Your guide to every gallery show in London

Thursday, September 24 · 13 shows on view at 9 galleries

Closing soon

Closes Sunday

KAWAUCHI Rinko, NARAHASHI Asako, NINAGAWA MikaJapanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now The Photographers’ Gallery, Soho

Bringing together more than 200 photographs, videos, installations and rare books by 27 artists, this landmark survey rewrites a canon long told through male voices, tracing how Japanese women transformed protest, domestic life…

Closes Sunday

James McNeill Whistler Tate Britain, South London

A truly global figure, Whistler re-wrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist.

Through Oct 3

Felicity PowellThe Studio of Felicity Powell Richard Saltoun, West End

Curated in close collaboration with Powell's widower, artist Ansel Krut, the show brings together key pieces from three decades, including previously unseen material…

Through Oct 7

Ja Jess & Andrea MarcellierBruiseless Belmacz, West End

Bruiseless is a state of collision that leaves no superficial marks on the skin.

Must see

13 shows on view

Through Oct 18

Anish Kapoor Hayward Gallery, South London

Kapoor’s exhibition fills the entire gallery building with a series of immersive works, many of which press against the gallery walls and floors or descend from the ceiling to create an uncanny sensation of awe and wonder.

Through Jun 1

NINAGAWA MikaCaptive Blooms The Photographers’ Gallery, Soho

Projected across Soho after dark and stretched along its streets by day, Captive Blooms turns goldfish, blossoms, water and city light into a saturated dreamscape poised between spectacle and the fragility of everyday life.

Through Oct 25

Jesús Rafael SotoPénétrable BBL Jaune Serpentine South Gallery, West End

Serpentine brings Soto’s kinetic practice into the park through a field of yellow PVC strands suspended from a steel grid.

Through Oct 25

LANZA atelier, Isabel Abascal, Alessandro ArienzoSerpentine Pavilion 2026: a serpentine Serpentine South Gallery, West End

LANZA atelier reimagines the English crinkle-crankle wall as a permeable brick structure built for encounter.

Through Mar 21

A Moment for Eternity Hauser & Wirth, West End

Craig Bamford (SASA Works) Akiko Hirai Richard McVetis Rosa Nguyen Jonty Sale In a presentation by Make at Hauser & Wirth London and curated by Jacqueline Moore…

Through Dec 18

Annie WhilesDoorway Guardians Matt's Gallery, South London

Doorway Guardians is a series of three large woodcarvings by Whiles.

Through Jan 3

Frida: The Making of an Icon Tate Modern, South London

Frida: The Making of an Icon will showcase over 30 of Kahlo’s most iconic works that introduce her ‘many selves’ – the dedicated wife, the intellectual, the modern artist, and the political activist.