These are all the upcoming exhibitions and things to do in London’s museums and art galleries, happening
within the next eight weeks. The descriptions have been summarised with AI, I’m hoping to cut down on this
in the future as I visit more of them personally.
Nine leading artists are releasing signed, numbered prints to raise money for future art projects, each print coming with a certificate of authenticity.
The event shows how freshwater has shaped health and communities across history, with 125 objects, artworks, and new commissions on global water issues.
Ten UK and European artists show striking digital works based on innovation, with judges choosing one to win the £10,000 Artist of the Future 2025 prize.
Visitors are drawn into a striking mix of film, writing, and art that reflects London’s shift from the 1970s to the early digital age, inspired by Michael Bracewell’s nostalgic story.
Peter Doig’s latest project fills the gallery with music from his vast record and tape collection, pairing new paintings with restored vintage speakers.
The story follows American artist Edwin Austin Abbey, showing his huge study for ‘The Hours’, painted in Gloucestershire for the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
Visitors can see artworks by students, families and community groups, all inspired by Van Gogh and Rachel Jones, showing personal takes on colour, texture and self.
Rustem Skybin presents shields inspired by old Crimean Tatar designs, turning memories from coins and textiles into lively symbols of courage and identity.
Visitors can see how Tawanda Chiweshe and Francisco Gaspar turn their design ideas into real things, sharing the messy energy behind their studio work.
Visitors can walk through life-sized layouts of Renée Gailhoustet’s apartments, surrounded by drawings, models and photos showing her bold ideas on shared living.
Five grand eighteenth and nineteenth century swords from Lucknow show the Nawabs’ love of luxury, art and ceremony, mixing power and style in gold and enamel.
Over 150 works by Nordic artists show themes from Munch’s prints to Cold War angst, Norse myths, mental health struggles and the need to protect nature.
Visitors learn how wars in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s reshaped lives, politics and Britain’s ties with its former colonies after the Second World War.
Visitors can step back into the early 1980s, seeing how daring fashion, bold music and wild creativity shaped young artists who changed pop culture forever.
A new film and installation by Ming Wong reimagines Saint Sebastian’s story through paintings, film and history, blending past and present with wit and style.
This event looks at how sign language has shaped identity, showing work by Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader while highlighting the long fight to protect it.
This show sets out how Turner and Constable turned the countryside and sea into art full of feeling, capturing storms, skies and sunlight in very different ways.
Visitors can see Caravaggio’s life-size Cupid, shown with ancient Roman sculptures once owned by Marchese Giustiniani, recreating a 17th-century Roman setting.
Máret Ánne Sara brings together reindeer hides, bones, wood, sound and scent to show how energy connects people, animals and the land as one living force.
Picasso found real inspiration in people like dancers and bullfighters, using their world to shape his own image, as shown through over 45 of his works.
The show brings together bold new pieces and iconic works from the past 40 years, filling vast rooms with painting, sculpture and large-scale installations.
Experience the drama in Joseph Wright of Derby’s paintings, highlighting faces and objects under dramatic candlelight that echo the techniques of Caravaggio.
This display shows how the Foundling Hospital Boys’ Band, begun in 1847 to teach discipline and music, grew to send most boys into military bands by World War I.
This exhibition merges art with themes of environmental and social justice, showcasing artists who focus on Indigenous knowledge and ecological issues.
Photographs show transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people at a Tamil festival marking Mohini and Aravan’s story, mixing ritual, joy and grief.
Visitors can chat with a real mudlark about the finds they’ve uncovered in the Thames, hear stories from the riverbank and learn what it’s like to search the city’s muddy shores.
An evening of British Latinx writing brings together poets and authors sharing work in Spanish, Portuguese, English and Indigenous languages, plus a video of Peruvian poet Raúl Cisneros reading in Quechua.
Visitors can enjoy sci-fi films, hands-on art and live music combining sound and laser light, all sharing strange yet beautiful sides of quantum ideas.
Nearly 100 artists share paintings and sculptures sold to support families helped by The Sick Children’s Trust, with work from Jonathan Yeo and others.
The display shows Simone Brewster’s bold use of form, colour and everyday materials, giving a close look at how her designs shape daily life and culture.
Artists and scientists share how they turned quantum ideas into a mixed reality artwork, showing how XR can make hidden science feel real and personal.
Visitors can watch sculptures, moving performers and interactive artworks come together as Laura Lima’s new installation takes shape across both galleries.
A group of new print artists present work linked by shared studio life, showing how their own methods and stories connect and contrast like nearby islands.
Postgraduate students share creative projects using photos, leaflets and diaries from the Cold War to show how power and propaganda shaped everyday life.
Trace 40 years of groundbreaking art, showcasing paintings, sculptures, videos, and new works. The display highlights the artist’s use of the female form to discuss love, trauma, and healing.
Paintings by two long-time friends bring nature, myth and imagination together, mixing real and dreamlike scenes full of strange creatures and shifting forms.
Rachel Jones shows two new large, colourful abstract works that draw on her love of Van Gogh and mix bold mouths, teeth and natural forms in lively layers.
Chris Ofili’s mural is a vivid dream-inspired tribute, centred around a poignant image of artist Khadija Saye, reflecting themes of transformation and memory.
