Art exhibitions opening in London this October 2025
October is the month for art in London, thanks to Frieze and several other art fairs taking place across the city. There will be a significant programme of shows across the capital’s galleries and institutions. Notable openings include Cosima von Bonin’s Upstairs Downstairs at Raven Row, examining 35 years of work through objects, characters, and early pieces unseen for more than a decade; Wolfgang Tillmans’ Build From Here at Maureen Paley, inaugurating the gallery’s new 4 Herald Street space; and Arthur Jafa’s first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ. Below is our guide to art exhibitions opening in London in October that should be on your radar.
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Cosima von Bonin: Upstairs Downstairs
Cosima von Bonin, The Bonin / Oswald Empireʼs Nothing # 06 (CvBʼs Exhausted Tweed Rabbit & Purple Crab On Pink Table & MvOʼs Exhausted Tweed), 2010. Courtesy Kunsthaus Bregenz. Image credit Markus Tretter
#FLODown: Upstairs Downstairs at Raven Row presents a selection of works by Cosima von Bonincreated over the past 35 years. Although widely recognised internationally, this marks her first exhibition in London. Von Bonin first gained attention in Cologne during the 1990s, working alongside artists who distanced themselves from the commercial art scene, producing works embedded in social interaction, performance and events. The exhibition features early pieces unseen for over a decade, which frame the world as a stage or explore themes of liberation and escape. The display includes objects and characters inspired by cartoons and childhood imagination, alongside more recent works that invite viewers to reflect playfully on feelings and desires.
Date: 9 October - 14 December 2025. Location: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS. Price: Free. ravenrow.org
Arthur Jafa: GLAS NEGUS SUPREME
![Arthur Jafa RISING SON, 2025 [Detail] © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9534c4af4683461d462c6b/d9bdf0a6-e03e-4e23-9379-9607defd4d59/Arthur+Jafa+RISING+SON%2C+2025+%5BDetail%5D+%C2%A9+Arthur+Jafa.+Courtesy+the+Artist+and+Sadie+Coles+HQ.)
Arthur Jafa RISING SON, 2025 [Detail] © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ
#FLODown: Arthur Jafa brings GLAS NEGUS SUPREME to Sadie Coles HQ, marking his first exhibition at the Kingly Street gallery. Renowned as a filmmaker, artist, and cultural theorist over the past four decades, Jafa has forged a path that captures, celebrates, and challenges perceptions of Black life. This exhibition presents two major new moving image works alongside paintings, silkscreens, and cutouts, offering a vibrant and uncompromising exploration of visual storytelling and representation.
Date: 10 October - 29 November 2025. Location: Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London W1B 5PW. Price: Free. sadiecoles.com
A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle
Mrinalini Mukherjee, Jauba, 2000. Hemp fibre and steel, 143 x 133 x 110 cm approx. Tate: Presented by Amrita Jhaveri 2013. Photo: © Tate. Courtesy of Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation.
#FLODown: The Royal Academy of Arts will present, a major exhibition celebrating the life, work and legacy of Mrinalini Mukherjee, one of India’s most pioneering artists. Bringing together around 100 works spanning more than a century, the show will explore her practice in dialogue with her mentors, peers, friends and family, highlighting the vibrant networks of creativity that shaped modern and contemporary South Asian art. Featuring sculpture, painting, textiles, ceramics, printmaking and drawing, the exhibition will trace connections between key institutions such as Santiniketan, Baroda and New Delhi’s Garhi Studios, while also presenting international loans of works by artists including KG Subramanyan, Jagdish Swaminathan, and Nilima and Gulammohammed Sheikh.
Date: 31 October 2025 – 24 February 2026. Location: The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD. Price: From £17; concessions available; under 16s free; Friends of the RA free. 25 & Under: half-price tickets for 16–25 year olds (T&Cs apply). Book now
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
Wolfgang Tillmans: Build From Here
Wolfgang Tillmans, studio light, 2006
#FLODown: Build From Here, an exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans opening at Maureen Paley, marks the artist’s eleventh show with the gallery and inaugurates the new 4 Herald Street space. This location, formerly part of Tillmans’s London studio, holds personal significance for both the artist and the gallery. Tillmans, who moved his primary production to Berlin in 2011, presents a new body of work that includes photographic pieces made with and without the camera, new photocopy works, and two recent video pieces first shown in Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in summer 2025.
Date: 3 October - 20 December 2025. Location: Maureen Paley, 4 Herald St London E2 6JT; 60 Three Colts Lane & Studio M, London E2 7EJ. Price: Free. maureenpaley
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
Leighton House 100 years anniversary exhibitions
The Arab Hall at Leighton House ®RBKC. Image Siobhan Doran
#FLODown: Marking its centenary, Leighton House will unveil a special anniversary exhibition programme from 11 October 2025. The celebrations feature three distinct shows: Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton’s Lost Collection, a new commission by paper artist Annemarieke Kloosterhof, who has meticulously recreated four of Leighton’s missing treasures, including a 15th-century shrine composed of over 8,000 paper pieces; Leighton House: A Journey Through 100 Years, tracing the museum’s evolution with rare archival material and photographs; and The View from Here, presenting innovative works by emerging artists from the Middle East and North Africa that explore themes of heritage and identity through assemblage and collage.
Date: 11 October 2025 - 1 March 2026. Location: Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Rd, London W14 8LZ. Price: from £14. Concessions available. Book now
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
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien: Mémoires des corps
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien, L'être, l'autre et l'entre, 2023. Installation view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Photo: Aurélien Mole, courtesy the artist
#FLODown: The first UK solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien, Mémoires des corps [embodied memories], will open at Gasworks. Combining textile, drawing, sculpture, video-performance and installation, the exhibition reflects on the traumas experienced by women from former French colonies and their generational echoes. Drawing on her Creole heritage and traditional craft techniques, Marie-Claire uses diverse materials, shells, metals, fabrics and everyday objects, to create symbolic maps of plural identities. Conceived as an altar of healing and restoration, Mémoires des corps offers a space for remembering, resisting taboos around female sexuality and reproduction, and reimagining collective memory, accompanied by participatory performances incorporating poetry, movement and sound.
Date: 2 October – 14 December 2025. Location: Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London, SE11 5RH. Price: Free. gasworks.org.uk
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
Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textile Designs
‘Malindi’ furnishing fabric, designed by Gwenfred Jarvis for Liberty, 1959. Image courtesy of William Morris Gallery
#FLODown: Women in Print at the William Morris Gallery celebrates the vital role of women designers in shaping Liberty’s fabrics. Conceived in partnership with Liberty to mark the design house’s anniversary, the exhibition traces 150 years of innovation and influence, showcasing how women’s contributions have defined the legacy of Liberty prints. Featuring works by Jessie M King, Sonia Delaunay, Lucienne Day and Althea McNish, the display highlights the historical importance of these designs and their continuing relevance in contemporary fashion and textiles.
Date: 18 October 2025 - 21 June 2026. Location: William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow, London E17 4PP. Price: Free. Suggested donation of £5. wmgallery.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
Morgan Quaintance: Available Light
Morgan Quaintance, Convenience, (2024), 35mm colour photograph. Image courtesy of the artist
#FLODown: Available Light is the debut solo London exhibition by artist and writer Morgan Quaintance, which examines notions of home, alienation, displacement and intrusion through photography, text, documentation and archival material. Drawing on his travels in Japan, the works present images of domestic and urban life interwoven with cultural references such as Harold Pinter’s dramas, Kenzaburō Ōe’s novella Shiiku and the story of American con artist David Hampton. Marking a shift from his award-winning moving-image practice, the exhibition creates a dialogue between still images and cultural memory.
Date: 10 October – 12 December 2025. Location: Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU. Price: Free. arts.ac.uk
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
Dana Schutz: One Big Animal
Dana Schutz, Dog Walker, 2025 © Dana Schutz. Photo: Kerry McFate
#FLODown: The second solo exhibition of Dana Schutz: One Big Animal at Thomas Dane Gallery follows her recent major survey shows across Europe. Widely regarded as one of the most important painters of her generation, Schutz is known for combining the tradition of history painting with imagined and often absurd scenarios. Her works explore the full range of human emotions, from joy and humour to anxiety and despair, expressed through both painting and sculpture. For this exhibition, she presents a new series of paintings across the gallery’s two London spaces, three new bronze sculptures, and a suite of five previously unseen dry point etchings.
Date: 14 October - 20 December 2025. Location: Thomas Dane Gallery, 3 and 11 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BN. Price: Free. thomasdanegallery.com
Nordic noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma
The Old Fisherman, 1897, Edvard Munch © The Trustees of the British Museum
#FLODown: Nordic noir at the British Museum, bringing together around 150 works by 100 artists to showcase one of the most significant collections of Nordic graphic art outside the region. The exhibition spans from Edvard Munch’s pioneering woodcuts to contemporary works by artists including Mamma Andersson, Olafur Eliasson, John Savio and Fatima Moallim. Developed through a five-year collecting strategy supported by the AKO Foundation, it explores themes such as nature, environmental preservation, Norse myth, mental health, post-war angst, feminism and Sámi rights, while questioning the very idea of what defines Nordic art. Following a chronological narrative, the display highlights how Nordic artists have expanded Munch’s legacy of emotional intensity and inventiveness across prints and drawings from 1945 to today.
Date: 9 October 2025 – 22 March 2026. Location: The British Museum, Room 90, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG. Price: Free. britishmuseum.org
Shaqúelle Whyte: Winter Remembers April
Mona Hatoum, Orbital, 2018 © Mona Hatoum. Credit: Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)
#FLODown: The second solo exhibition of Shaqúelle Whyte: Winter Remembers April at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presents a new series of large scale paintings that pay tribute to the artist’s musical influences, including The Beatles, Boris Gardiner and Gil Scott Heron. The exhibition’s title refers to Wynton Marsalis’ interpretation of the jazz standard I’ll Remember April. Whyte’s practice reflects on the figure of the Black male body and the social perceptions surrounding masculinity, suggesting that the struggles of the Black artist remain continuous since the civil rights movement. In this latest body of work, he deepens these explorations while weaving in references to theatre and art history.
Date: 10 October - 8 November 2025. Location: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, 6 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BT. Price: Free. houldsworth.co.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
Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
![Image credit: Tanoa Sasraku, Morale Patch [detail], 2025. Found object (acrylic and crude oil).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9534c4af4683461d462c6b/4ee3c4fb-19f9-494b-b4f5-ed9305c3db5d/Image+credit%3A+Tanoa+Sasraku%2C+Morale+Patch+%5Bdetail%5D%2C+2025.+Found+object+%28acrylic+and+crude+oil%29.)
Tanoa Sasraku, Morale Patch [detail], 2025. Found object (acrylic and crude oil).
#FLODown: Tanoa Sasraku’s solo exhibition Morale Patch opens at the ICA, presenting process-driven works on paper, sculpture, and found objects. In these pieces, Sasraku explores the symbolic and political weight of oil, tracing its ties to war, national identity, and memory. Emblems and mementoes recur throughout, acting as motifs in a meditation on seduction, destruction, and the fabrication 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
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
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
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