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.

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‘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. 

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A multidisciplinary exhibition from Taiwanese artist Val Lee (李奧森), continuing her exploration of isolation, intimacy and hope.

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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. 

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Image : Camille Provost, Figure-sculpture: silver memories, 2025

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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

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