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Coming up in London

August 2026

August at a glance: 2 exhibitions opening, 15 closing, and 65 more on view across the city.

Hydroseeding and Dune Stabilisation by Alicia Bruce, RPS International Photography Exhibition 167Puppet creature performance for Imagining Animals at the Tower of LondonFrom above, people in white run through a dry field trailing long white banners consumed by fireHallasan, Wildflowers of Jeju Island, botanical artwork in the RHS Botanical Art and Photography ShowNGC 6164 and NGC 6165, 'The Dragon's Egg' nebula, an astrophotography image from the competition

Opening in August

Closing in August

Also on through August

Opening in September 2026

Opening in October 2026

Kinetic installation by Yuko Mohri

Yuko Mohri

1 Oct · Barbican Centre · Free

Korean artwork from the British Museum's Korea exhibition

Korea

1 Oct · British Museum

The Bar on East 13th by Salman Toor

Salman Toor: Someone Like You

2 Oct · Courtauld Gallery

Salman Toor: Zeichnungen (Salman Toor: Drawings)

2 Oct · Courtauld Gallery

Raoul Dufy, Golfe Juan (detail)

Malerei an der Côte d'Azur (Painting the French Riviera)

2 Oct · Royal Academy of Arts

Kinetic stage sculpture by Es Devlin

Es Devlin

2 Oct · Design Museum

Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Renoir und die Liebe (Renoir and Love)

3 Oct · National Gallery

Cecilia Vicuña, Quipu menstrual (2006–2024)

Cecilia Vicuña

7 Oct · Whitechapel Gallery

Artwork by Egyptian artist Inji Efflatoun

Inji Efflatoun: Die Poesie der Gerechtigkeit (Inji Efflatoun: The Poetics of Justice)

7 Oct · Whitechapel Gallery

Young Pink Kate, London 1998 by Juergen Teller

The 90s: Kunst und Mode (The 90s: Art and Fashion)

8 Oct · Tate Britain

Colour photo of a black man dressed as a fairy holding the stalk of a plant with blue flowers, blue flowers at his feet and a bee to one side.

Tim Walker's Fairyland: Liebe und Legenden (Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends)

8 Oct · National Portrait Gallery

White painting by Robert Ryman

Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

8 Oct · Barbican Centre

Tarek Atoui at a presentation, ahead of his Turbine Hall commission

Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

13 Oct · Tate Modern · Free

Michael Landy's watercolour of Sir John Soane's Museum imagined as a ruin

Michael Landy: Future Ruins

14 Oct · Sir John Soane's Museum · Free

Toy design – Shawl Dance by Winifred Gill, c.1914–16, Omega Workshops

Winifred Gill: Eine Pionierin der Bloomsbury-Gruppe (Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer)

14 Oct · Courtauld Gallery

Long Chin-San, Riverside Spring (1942), a pictorialist photograph

Licht und Magie: Die Geburt der künstlerischen Fotografie (Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography)

14 Oct · Tate Modern

Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation exhibition

Yinka Shonibare und Thomas Gainsborough: Ein Dialog (Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation)

15 Oct · National Gallery · Free

Hokusai woodblock print from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji aus der Iuchi Collection (Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji from the Iuchi Collection)

20 Oct · Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Bald Eagle, a painting by Mark Catesby, featured in Becoming America at the Science Museum

Becoming America: Wie die Wissenschaft eine Nation formte (Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation)

23 Oct · Science Museum · Free

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