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Mary Ramsden: The Feeling of What Happens

A new body of work approaching painting as a form of enquiry into consciousness and embodied states of attention.

Rirkrit Tiravanija: (situational awareness)

New paintings and performance connect British military history with histories of labour, craft and production embedded in Savile Row.

Wakaliga Uganda — Kibuuka Omumbaale

Chisenhale Gallery presents Kibuuka Omumbaale , a major new video commission and the first UK exhibition by Kampala-based collective Wakaliga Uganda. The exhibition introduces a subversive take on the superhero action film, through which the artists explore the spiritual heritag…

Romuald Hazoumè: My Blue Period

October Gallery presents My Blue Period, a solo exhibition by the internationally renowned artist Romuald Hazoumè

Stevie Dix — Vyvyan

Ralf Kokke: Candy for Crocodiles

Private View: Wednesday, 7th October 2026, 6-8pm London (Tower Bridge) Candy for Crocodiles Ralf Kokke In a tropical landscape a female figure sits nestled within a tree. In her hand she holds a bunch of flowers – a gift or an offering to the jaws that creep perilously close to.…

Annie Whiles — Doorway Guardians

Matt's Gallery, London: PV Sunday 27 September, 2-5pm Continues 30 September- 22 November 2026 Flatland, Bexhill-on-Sea: PV Saturday 3 October, 3-7pm Continues 4 October 2026 - 17 January 2027 KARST, Plymouth: PV Thursday 15 October, 6-9pm Continues 16 October - 12 December 2026…

Imogen Stidworthy — Skydde

30 September - 22 November 2026 Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm PV Sunday 27 September, 2-5pm Matt’s Gallery is pleased to announce Skydde, Imogen Stidworthy’s forthcoming solo exhibition, co-commissioned with Chapter, Cardiff. Her newly devised installation is the second part of a two…

Staging Resistance

Hales is delighted to present Staging Resistance , a look at Tessa Boffin's, Rotimi Fani-Kayode's and Sunil Gupta's trailblazing work from the 1980s, a pivotal moment for Queer British photography. The show coincides with Sunil Gupta's retrospective, Life with a Camera, 1970 - N…

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter

Monika Sosnowska is a Polish artist whose sculptural practice explores architecture and urban transformation.

Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)

The exhibition focuses on overlooked characters – from a perfume counter attendant and a gallerist who specialises in ‘cat-made painting,’ to a man who sells seashells by the seashore – capturing the interactions that make a transaction possible and the brief window that exposes…

Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns

In these new paintings, Thompson invites viewers into the everyday lives of his subjects through vibrant domestic scenes, creating scenarios from his own childhood growing up in Brooklyn and today.

Art Now: Mohammed Z Rahman

A new body of paintings exploring notions of home and love, displayed alongside Tate works The Lovers and The Spaghetti House.

Tate Britain Commission 2026: Zineb Sedira — When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks

Explore Zineb Sedira's monumental and intimate installation, bridging the political and the poetic.

The 90s: Art and Fashion

Explore a decade characterised by its bold creativity and rebellious spirit.

Cecilia Vicuña: Foraging Quipu

Foraging Quipu is a large-scale participatory installation by Cecilia Vicuña, bringing together plant matter, found objects and materials gathered by local communities.

Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads

The first major UK exhibition of Cecilia Vicuña - one of Latin America’s most internationally renowned artists

This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery

This Must Be the Place is a special exhibition and sale, developed in collaboration with artists and their galleries to mark Whitechapel Gallery’s 125th anniversary and help support its future.

Catherine Murphy — Recent Work

She paints reality as a place of layers to be excavated, and of veils and barriers to be peered through.” Justin Paton, Artist Profile, 2024 This…

Martine Syms — Knot Eye

The work of Martine Syms (b. 1988, Los Angeles) engages the fluid definitions of reality and fiction of our contemporary world. In Knot Eye, her…

Nicole Eisenman

Shape-based paintings like Orgy and Togetherers, with their fleshy colours and Duchampian-descending-nude geometries, may seem to possess a more interior…

Desmond Morris (1928–2026)

View the e-catalogue This exhibition celebrates the life and work of Desmond Morris (1928–2026), bringing together works from across an extraordinary artistic career spanning eight decades. The exhibition coincides with the publication and launch of Morris’s final book, The Surr…

Daichi Takagi: Suchness

Louis Fratino: Prose

David Zwirner is pleased to present the gallery's first solo exhibition with New York–based artist Louis Fratino since the announcement of his representation. Fratino creates paintings, drawings, and sculptures that depict intimate personal experiences, frequently centering cont…

No Plan at All: Prints from BORCH Editions

Salman Toor: Someone Like You

This major exhibition is the first solo exhibition in Europe of the celebrated New York-based painter Salman Toor (b.1983).

Touils: Between Landscape and Memory

3 Sep – 9 Oct 2026 at Maddox Street in Mayfair, London. ‘Touils: Between Landscape and Memory’ transforms landscapes encountered across Africa into emotionally charged recollections, showing how places change in memory.

Bibi Lei: Where Light Blooms

14 Oct - 13 Nov 2026 at Maddox Street in Mayfair, London. ‘Where Light Blooms’, Bibi Lei's latest exhibition makes you question what does it mean to grow without losing wonder?

Richard Dadd

The highly original works of Victorian artist Richard Dadd, best known for his fairy paintings, draw upon literature, legend and memory to portray elaborate worlds that radiate imaginative power.

Day

An exhibition of work by RA Schools Students Anna Metzger, Sam Tromp and Joel Wycherley.

The John Madejski Fine Rooms

Discover the historic Fine Rooms at the heart of Burlington House and see treasures from the RA Collection spanning more than 300 years.

Painting the French Riviera

The story of how the Côte d'Azur dazzled modern art's great innovators.

Nicole Eisenman

This September, a major new work by acclaimed New York-based artist Nicole Eisenman arrives at the courtyard in front of the RA.

Emmanuel Awuni

A solo presentation of 13 new prints by RA Schools graduate Emmanuel Awuni (1993).

In Provence and Southern France

Dame Barbara Rae DBE RA has travelled extensively across the globe, visiting places as far as the Arctic and Antarctica in search of inspiration.

White Cube x RA

The RA has partnered with White Cube, one of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries, to present limited editions by Royal Academicians Michael Armitage, Tracey Emin and Antony Gormley.

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026

Free exhibition celebrating the very best in contemporary portraiture painting

Renoir and Love

Fall in love with Renoir and his Impressionist paintings at the National Gallery.

Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends

Tim Walker’s Fairyland is an exploration of queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain’s foremost photographers

Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation

One of Britain’s most celebrated works is playfully reimagined by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare

Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026

The Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize showcases the work of talented young photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography.

Lawrence Perry: Careless Rapture

Curtain Up!

What can theatre portraits tell us about performance, costume and identity, both on stage and beyond it?

Sensual / Mutual

The Wallace Collection at War

Learn more about the Wallace Collection and it's role in war time London in our free display.

Winston Churchill: The Painter

Join us for a major retrospective of Sir Winston Churchill's paintings.

Isabel Muñoz-Newsome — The Other Place

Lucy Ray — I’ll have to remember it differently

Adobe Creative Residents On Display

A collection of works from the second cohort of Adobe Creative Residents

Chloe Bonfield, Kate Lyddon and Zulfiya Spowart — What Remains Within

What Remains Within , an exhibition curated by Paola Lucente, brings together the work of three contemporary artists — Chloe Bonfield, Kate Lyddon and Zulfiya Spowart — concerned with memory, inheritance and the traces experience leaves behind. Conceived in parallel with Nicola…

Nicola Turner: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh

Annely Juda Fine Art announces its first solo exhibition by Nicola Turner, I Tear Secrets from Your Yielding Flesh . A site-responsive installation made mainly from dark wool and horsehair will fill the ground-floor galleries at 16 Hanover Square, extending in a procession-like…

Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends

Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art

"For me, dress designing is not a profession but an art." – Elsa Schiaparelli

The Coming of Age

Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.

Frida: The Making of an Icon

Step into the life and legacy of Frida Kahlo: revolutionary artist and global icon.

The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon

Mini Masterpieces

Spark your child's imagination through playful painting.

Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific

A landmark collaboration between the V&A and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane.

Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published PhotoBook Award Shortlist

Established by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

Ana Mendieta

Experience the powerful work of Ana Mendieta, whose legacy changed the course of contemporary art.

Liz Larner — A hard line to bend

From clay to plastic, ancient myths to outer space, discover the radical sculpture of Liz Larner.

Friends Circle Special: The Year Ahead

Be among the first to hear what’s coming next at Dulwich Picture Gallery at this exclusive Friends Circle preview event.

Bharti Kher at the V&A

Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions

Explore Audrey Amiss’s life as both an artist and campaigner, and how she used her work to speak out against harmful treatment within the mental health system.

Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility

Rudy Loewe’s exhibition explores the lived experience of Black people whose mental healthcare is shaped by racism, and reimagines an equitable mental healthcare system.

Gathering Ground

Explore the power of art to inspire change in today’s ecological crisis.

Es Devlin: Other Worlds

Enter the imaginative world of British artist and designer Es Devlin in the first retrospective in Europe celebrating her 30-year creative practice across sculpture, stage design, music, language and light.

Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone

Discover Rachel Kneebone's striking sculptures in our free display.

Urushi Now: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer

Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.

Discover seven decades of joyful works by Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, turning visitors into active participants.

American Photographs

In 1938, Walker Evans published American Photographs, capturing a country in flux. This display uses his title to examine how photography has documented and shaped the United States.

Tenderness and Rage

Discover our new display on HIV and AIDS that brings together Gideon Mendel’s photographs and stories from activists worldwide to explore care, stigma and the fight for treatment.

Sacred Treasures from Kyiv

Discover seven exceptional examples of Ukrainian sacred art from the National Preserve ‘Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’, on display in the UK for the first time.

Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts

Lost Music Venues

Sabine Moritz

This autumn, the Garden Museum will hold the first UK museum exhibition of contemporary German artist Sabine Moritz’s works.

Umi Ishihara: Nocturnal Melody

Samuel Palmer and Modern Art

Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

Tarek Atoui creates a new work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, drawing on his innovative performances and installations exploring sound.

Michael Landy: Future Ruins

This autumn, a selection of Michael Landy’s (b.1963) drawings of iconic buildings in ruins will be brought together for the first time in the Museum where the artist was first inspired to begin his meticulous series. Future Ruins at Sir John Soane’s Museum will feature new and r…

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

Discover the untold global story of art photography.

Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse...and You

This winter, we will welcome the truly original and magical drawings of award-winning author and illustrator Charlie Mackesy.