EXHIBITION CALENDAR
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An exclusive selection of exhibitions showcasing the Global majority London art scene, curated for you to stay abreast of the latest shows and events in the city.
This curated collection encompasses a diverse array of artistic genres and cultural themes. From prestigious museums to intimate galleries, this online guide strive to highlight the finest cultural experiences available in London.
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Chris Ofili: Requiem - Tate Britain
Requiem pays tribute to Khadija Saye and remembers the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire
Tate commissioned British artist Chris Ofili to create an artwork for the North Staircase at Tate Britain. Ofili considered the significance of painting directly onto the walls of a public building and wanted to choose a subject that affected us as a nation. Requiem is a dream-like mural, resulting from his poetic reflections.
Free
Niki Kohandel: ‘(We are writing) مينويسيم’ - LUX
‘Minevissam (I am writing) مينويسم’ explores language and fragmented memory through the fictional journeys of a poet, a painter, and an owl. These characters communicate across time and place, intertwining histories of movement and belonging. Rooted in Iranian traditions such as poetry, oral histories and visual inscription, the film reimagines storytelling through voice and tactile form.
Free
Alexandre Diop: Run For Your Life ! - Stephen Friedman Gallery
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present Run For Your Life !, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Franco-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop. This marks the artist's debut show with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in London.
Free
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories - Royal Academy of Arts
Experience the epic style of America's most important artist, Kerry James Marshall, whose powerful paintings place the lives of Black Americans front and centre.
£23.50
Free - Booking required
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: Incantations- Victoria Miro
Victoria Miro is delighted to present Incantations, an exhibition of new paintings conceived in dialogue with a series of photographic wall vinyls by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. Also on view will be new bronze sculptures, the artist’s first venture into three-dimensional work.
Free
Stan Douglas: Birth of a Nation and The Enemy of All Mankind - Victoria Miro
Victoria Miro is delighted to present Stan Douglas’ sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, which features the European premiere of the Canadian artist’s multi-channel video installation, Birth of a Nation, and works from a new photographic series, The Enemy of All Mankind: Nine Scenes from John Gay’s Polly.
Free
Islands in the City - Royal Over-Seas League
London’s Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) will host Islands in the City, a major new group exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art, co-curated by Sherece Rainford (Gallery OCA) and Louis Chapple (ROSL). Running from 25 September to 9 November 2025, this vibrant and ambitious exhibition brings together 22 leading and emerging artists across painting, sculpture, collage, photography, and mixed media.
Free - Booking required
Bunmi Agusto: Tales By Moonlight - Tiwani Contemporary
Tiwani Contemporary is hugely excited to present this autumn at 24 Cork Street, Tales By Moonlight, an incredible In Focus presentation by Bunmi Agusto who centres drawing at the core of her multidisciplinary practice and evolves episodic narratives featuring the psycho-spiritual encounters of a heroine in her own likeness on a pilgrimage of individuation and self-discovery.
Free
Val Lee: The Presence of Solitude - Hayward Gallery
A multidisciplinary exhibition from Taiwanese artist Val Lee (李奧森), continuing her exploration of isolation, intimacy and hope.
Free
The Ground Beneath: Material Memory and the Resilience of Hope - Messums
Messums London is proud to present The Ground Beneath: Material Memory and the Resilience of Hope, featuring artists Temitope Adebowale, Motunrayo Akinola, Sonia Elizabeth Barrett, Shirley Nette Williams, Irvin Pascal, Camille Provost, and Justin Randolph Thompson. All of the artists are of Black and African diasporic heritage and work across sculpture, installation, painting, and performance. Together, they explore how ordinary, often discarded materials can carry emotional, cultural, and political weight – and how processes of transformation offer pathways toward regeneration and repair.
Free
Image : Camille Provost, Figure-sculpture: silver memories, 2025
Maxwell Alexandre: Sanctuary and the Shadow of its Walls - Delfina Foundation
Delfina Foundation is pleased to present Sanctuary and the Shadow of its Walls, the first institutional solo exhibition in the UK by Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre. Marking a pivotal evolution in his practice, the exhibition unveils a series of newly commissioned paintings on pardo paper alongside site-specific scenography, contemplating the nuances of seeking sanctuary and exploring its fragile borders.
Free
Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey - Whitechapel Gallery
Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey, will be the first major survey show of the artist, Joy Gregory (b.1959, UK), winner of the eighth annual Freelands Award and one of the UK’s most innovative artists working with photography today.
£16.5
Joy Gregory: Fierce and Fearless - Whitechapel Gallery
Fierce and Fearless is a textile installation celebrating women as central figures in folklore, myth and legend. Printed and embroidered panels form an immersive tent, illustrated with stories of fearless female protagonists and offering a hub for participatory activities throughout the season. Step inside, join an activity, create new stories.
Free
Nigerian Modernism - Tate Modern
Explore the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century
Set against the backdrop of cultural and artistic rebellion, Nigerian Modernism celebrates the achievements of Nigerian artists working before and after the decade of national independence from British colonial rule in 1960.
£18
Gifted: Selected Artworks from the SOAS Collections - SOAS Gallery
‘Gifted’ is an exhibition drawing upon SOAS's remarkably rich but relatively little-known art collection. Concentrating on modern and contemporary artworks, it displays a selection of works given as gifts and donations to SOAS and provides the opportunity to share and display many of these for the first time to encourage wider engagement with the SOAS Object and Artwork Collection.
Free
El Anatsui: 'Go Back and Pick' - October Gallery
October Gallery and Goodman Gallery London are proud to present “Go Back and Pick”, an exhibition in two parts by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s.
Free
Arthur Jafa: GLAS NEGUS SUPREME - Sadie Coles
For his first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Arthur Jafa presents GLAS NEGUS SUPREME, bringing his complex edit to the Kingly Street gallery. Working as a filmmaker and artist for over four decades, Jafa’s extended practice is widely considered to be at the forefront of contemporary art, independent film and cultural theory today. Witnessing, celebrating and cataloguing the deep soul of Black life through images, Jafa has forged a groundbreaking trail in the rich terrain of Black representation. This exhibition will premiere two significant new moving image works alongside several paintings, silkscreen works and cutouts.
Free
Shaqúelle Whyte, Winter Remembers April - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present Winter Remembers April, Shaqúelle Whyte’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Titled in homage to Wynton Marsalis’ interpretation of the jazz standard, I’ll Remember April, the exhibition honours several of Whyte’s musical heroes, from Boris Gardiner and Gil Scott-Heron, to The Beatles.
Free
Peter Doig: House of Music - Serpentine South
Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.
Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work.
Free
I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies - Autograph
This major group exhibition examines how photographs can be deconstructed and reassembled through the idea of collage, offering new perspectives on complex histories and contested social realities.
Free
Tuli Mekondjo: OMUUA OKU LI POPEPI - St. James's Church Piccadilly
Tuli Mekondjo is exhibiting at St James’s as part of Art in the Side Chapel, a programme curated by the Revd Dr Ayla Lepine, Associate Rector at St James’s and an art and architecture historian in parallel to her role as a member of the clergy. These temporary exhibitions invite visitors to reflect on the transformative power of creativity and faith through the lens of intersectionality.
Free
Learning from South Omo - SOAS Gallery
South Omo Zone, a lowland area of Ethiopia close to the borders with Kenya and South Sudan, has undergone rapid and unprecedented change in recent decades. Customary livelihoods – based on combinations of animal herding, small-scale agriculture and shifting cultivation – have been undermined by land-grabbing for sugar plantations, national parks and hydro-electric projects.
LAKWENA – HOW WE BUILD A HOME - Vigo Gallery
Vigo Gallery and English Heritage present LAKWENA – HOW WE BUILD A HOME, a vibrant new exhibition of cardboard and bead paintings by celebrated artist Lakwena Maciver at the iconic Wellington Arch.
Free
Pascale Marthine Tayou - Robilant+Voena
Robilant+Voena is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Pascale Marthine Tayou in their London gallery. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Galleria Continua, coinciding with a major retrospective at their gallery in Les Moulins, France, and features new works alongside examples of some of the Cameroonian artist’s most celebrated series from the past ten years.
Free
A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle - Royal Academy of Arts
Experience a constellation of avant-garde artists who have shaped the trajectory of Indian Modernism through to contemporary art. At its core, the radical work of Mrinalini Mukherjee.
£17
EVENT: David Olusoga: A Gun Through TimeFane Presents - Barbican
Founded by Selina Brown, this vibrant, family-friendly festival champions emerging talent, showcases iconic voices and puts Black British authors centre stage. Across one powerful day, expect thought-provoking panels, bold conversations, joyful children’s sessions and the UK’s largest Black book marketplace.
£34
Late at Tate Britain - Hidden Folklore
Dulwich Picture Gallery presents an exhibition by Rachel Jones (b. 1991), the first ever solo contemporary show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space. The show will feature a series of newly commissioned works celebrating this leading artist’s exploration into identity and interiority within the self.
£12
EVENT: Whitechapel Lates Ronan Mckenzie
For this Season’s specially curated late, multi-disciplinary creative Ronan Mckenzie presents an after-hours programme of action, exploration, feeling, and tactility, in dialogue with Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey.
Free - Booking Required
EVENT: aja monet, Live reading and Q&A with presenter Zakia Sewell - Barbican
Join for an unforgettable evening of poetry and conversation with acclaimed surrealist blues poet aja monet, hosted by broadcaster and writer, Zakia Sewell.
£10
WORKSHOP: Weaving Stories from The Photographic Archive - Autograph
A hands-on workshop inviting you to explore storytelling and personal history through paper weaving with photographs.
£10
The Film London Jarman Award 2025 - Whitechapel Gallery
Featuring work from the six artists shortlisted for the prestigious 2025 Film London Jarman Award, the exhibition will offer audiences the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing moving image work.
Free
EVENT: BSL Response: I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies
Join artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq for a BSL response to Autograph’s exhibition I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies. Aurangzeb-Tariq will introduce the key themes in the group exhibition, which explores photomontage’s rich legacy as a powerful tool for artists engaging with experiences of political dissent and erasure. She will use the artwork on display to expand on ideas such as how constructed images can stand in for disputed – and often entangled – narratives when words fail.
£10
TALK: Joy Gregory in Conversation - Whitechapel gallery
Join artist Joy Gregory for an intimate conversation, tracing the development of her artistic practice over time and speaking to her profound influence on the cultural landscape through the lens of her new exhibition, Catching Flies with Honey.
£5
WORKSHOP: Feminist Bengali Legends and Storytelling with British Bilingual Poetry Collective - Whitechapel gallery
Inspired by the tales of fearless female protagonists emblazoned on Joy Gregory’s Fierce and Fearless installation, the British Bilingual Poetry Collective present a family-friendly storytelling and drawing session, centring on trailblazing Bengali writer, educator, and social reformer Begum Rokeya.
Free - Booking required
TOUR: BSL Tour: Joy Gregory - Whitechapel gallery
Join the Whitechapel Gallery and Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq for a BSL-Led tour of Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey.
Free
WORKSHOP: Being and Becoming: AI and Generative Art Workshop - Autograph
Join Autograph for a hands-on workshop using collage and generative AI to explore identity, history and memory
£10
WORKSHOP: Constructing Worlds: Collage with Vintage 35mm Slides - Autograph
A unique opportunity to collage with vintage 35mm slides
£10
Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life - Hayward Gallery
Chiharu Shiota is best-known for her large-scale installations which engulf ordinary objects – such as shoes, keys, beds, chairs and dresses – within huge web structures made from woolen thread.
£19
EVENT: WÚRÀ! A Celebration of West African Childhood - The Africa Centre
As part of Black History Month, come and join sisters - singer and songrwiter, Dinachi, and award-winning author, Chibundu Onuzo - at The Africa Centre for Wura! A vibrant family-friendly afternoon celebrating the beauty and joy of childhood in West Africa.
EVENT: East London Art Prize Late - Whitechapel
Get to know some of this year’s East London Art Prize shortlisted artists as they take over Whitechapel Gallery in an after-hours programme featuring a host of music, performances, workshops and screenings. Bring your friends, grab a drink, and bask in the multitude of creativity and imagination that brings together this community of east London artists.
Free - booking required
EVENT: STYLE CONGO: WHERE IT ALL STARTS AND WHERE IT ALL ENDS? - 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House
STYLE CONGO: WHERE IT ALL STARTS AND WHERE IT ALL ENDS?Architect and cofounder of Traumnovelle, Johnny Leya invites us on a journey where architecture and visual arts intersect to challenge inherited colonial narratives. Spanning from the late 19th century, when Belgium established the Congo Free State in 1885, through to Congo’s independence in 1960, the talk traces how Belgian Art Nouveau absorbed Congolese resources and visual motifs, embedding imperial ideologies into celebrated European aesthetics.
EVENT: “MY CHI AND I” UGONNA HOSTEN IN CONVERSATION WITH ADJOA ARMAH- 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House
Ugonna Hosten talks with Adjoa Armah about the imaginative journey into her ancestral spiritual and cultural roots that defines her practice.
EVENT: Black British Book Festival 2025 - Barbican
Founded by Selina Brown, this vibrant, family-friendly festival champions emerging talent, showcases iconic voices and puts Black British authors centre stage. Across one powerful day, expect thought-provoking panels, bold conversations, joyful children’s sessions and the UK’s largest Black book marketplace.
EVENT: Peter Doig: House of Music - Serpentine South
Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.
Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work.
Free
EVENT: HOW WE BUILD A HOME: ART, MIGRATION, AND EVERYDAY MATERIALS - 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House
This theme explores how artists transform humble or found materials — cardboard, beads, market remnants — into carriers of memory and meaning. These materials speak to histories of migration, trade, and belonging, and to the ways everyday objects can embody resilience, identity, and the idea of “home.”
EVENT: AFRICA’S CULTURAL LANDMARKS: SCREENING AND DISCUSSION- 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House
Attend the screening of select films from Africa’s Cultural Landmarks, a new documentary series produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art with World Monuments Fund (WMF). Africa’s Cultural Landmarks highlights Africa’s diverse architectural vernaculars and preservation efforts against a backdrop of challenges. These films foreground local perspectives and stewardship, bridging ancestral legacies with contemporary narratives.
EVENT: Book Signing: Ekow Eshun - 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House
Time: 16:00 – 16:30
Location: 1-54 Bookshop
– THE STRANGERS (Penguin)
– BLACK EARTH RISING (Thames & Hudson)
EVENT: ARCHIVING THE PRESENT, REPAIRING THE PAST: WHEN A GALLERY BECOMES A MICRO-INSTITUTION - 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House
This conversation proposes to examine the role that certain galleries are taking on today by going beyond traditional commercial functions to become true micro-institutions. Engaged in the construction of a critical and decolonial discourse, these entities invest themselves in the work of repairing and rewriting parts of art history by mobilising rigorous processes of research, archival investigation, and artistic lineage.
EVENT: UK/Kenya Season 2025: African Creative Industries Symposium - Bush House
The African Creative Industries Symposium will convene leading artists, cultural practitioners, policymakers, investors, and academics from Africa, the UK, and beyond. As part of the UK/Kenya Season of Culture, this landmark event will spotlight Africa’s creative economies as engines of growth, innovation, and cultural diplomacy.
Through four key panels: Fashion, Visual Arts, Music, and Financing, the symposium will foster dialogue, networking, and international collaboration to strengthen Africa’s creative industries and connect them with global markets.
EVENT: BEN ENWONWU: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON AN AFRICAN MODERNIST- 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House
This talk convenes art historians, curators, collectors, and enthusiasts to critically examine the oeuvre and legacy of Ben Enwonwu, a pioneering Nigerian modernist. The programme will feature in-depth analyses of Enwonwu’s innovative synthesis of traditional African art and modernist idioms, with a focus on his impact on global artistic trends and the contemporary art market.
TALK: Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons - Dulwich Picture Gallery
Join Artist Rachel Jones and curator Jane Findlay for an inspiring conversation and wine reception.
£30
OPENING: Pascale Marthine Tayou - Robilant+Voena
Robilant+Voena is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Pascale Marthine Tayou in their London gallery. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Galleria Continua, coinciding with a major retrospective at their gallery in Les Moulins, France, and features new works alongside examples of some of the Cameroonian artist’s most celebrated series from the past ten years.
Free
EVENT: Poetic Temple x The river called Time - The Africa Centre
After a rebel rousing evening jam packed with soul stirring moments. Open micers, Live Art, Music and Cheza Roho! We return with the best of UK's vocalists;
£22,35
ART FAIR: Frieze London and Masters
The fairs return to The Regent’s Park this October, spanning 6,000 years of historical art and today’s most pioneering artists
OPENING: Shaqúelle Whyte, Winter Remembers April - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present Winter Remembers April, Shaqúelle Whyte’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Titled in homage to Wynton Marsalis’ interpretation of the jazz standard, I’ll Remember April, the exhibition honours several of Whyte’s musical heroes, from Boris Gardiner and Gil Scott-Heron, to The Beatles.
Free
ART FAIR: Minor Attraction
In step with London's cultural undercurrents, Minor Attractions returns to The Mandrake for its third edition this 14-18 October 2025.
Blending contemporary art with performance and nightlife, the fair is becoming a catalyst in the city's emerging art scene while carving out its place in the international commercial circuit. Minor Attractions reaffirms its continuity and ambition with an expanded line-up of over 70 galleries, nearly doubling its exhibition space, now spread over 15 hotel rooms, and a programme spanning film, sound, and performance arts.
Free
OPENING: LAKWENA – HOW WE BUILD A HOME - Vigo Gallery
Vigo Gallery and English Heritage present LAKWENA – HOW WE BUILD A HOME, a vibrant new exhibition of cardboard and bead paintings by celebrated artist Lakwena Maciver at the iconic Wellington Arch.
Free
WORKSHOP: Threading Tongues: Call and Response with Poetry and BeadworkVoiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages - Barbican
Explore South African storytelling, beadwork poetics and praise poetry in this participatory workshop with performer and writer Nomakhwezi Becker.
Free
EVENT: Peter Doig: House of Music - Serpentine South
Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.
Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work.
Free
OPENING: El Anatsui: 'Go Back and Pick' - October Gallery
October Gallery and Goodman Gallery London are proud to present “Go Back and Pick”, an exhibition in two parts by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s.
Free
OPENING: El Anatsui: 'Go Back and Pick' - Goodman Gallery
Goodman Gallery London and October Gallery are proud to present two concurrent exhibitions by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s.
Free
El Anatsui: 'Go Back and Pick' - Goodman Gallery
Goodman Gallery London and October Gallery are proud to present two concurrent exhibitions by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s.
Free
OPENING: I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies - Autograph
This major group exhibition examines how photographs can be deconstructed and reassembled through the idea of collage, offering new perspectives on complex histories and contested social realities.
Free
OPENING: The Ground Beneath: Material Memory and the Resilience of Hope - Messums
Messums London is proud to present The Ground Beneath: Material Memory and the Resilience of Hope, featuring artists Temitope Adebowale, Motunrayo Akinola, Sonia Elizabeth Barrett, Shirley Nette Williams, Irvin Pascal, Camille Provost, and Justin Randolph Thompson. All of the artists are of Black and African diasporic heritage and work across sculpture, installation, painting, and performance. Together, they explore how ordinary, often discarded materials can carry emotional, cultural, and political weight – and how processes of transformation offer pathways toward regeneration and repair.
Free
Image : Camille Provost, Figure-sculpture: silver memories, 2025
OPENING: Maxwell Alexandre: Sanctuary and the Shadow of its Walls - Delfina Foundation
Delfina Foundation is pleased to present Sanctuary and the Shadow of its Walls, the first institutional solo exhibition in the UK by Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre. Marking a pivotal evolution in his practice, the exhibition unveils a series of newly commissioned paintings on pardo paper alongside site-specific scenography, contemplating the nuances of seeking sanctuary and exploring its fragile borders.
Free
Threads of Echoes: Clay Ketter & Felipe Mujica - Bartha Contemporary
Bartha Contemporary is pleased to announce Threads of Echoes, an exhibition juxtaposing works by Clay Ketter (b. 1961) and Felipe Mujica (b. 1974), on view until October 21st. The exhibition highlights each artist’s collaborative approach and sensitivity to specific local conditions, whether on the hurricane-stricken Gulf Coast of America or Isla Mancarrón in Nicaragua.
Free
Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons - Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery presents an exhibition by Rachel Jones (b. 1991), the first ever solo contemporary show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space. The show will feature a series of newly commissioned works celebrating this leading artist’s exploration into identity and interiority within the self.
£12