters of 17th-century Spain. His paintings, which include stunning life-size depictions of saints, soaring altarpieces and contemplative still lifes, are celebrated for their naturalism, directness and deep emotional power.

This exhibition of almost fifty paintings will span the chronological and iconographic breadth of the artist’s career. It will unite exceptional works from public and private collections, including the Musée du Louvre (‘Saint Bonaventure on His Bier’ and ‘Saint Apollonia’) and the Art Institute of Chicago (‘The Crucifixion’, ‘Saint Romanus of Antioch’ and ‘Saint Barulas’ and Juan de Zurbarán’s ‘Flowers and Fruit in a Chinese Bowl’), the two partner museums to which the exhibition will travel between October 2026 and June 2027, and from the collection of the National Gallery (including Saint Margaret of Antioch and Juan de Zurbarán’s Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket).

£20 (off-peak, Sunday-Thursday)
£22 (Friday and Saturday)

daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm

Kew Gardens in London will showcase a once-in-a-generation presentation of artworks by Henry Moore, one of the most influential and internationally recognised artists of the 20th century. Monumental Nature represents the largest and most comprehensive showcase of Moore’s work to date, featuring 30 works across Kew’s varied landscape and inside the iconic Temperate House, the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse in the world.

This major exhibition, the largest of its kind on Moore anywhere in the world to-date, will offer a fresh perspective on his lifelong engagement with natural forms and materials, creating new opportunities for visitors to encounter his monumental sculptures alongside Kew’s iconic vistas and historic glasshouses. Throughout Moore’s career, this connection to nature remained a constant theme, reflected in his ability to transform its complexity and beauty into abstract forms that feel profoundly human. Moore believed that landscapes provided the perfect setting for his sculptures, where the natural architecture of the environment could amplify their visual and emotional impact.

Alongside the works across the Gardens, visitors will also be able to enjoy a comprehensive exhibition in Kew’s Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, featuring over 90 works including bronzes, stone and wood carvings, prints and drawings, exploring Moore’s unique process of ‘thinking through nature’.

10am to 7pm (last entry 6pm)

The Shirley Sherwood Gallery closes at 5pm daily

£27.50

A truly global figure, Whistler re-wrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist. He pioneered new and innovative techniques, creating astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life that would earn him a place as one of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This retrospective – the first major European exhibition of Whistler’s work in 30 years – brings together the artist’s world-famous paintings alongside rarely, or never seen, works. It includes exquisite portraits, drawings, prints, and designs, from as early as his teens in St. Petersburg to the enigmatic late self-portraits.

The exhibition presents both a boldly experimental artist and cosmopolitan celebrity, disrupting the conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of truth, beauty, and progress.

£24

Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00