The Top Art Exhibitions in London Right Now

We've scoured the capital for the very best art exhibitions, installations and events to visit that are on right now

By Charlie Walker | Updated Dec 19 2024

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

South Parade 21 Nov 2024 to 11 Jan 2025

Hong Kong-born, London-based Kin Ting Li’s semi-abstract oil on canvas works implicitly depict the mutability of bodies, which change out of desire or necessity.

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Piccalilli 26 Nov 2024 to 4 Jan 2025

A series of stunning oil on canvas works from Lily Hargreaves that focus on 21st century wellness culture, paralleled with the Christian tradition of fasting.

Herald St 14 Nov 2024 to 1 Feb 2025

Sang Woo Kim's cacophony of detailed self-portraits position his eyes as his artistic motif, putting cultural identity, both self-assessed and externally enforced, at the centre of his work.

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Lethaby Gallery 5 Dec 2024 to 25 Jan 2025

A new exhibition exploring food, culture and sustainability.

Goldsmiths CCA 8 Nov 2024 to 12 Jan 2025

A collaborative work at the Goldsmiths CCA that reinvents and reinterprets commonplace cultural materials, twisting our conceptualisation of the known and the unknown.

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The National Gallery 14 Sep 2024 to 19 Jan 2025

Van Gogh’s most spectacular paintings in a once-in-a-century exhibition.

Michael Werner Gallery 14 Nov 2024 to 1 Feb 2025

The German ‘painting prince’ takes on works from ‘the painter of France’ through exercises of homage, figuration, and abstraction.

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Jan Fabre The Freefaller (of Art), 2024 Carrara white marble, 115 x 105 x 71 cm

Mucciaccia Gallery 29 Nov 2024 to 25 Jan 2025

A new solo show by worldwide known Belgian artist Jan Fabre at the Mucciaccia Gallery.

Night Cafe 26 Nov 2024 to 17 Jan 2024

Romane Courdacher, Emily Fielding and Julia Mazur combine efforts in a stellar exhibition that concerns itself with the implications of physical transformation.

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White Cube 27 Nov 2024 to 10 Jan 2025

White Cube presents an exhibition dedicated to the late American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99).

The Longest Time’, by Jack Otway and Zach Zono – at Hurst Contemporary

Hurst Contemporary 7 Nov 2024 to 7 Jan 2025

Hurst Contemporary will open the doors to its new Percy Street location, welcoming the inaugural exhibition titled The Longest Time with new and significant work by two artists Jack Otway and Zach Zono.

Reflecting on the ephemerality of the present, times ceaseless meandering, and the intangibility of its passage, Jack Otway and Zach Zono present explorations of strained relationships between memory and time, between the now and the now-to-be.

V&A 30 Nov 2024 to 16 Mar 2025

The V&A and Art Jameel have announced further exhibition details of the shortlisted projects for the 7th edition of the Jameel Prize.

The seventh edition of the Jameel Prize is devoted to moving image and digital media work, inspired by Islamic art, culture, history, society, and ideas. From over 300 submissions, seven finalists were selected by an international jury.

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The Photographers’ Gallery 9 Oct 2024 to 23 Feb 2025

Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022) was one of Italy’s most important social documentary photographers. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily.

This showing at the Photographer's Gallery is a powerful overview of Battaglia's extraordinary photographic work, from 1971 to 2021. Renowned for capturing some of the most poignant, poetic and dramatic moments in Sicilian history, Battaglia's work extends beyond her homeland. This exhibition showcases a broader spectrum of her photography by intertwining her career with her personal life to emphasise Battaglia's sensitivity and humanity.

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Installation photograph of ‘Convergence’ at Miart Gallery. Courtesy of Miart Gallery.

Miart Gallery 27 Nov 2024 to 25 Jan 2025

Miart Gallery London presents ‘CONVERGENCE’ featuring the works of Lars Beusker and Italian Painter Giusy Rampini.

Frederic Leighton, Bay of Cadiz - Moonlight, c. 1866 © The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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.

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Somerset House 23 Nov 2024 to 12 Jan 2025

ES DEVLIN: Face to Face: 50 encounters with strangers is a new exhibition at Somerset House which includes an edition of CONGREGATION, the large-scale installation Devlin created in partnership with The Courtauld, King’s College and UK for UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, curated by Ekow Eshun at St Mary Le Strand in October this year.