30+ art exhibitions to see in London during Frieze Week 2025
Frieze London and Frieze Masters return to Regent’s Park from 15–19 October 2025, marking the much-anticipated comeback of what is known as Frieze Week. Beyond the fairs themselves, galleries and institutions across the city present exhibitions, performances and installations, highlighting London’s role as a centre for artistic discussion. From major retrospectives and new commissions to cross-disciplinary projects, Frieze Week offers a unique opportunity to experience the breadth of London’s art scene.
Here is our guide to 30+ exhibitions not to miss in London during Frieze Week.
Peter Doig: House of Music
Peter Doig, Maracas, 2002-2008, oil on canvas, 290 x 190 cm. © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved.
#FLODown: Peter Doig returns to the Serpentine for his first exhibition at the gallery since 1991 with House of Music. The show brings together new and recent paintings alongside restored analogue sound systems, creating a space where painting, cinema and music intersect. Works from Doig’s years in Trinidad sit alongside large-scale pieces inspired by performance and collective imagery, while a rare 1920s–30s Western Electric/Bell Labs sound system plays music from the artist’s vinyl and cassette archive. The title House of Music comes from a song by Trinidadian calypsonian Winston “Shadow” Bailey, who is also featured in a portrait on display.
Date: 10 October 2025 – 8 February 2026. Location: Serpentine South Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA. Price: Free.serpentinegalleries.org
Karimah Ashadu: Tendered
Karimah Ashadu, Cowboy (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ
#FLODown: Tendered is the first UK institutional solo exhibition by UK/Nigerian artist-filmmaker Karimah Ashadu (b. 1985), presented at Camden Art Centre with Fondazione In Between Art Film. Curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi, it premieres MUSCLE (2025), a new moving-image installation exploring hyper-masculinity and socio-economic struggle in Lagos. The exhibition also includes sculptures connected to the film and earlier works such as King of Boys (2015) and Cowboy (2022). Ashadu’s cinematic style emphasises light, colour, and composition while critically challenging colonial documentary traditions.
Date: 3 October – 28 December 2025. Location: Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG. Price: Free. camdenartcentre.org
Candice Lin: g/hosti
Candice Lin, Crucifixion, 2025, Oil pastel, oil paint and coloured pencil on casein gesso on cardboard, iron bailing wire, painted, marbled, silkscreened, and woven textile pieces, copper sheet metal, lion dance costume sequin pants, 133 × 183 × 8 cm. Image courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, New York. Photo: Paul Salveson.
#FLODown: LA-based artist Candice Lin returns to London with g/hosti, a free, multisensory exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery. Transforming the space into a towering circular labyrinth of painted cardboard panels, the installation combines sculpture, painting, animation, and stop-motion film to explore colonial histories, marginalised voices, and the materials that carry these legacies. Lin’s immersive, research-driven work juxtaposes playful imagery and bright colours with unsettling details, reflecting cycles of violence, loss, and disorientation, while interrogating the entanglements of power, trade, identity, and ecological crisis.
Date: 8 October 2025 – 1 March 2026. Location: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. Price: Free.whitechapelgallery.org
Lee Miller
Image credit: Lee Miller, David E. Scherman dressed for war, London 1942. Lee Miller Archives. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2025. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
#FLODown: At Tate Britain, the UK’s largest retrospective of Lee Miller presents around 230 vintage and modern prints, including newly discovered works, and unseen archival material, spanning her entire career from French surrealism to war photography. The exhibition highlights Miller’s innovative and fearless approach that produced some of modern photography’s most iconic images. It traces her journey from modelling in New York to working with Man Ray in Paris, her avant-garde surrealist photography, and her pioneering fashion work for British Vogue during WWII. As one of the few accredited female war correspondents, Miller documented frontline battles and post-war Europe with striking immediacy. The show also explores her post-war artistic circles and self-portraits, offering a comprehensive view of her legacy as both artist and photojournalist.
Date: 2 October 2025 – 15 February 2026. Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Price: £20. Concessions available. Book now
Lucy Raven: Rounds
Lucy Raven: Rounds. © Lucy Raven. Photographer Ari Marcopoulos.
#FLODown: Lucy Raven’s exhibition Rounds at the Barbican Centre’s Curve gallery delves into the cyclical violence and relentless force shaping the American West. The UK premiere of her moving image installation Murderers Bar (2025) captures the monumental transformation of the Klamath River following the largest dam removal in U.S. history. Utilising aerial, drone, and sonar imaging, the film traces the river’s journey from the dynamiting of the dam to the restoration of its natural flow, highlighting the activism of Indigenous tribes advocating for ecological justice. Complementing this, Raven’s newly commissioned kinetic light sculpture, inspired by centrifuges, creates an intense sensory experience that evokes the physical effects of extreme forces. Together, these works examine the material, ecological, and social consequences of industrial development and environmental restoration in the Western United States.
Date: 9 October 2025 – 4 January 2026. Location: The Curve, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS. Price: Free. barbican.org.uk
Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES
Gilbert & George DATE STONES, 2019 89 x 174 in. (226 x 442 cm) © Gilbert & George. Courtesy White Cube
#FLODown: A landmark exhibition of iconic artists Gilbert & George will open at the Hayward Gallery in October. 21ST CENTURY PICTURES brings together more than 60 large-scale works created over the past 25 years, featuring new pieces from their 2025 series THE SCREW PICTURESalongside key series such as NEW HORNY PICTURES (2001), THE LONDON PICTURES (2011), THE BEARD PICTURES (2016), and CORPSING PICTURES (2022). Celebrated for combining striking imagery and text, Gilbert & George challenge social norms and provoke discussion on sex, religion, class, nationalism, corruption, and mortality. True to their motto ‘art for all’, they offer a bold and thought-provoking perspective on contemporary society.
Date: 7 October 2025 – 4 January 2026. Location: Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. Price: £20 (Concessions available & Southbank Centre Members go free). Book now
Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life
Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), Cakes, 1963, oil on canvas, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art from the Collectors Committee, the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, and The Circle, with Additional Support from the Abrams Family in Memory of Harry N. Abrams © Wayne Thiebaud/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2024
#FLODown: The Courtauld Gallery will open the first UK museum exhibition dedicated to Wayne Thiebaud. It features his still-life paintings of post-war American everyday subjects, such as diner food, deli counters, gumball dispensers, and pinball machines, which made his name in the 1960s. Highlighting objects often dismissed as kitsch, Thiebaud transforms them into profound works of modern art. The exhibition includes rare loans from major US museums, including the National Gallery of Art and the Whitney Museum, offering a unique insight into his legacy.
Date: 10 October 2025 – 18 January 2026. Location: Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, Floor 3, The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. Price: £15. Concessions available. Book now
Nigerian Modernism
Uzo Egonu, Stateless People an artist with beret 1981. © The estate of Uzo Egonu. Private Collection.
#FLODown: Tate Modern will present Nigerian Modernism, the first major UK exhibition to explore the development of modern art in Nigeria. Featuring over 250 works by more than 50 artists, it reveals how artists responded to colonialism, independence, and globalisation by engaging with Indigenous forms and modernist ideas. The exhibition includes works by early pioneers such as Aina Onabolu and Ben Enwonwu, as well as leading figures like Bruce Onobrakpeya, Uche Okeke, Demas Nwoko, Susanne Wenger, and Yusuf Grillo. It explores key movements including the Zaria Art Society, with its call for a “natural synthesis” of African and Western art; the experimental Oshogbo school; and the Nsukka group, known for its revival of uli design.
Date: 8 October 2025 – 10 May 2026. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Price: from £18. Concessions available. Book now
Marie Antoinette Style
Film still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Photo courtesy of I WANT CANDY LLC. and Zoetrope Corp.
#FLODown: Marie Antoinette Style at the V&A South Kensington will be the UK’s first exhibition dedicated to the iconic French queen and her influence on fashion and culture. Showcasing 250 objects, including rare loans never before seen outside France, the exhibition will feature personal items such as Marie Antoinette’s silk slippers, jewels, and her final written note, alongside lavish fragments of court dress and intimate objects from Versailles. Contemporary couture by designers like Dior, Chanel, Vivienne Westwood, and Moschino, as well as costumes from Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning film Marie Antoinette, will trace the queen’s legacy through centuries of design and media.
Date: 20 September 2025 - 22 March 2026. Location: V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. Price: from £23 - £25. Concessions available. Book now
Blitz: The Club That Shaped the 80s
Outside the Blitz club in 1979. Photograph: Sheila Rock. Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s opening at the Design Museum 20 September 2025
#FLODown: Blitz: The Club That Shaped the 80s, a major exhibition opening at the Design Museum, celebrates the legendary nightclub in Covent Garden that ignited the creative explosion of the 1980s. Running for just 18 months from 1979 to 1980, Blitz was the birthplace of the ‘Blitz Kids’ and launched the careers of iconic figures such as Spandau Ballet, Boy George, and Visage. The show features over 250 rare and personal items, including clothing, instruments, original design sketches, magazines, and unseen footage, that reveal how this small club night revolutionised fashion, music, and art. Visitors will enjoy a sensory journey through the scene’s bold style and cultural influence, highlighting the lasting legacy of this brief but transformative moment in London’s creative history.
Date: 20 September 2025 – 29 March 2026. Location: Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG. Price: from £14.38 to £17.98 / from £16.00 to £20.00 (including donation). Book now
Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum, Orbital, 2018 © Mona Hatoum. Credit: Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)
#FLODown: In continuation of their Encounters series, the Barbican will present Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum from September 2025. This exhibition brings together new and existing works by Mona Hatoum in dialogue with historic sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Featuring iconic pieces such as Woman with Her Throat Cut and The Nose alongside Hatoum’s installations and sculptures, some never before seen in the UK, the show examines political instability, trauma, exile, and the alienation of the body.
Date: 3 September 2025 – 11 January 2026. Location: Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS. Price: from £8 (Concessions available). Book now
Hilary Lloyd: Very High Frequency
Research image, Forest of Dean. 2025.
#FLODown: Opening at Studio Voltaire in September 2025, Very High Frequency is a major commission by Hilary Lloyd reflecting on the life and work of pioneering playwright and television writer Dennis Potter (1935–1994), known for The Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. Combining film, archival material, and live performance, the exhibition revisits Potter’s distinctive blend of reality and fantasy, addressing illness, death, sex, power, and class. Featuring new short films with collaborators including Melvyn Bragg and Ken Trodd, Lloyd reimagines theatre sets and television studios as visual and auditory tableaux. A programme of screenings and talks will highlight Potter’s influence on contemporary culture and his belief in television as a powerful artistic and political medium.
Date: 10 September 2025 – 11 January 2026. Location: Studio Voltaire, 1A Nelsons Row, London SW4 7JR. Price: Free. studiovoltaire.org
Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion
Dirty Looks, IAMISIGO, handwoven raffia-cotton blend look dyed with coffee and mud spring/Summer 2024 Shadows. Photograph by Fred Odede, courtesy of IAMISIGO.
#FLODown: Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion will open at the Barbican, examining how designers embrace dirt, decay, and imperfection in contemporary fashion. The exhibition will feature over 100 looks from more than 60 designers, including Hussein Chalayan, Vivienne Westwood, IAMISIGO, Robert Wun, and Comme des Garçons, showing how distressed and decomposed aesthetics have challenged ideas of beauty, luxury, and value over the past fifty years. Emerging designers such as Paolo Carzana, Elena Velez, and Michaela Stark will contribute newly commissioned works addressing environmental collapse, folklore, and queer expression.
Date: 25 September 2025 - 25 January 2026. Location: Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS. Price: from £20 + BF. Concessions available. Book now
Grant Mooney
Grant Mooney, production image, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
#FLODown: Grant Mooney’s upcoming exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery will present a series of sculptures exploring the tactile and sensory qualities of metal, using abstract, autonomous, and site-specific approaches. Drawing on his background in metalsmithing and extensive knowledge of metal alloys, Mooney will investigate the physical interactions and transformations of materials. For this commission, he will respond directly to the gallery’s environment and architecture, creating works that engage with the building’s infrastructure and surroundings.
Date: 26 September – 7 December 2025. Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ. Price: Free. chisenhale.org.uk
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
The Second Age of Beauty by Cecil Beaton, British Vogue February 1946 © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd. Condé Nast Archive London.
#FLODown: Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is the first major exhibition dedicated to Beaton’s influential career in fashion photography, illustration, and costume design. Opening at the National Portrait Gallery in October, it will showcase over 170 works including Vogue spreads, royal portraits, and Oscar-winning film costumes from My Fair Lady and Gigi. Celebrated as “The King of Vogue,” Beaton captured the elegance of interwar society, post-war glamour, and Hollywood icons. Curated by Robin Muir, the exhibition explores Beaton’s collaborations with leading designers and his lasting impact on the visual language of fashion.
Date: 9 October 2025 - 11 January 2026. Location: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE. Price: Tickets not yet on sale yet, npg.org.uk
Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden
Howard Hodgkin, In a Public Garden, 1997-8, hand painted etching with carborundum.
#FLODown: The most extensive institutional exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s original prints to date will open at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery in October. Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden features around 60 hand-finished works spanning five decades, displayed across both the contemporary gallery and the historic rooms of the Manor. Curated by Richard Calvocoressi, Hodgkin’s emotionally charged, painterly prints.many blurring the line between print and painting, offer a vivid exploration of memory, colour, and abstraction. Highlights include the lyrical Venetian Views series and Swimming (2011), created for the London 2012 Olympics.
Date: 1 October 2025 - 22 February 2026. Location: Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ. Price: from £12. Concessions available. Book now
Jennie Baptiste: Rhythm & Roots
Jennie-Baptiste, 1995. Photo taken from a series for fashion designer Wale Adeyemi.
#FLODown: Rhythm & Roots, opening at Somerset House in October, will be the first major solo exhibition by pioneering British photographer Jennie Baptiste. Spanning over three decades, it will showcase both iconic and previously unseen portraits that celebrate the sound, style, and spirit of Black British youth culture, from 1990s Brixton to the present day. Featuring images of artists such as Roots Manuva, Estelle, Ms Dynamite, and Nas, the exhibition also includes Revolutions @33 1/3 rpm, Baptiste’s seminal series on London’s hip hop DJ scene, and Black Chains of Icon, a conceptual exploration of Black identity and legacy.
Date: 17 October 2025 – 4 January 2026. Location: Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. Price: Pay what you can. somersethouse.org.uk
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled, 2009, Acrylic on PVC panel. 155.3 x 185.1 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund and a gift from Jacqueline L. Bradley, B.A. 1979. © Kerry James Marshall
#FLODown: A major retrospective of Kerry James Marshall will open at the Royal Academy of Arts , celebrating the artist’s 70th birthday. The exhibition will present the most extensive survey of Marshall’s work ever staged in Europe, featuring over 70 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures. Renowned for centring Black figures and histories often excluded from Western art, Marshall reimagines the traditions of history painting with striking visual narratives. The exhibition will include School of Beauty, School of Culture, a newly completed series on the transatlantic slave trade, and a selection of new works created specially for this landmark occasion.
Date: 20 September 2025 - 18 January 2026. Location: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD. Price: from £23; concessions available; under 16s go free. Book now
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists
Helene Kröller-Müller. © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands.
#FLODown: The National Gallery will host its first-ever exhibition dedicated to the Neo-Impressionist movement. The exhibition will feature major works from the renowned Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands, bringing together paintings by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Théo van Rysselberghe, and Jan Toorop. Seurat’s iconic Le Chahut (1889–90) will be shown in the UK for the first time, alongside other works that demonstrate the movement’s radical approach to colour and technique. With additional loans from major international collections, the exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to explore the bold vision that helped shape the course of modern art.
Date: 13 September 2025 – 8 February 2026. Location: Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN. Price: from £25. Concessions available. Book now
Theatre Picasso
Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman 1937. Dil paint on canvas. Tate. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2025.
#FLODown: Marking 100 years since Picasso’s The Three Dancers (1925), Theatre Picasso at Tate Modern explores the theatrical spirit that infused the artist’s work throughout his life. Featuring around 50 pieces, including paintings, sculptures, collages, and textiles, the exhibition highlights how Picasso crafted his public persona and drew inspiration from performers, outsiders, and popular entertainment. Curated in collaboration with contemporary artist Wu Tsang and writer Enrique Fuenteblanca, the show stages Picasso’s art as performance, with live responses from choreographers and dancers. Anchored by iconic works from Tate’s collection and major loans from French institutions, Theatre Picasso presents a critical, and celebratory portrait of one of modern art’s most mythologised figures.
Date: 18 September 2025 – 12 April 2026. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Price: from £14. Concessions available. Book now
Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
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Tanoa Sasraku, Morale Patch [detail], 2025. Found object (acrylic and crude oil).
#FLODown: Tanoa Sasraku’s solo exhibition, Morale Patch, will open at the ICA in October, featuring process-driven works on paper, sculpture, and found objects. Through these, Sasraku examines the symbolic and political power of oil and its connections to war, national identity, and memory. Emblems and mementoes recur as motifs in this reflection on seduction, destruction, and the construction of national myths.
Date: 7 October 2025 – 11 January 2026. Location: The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 12 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH. Price: Pay what you can. Book now
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: THE DELUSION
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, UNCOMFORTABLE HONESTY, 2024. Ink on paper, digitally enhanced © Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley.
#FLODown: A groundbreaking new project by British artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley will open at Serpentine North in September. Titled THE DELUSION, the exhibition presents a pioneering multiplayer video game experience that combines satire, cooperative gaming, and participatory theatre to confront issues of polarisation, censorship, and social connection. Visitors are placed at the centre of a live “community play,” encouraging open discussion and reflection on some of today’s most pressing sociopolitical challenges. The project merges advanced digital technologies with traditional animation techniques and highlights Brathwaite-Shirley’s connection to the Black, Trans, and Queer community, marking a significant step in the creative use of game engines within contemporary art.
Date: 30 September 2025 – 18 January 2026. Location: Serpentine North. West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR. Price: Free. serpentinegalleries.org
Ketty La Rocca: you you
Ketty La Rocca, Le mie parole, e tu?, 1971, Photographic sequence, 1 of 4 elements © Archivio Ketty La Rocca of Michelangelo Vasta Courtesy Estorick Collection, London
#FLODown: The Estorick Collection will throw a spotlight on one of Italy’s most fearless and original artists. Opening in September, this will be the first UK museum exhibition dedicated to Ketty La Rocca, a pioneer of conceptual and feminist art whose work from the 1960s and ’70s challenged the way we communicate, see, and think. From incisive visual poetry and media collages to her later explorations of gesture and the powerful Riduzioni series, the show charts her journey from language to the expressive potential of the body. Bringing together photography, video, sculpture, and verbo-visual works, it offers a compelling encounter with an artist whose critiques of consumer culture and gender inequality remain relevant.
Date: 10 September - 21 December 2025. Location: The Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN. Price: from £9.50. Concessions available. Book now
Yto Barrada: Thrill, Fill, Spill
Yto Barrada, A day is a day, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery.
#FLODown: The South London Gallery will open Thrill, Fill, Spill, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Yto Barrada, in September 2025. Spanning sculpture, textiles, film and painting, Barrada’s work explores resistance, cultural identity, and environmental fragility. The exhibition includes textile works dyed at her eco-residency The Mothership in Morocco, and Tangier Island Wall (2019), a sculpture exploring climate change. Also featured are sculptural works inspired by Moroccan human pyramids and Tintin in Palestine, which reinterprets colonial imagery through hand-dyed silk grids. Opening ahead of Barrada’s presentation for France at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Thrill, Fill, Spill, offers a timely reflection on history, memory and collective resilience.
Date: 26 September 2025 - 11 January 2026. Location: South London Gallery, 65–67 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH. Price: Free. southlondongallery.org
Cartier
Installation view of Cartier at V&A South Kensington (12 April-16 November 2025) © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
#FLODown: Cartier at the V&A South Kensington showcases over 350 dazzling objects that trace the evolution of one of the world’s most iconic jewellery houses. From exquisite gemstones and ornate timepieces to legendary designs worn by royalty and cultural icons, the exhibition highlights Cartier’s influence on art, fashion and craftsmanship since the early 20th century.
Date: 12 April - 16 November 2025. Location: Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL. Price: £27 weekdays, £29 weekends. Book now
Massimiliano Pelletti: Metamorfosi
Massimiliano Pelletti in his studio. Image Courtesy Bowman Sculpture
#FLODown: Metamorfosi, the second UK solo exhibition by acclaimed Italian sculptor Massimiliano Pelletti, opens as the inaugural show in Bowman Sculpture’s newly redesigned Mayfair gallery. Renowned for reinterpreting classical antiquity through a contemporary lens, Pelletti’s latest works fracture and reassemble familiar forms into entirely new myths: Greco-Roman gods entwined with African deities, bodies that oscillate between flesh and stone, and figures that transform classical archetypes into strikingly original forms. Carved from rare marbles and crystalline minerals, his sculptures embrace imperfections as intrinsic to their meaning, creating hybrid figures that bridge past and present while pulsating with life.
Date: 9 October – 7 November 2025, Location: Bowman Sculpture, 6 Duke Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6BN. Price: Free. bowmansculpture.com
Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey
Joy Gregory, Stockwell Siren from the series Celebrity Blonde, 2001, performance © Joy Gregory
#FLODown: Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major retrospective of British artist Joy Gregory, a leading figure in experimental photography since the 1980s. Known for addressing race, gender, identity, and diaspora, Gregory’s work spans analogue and digital photography, installation, performance, and textiles. Using beauty and visual allure, her pieces draw on her own Jamaican-British experience. The exhibition features key series such as Objects of Beauty, Memory & Skin, and The Blonde, as well as a new commission exploring connections between indigenous Kalahari communities and Afro-Caribbean histories.
Date: 8 October 2025 – 11 January 2026. Location: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. Price: TBC. whitechapelgallery.org
Teodora Axente: From Horizon of the Matter, Rises the Vertical of the Soul
Teodora Axent, portrait with white lace on the head, 2022 oil on panel. 42x30cm. Copyright The Artist
#FLODown: Gallery Rosenfeld presents From Horizon of the Matter, Rises the Vertical of the Soul, a solo exhibition by Romanian artist Teodora Axente. Known for her metamorphic figures that merge the material and spiritual realms, Axente’s new works, drawing on the Dutch Golden Age, Early Renaissance, and Sienese School, explore transformation, decay, and moral fragility through atmospheric portraiture, still lifes, and large-scale canvases. Her surreal hybrids reference religious iconography and symbolic objects, questioning spiritual and societal decline. The exhibition precedes Axente’s first major institutional solo show, Metamorfosi del Sacro, at Siena’s Santa Maria della Scala Museum in November 2025.
Date: 22 September – 24 October 2025. Location: gallery rosenfeld, 37 Rathbone Street, London W1T 1NZ. Price: Free. galleryrosenfeld.com
Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons
Rachel Jones, Gated Canyons, 2024, courtesy the artist. Photography by Eva Herzog
#FLODown: Frieze Week will be the final chance to see Gated Canyons, the first-ever solo exhibition by a contemporary artist in the main galleries of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Featuring new commissions alongside key works from the past seven years, the show highlights Rachel Jones’ vibrant use of colour, abstract forms and recurring motifs, particularly the mouth, to explore identity, emotion and symbolic landscapes. Responding to Pieter Boel’s Head of a Hound from the Gallery’s collection, Jones also introduces elements such as bricks and exposed linen, expanding her distinctive layered style across four thematically curated rooms.
Date: 10 June – 19 October 2025. Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD. Price: £12 (standard), £10 (concessions), free for under-18s. Book now
Betty Ogun: LOVE/FIGHT
Betty Ogundipe, Untitled (2022), Copyright the artist, Courtesy of Tache Gallery.
#FLODown: LOVE/FIGHT, the debut solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Betty at Tache Gallery, brings together paintings, photography, textiles, sculpture, and video. The show explores Black womanhood through militant and new wave feminisms, transforming struggle into expressions of strength, empowerment, and community. Highlights include the diptych Enjoy and Cheerleader, which deconstruct the cheerleader image, alongside the Fight series and intimate portraits such as Thinking and Mother and Baby Unit. Recurring checkerboard motifs in her textiles reflect life’s strategic nature and reinforce Betty’s figurative storytelling and incisive social commentary.
Date: 18 September – 23 October 2025. Location: Tache Gallery, 33 Percy Street, London W1T 2DF. tachegallery.com
A Grand Chorus: The Power of Music
Mikhail Karikis - We are Together Because - Film still
#FLODown: A Grand Chorus: The Power of Music, opening at the Foundling Museum, explores the transformative impact of music through Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. The exhibition brings together three centuries of scores, instruments, artworks, recordings, and film, tracing the piece’s origins, global reach, and role in supporting the Foundling Hospital. It features the UK premiere of Mikhail Karikis’s installation We Are Together Because… (2025), created with young musicians from Lisbon, alongside stories of Foundlings whose lives were shaped by music. A programme of live performances and events highlights music’s power to inspire hope, courage, and unity.
Date: 2 October 2025 – 29 March 2026. Location: Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ. Price: from £14.50. Concessions available. Book now
Quantum Untangled
Quantum Untangled will open at Science Gallery London, exploring the possibilities of the quantum world in October.
#FLODown: Quantum Untangled will open at Science Gallery London in October, exploring the mysteries and possibilities of the quantum world through installations, interactive artworks, poetry, film, and research from King’s Quantum. The exhibition will bring together artists, physicists, philosophers, and poets to examine how quantum science could transform our future. Highlights will include major sculptural works by Conrad Shawcross RA, playful installations such as Quantum Jungle by Robin Baumgarten, and poetic contributions from Chandrika Narayan-Mohan. Presented during the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, Quantum Untangled is adapted from Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe, a touring show from Lakeside Arts and ARTlab at the University of Nottingham.
Date: 8 October 2025 – 28 February 2026. Location: Science Gallery London, Guy’s Campus, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9GU. Price: Free (no booking required). london.sciencegallery.com
