Exhibitions in London

Tate Modern

A major survey of six decades of work by Nalini Malani, featuring monumental multi-media installations, animations, films and newly commissioned pieces exploring history, mythology and lived experience.

Sir John Soane's Museum · Free

Contemporary artist Gavin Turk responds to the Museum's Building Archive with new sculptural works, including a major installation, "Looking Glass," in the Foyle Space.

British Museum

The 70-metre tapestry depicting the 1066 Norman invasion, shown in the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years.

Natural History Museum

Back for another year with 100 new images: the world's best nature photography, from polar landscapes to tropical rainforests, displayed in an immersive exhibition of award-winning shots.

Hayward Gallery

The Chinese multimedia artist's largest UK solo exhibition to date, tracing her practice from the early 2000s to the present across five thematic chapters, including Whose Utopia, RMB City, Asia One and the new work The Birth.

Barbican Centre

Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca fills the outdoor Sculpture Court with plants and industrial machinery, reflecting on the extraction of natural resources.

National Gallery

Around 50 German Expressionist paintings from collections worldwide, revealing an alternative story of modern art, 1900–1918.

Design Museum

Major exhibition celebrating contemporary Black designers reshaping British design across furniture, architecture, fashion and installation.

Royal Academy of Arts

The annual open-submission show in the Main Galleries: drawing, painting, prints, sculpture and film by members of the public and artists of global renown, much of it for sale.

Tate Britain

The artist's first major survey: four decades of installation, photography, collage, film and sculpture exploring collective memory, collaboration and authorship.

Serpentine Gallery · Free

Matt Copson's first major UK solo show at Serpentine North, bringing together laser animation, sculpture, animatronics and sound.

Barbican Centre

Fashion and literature in dialogue: garments, letters and manuscripts of authors from Austen to Baldwin, plus designs by Dior, Erdem and Prada inspired by literary characters.

Tate Modern

Tate's inaugural exhibition devoted to ink painting, bringing together around 80 works by artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, organised around the themes of life, the garden and breath.

National Gallery · Free

Over 40 works acquired for the UK through Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts, from Rembrandt, Renoir and Freud to a Picasso and an 18th-century goldfish bowl.

Serpentine Gallery · Free

Adrian Piper's irony, humour and audience participation challenge beliefs about how race, gender and truth are constructed, in a survey at Serpentine South.

Courtauld Gallery

Watercolours by Turner and his landscape contemporaries, in the Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Contemporary artist David Shrigley's specially commissioned works enter into conversation with Dutch and Flemish 17th-century painters including Jan Steen, Rembrandt and Brueghel the Younger, exploring humour across centuries.

Courtauld Gallery

A Rubens display in the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery on the master and his workshop.

Royal Academy of Arts

More than 120 works on Rembrandt's printmaking, a lesser-known side of his practice, organised with the Petit Palais in Paris. In the Sackler Wing.

Tate Britain

Marking the 300th anniversary of his birth, 120 paintings and drawings contrast Gainsborough's polished society portraits with the creative chaos of his studio.

National Portrait Gallery · Free

Free annual exhibition of shortlisted works from the Portrait Award, the 45th edition, with works from the 2026 and 2027 rounds.

Tate Modern

The UK's first solo exhibition of Algerian artist Baya, featuring over 100 gouache watercolours and ceramic sculptures that trace her impact across North Africa and Europe in the 20th century.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Explores the explosion of music, art and fashion from 1972–85, tracing how a generation of self-determined artists responded to austerity, boredom and political turbulence to spark seismic cultural change.

V&A East Museum · Free

A landmark exhibition of over 200 works across art, fashion, architecture and design, showcasing the creativity, innovation and global influence emerging from South Asia today.

Victoria and Albert Museum

An exhibition exploring the work of British artists from the mid-1980s to the present who use clay as sculpture.

Science Museum

Blast off into the Solar System in this interactive family show, packed with surprising space science, hands-on experiments and characters from the Horrible Science TV series.