Exhibitions in London

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.