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City Guide London – Fall ’25

Jump to: Museum Headliners Mayfair and St James Marylebone & Fitzrovia Bloomsbury Islington Bermondsey Notting Hill

London never slows down – and this autumn, its contemporary art scene is brighter, bolder, and more unmissable than ever.

FALL IS FOR FRIEZE

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City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
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Kerry James Marshall | Royal Academy

Kerry James Marshall’s powerful paintings reclaim Black presence in the canon of art history with striking beauty and unapologetic intent.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Emily Kam Kngwarray | Tate Modern

Hailing from the Northern Territory of Australia, Emily Kam Kngwarray is an Aboriginal artist whose vast canvases and vibrant batiks illustrate the expanse of her home’s landscapes.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Máret Ánne Sara | Tate Modern (Turbine Hall)

Máret Ánne Sara is a Sámi artist – part of the community of indigenous people of the northern regions of Scandinavia. Her installation in the Turbine Hall sheds light on her experience and interactions with the land, waters, and ecosystems in her homeland.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Lee Miller | Tate Britain

American photographer and photojournalist Lee Miller is often celebrated as one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. Through 250 vintage and modern prints, including those never previously displayed, this exhibition reveals Miller’s poetic vision and fearless spirit.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Gilbert & George | Hayward Gallery

Unveiling an exciting new exhibition at Hayward Gallery, our favourite artist duo is back with a retrospective of 25 years’ worth of pictures created since the turn of the millennium.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley | Serpentine North

Confronting the polarisation of online discourse and 21st-century politics, this artist has created a “multiplayer” immersive experience in the form of a video game that invites viewers to start the difficult conversations.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Peter Doig | Serpentine South

Viewed to the soundtrack of Peter Doig’s own collection of vinyl records and cassette tapes, ‘House of Music’ brings together expansive landscapes typical of the artist’s style as a multisensory experience.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Lucy Raven | Barbican

Using aerial and underwater camera imaging, Lucy Raven captures a landscape in flux, following the immense release of water as it carves its own path from a dam for the first time in over 100 years.

Art Fix tip: Also at the Barbican, Mona Hatoum’s work is in conversation with Alberto Giacometti in the exhibition ‘Encounters’.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Encounters | Barbican

Also at the Barbican, Mona Hatoum’s work is in conversation with Alberto Giacometti in the exhibition ‘Encounters’.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Ryan Gander | Camden Art Projects

Peppered with recent creation, sculptures, animatronics, and installations, this exhibition establishes a dialogue that confronts consumerism and society’s ongoing obsession with the accumulation of “stuff”.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Howard Hodgkin | Pitzhanger Manor

One of the most celebrated contemporary painters to come out of England, Howard Hodgkin’s works are immediately recognizable from his masterful use of bright colour, brushstrokes, and abstraction.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Wayne Thiebaud | The Courtauld

Wayne Thiebaud made his name in the US in the early 60s, with vibrant and lushly painted still-lifes of quintessentially post-war American subjects, from diner food and deli counters to gumball dispensers and pinball machines.

MAYFAIR AND ST JAMES

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Sonia Gomes | Pace

Sonia Gomes combines secondhand textiles with everyday materials, such as furniture, driftwood, and wire, to create abstract sculptures that reclaim Afro-Brazilian traditions and feminized modes of artmaking from the margins of history.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Nicholas Party | Hauser & Wirth

Pastel treescapes and portraits dot the walls of Hauser & Wirth this season – incorporating architectural interventions and extending the rich electric blue palette of his paintings across the gallery’s walls.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Christina Iglesias | Hauser & Wirth

Immersive bronze sculptures – rock-like, porous, half-formed and pierced by trickling water, evoke a powerful dialogue between earth, time, and hidden spaces.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Sabine Moritz | Pilar Corrias

These paintings pull you into a dreamlike blend of abstraction and figuration, where luminous colour-fields pulse with memory, and emerging female figures seem to materialise from the paint itself.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Matthias Weischer | GRIMM

Unveiling a brand new gallery space in St James, GRIMM is celebrating with a solo exhibition by German painter Matthias Weischer – hushed, staged interiors with an uncanny stillness.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Christopher Wool | Gagosian

Over fifty recent works – on paper, sculpture, and print – that play with abstraction, repetition, erasure and unexpected colour, revealing how process itself becomes subject.

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Tom Sachs | Thaddaeus Ropac

  • Until 20 Dec ‘25
  • 37 Dover Street
  • ropac.net

Tom Sachs unveils a bricolage of ceramics – mezcal copitas, cortado cups, cereal and soup bowls, and ancient Japanese chawan. Don’t forget to get an espresso from the Mezcaleria, a working coffee and mezcal bar.

City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
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Eva Helene Pade | Thaddaeus Ropac

  • Until 22 Nov ‘25
  • 37 Dover Street
  • ropac.net

Danish artist Eva Helene Pade reclaims the form of the female nude and transforms it into something darker – depicting ritual and community with a sinister twist.

City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
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Pascale Marthine Tayou | Robilant+Voena

Pascale Marthine Tayou’s work bursts with color and cultural collage: sculptures, paintings and installations composed of found objects and African ephemera to explore colonial histories, identity and everyday magic in the ordinary.

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City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
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Danielle Mckinney | Max Hetzler

Danielle McKinney’s paintings reveal a quiet power; her black-canvas interiors illuminate moments of human transformation, where figures suspended between action and stillness embrace renewal in the glow of soft, surreal intimacy.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Picasso Pistoletto | Helly Nahmad

Michelangelo Pistoletto, pioneer of Arte Povera, presents new iconic Mirror Paintings in direct dialogue with the Cubist works of Pablo Picasso.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Andreas Gursky | White Cube

Andreas Gursky captures contemporary culture and time itself, from backstage concert moments to glaciers transformed by climate change.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

DINNER: Marjorie’s

Modern French cuisine, excellent wines & Soho charm.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

DINNER: The Dover

New York style dining in Mayfair in an unrelentingly gorgeous room.

MARYLEBONE & FITZROVIA

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Hugh Hayden | Lisson Gallery

Texan-born Hugh Hayden uses familiar cultural symbols to tell allegories of community, rupture, and belief. All his sculptures are crafted from trees through a series of techniques like felling, milling, carving, and lamination.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Ibrahim Mahama | Ibraaz

The opening show of Ibraaz, Parliament of Ghosts by Ibrahim Mahama, transforms repurposed colonial furniture, jute sacks, and handmade cushions by Zulaiha Collective into a haunting stage for Ghana’s post-independence story — a space where power and history meet the present.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

DINNER: Nina

At Nina, don’t expect a view of the Amalfi Coast. Do expect pasta, leopard print and industrial chic – Italian food in a clubby atmosphere.

BLOOMSBURY

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Christopher Williams | The Perimeter

Centred around a reading of The Perimeter’s collection, Williams presents a selection of subject matter spanning his conceptual practice, including hand painted signs, photographs, films, a radio play, catalogue and open letter.⁠

ISLINGTON

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami | Victoria Miro

Hwami’s paintings explore fluidity of self and history, blending Zimbabwean and South African roots with contemporary Black and Queer experiences in a vivid exploration of imagination and freedom.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

DINNER: Trullo

This spot offers a simple, seasonally focused, Italian inspired menu that changes daily.

BERMONDSEY

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Cai Guo-Qiang | White Cube

Chinese artist Cai Gui-Qiang made his name with his famous ‘gunpowder drawings’, drawing from his experiences growing up in the midst of the Cultural Revolution – when gunpowder was used both as celebratory firecrackers and as a violent means to oppression, in the form of cannon blasts.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Kristian Evju | Kristin Hjellegjerde

Kristian Evju’s Hinterlands beckons you into a dream-museum of ‘historical fiction’ – drawing on archival materials and crumbling ruins as settings for imagined narratives.

NOTTING HILL

City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
City Guide London – Fall ’25
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Atelier Van Lieshout | Carpenters Workshop Gallery

Look familiar? In the gardens of Ladbroke Hall, AVL’s larger-than-life sculptures have an imposing presence – be they brutalist monkeys or Petite Princesses.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

ART FIX tip: Head to our interview with Joep van Lieshout to learn more about his work, La Petite Princesse.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

Rick Owens | Carpenters Workshop Gallery

With ‘Rust Never Sleeps’, fashion designer Rick Owens takes on furniture – using erosion as a visual language to explore ‘creative resistance’.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

ART FIX TIP: Book a table at Pollini in Ladbroke Hall, and explore the Carpenters Workshop gallery — open Thu–Sat until 20.00 — and Atelier van Lieshout’s sculptures in the garden, between courses.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

DINNER: Straker’s

Shared dining in a cosy, buzzy atmosphere. Don’t skip the flatbread starters.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

DINNER: Acre

Simple, quality cooking, using ingredients in their seasonal prime.

City Guide London – Fall ’25

DINNER: Chez Lui

A charming Parisian-style bistro in Notting Hill that’s all low lighting and successful dates.

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