15+ art exhibitions to see in London during London Gallery Weekend 2026
London Gallery Weekend returns from 5–7 June 2026 for its sixth edition, bringing together 120 galleries across the capital for three days of exhibitions, performances, talks and special events, highlighting the breadth, diversity and energy of London’s ever-evolving contemporary art ecosystem. From central, south and east London, with so much to see, here is our pick of art exhibitions to see during London Gallery Weekend.
Christo: Air
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Air Package on a Ceiling (Project for the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), 1968, Wood, paint, polyethylene, Mylar, twine, screws and electric light, 17 × 27 ½ × 27 ⅛ inches (43.2 > 69.9 × 68.9 cm). © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
#FLODown: At Gagosian, Christo’s practice is revisited through Air, an exhibition of works by the artist and Jeanne-Claude that brings together early studies, archival drawings, models and collages alongside rare realised works. Focusing on the theme of air and ephemerality, the presentation includes the first realisation of Air Package on a Ceiling, a suspended installation originally conceived in 1968, as well as Wrapped Automobile—Volvo, Model PV-544 (1981), shown publicly again after three decades. Together, the works trace the evolution of unrealised and realised proposals that treat space as something defined by absence, suspension and containment.
Date: 21 May - 21 August 2026. Location: Gagosian, 20 Grosvenor Hill, London, W1K 3QD. gagosian.com
Dominic Watson: Vinegar & Piss
Installation view Dominic Watson, Vinegar & Piss at The Sunday Painter. Image credit MTotoe/ FLO London
#FLODown: The Sunday Painter is showing Dominic Watson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Vinegar & Piss, a large-scale sculptural installation built as a galleon from reclaimed children’s playhouses and installed in the basement gallery. The structure appears at once fantastical and fragile, conceived as a portrait of contemporary England: a nation adrift and in decline. Inside, fragmented figures made from clay, wax, polystyrene and papier-mâché emerge from the ship’s timbers, reflecting chaos, political infighting and social unrest, while crude, cartoon-like forms and unstable materials point to a wider sense of cultural and moral regression alongside a nostalgic longing for a “golden age.”
Date: 27 May - 11 July 2026. Location: The Sunday Painter, 117-119 South Lambeth Road, London, SW8 1XA. thesundaypainter.co.uk
Dislocations: Rachel Mortlock & Harry Grundy
Installation view, Dislocations, Rachel Mortlock & Harry Grundy, New Art Projects
#FLODown: Dislocations at New Art Projects brings together Rachel Mortlock and Harry Grundy in a two-person exhibition exploring how materials carry and generate meaning through how they are used, handled and reworked. Grundy draws on inherited tools, workshop materials and machine processes to uncover personal and industrial histories embedded in making, while Mortlock uses architectural fragments and cast forms to explore memory, place and built environments. Together, their work treats objects as records of human action, where changing contexts reveal complex narratives.
Date: 24 April – 7 June 2026. Location: New Art Projects, Ground Floor, 357 City Road, London, EC1V 1LR. newartprojects.com
Keith Piper
Keith Piper, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1984
#FLODown: Keith Piper’s Red Flags at Niru Ratnam brings together work from across his career, from early BLK Art Group exhibitions in the 1980s to recent series, tracing his long engagement with race, politics and representation. A founding member of the BLK Art Group, Piper emerged in a period of social unrest and institutional exclusion, developing a practice that uses collage, text and installation to question how histories are constructed and controlled. The exhibition brings these works into dialogue, showing a sustained investigation into power, identity and the shifting meanings of political “red flags” from past to present.
Date: 5 June – 20 July 2026. Location: Niru Ratnam, 10 Tottenham St, London W1T 4RD. niruratnam.com
Unyimeabasi Udoh: No Vehicles
Unyimeabasi Udoh, No Vehicles (Siren), 2026. Aluminium sign blank, cold wax medium, pigment, and retroreflective glass beads. Diameter: 60 cm (23 1/2 in)
#FLODown: Unyimeabasi Udoh’s No Vehicles at Alma Pearl brings together sculptural road-sign works, screenprints and a site-specific installation that rework familiar signage into open-ended visual forms. Using aluminium signs, reflective materials and images of London billboards, the exhibition explores how public symbols, advertising and language shape what we see and how we interpret it. Signs feel familiar but no longer give clear instructions, encouraging closer attention to surface, meaning and context.
Date: 21 May – 4 July 2026, Location: Alma Pearl, Unit T, Reliance Wharf, London, N1 5ET. almapearl.com
Mehmet Ali Uysal: Skin
© Pi Artworks/ Mehmet Ali Uysal
#FLODown: Pi Artworks London opens its new space at Perseverance Works in Shoreditch on 5 June 2026 with Skin, a solo exhibition by Mehmet Ali Uysal, marking its move from Eastcastle Street in Fitzrovia. The exhibition presents works from Uysal’s Skin series, using sculpture and installation to treat architectural space as a flexible surface that can be stretched, compressed or disrupted, encouraging a rethinking of how built environments are experienced and perceived.
Date: 5 June – 4 July 2026. Location: Pi Artworks London, Perseverance Works, 6 Perseverance Works, 25–27 Hackney Road, Shoreditch, London E2 7NX. piartworks.com
Alvaro Barrington: 92–01 ‘In Livin Color’
#FLODown: Emalin presents 92–01 ‘In Livin Color’, a solo exhibition by Alvaro Barrington at its new Helmet Row gallery. The exhibition examines the impact of the crack cocaine epidemic on Black communities in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the cultural responses that emerged in its aftermath. Through four unique environments, Barrington highlights how fashion, music, and other creative practices became forms of expression and resilience, reframing a difficult historical period through cultural production.
Date: 6 June – 15 August 2026. Location: Emalin, Helmet Row 4-8 Helmet Row London EC1V 3QJ. emalin.co.uk
Oscar Santillán: Solaris
Installation view, Oscar Santillán, 1'111,111 (right shoe), 2025. Nike sneakers artificially aged up to a million years (7 pieces). Courtesy of the Artist and Copperfield, London.
#FLODown: Oscar Santillán’s Solaris at Copperfield presents a 35-part photographic series taken in the Atacama Desert using a custom lens made from glass melted from the desert’s own sand, producing images shaped by the very material they depict. Alongside this, works such as altered computer motherboards and artificially aged trainers extend the exhibition’s focus on “techno-geology,” where technology and natural processes are shown as deeply intertwined, from construction through to decay and return to matter.
Date: 28 May 2026 - 1 August 2026. Location: Copperfield, 6 Copperfield St, London SE1 0DY. copperfieldgallery.com
Jonathan Kelly: 37 degrees / when the gods have left
Image credit Jonathan Kelly, 37 degrees, 2026, © Jonathan Kelly, courtesy of IONE & MANN.
#FLODown: IONE & MANN presents Jonathan Kelly’s 37 degrees / when the gods have left, a new series of abstract paintings on shaped canvases, using crosses, circles, interlocking arcs and wave-like lines. The works focus on reduced form and geometry, treating painting as a spatial structure linked to natural systems, the cosmos and abstraction, moving away from symbolic imagery toward pure form and structure.
Date: 5 June - 18 July 2026. Location: I O N E & M A N N, 1st Floor, 6 Conduit Street, London W1S 2XE. ioneandmann.com
Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Zanzibar
Image courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery
#FLODown: Lubaina Himid, who is currently representing Great Britain at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, will present a new iteration of her long-term collaboration with Magda Stawarska in Zanzibar at Lisson Gallery. The exhibition revisits Zanzibar (1999–2023), combining nine diptychs by Himid with a 38-minute libretto by Stawarska. It reflects on memory and movement, loss and belonging, bringing together painting and sound with archival material, including music, voices, and radio excerpts, to trace personal and collective histories linked to Zanzibar.
Date: 4 June – 22 August 2026. Location: Lisson Gallery, Lisson Street, London NW1 5BY. lissongallery.com
Delaine Le Bas: Leap
Delaine Le Bas, Blue House, 2025, murano glass, 29 x 17.5 x 37.5 cm – 11 3/8 x 6 7/8 x 14 3/4 in© Delaine Le Bas, courtesy Berengo Studio, Murano, Italy and Maureen Paley, London. Photographer: Francesco Allegretto
#FLODown: Maureen Paley will present the first exhibition of Delaine Le Bas at the gallery, Leap, bringing together objects, textiles, costumes and installations exploring identity, movement and belonging. Featuring works including The Goddess, a sculptural figure made from handmade and found materials, alongside new Murano glass works made with Studio Berengo. Across the exhibition, Le Bas draws on Romani heritage and imagery of misrepresentation and misapprehensions of identity and culture to address exclusion and lived experience.
Date: 5 June – 13 July 2026. Location: Maureen Paley, 35 Herald St, London E2 6JT. maureenpaley.com
Helen Marten: This Weather
© Helen Marten. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Katie Morrison
#FLODown: Helen Marten’s This Weather at Sadie Coles HQ on Savile Row is a five-part film exploring stages of life, childhood, community, sexuality, interior life and loss, through a series of spoken monologues. Developed from her opera project 3 0 B l i zzard s., the work replaces a single narrative with different voices that each carry a distinct emotional tone, from care and intimacy to uncertainty and rupture. Animation by Adam Sinclair and sound by Beatrice Dillon shape the shifting mood of the piece, where personal experience and imagination sit closely together.
Date: 27 May – 12 September 2026. Location: Sadie Coles HQ, 17 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL. sadiecoles.com
Anne Imhof: Citizen
Anne Imhof, Grey Wave, 2025. Oil on canvas, 250 × 320 cm | 98 3/8 × 126 inches
#FLODown: Sprüth Magers presents a multidisciplinary body of work by Anne Imhof, featuring painting, film, sculpture, and drawing. Continuing her exploration of the body in space, visibility, and collective behaviour, the exhibition brings together large-scale Wave paintings, a four-channel film installation, crowd-barrier sculptures, and bronze reliefs. Building on recent projects, these works reflect on movement, containment, and emotional intensity, exploring how bodies navigate shared spaces and systems of visibility.
Date: 5 June – 1 August 2026. Location: Sprüth Magers, 7A Grafton Street, London W1S 4EJ. spruethmagers.com
Shaniqwa Jarvis: Only Love Will Break Your Heart
Installation view Only Love Will Break Your Heart by Shaniqwa Jarvis at Public Gallery. Image credit MTotoe/ FLO London.
#FLODown: Only Love Will Break Your Heart, is the first UK solo exhibition of Shaniqwa Jarvis at Public Gallery in London. It explores grief, memory, loss, and resilience through floral imagery and layered photographic works that treat photography as a physical, object-based medium rather than a flat image. Using mirrors, silk, and reflective surfaces, the exhibition also brings the viewer into the work, emphasising how meaning is formed through personal encounter and perception.
Date: 30 April - 7 June 2026. Location: Public Gallery, 89 – 91 Middlesex St, London E1 7DA. public.gallery
Samir Laghouati-Rashway: May god leave us poor
Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Film still from ’Night on MLK Blvd’, 27 min, 2025.
#FLODown: May god leave us poor is the first solo exhibition by Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, presented as the conclusion of his year-long Villa Albertine residency in Houston. The exhibition develops his research Slowness as a Resistance, which examines slowness as a way of resisting hyper-productivity and capitalist systems, drawing on Houston’s slab car community and DJ Screw’s slowed-down “chopped and screwed” sound practice. It includes the 27-minute film Night on MLK Blvd (2025), made from footage of nighttime slab car gatherings and edited using techniques inspired by DJ Screw’s music.
Date: 8 May – 13 June 2026. Location: Studio Chapple, 49-51 Central St, London EC1V 8AB. studiochapple.com
Sara Cwynar: Baby Blue Benzo
Sara Cwynar Baby Blue Benzo, 2024 Anamorphic video projection, digital video and 16mm film transferred to video 21 minutes, sound Overall dimensions variable
#FLODown: Sara Cwynar’s Baby Blue Benzo uses the iconic Mercedes-Benz 300SLR to explore how images shape desire, value and identity in contemporary culture. Through a large-scale video installation and accompanying photographs, the exhibition examines consumerism, advertising and visual overload, drawing connections between capitalism, aspiration and the accelerated pace of modern life.
Date: 23 April – 7 June 2026. Location: The Approach Gallery, 47 Approach Road, London E2 9LY. theapproach.co.uk
