Exhibitions To See During London Gallery Weekend: A Citywide Celebration of Contemporary Art Across 130 Galleries, Showcasing Bold Voices, New Visions, and the Cultural Pulse of London
As London’s cultural calendar hits its stride, London Gallery Weekend returns from 7 to 9 June 2025 with over 130 exhibitions citywide—from major Mayfair galleries to grassroots spaces in Peckham.
Now in its fifth edition, the free three-day event is the largest of its kind globally, offering an immersive look at the capital’s contemporary art scene. Each day highlights a different area: Central on Friday, South on Saturday, and East on Sunday.
This year’s programme features leading names like Sadie Coles HQ and Lisson Gallery, alongside newcomers such as Perrotin and smaller venues showcasing underrepresented voices. The exhibitions engage with themes including identity, climate, memory, and mythology, often through bold and experimental work.
Founded in 2021 to re-energise the art world post-pandemic, LGW has become a key date in London’s cultural calendar. It continues to build institutional partnerships and support curatorial development through new funding and grants.
Whether you’re a collector, curator or curious visitor, London Gallery Weekend offers a fresh, citywide perspective on contemporary art.
BEST SELF: Curated by Polly Morgan
Featuring Juno Calypso, Mat Collishaw, Polly Morgan, Christopher Page, Boo Saville, Julia Thompson & Bengt Tibert.
BEST SELF explores identity, beauty, and the fractured self in contemporary art. Through varied media, the exhibition examines how societal expectations, digital culture, and historical ideals influence the pursuit of an idealised version of the self—and how, in that pursuit, we both reveal and obscure who we truly are.
BEST SELF Curated by Polly Morgan
23rd May, 2025 – 28th June, 2025
Brooke Benington
76 Cleveland Street
London W1T 6NB
Jacob Hashimoto: Analog Death, etc.
Ronchini presents Analog Death, etc., its third solo exhibition with New York-based artist Jacob Hashimoto. Spanning three years of work, the show features Hashimoto’s signature kite-based constructions—now infused with new precision through the use of laser-cutting technology.
While maintaining his intricate, layered approach, Hashimoto revisits long-held ideas with fresh clarity, blending handcraft with machine precision. The result is a poetic, abstract response to contemporary life—equal parts personal reflection and broader meditation on memory, chaos, and control.
Jacob Hashimoto: Analog Death, etc.
23rd May, 2025 – 27th June, 2025
Ronchini Gallery
22 Dering Street
London, W1S 1AN
Martin Creed: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT
Camden Arts Projects, a new nonprofit space dedicated to contemporary art and film, opens 9 May at 176 Prince of Wales Road with a major exhibition by Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed.
Curated by Hala Matar, the show features Work No. 3891: Half the air in a given space (2025), an interactive installation filled with hundreds of balloons. The immersive work invites visitors to move through the space, transforming the gallery into a playful, sensory experience.
Martin Creed: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT
9th May, 2025 – 29th June, 2025
Camden Arts Projects
176 Prince of Wales Road
London
NW5 3PT
MILLY THOMPSON: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good
A new exhibition, My Body Temperature is Feeling Good, showcases late British artist Milly Thompson’s sharp, subversive take on aging, femininity, and consumer culture. Best known for her early role in the BANK collective, Thompson later carved out a solo practice marked by humor, defiance, and sensuality.
Focusing on works made after 2010, the show highlights her return to figuration across painting, sculpture, text, and video—centering the middle-aged female body with wit rather than worry.
MILLY THOMPSON: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good
5th June, 2025 – 24th August, 2025
Goldsmiths CCA
St James’
New Cross
London SE14 6AD
Black Panthers & Revolution: Stephen Shames
Amar Gallery is proud to present Black Panthers & Revolution, the first London exhibition dedicated to the work of renowned American photographer Stephen Shames.
Shames, whose archive is the largest visual record of the Black Panther Party, captured defining moments of the American civil rights movement. This landmark exhibition brings his images to London for the first time, featuring powerful portraits of Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Maya Angelou, Angela Davis, and others who shaped the era.
At a time of renewed global conversations around race and justice, Black Panthers & Revolution serves as both a historical document and a timely reminder of the ongoing fight for equality across race, gender, and sexuality.
Black Panthers & Revolution: Stephen Shames
29th May, 2025 – 6th July, 2025
Amar Gallery
Kirkman House, Lower Ground
12-14 Whitfield Street
London, W1T 2RF
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