Exhibitions in London

Tate Britain

A retrospective celebrating the British artist's 90th birthday with over 200 works spanning seven decades, tracing how love, friendship and human connection have shaped his art.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

New paintings by Caroline Walker documenting two years of daily life at Dulwich Picture Gallery, celebrating the staff, encounters and unseen moments behind the institution.

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.

Royal Academy of Arts

The largest exhibition to date of sculptor Simone Leigh, her first major UK show, bringing bronze and ceramic sculpture together with film in monumental new installations drawing on African cultures and their diasporas.

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.

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.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

The first major museum retrospective of post-war modernist Anwar Jalal Shemza (1928-1985) in over 30 years, featuring more than 80 works across painting, printmaking, textiles and archival material.

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.

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.

Tate Modern

A retrospective of over 50 works by American artist Lynda Benglis, spanning the late 1960s to the present across video, photography, sculpture and installation.