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City Guide London – Spring ’25

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With London’s art scene in full swing, it’s time to dive into a cultural feast that’s as exciting as it is eclectic.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Not sure where to begin? No worries, art lovers! We’ve got the ultimate city guide, complete with must-see exhibits and the latest food hotspots—so grab your cuppa and savour each art fix like a perfectly buttered scone. Here’s what’s on in London this season.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Explore London like a local this spring with Art Fix’s exclusive map — your guide to uncovering the city’s best art spots and hidden treasures!

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Hayward Gallery | Mickalene Thomas

Celebrating two decades of Mickalene Thomas’ bold and vibrant work, this exhibition explores how she reclaims art history through dazzling portraits of Black women. Blending painting, collage, and rhinestones, Thomas bridges past and present, creating powerful images of beauty, confidence, and desire – all inspired by the words of bell hooks.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Hayward Gallery | Linder

From 1970s punk photomontages to groundbreaking digital works, this exhibition spans Linder’s radical career across montage, photography, performance, and sculpture. With a scalpel in hand, she dissects shifting ideals of beauty, desire, and consumerism, pushing the boundaries of image-making and representation.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Hayward Gallery | Bharti Kher

Bharti Kher’s installation playfully sprawls across the Hayward Gallery’s facade. Like a giant cosmic sticker bomb of vibrant bindis, her work blends tradition with a wink of modern mischief in the heart of London.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Tate Modern | Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall’s light art is like walking through giant beams of magic, where light and mist come together to create mesmerizing shapes you can actually step inside. It’s part laser show, part shadow play—perfect for those who love to explore art that’s as fun as it is mind-bending!

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Tate Modern | Do Ho Suh

Get excited! Starting this spring, you’ll be able to step into a dreamlike world of transparent corridors and glowing interiors as Do Ho Suh turns memory and home into breathtaking fabric sculptures.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Tate Modern | Electric Dreams

Diving into the world of artists from the 1950s to the dawn of the internet, this exhibition explores how they used emerging technologies, like electronics, light, and code, to create innovative art that bridged aesthetics and science while shaping the foundations of today’s digital age.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Tate Britain | The 80s, Photographing Britain 

Step into the raw energy of 1980s Britain, where photographers turned their lenses into tools for protest and change. From race uprisings to the AIDS crisis, this exhibition captures the voices of activists, artists, and communities fighting to be seen. Get up close to bold, radical images that shaped history—spotlighting the Black arts movement, queer life, feminist collectives, and more. It’s a deep dive into the power of photography, where every frame tells a story of resistance, resilience, and revolution.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Royal Academy | Brasil! Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism 

Whizzing through the 130 works of ten important Brazilian artists from the 20th century, this exhibition is a special look into the rarely-before-seen private collections of the country.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Serpentine North Gallery | Arpita Singh 

Arpita Singh’s paintings explode with color and hidden stories, blending myth, history, and personal memory.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Serpentine South Gallery | Giuseppe Penone 

Nature takes center stage as Giuseppe Penone sculpts trees, roots, and organic forms into artworks that make you question where the body ends and the forest begins.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Barbican | Noah Davis

Noah Davis, who passed away at 32, created figurative paintings that capture the rich spectrum of Black life, blending realism and dreamlike scenes that celebrate joy, melancholy, and humanity—an artistic legacy that lives on through his co-founding of The Underground Museum.

GALLERIES

MAYFAIR & ST JAMES’S

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Perrotin | JR

Celebrating the opening of a brand new location of Emmanuel Perrotin’s blue-chip galleries, Art Fix fave JR will be unveiling new works from the ‘Children of Ouranos’ series.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Gagosian | Japanese Art History À La Takashi Murakami 

  • Until 29 March, ‘25
  • 20 Grosvenor Hill, London 
  • gagosian.com 

Borrowing from the collections of important Japanese museums, Takashi ‘Murakamizes’ iconic historical paintings of Japan during the Edo period.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Gagosian | Derrick Adams 

  • Until 29 Mar, ‘25
  • 17 – 19 Davies Street
  • gagosian.com 

Derrick Adams is here to remix pop culture with sharp wit and vibrant energy – expect bold colors, unexpected humor, and a fresh take on Black identity in America.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Pace | Tim Stoner

Enter the moody, cinematic world of Tim Stoner, where shadows stretch, lights flicker, and every brushstroke feels like a glimpse into an untold story

City Guide London – Spring ’25

David Zwirner | Thomas Ruff

German photographer Thomas Ruff rose to prominence in the ‘80s with his use of digital manipulation – he’s even been described as a ‘master’ of edited and reimagined images.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

David Zwirner | Rose Wylie

Rose Wylie’s massive, comic book-like canvases transform everyday moments into larger-than-life, joyfully chaotic celebrations of the absurd.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Hauser and Wirth | Mike Kelley

Evoking the subversive spirit reminiscent of the carnivalesque, these works tell the story of an eccentric set of characters in a video series.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Pilar Corrias | Sophie von Hellermann

Transforming the gallery space into a liminal fever dream straight out of Moonage Daydream, this series of paintings and sculptures seem to transcend our universe with a sense of weightlessness.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Pilar Corrias | Pierre Knop

With dreamy landscapes and characters caught between whimsy and mystery, Pierre Knop’s paintings feel like falling into a fever dream.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

GRIMM | Jonathan Wateridge

Toeing the line of familiar and uncanny, Jonathan Wateridge’s paintings of solitary figures always seem to evoke some sense of voyeur.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Thaddaeus Ropac | Ron Mueck

  • Until 2 April ‘25 
  • Ely House, London 
  • ropac.net 

Following a showstopping success at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and Voorlinden Museum in the Netherlands, this exhibition is making its way over to London – don’t miss out on the meticulous details of Ron Mueck’s genius.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

White Cube | Alia Ahmad

Saudi Arabian painter Ali Ahmad paints intuitive, expressionistic canvases drawing from the oasis of her home in Riyadh.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Thomas Dane Gallery | Ella Kruglyanskaya

For her new show the artist uses the suggestion of action, dramatic studio shadows sweep across rushing female figures, and blend with nods to evolving & obsolete technology. Witty titles add a playful twist.

MARYLEBONE

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Lisson Gallery | Oliver Lee Jackson

Lose yourself in the electrifying energy of Oliver Lee Jackson’s paintings, where figures emerge and dissolve in a dance of color and movement.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Lisson Gallery | Tunga 

The mysterious world of Brazilian artist Tunga is home to surreal sculptures, tangled materials, and cryptic symbols that make you feel like you’ve stumbled into an ancient ritual.

BLOOMSBURY

City Guide London – Spring ’25

The Perimeter | Group exhibition, ‘Ensemble’ 

Bringing together a diverse group of contemporary artists, this exhibition explores the art of staging and performance – storytelling as a collective act.

ISLINGTON

City Guide London – Spring ’25

The Approach | Germaine Kruip

Germaine Kruip’s exhibition will transform light, space, and time into meditative, ever-shifting compositions that challenge perception and presence.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Victoria Miro | Inka Essenhigh

Imbuing a sense of awakened consciousness, these blooming beauties seem to welcome you into a strange wonderland of flowers and fungi.

BERMONDSEY

City Guide London – Spring ’25

White Cube | Theaster Gates

  • Until 6 April ‘25
  • 144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
  • whitecube.com

Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates draws on Japanese philosophy as a framework to consider the role of art and aesthetics in shaping political, ideological and cultural legacies.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Kristin Hjellegjerde | Robert McNally

Hyper-detailed and wildly imaginative, Robert McNally’s drawings pull you into a world of surreal storytelling, where reality bends and lines between fiction blur.

WANDSWORTH

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Kristin Hjellegjerde | Charlie Stein

Charlie Stein is well known for her surrealistic, more-than-unsettling paintings – this series delves into the concept of intimacy, touch and agency within relationships.

COFFEE AND BITES

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Nkora coffee

  • Mayfair, Shoreditch, Cambridge Heath, St Albans, High Barnet, London Wall, Marylebone
  • nkora.co.uk

A caffeinated pick-me-up is never too far away with seven locations of this specialty coffee shop.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

It’s Bagels

What else is there to say? It’s Bagels!

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Dusty Knuckle Bakery

For a mid-morning snack, head to the Dusty Knuckle – you’ll be thinking about the sourdough and salads at this spot for days.

LUNCH AND DINNER

City Guide London – Spring ’25

abc kitchens

Designed by Rémi Tessier and featuring Damien Hirst’s art, abc kitchens at The Emory brings chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s iconic abc brand to the UK for the very first time – where taste meets art in the most delicious way!

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Little Duck The Picklery

As everyone’s on their gut health kick, a table at this tiny wine bar/restaurant is in high demand – make sure to book a spot in advance.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

The Barbary

This stylish restaurant is inspired by flavours of the countries ‘from the Atlantic Coast through to the Mediterranean Sea leading to the Middle East’.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Julie’s

This swanky spot serves delicious Modern French brasserie cooking and cocktails against the backdrop of some great artwork – a feast for you and your eyes.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

The Park

London’s biggest restauranteur, Jeremy King, has been busy – the Park is his newest buzzy restaurant, offering all-day French brasserie cooking with a modern twist.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Brutto

A casual neighbourhood trattoria serving classic Florentine dishes – under-promising, and always over-delivering.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Bubala

Taking inspiration from flavours all across the Middle East, Bubala is a great spot to end your art-filled day.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

The River Cafe

Treat yourself to a Michelin-star meal in the Italian restaurant where none other than Jamie Oliver earned his stripes as a sous-chef!

City Guide London – Spring ’25

The Hero

Nostalgic British food and cask ales for those casual evenings around town.

DRINKS

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Bar Termini

Too early for dinner? Hit up Bar Termini in Soho for London’s best aperitivo and yummy cocktails.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

The Connaught’s Red Room

This is a one stop shop for the perfect end to an art-filled day – the sensual, dreamy interior of this bar perfectly highlights artwork by female artists like Louise Bourgeois and Jenny Holzer.

City Guide London – Spring ’25

Goodbye Horses

A cosy, intimate wine bar in North London for the perfect nightcap.

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