The Best Exhibitions in London for March 2025
Discover must-see exhibitions and art shows that are happening in London right now
By Charlie Walker | Updated Mar 21 2025
The art scene these days is growing increasingly more difficult to track, even with innovations in communication technology and marketing. Some gallery openings fly completely under the radar, and while these events are exciting, largely free, and often offering free drinks, the art world's events scene lacks the centralisation that live music has with DICE, Resident Advisor and, the frankly dreaded Ticketmaster (and no, I don't want to hear about Art Rabbit ever again, though I would recommend using Brushwrk)
So, here we bring the doings of the art world - both overground and underground - to cater to both casual and eccentric, day-tripper and deep-digger, bringing you a quality mix of entertaining and thought-provoking exhibitions across the capital.
Stay tuned, we update this weekly
Alvaro Barrington, ‘Back Home / I Am… I Said’ - at Sadie Coles HQ
Sadie Coles HQ 5 Mar 2025 to 26 Apr 2025
Alvaro Barrington’s 'Back Home' at Sadie Coles HQ explores memory, place, and belonging through modernist paintings depicting the sunsets of his native Grenada.
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift
National Portrait Gallery 20 Feb 2025 to 18 May 2025
Iconic portraits from the pages of trail-blazing magazine, The Face celebrated in a major exhibition at the NPG.
Ebun Sodipo at Soft Opening
Soft Opening 7 Mar 2025 to 26 Apr 2025
Soft Opening announces a solo exhibition of new work by London-based artist Ebun Sodipo.
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism
The Courtauld Gallery 14 Feb 2025 to 26 May 2025
The first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland.
IDENTITA - The Story of Czech Graphic Design
Czech Centre 28 Feb 2025 to 30 Jun 2025
A new exhibition Illustrating the power of graphic design in societal context.
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism - at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy of Arts 24 Jan 2025 to 21 Apr 2025
A first-of-its-kind exhibition, featuring many never-before-seen works from private collections, the newest exhibition at the Royal Academy unpacks the history of Brazilian Modernism.
Theaster Gates: 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise
White Cube Bermondsey 7 Feb 2025 to 6 Apr 2025
White Cube is pleased to present a major exhibition by artist Theaster Gates.
Barbara Hepworth: Strings
Piano Nobile 6 Feb 2025 to 6 May 2025
Piano Nobile presents a unique exhibition about one of the most important artists and sculptors of the 20th century.
Christina Kimeze: Between Wood and Wheel
South London Gallery 31 Jan 2025 to 11 May 2025
Discover the radiant, textured paintings of Christina Kimeze at the South London Gallery, her first solo exhibition in the UK.
GALLI: So, So, So
GOLDSMITHS CCA 7 Feb 2025 to 4 May 2025
So, So, So marks the first UK solo exhibition of artist Galli (b.1944, Germany).
Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land
The Curve, Barbican 30 Jan 2025 to 20 Apr 2025
The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition.
‘Under The Same Sky’, by Jake Grewal - at Studio Voltaire
Studio Voltaire 15 Jan 2025 to 13 Apr 2025
Grewal's first institutional exhibition in London sees him soar to the top of the pile as one of London's most exciting young painters.
Picasso: printmaker
The British Museum 7 Nov 2024 to 30 Mar 2025
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was one of the most inventive and influential talents ever to explore the medium of print.
War Rugs: Afghanistan’s knotted history
The British Museum 4 Oct 2024 to 29 Jun 2025
Discover how weavers in Afghanistan recorded the country's turbulent history in traditional rugs.
Breaking Lines
The Estorick Collection 15 Jan 2025 to 11 May 2025
The Estorick Collection starts 2025 by exploring the revolutionary world of experimental poetry.
Leighton and Landscape: Impressions from Nature
Leighton House 16 Nov 2024 to 27 Apr 2025
The first exhibition devoted to landscape sketches made by Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896), the show offers an opportunity to see the celebrated Victorian artist in a totally new light – that of a spontaneous, experimental artist who took the road less well trodden by his contemporaries, documenting the people and places he encountered as he travelled.
Coming soon...
Giacometti x Huma Bhabha
![L: Alberto Giacometti, Femme debout [Standing Woman], 1957, Fondation Giacometti © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris 2025
R: Huma Bhabha, Mask of Dimitrios, 2019. Image credit: Daniel Perez. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gall](https://www.culturecalling.com/images/uploads/header_images/_424x240/79ba4696-2da2-c631-dbc9-35c93a394225_%282%29742.png)
Barbican Centre 8 May 2025 to 10 Aug 2025
A major new exhibition by artist Huma Bhabha, the first in a series of three exhibitions in collaboration with Fondation Giacometti.
Timothy Gatenby “And All Shall be Memorialised”
Blond Contemporary 14 Mar 2025 to 9 Apr 2025
Pop Art meets Classical Sculpture in Timothy Gatenby's new Solo Show at Blond Contemporary.
Nora Turato: pool7
Institute of Contemporary Arts 9 Apr 2025 to 8 Jun 2025
Turato’s latest debut exhibition 'pool7' a three-part installation of text, video and audio work.
Hardeep Pandhal: Inner World
Drawing Room 13 Feb 2025 to 13 Apr 2025
Hardeep Pandhal: Inner World will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in a London public gallery.
Watteau and circle
The British Museum 15 May 2025 to 14 Sep 2025
An outstanding collection of drawings by the French 17th-century painter, Antoine Watteau (1684–1721).
Ficre Ghebreyesus
Modern Art 14 Mar 2025 to 10 May 2025
The first UK solo exhibition of work by the late Eritrean-born American artist Ficre Ghebreyesus (1962-2012).
Edvard Munch Portraits
National Portrait Gallery 13 Mar 2025 to 15 Jun 2025
National Portrait Gallery stages its first ever exhibition of portraits by Edvard Munch, featuring works never displayed before in the UK.
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
The Wallace Collection 28 Mar 2025 to 26 Oct 2025
In 2025, the Wallace Collection will hold a major exhibition featuring over 40 new works by Sir Grayson Perry.