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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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A solo exhibition of striking new paintings which examine the consequences of toxic waste produced by mining colbalt and other heavy metals, on the environment and community of Katanga in DRC.

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You are invited to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions at Autograph's gallery in Hackney: Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire, exploring a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain, and Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos, capturing the rich style and joyous spirit of Lagos in the 1970s through portraiture.

Everyone is welcome to Autograph's exhibition openings. Both galleries will be open, plus drinks and an outdoor seating area. This is an informal event, you can arrive and leave at any time

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Threads of Heritage: Celebrating Contemporary African Weaving, Craft & Tapestry is an exhibition of contemporary African weaving, craft, and tapestry by Black Female Entrepreneurs Greenwich made from traditional African fabrics such as Aso-oke, Ankara, and Kente, as well as works utilising raffia, beads, ropes, wool, clay, wood, recycled and upcycled materials.

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EncounterCulture an innovative, experimental project from London based sculpture collective Changeable Beast will take place through September and October 2024, culminating in a week long residency of collaborative making and second week exhibition at the APT Gallery, Deptford.

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October Gallery presents Forest Figures, a much-anticipated solo exhibition of new works by Alexis Peskine.

Peer presents a new body of work and first major solo exhibition in a London institution by London-based artist, Onyeka Igwe. Igwe’s work, which comprises video, publishing and installation, is aimed at the question: How do we live together?

Family Album is a solo exhibition by Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. The artist’s sixth solo show with the gallery brings together new and historical works, highlighting a key arc of exploration in Locke’s practice — the iconography of royalty.

Cob Gallery presents the debut solo exhibition for Chinese artist Yi Liu. Known for a unique blend of Eastern and Western painting techniques, Yi Liu's latest series, Searching the Mountains, continues her exploration of traditional oriental imagery while incorporating Western artistic methods.

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Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present clouds, Kenturah Davis’ debut solo exhibition in the UK. The drawing series that comprise this show are united by a common text—an essay penned by Davis that explores perception as an expressive and existential state.

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Adam Rouhana’s second London solo exhibition constructs a prism that rejects constituent ontological violence and instead works toward the formation of emancipatory potentialities. ‘The Revolution Cannot Be Built on Dreams Alone: The Beauty of Truth and Right’ will feature new work made in 2024, drawing inspiration from the fertility of the land and the verdancy of spring in Palestine.

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Emergent Energies presents a selection of innovative artwork by: Theresa Weber, Matheus Marques Abu, Dafe Oboro, Gosette Lubondo, Eyasu Telayneh and Zana Masombuka. Comprising photographic works, paintings and sculpture, the exhibition highlights the dynamic range and vitality that each of these young artists brings to their work.

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Frith Street Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by Dayanita Singh. Over the last 40 years Singh has created pioneering works that cross genres, explore the boundaries of photography and expand our perception of the photographic image.

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Flowers Gallery presents "Mixed Emotions," a solo exhibition by NPG Portrait Prize winner Tai Shan Schierenberg, opening on 15 May 2024. This exhibition marks a profound exploration of Schierenberg’s German and Chinese Malaysian heritage, offering a series of self-portraits and landscapes that navigate the intricacies of identity and belonging.

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Lychee One presents ‘Portals to The Past’, the first solo exhibition in our space by Chinese- born artist Qian Qian. This exhibition advances Qian’s artistic explorations over the past five years, intertwining the realms of technology with mythology, the material with the spiritual, and the tangible with the transcendent. In addition to her latest watercolours on paper, the exhibition also features her first attempt at presenting oil paintings on canvas, alongside a sculptural installation piece titled Form and Emptiness.

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A solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa, coinciding with the artist’s representation at Ethiopia’s inaugural participation in La Biennale di Venezia.

In an ambitious new commission developed site-responsively for Gallery Three and the Reading Room, Omoding will repurpose abandoned materials and objects, interweaving them with new metalwork produced in a London foundry, music, and video in an installation that embraces the characteristic exuberance and generosity of his practice.

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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presents Shaqúelle Whyte’s first solo exhibition, Yute, you’re gonna be fine.

In his paintings, Whyte presents imagined spaces imbued with a sense of ambiguity that interrogate the human condition, all the while exploring the material qualities of the medium. Loosely rendered, energetic brushwork and an expansive approach to composition are hallmarks of the artist’s practice.

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October Gallery is delighted to present the second solo exhibition of LR Vandy, following last year’s display of her large-scale installation, Dancing in Time: The Ties That Bind Us, a five-meter-high rope sculpture commissioned for the International Slavery Museum’s Martin Luther King celebrations at Liverpool’s Canning Dock waterfront. Twist features a new series of sculptures created from a variety of ropes and other materials; one large-scale rope work, several smaller rope sculptures, a collection of photographic prints and further new works from the artist’s signature Hull series.

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BEERS London is very pleased to announce the debut solo exhibition of Zambian-born, Copenhagen-based Jack Kabangu opening 18 April 2024. Kabangu has had a meteoric rise in the past couple years, and we are really excited to present his first UK-based exhibition - Smiling Through The Pain - (Smiler gennem smerten), the first of two-major solo exhibitions we will present to London audiences in the 2024 calendar year.