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Coming up in London

September 2026

September at a glance: 4 exhibitions opening, 33 closing, and 49 more on view across the city.

Detail from the Bayeux TapestryStill from Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Zifzafa livestream audio essay video workAmar Kanwar exhibition at Serpentine NorthPull (2023) by Rachel Kneebone, porcelain sculpture, Wallace CollectionVisitor looking at a video display in the Future of Food exhibition at the Science Museum

Opening in September

Closing in September

Also on through September

Opening in October 2026

Korean artwork from the British Museum's Korea exhibition

Korea

1 Oct · British Museum

Yuko Mohri kinetic sculpture installation incorporating fruit, speakers and cables

Yuko Mohri: In Concert

1 Oct · Barbican Centre · Free

Salman Toor: Disegni (Salman Toor: Drawings)

2 Oct · Courtauld Gallery

The Bar on East 13th by Salman Toor

Salman Toor: Qualcuno come te (Salman Toor: Someone Like You)

2 Oct · Courtauld Gallery

Raoul Dufy, Golfe Juan (detail)

Dipingere la Costa Azzurra (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 e l'amore (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: La poetica della giustizia (Inji Efflatoun: The Poetics of Justice)

7 Oct · Whitechapel Gallery

Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing at Serpentine South

Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing

8 Oct · Serpentine Gallery · Free

Young Pink Kate, London 1998 by Juergen Teller

Gli anni '90: arte e moda (The 90s: Art and Fashion)

8 Oct · Tate Britain

White painting by Robert Ryman

Robert Ryman: La cosa vera (Robert Ryman: The Real Thing)

8 Oct · Barbican Centre

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: Amore e leggende (Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends)

9 Oct · National Portrait Gallery

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

Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

13 Oct · Tate Modern · Free

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

Winifred Gill: Una pioniera di Bloomsbury (Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer)

14 Oct · Courtauld Gallery

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

Michael Landy: Rovine future (Michael Landy: Future Ruins)

14 Oct · Sir John Soane's Museum · Free

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

Luce e magia: la nascita della fotografia d'arte (Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography)

14 Oct · Tate Modern

Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation exhibition

Yinka Shonibare e Thomas Gainsborough: un dialogo (Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation)

15 Oct · National Gallery · Free

Polar bear photograph from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

16 Oct · Natural History Museum

Hokusai woodblock print from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Hokusai: Trentasei vedute del monte Fuji dalla 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

Diventare l'America: come la scienza ha plasmato una nazione (Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation)

23 Oct · Science Museum · Free

Halloween al Tower of London

24 Oct · Tower of London

Opening in November 2026

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