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
Lina Lapelytė: In the dark we play - The Cosmic House
The Cosmic House is delighted to present a site-specific performative and musical video work by artist and composer Lina Lapelytė. In The Dark, We Play (2025) is composed and performed in collaboration with Nouria Bah, Anat Ben-David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, and Rebecca Horrox, a group of musicians and artists with whom Lapelytė previously created the musical performance piece Candy Shop (2013)..
Thirst: In Search of Freshwater - Wellcome Collection
Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land is thirsty too.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cato - Saatchi Yates
This exhibition presents a body of work that focuses on the Black community within his South London orbit, capturing domestic and communal life in barbershops, diners, and home interiors. The subject matter features figures in everyday settings — playing instruments, making art, and sharing food — inviting viewers into intimate spaces where history, culture, and memory come together.
Free
Stacey Gillian Abe: The Garden of Blue Whispers - Unit
Garden of Blue Whispers marks a period of flourishing for Ugandan artist Stacey Gillian Abe, a new chapter in a journey that began with Shrublet of Old Ayivu, the artist’s first solo exhibition with Unit. While Shrublet of Old Ayivu discussed shared memories, this new body of work extends that conversation into how our senses – touch, sound, scent, and sight – can hold onto memories long after their season has passed.
Free
Govinda Sah 'Azad': Journey to the Heart of Light - October Gallery
October Gallery presents its fifth solo exhibition of compelling works by Govinda Sah ‘Azad’, a Nepalese artist now working in Margate. This exhibition highlights Sah’s latest large-scale oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and presents selected smaller scale works. Journey to the Heart of Light weaves together the artist’s personal journeys through both inner and outer realms.
Free
Leah Clements: Apophenia - PEER
Peer is excited to present Apophenia, a new co-commission and the first major solo exhibtion in the UK by London-based artist Leah Clements, produced in collaboration with Art Catalyst, Sheffield
Free
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: 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
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
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: 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
TALK: Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons - Dulwich Picture Gallery
Join Artist Rachel Jones and curator Jane Findlay for an inspiring conversation and wine reception.
£30
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien: Mémoires des corps - Gaswork
Gasworks presents Mémoires des corps [embodied memories], the first UK solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien. Self-describing as a “storyteller with mediums,” Marie-Claire works with textile, drawing, sculpture, video-performance and installation to explore how ideas of femininity and the cosmos intersect across cultures, generations and materials.
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