Exhibitions in London.
Art, photography, and cultural exhibitions currently on view in London.
57 events currently running
CONTEMPORARY
Gathering Ground
Exhibition exploring art's power to inspire change in ecological crisis, bringing together works addressing environmental and social justice from across Tate's Collection.
SCULPTURE
Concrete and Clay
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
EXHIBITIONS
American Photographs
In 1938, Walker Evans published American Photographs, capturing a country in flux. This display uses his title to examine how photography has documented and shaped the United States.
DESIGN
Future Observatory: Tools for Transition
Four UK research projects demonstrate design-led solutions for housing, healthcare, planning and resource management in the green transition.
EXHIBITIONS
Lasting Impressions: Women Printmakers 1900 Now
Printmaking exhibition at V&A South Kensington featuring works by female artists from 1900 to the present day.
CONTEMPORARY
Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts
Contemporary Chinese studio crafts exhibition at V&A South Kensington showcasing ceramics, textiles, and wood carving from modern makers across dimensions of form and function.
EXHIBITIONS
John Constable and David Lucas: A Unison of Feeling
Print retrospective pairing John Constable's landscape paintings with David Lucas's engravings, exploring their artistic collaboration at V&A South Kensington.
DESIGN
Wes Anderson: The Archives
Retrospective exhibition of Wes Anderson's cinematic archives featuring over 700 objects including storyboards, puppets, costumes and miniature models across his three-decade career.
DESIGN
Future Observatory: The Stone Demonstrator
Low-carbon stone construction prototype demonstrating pre-tensioned building techniques to reduce emissions by up to 90% compared to conventional materials.
EXHIBITIONS
Adobe Creative Residents On Display
A collection of works from the second cohort of Adobe Creative Residents
CONTEMPORARY
Lynda Benglis
Works by contemporary artist Lynda Benglis and 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are displayed together for the first time in this major new exhibition, the third in Encounters: Giacometti.
EXHIBITIONS
Julia Phillips
For her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, the multidisciplinary artist presents new works which draw from her interest in the body, conception, and human connection.
SCULPTURE
origo
A new commission takes root in our Sculpture Court, as Delcy Morelos explores our relationship to the planet with a site-specific installation made of soil, clay and fragrant spices.
EXHIBITIONS
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life
DESIGN
PLATFORM: Simone Brewster
Simone Brewster's multidisciplinary practice spans sculptural forms, jewellery and furniture exploring material histories and cultural narratives across four thematic sections.
EXHIBITIONS
Beatriz González
The first UK retrospective of the groundbreaking Colombian artist, whose bold work explores the power and impact of the images we encounter every day.
PAINTING
Tracey Emin
Landmark retrospective of Tracey Emin's 40-year practice across painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture and installation.
EXHIBITIONS
Photopoetry
Photopoetry exhibition at V&A South Kensington combining photography with literary texts to examine the relationship between image and written word.
EXHIBITIONS
Hurvin Anderson
Hurvin Anderson's first major solo exhibition features over 80 vibrant paintings spanning his career, exploring identity, diaspora and cultural heritage through colour-drenched landscapes and interiors.
EXHIBITIONS
The Coming of Age
Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.
EXHIBITIONS
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
"For me, dress designing is not a profession but an art." Elsa Schiaparelli
EXHIBITIONS
1996: 30 years on
Relive the 90s in all its iconic glory: music, fashion, football and the faces that made Cool Britannia cool.
EXHIBITIONS
BSL Interpreted Tours of The Coming of Age
Discover more about our exhibition ‘The Coming of Age’ on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.
CONTEMPORARY
Urushi Now: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer
Contemporary Japanese lacquer works at V&A South Kensington featuring Urushi technique across vessels, panels, and sculptural forms by living artists.
EXHIBITIONS
False Idol: Sian Fan
Sian Fan presents suspended garments, sound, and live performance exploring spirituality in gaming and popular culture mythology.
DESIGN
NIGO: From Japan with Love
NIGO retrospective charting the Japanese designer's 30-year career across fashion, music and architecture, featuring over 700 objects from his personal collection.
DESIGN
Designer Maker User
Free permanent collection display examining modern design through the interconnected roles of designer, maker and user, featuring almost 1000 twentieth and twenty-first century objects.
SCIENCE
Space
Space gallery features Apollo 10 and Soyuz spacecraft displayed together, rocket engines, Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 headset, Helen Sharman's spacesuit and moon rocks from Apollo 15.
DESIGN
Dwellings, Rehomed
Seventeen birdhouses by London designers explore human empathy with other species through functional to poetic responses to reimagining the humble birdhouse.
SCIENCE
Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries
Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries displays over 3,000 medical artefacts spanning 500 years, including Fleming's penicillin mould and the world's first MRI scanner.
SCIENCE
Science City 1550-1800: The Linbury Gallery
London's transformation from 1550 to 1800 through scientific discovery, featuring iconic collections from the Science Museum, King George III, and the Royal Society.
DESIGN
Fables for our Time
Triptych display examining humanity's relationship with nature through folktales and emoji, exploring bee, coral and mushroom ecosystems.
EXHIBITIONS
Relaxed Openings of The Coming of Age
Join us for a calm and friendly opening of 'The Coming of Age' exhibition, with additional support and facilities.
SCULPTURE
Zineb Sedira
British-French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira creates a site-specific installation for the Duveen Galleries exploring memory, migration and displacement.
CONTEMPORARY
Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific
A landmark collaboration between the V&A and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane.
EXHIBITIONS
James McNeill Whistler
Retrospective of rule-breaking American artist James McNeill Whistler, featuring paintings, portraits, drawings, prints and designs from across his career.
EXHIBITIONS
In Other Worlds
Our new immersive exhibition invites you to step into the future.
EXHIBITIONS
Tenderness and Rage
Discover our new display on HIV and AIDS that brings together Gideon Mendel’s photographs and stories from activists worldwide to explore care, stigma and the fight for treatment.
EXHIBITIONS
Project a Black Planet: Exhibition
Explore the impact of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present, through over 300 works – from paintings and installations to posters, journals, and film.
CONTEMPORARY
Julio Le Parc
Julio Le Parc's kinetic sculptures, op art paintings and interactive installations span his career from the 1950s to 2010s.
CONTEMPORARY
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Frida Kahlo exhibition featuring over 30 iconic works, garments, jewellery and 200 contemporary artworks exploring her life, legacy and commercial icon status.
EXHIBITIONS
Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions
Explore Audrey Amiss’s life as both an artist and campaigner, and how she used her work to speak out against harmful treatment within the mental health system.
EXHIBITIONS
Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care Spaces of Grief and Possibility
Rudy Loewe’s new exhibition explores the lived experience of Black people whose mental healthcare is shaped by racism, and reimagines an equitable mental healthcare system.
CONTEMPORARY
Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta's iconic works including the Silueta Series, newly remastered films, early paintings and late sculptural pieces, many unseen in the UK.
EXHIBITIONS
The 90s
Exhibition exploring British creativity and culture of the 1990s, guest curated by fashion industry figure Edward Enninful.
SCULPTURE
Tarek Atoui
Tarek Atoui creates a site-specific installation in the Turbine Hall exploring sound, instrumentation and multisensory environments.
CONTEMPORARY
Light and Magic
Pictorialism, the first international art photography movement, developed across the world from the 1880s to the 1960s.
EXHIBITIONS
Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant
Major exhibition of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, exploring their fifty-year creative partnership and legacy within the Bloomsbury Group.
PAINTING
Monet: Painting Time
Claude Monet exhibition exploring the artist's relationship with time through paintings from global lenders including rarely seen works from private collections.
SCULPTURE
Sonia Boyce
Survey of Sonia Boyce's forty-year career across installations, photography, collage, drawing, film and sculpture.
EXHIBITIONS
Thomas Gainsborough
A survey of Thomas Gainsborough's 120 paintings and drawings marking the 300th anniversary of his birth and his influence on British art.
CONTEMPORARY
Baya
Algerian artist Baya's first UK solo exhibition features over 100 gouache watercolours and ceramic sculptures from her 20th-century practice.
CONTEMPORARY
Nalini Malani
Survey of six decades of work by contemporary artist Nalini Malani, featuring monumental installations, video works, animations and newly commissioned pieces.
SCULPTURE
Lynda Benglis
Lynda Benglis retrospective featuring over 50 works across video, photography, sculpture and installation from the late 1960s to present.
PAINTING
David Hockney
Over 200 works spanning seven decades of David Hockney's art, exploring love, friendship and human connection across painting, drawing, printmaking and digital media.
CONTEMPORARY
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch's soul paintings explored through cinema and visual storytelling, featuring works from The Frieze of Life and experimental film.
EXHIBITIONS
The Tudors
Around 150 Tudor works including paintings, miniatures, sculptures and decorative art by Holbein, Hilliard and Oliver.