As London Gallery Weekend returns for its fifth edition (6-8 June), we present an alphabetical selection of standout recommended exhibitions across the capital’s 126 participating galleries. From newly established spaces to landmark enterprises, this year’s programme celebrates the city’s thriving art scene with ambitious presentations that span painting, sculpture, photography, and performance.
Our Curated Lyst
Anna Perach: A leap of sympathy
Richard Saltoun, 41 Dover St, W1S 4NS | Until 24 June
The Ukrainian-born artist presents tufted wearable sculptures and glass works that explore the role of folklore in shaping identity.
Base Materialism
Albion Jeune, 16-17 Little Portland St, W1W 8BP | 5 June–31 August
Seven artists respond to Georges Bataille’s theories of abjection, featuring Ambera Wellmann’s Minotaur paintings and Ivana Bašić’s sci-fi corporeal hybrids.
Cell 72: The Cost of Confinement
Harlesden High Street, 57 High St, NW10 4NJ | 6 June- 13 July
Allen-Golder Carpenter inhabits a prison cell installation for three days, highlighting incarceration’s psychological toll.
Choreography of the Imagination
Cecilia Brunson Projects, SE1 3GE | Until 25 July
Claudia Alarcón and Wichí weavers’ chaguar plant textiles dialogue with David Batchelor’s Bauhaus-inspired tapestries.
Diana Puntar, Adham Faramawy et al: If this is paradise…
Niru Ratnam, W1W 7LP | 6 June-12 July
Four artists address the climate crisis through myth, microbiology and material residues of environmental damage.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
Pace Gallery, W1S 1HQ | 7 June-8 August
A prelude to Tate Modern’s survey, showcasing the Aboriginal elder’s transformative paintings of Alhalker country.
Francesca Mollett: Annual Honesty
Modern Art, EC1V 3QJ | 5 June-19 July
The artist’s fluid abstractions evolve through successive layers of erasure and emphasis.
Francis Upritchard: Sing Siren
Kate MacGarry, E2 7HR | 6 June-12 July
Balata rubber gorgons and ceramic urns reanimate classical mythology with visceral materiality.
Gala Porras-Kim: The categorical bind
Sprüth Magers, W1S 4EJ | 4 June-26 July
The Colombian artist interrogates museum ethics through paper marbling techniques applied to Oxford’s Pitt Rivers collection.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Stephen Friedman Gallery, W1S 3LQ | 6 June-19 July
The late Salish-Kootenai artist’s final Tierra Madre paintings advocate for Indigenous land rights.
Jennifer Bartlett
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, W1B 4BT | 6 June-5 July
The first major UK showing since 1982 for the systematic painter of steel-plate domestic architectures.
Joanne Leonard: Vintage Photographs
HackelBury Fine Art, W8 5RL | Until 8 July
Feminist collages reframe domesticity through 1960s-80s “intimate documentary” photography.
Kayode Ojo: An angel is just a messenger
Maureen Paley, E2 6GQ | Until 8 June
The New Yorker’s glittering readymade assemblages dissect aspirational consumerism.
Margarita Gluzberg: Implicate Factory Outlet
Alma Pearl, N1 5ET | Until 5 July
Soviet-era crayons exhaust themselves in vibrant abstractions, paired with vintage birdsong recordings.
Mark Manders
Modern Art, SW1Y 6AB | 5 June-12 July
New additions to the Belgian artist’s lifelong “Self-Portrait as a Building” project feature taxidermied birds beneath canvas floors.
Rae-Yen Song: Song-Xian
William Hine, SE5 0TF | 6 June-19 July
Ceramic sculptures fuse Edinburgh pond microbes with diasporic mythology ahead of a Tramway solo show.
Shiraz Bayjoo: To Desir, Mo Lamor
Copperfield, SE1 0EP | Until 2 August
Cast botanical memorials to species extinguished by colonialism, draped with plantation lace.
Soyoung Hyun: Invitation to a Ritual
IMT Gallery, E2 9NQ | Until 29 June
Korean ceremonial vessels and solidified shadows materialise memory through clay.
Tau Lewis: The ways of the underworld are perfect
Sadie Coles HQ, SW1Y 6AB | 3 June-19 July
Textile masks channel the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna through African diasporic craft traditions.
Tulani Hlalo: Silly Bitch
Soup, SE17 2SS | Until 8 June
Electric blue satin and tufted dog pelts interrogate identity through competitive grooming subculture.
Yan Pei-Ming: Wanted
MASSIMO DE CARLO, W1S 3RG | 4 June-11 August
The Franco-Chinese painter revisits Lucian Freud’s stolen Bacon portrait in monochromatic meditations on absence.
Saturday – West / Central
West
Harlesden
8am-10pm – Harlesden High Street – Allen-Golder Carpenter: Cell 72: The Cost of Confinement (72-Hour Durational Performance)
Central
Lisson Grove
11am-1pm – Patrick Heide Contemporary Art – Barbara Nicholls: Between The Tides (Breakfast)
3-6pm – Bolding Gallery – Emily Webb: Star Flame Incandescent Bulb (Day Opening)
Mayfair
1-2pm – Flowers – Exhibiting Artist Liza Giles w/ Director Matthew Flowers: In Flux (Tour)
2-3pm – Gazelli – The Way Forward: Derek Boshier and the Sixties (Tour)
3-4pm – Bluerider Art – Cao Jigang, Angela Glajcar & Bay Tang Jiaxin: The Weight of Lightness (Tour)
3-4pm – Tiwani Contemporary – Exhibiting Artist Vigrinia Chihota w/ Director Adelaide Bannerman (Artist Walkthrough)
St James’s
11am-Midday – Hungarian Cultural Centre – Cross-Section – Introducing the Érd Collective (Tour – RSVP)
2:30-3:30pm – ICA – Artist Nora Turato & Exhibition Curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp: pool7 (Artist Talk – Tickets)
Soho
Midday & 3pm – Frith St Gallery – Cornelia Parker: History Painting (Tour)
5-6pm – Cedric Bardawil – Read Yassin Eternal Ghost (Musical Performance – Vinyl Launch)
Fitzrovia
11am-Midday – Berntson Bhattacharjee – Nada Healing in the context of William Farr’s Metanoia (Sound Bath)
2-3pm – lbf contemporary – Read Yassin Eternal Ghost (Artist Walkthrough)
1-8pm – Des Bains – Charlie Burtenshaw: MOON PALACE (Reception)
Covent Garden
4-5pm – Emanuel von Baeyer – Issi Nash, Tom Hardwick Allan, Arthur Poujois, Thomas Pellerey Grogan, Eva Yates & Archie Fooks Smith: Phantomsequor (Artist Panel)
5-7pm – Tenderbooks – Amy Davila: The ArtSmart Method: A Guide to Business Autonomy for Artists (Book Launch)
The Strand
12-5pm – Somerset House – The Artists’ Fair 2025 (Tickets)
4-5pm – Somerset House – Jasleen Kaur, Jenkin Van Zyl, Hannah Perry, Louis Morlæ & Leila Dear: Spaghetti Club (RSVP)
fROM 6:30pm – Somerset House – The Artists’ Fair Afterparty (Tickets)
Bloomsbury/Farringdon
12-6pm – domobaal – Nicky Hirst: Slant (Day Opening)
4-5pm – KRUPA – Inside Job (Ula Lucińska and Michał Knychaus), Justyna Baśnik & Paweł Baśnik: Aeon (Tour)
5-6pm – South Parade – Exhibiting Artist Judith Dean w/ Director Isaac Simon (Artist Walkthrough)
4-7pm – Amanda Wilkinson – Derek Jarman: The Black Paintings: A Chronology – Part I 1984-87
5-8pm – Ginny on Frederick – Okiki Akinfe: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Angel/King’s Cross
12-6pm – Cubitt – Cubitt Invites… (Open Studios)
2-6pm – New Art Projects – Brian Teeling & Dorje de Burgh Me And You In Continuum (Publication Launch)
7-9pm – vitura – Teaspoon Projects & Display Fever present Ela Kazdal: if you seek amy
Cubitt Studios (Angel) – Saturday: Open Studios 12-6pm – ‘Cubitt Invites… is a celebration of friendship & onnection with Cubitt artists and programmes curating the work of guest artists across the studios & gallery.
Saturday – East / South
East
Hoxton/Spitalfields
12-6pm – Space Studios – Sara Lane Open Studios 2025
6-6:30pm – AI Gallery – Molly Burrows & Woo Jin Joo: Roots, Realms and Reveries (Performance)
Hackney Wick
12-6pm – 115 Wallis Rd – Salomé Wu curated by Henrietta Scrine (Open Studio)
2-6pm – Not For Sale Gallery – The Artist Workspace present Elen Alien & Elina Yumasheva: Breath, Matter, Code(Performance)
Clapton
6-8pm – 114 Lower Clapton Rd – Versus Art Group Show: Selfhood
South
Battersea
11am & 1pm – Cooke Latham – Kofi Perry (Artist Talk & Tour)
4-5pm – Apsara Studio – Artist Noha Mokhtar & Theorist Irit Rogoff w/ Curator Gema Darbo (Artist Talk)
Camberwell/Peckham
11:30am-12:30pm – Sim Smith – Emily Hunt & Cora Wöllenstein: Dreamlandia (Performance)
11-1pm – William Hine – Rae-Yen Song: song~xian (Day Opening)
6-9pm – Safehouse 1 – Photography Group Show: Echoes of the Underground
Walworth/Southwark
3-4pm – OHSH Pojects – Henry Hussey & Sophia Olver: WORKOUT (Curator Tour)
5-6pm – Copperfield – Shiraz Bayjoo (Artist Walkthrough & Reception)
New Cross/Deptford
12-6pm – Second Floor Studios – Open Studios
2-4pm – Studio/Chapple – Kialy Tihngang: Icyy Grip (Lunch & Punch Celebration)
6-9pm – Lewisham Art House – Djuna O’Neil presents: mag mell (Performance Showcase)
Midday-3am – LAS Gallery – ‘The Menu’: LIVE MUSIC, ART & EVERYTHING SOUND (Happening – RSVP/Donation)
Woolwich
11-5pm – Thames-Side Studios – Woolwich Open Exhibition 2025 (Open Studios)
LGW Closing Party (Park Royal) – Sunday: 4-8pm – Join Harlesden High Street, Sherbet Green, Studio/Chapple, Bolanle Contemporary, Palmer Gallery and Des Bains for a Cookout with music programmed by Louis Chapple, screenings curated by all six galleries with BBQ & bar on the rooftop terrace. (RSVP)
Sunday – West / Central
West
Hammersmith
4-9pm – POSK – Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain: The Truth is a Blur in Motion
Harlesden/Park Royal
Midday-5pm – Harlesden High Street – Allen-Golder Carpenter: Cell 72: The Cost of Confinement (72-Hour Durational Performance)
4-8pm – Sherbet Green / Queensrollahouse – West Galleries Closing Party (RSVP)
—–Central—–
Marylebone
2-6pm – Gallery of Everything – bowls, pots, vessels, urns, creatures, figures, lumps (Day Opening)
Mayfair/Soho/Fitzrovia
11am-Midday – Ione & Mann – Artists Aimée Parrott & Anna Higgins w/ Writer Jennifer Higgie: Thread Suns (Artist Talk)
4-5pm – Cedric Bardawil – Artist Raed Yassin & Poet Ali Shamseddine (Talk & Poetry Evening)
5:30-6:30pm – Noho Studios – Blue Marine Foundation Ambassador Nico Kos Artist w/ Artist Annie Trevorah & Curator Josephine Bailey: Altered Tides
The Strand
12-4pm – Somerset House – The Artists’ Fair 2025 (Tickets)
2:30-3:30pm – Somerset House – Grounding Practice: Art Aches w/ John Costi (Aritst Talk – Tickets)
Sat: 12-4pm & Sun: 12-5pm – Breaking away from the traditional commercial art fair, the Artists’ Fair features market stalls hosted by Somerset House Studios resident artists, with 100% of the profits going directly to the artists.
Sunday – East / South
Aldgate
East
11:30am-1pm – Public – Curators Amy Tobin & Amrita Dhallu w/ Gallery Dir. Nicole Estilo Kaiser on Dotty Attie’s: 40 Years(Panel)
2pm & 4pm – Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix – Delaine Le Bas on Damian Le Bas’s: Cartographer of a Fifth Dimension (Tour)
Shoreditch/Hoxton
11am-Midday – 150 Hackney Rd – Cedric Bardawil studio visit to Artist Hannah Tilson (Studio Visit)
12-3pm – Hales – Andrew Bick & Prunella Clough: Dialogues (Day Opening)
2-3pm – PEER – PEER Director Ellen Greig on Alexis Kyle Mitchell’s: In The Goal of Our Health (Tour)
12-6pm – Space Studios – Sara Lane Open Studios 2025
Haggerston
11-5pm – miłość – Maite de Orbe: a moment opposite to blindness (Coffee Day)
12-5pm – Alma Pearl – Margarita Gluzberg: Song of A Captive Nightingale (Performance)
2-5pm – Seventeen – Erin O’Keefe: A Whole Thing (Day Opening)
Cambridge Heath/Bethnal Green
11am-5pm – Annka Kultys – Louisa Clement (Day Opening)
3-4pm – Herald St – Michael Dean: Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder) (Performance)
12-5pm – Project Native Informant – Sean Steadman: Giant Atoms + Anna Jung Seo: O love, how did you get here? (Day Opening)
Bromley-by-Bow
1-2pm – Brickfield Rd – Cedric Bardawil studio visit to Artist Anthony Banks (Studio Visit)
Hackney Wick
11-1pm – 3 Casing Way – HomeOnMe Group Show: BABYDOLL (Brunch)
12-6pm – 115 Wallis Rd – Salomé Wu curated by Henrietta Scrine (Open Studio)
Tottenham
12-4pm – OOF Gallery – Peter Robinson: Double Vision
—–South—–
Deptford/Woolwich
12-6pm – Second Floor Studios – Open Studios
11-5pm – Thames-Side Studios – Woolwich Open Exhibition 2025 (Open Studios)