It’s 2025—Happy New Year to you and yours! A fresh calendar brings a fresh slate for the arts: new exhibitions, rising stars, and the buzz of art fairs on the horizon. While the winter chill lingers in the January air London’s galleries promise to keep your creative spirit warm.
Here are our Five Exhibitions To See In London In January 2025, guaranteed to ignite your artistic fire and set the tone for the year ahead. As official media partners for the London Art Fair, we’re excited to offer 20% off tickets to help you kick-start your art-collecting journey and immerse yourself in the best of contemporary and modern art.
First on our list is They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, an audacious new chapter for London-based artist Lawrence Perry. Known for his mastery as a figurative painter, Perry’s latest works transform his circle of mostly young artists into spellbinding mythological tableaux vivants. Each piece balances on the edge of the tangible and the otherworldly—meticulously rendered with a precision that feels vividly real, layered with an uncanny, surreal tension a daring exploration of narrative and form.
Next, we delve into the vivid realms of digital expression with Marseille-based artist Sara Sadik at ANNKA KULTYS. Sadik presents her La Potion (EH) (2023), an elegiac video work that draws viewers into an intimate odyssey of healing. Through a poignant narrative, the artist’s avatar embarks on a search for solace—imagining constellations, wandering through a serene garden, leaping into the sea, and gliding beneath its waves. The journey unfolds as a visual poem, each moment imbued with a tender sense of calm and restoration, inviting us to reflect on the universal longing to feel whole again.
The next stop on our Five Exhibitions To See In London In January 2025 is Incitatus by English-Indian artist Tanya Ling at Lyndsey Ingram. This exhibition debuts an entirely new body of work, accompanied by an illustrated publication and an interview with Dr. Gilda Williams. Ling’s pieces respond to both her lifelong love of horses and the unique setting of the Lyndsey Ingram gallery—a converted 19th-century stable at Number 16.
The exhibition’s title, Incitatus, holds a dual meaning. In a religious context, it refers to the apostle Peter’s call to “love one another deeply,” while also evoking the action of a horse at full gallop. This fusion of themes underscores the dynamism and passion inherent in Ling’s latest work.
Next, we visit sketch , continuing its collaboration with Pearl Lam Galleries, with Paris-based Slovakian artist Michal Korman’s The Rendezvous for an Innocent Walk. This series is showcased throughout the entrance hall of the Mayfair restaurant, merging artistry with space to create a captivating dialogue.
Our final stop on our Five Exhibitions To See In London In January 2025 is Dover Street at Gazelli Art House for Lilly Fenichel’s first UK solo exhibition, Against the Grain. Fenichel’s work is imbued with a powerful spirit of rebellion and defiance—a career defined by resistance to the art market’s pressures and an unwavering commitment to her vision. Her expressive canvases, haunting drawings, and layered sculptures stand as a testament to an artist who forged her own path, embodying the bold independence that defined mid-century abstraction.
Our Five Exhibitions To See In London In January 2025
Lawrence Perry: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
LBF Contemporary is delighted to display They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, an ambitious new body of work by London-based artist Lawrence Perry. A gifted figurative painter, Perry’s works in this series stage meticulously rendered depictions of his coterie of mostly young artists into mythological tableau vivants that are at once extraordinarily realistic yet strange and surreal.
Drawing on a range of profound and coarse cultural sources—from the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan to the anarchic entertainment of Punch and Judy, and from Virginia Woolf’s time-traveling Orlando to the Biblical story of Judith beheading Holofernes—Perry reimagines familiar and foundational cultural touchstones, transforming them from mere likeness to something entirely new.
Lawrence Perry: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
10th January, 2025 – 13th February, 2025
LBF Contemporary
13 Tottenham Mews
London, UK
Comissionned by BMW Open Work, Frieze London
Sara Sadik: La Potion
ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY is pleased to present an exhibition of a single-channel video by Sara Sadik (b. 1994). This will be the Bordeaux-born, Marseille–based artist’s debut solo presentation with ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY and her first solo exhibition in London.
La Potion (EH) (2023), Sara Sadik’s elegiac work of video art commences with a narrator who introduces a new video game and like us, is looking at the ‘gameplay’ for the first time. However, this game features an avatar of himself. Stressed and anxious the avatar sets out on a walk looking for light and healing: “We will seek happiness since it does not come to us.” Like a magic drink, La Potion takes the narrator/avatar on a journey to find a way to feel better. Imagining constellations in the sky, walking through a beautiful garden, jumping towards the sea and swimming beneath the waves he feels soothed and calmed
Sara Sadik: La Potion
17th January, 2025 — 1st March, 2025
Annka Kultys Gallery
Unit 9
472 Hackney Road
London E2 9EQ
A Jet of Our Own, 2024
Oil on canvas. Signed.
180 x 130 cm (70 7/8 x 51 1/8 in)
Image courtesy of the artist and Lyndsey Ingram
Tanya Ling: Incitatus
Lyndsey Ingram is delighted to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by English-Indian artist Tanya Ling. The exhibition debuts an entirely new body of work and will be accompanied by an illustrated publication and interview by Dr Gilda Williams.
The exhibition is titled Incitatus. Ling has made work which responds to both her lifelong love of horses as well as the Lyndsey Ingram gallery at Number 16, a converted 19th century stable. The title stems from this Greek word which has dual meanings; one of which – in a religious context – means to love one another deeply according to the apostle Peter, and the other to the action of a horse at full gallop.
Tanya Ling: Incitatus
27th January, 2025 – 14th March, 2025
Lyndsey Ingram
16 Bourdon Street
London W1K 3PH
Image courtesy of Pearl Lam Galleries © Pearl Lam Galleries
Michal Korman: The Rendezvous for an Innocent Walk
In the culminating exhibition of a year-long collaboration between Hong Kong and Shanghai-
based Pearl Lam Galleries and Mayfair restaurant sketch, three brand-new paintings by Paris-based Slovakian artist Michal Korman will be showcased throughout the entrance hall of sketch from 9 January to 9 March.
This partnership has provided a platform for artworks from the gallery’s international roster to be shown in the UK, fostering cross-cultural exchange and underscoring how both food and art play a central role in creating memorable experiences and meaningful connections. The exhibition presents a series of interconnected scenes exploring French gardens and interiors associated with the legacy of Marie Antoinette, framed as though viewed from behind a French window.
Michal Korman: The Rendezvous for an Innocent Walk
9th January, 2025 – 9th March, 2025
sketch
9 Conduit St
London W1S 2XG
Lilly Fenichel: Against the Grain
Gazelli Art House will open their 2025 programme with Lilly Fenichel’s first UK solo exhibition, titled Against the Grain. Lilly Fenichel’s work is imbued with her own powerful rebel persona and defiance—a career defined by resistance to the art market’s pressures and an unwavering commitment to her vision. Her expressive canvases, haunting drawings, and layered sculptures stand as a tribute to an artist who didn’t follow trends but set her own creative path, embodying the spirit of independence that fueled mid-century abstraction.
Lilly Fenichel: Against the Grain
24th January, 2025 — 15th March, 2025
Gazelli Art House
39 Dover Street
London
W1S 4NN
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