Dulwich Picture Gallery announces 2025 Exhibition Programme with solo shows by three remarkable female artists.
Dulwich Picture Gallery unveils its ambitious 2025 Exhibition Programme, which includes a solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Rachel Jones featuring new commissions, a major retrospective of celebrated Danish artist Anna Ancher, and a solo display of new works by contemporary artist Somaya Critchlow, responding to the Gallery’s collection.
Exhibition
Rachel Jones: 10 June – 19 October 2025
In summer 2025, Dulwich Picture Gallery presents an exhibition by Rachel Jones (b. 1991), the first ever solo contemporary show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space. The show will feature a series of newly commissioned works celebrating this leading artist’s exploration into identity and interiority within the self. Jones explores abstraction and life through painting, installation, sound and performance. Using the full colour spectrum in her works, she provokes different emotions for the viewer, creating sensory landscapes through an instinctive and intuitive mark-making process. Working in layers of oil stick and oil pastel, the artist blends with her hand and builds up distinct tones, which often result in unusual and sometimes unsettling combinations.
Exhibition
Anna Ancher : 4 November 2025 – 8 March 2026
This marks the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to Anna Ancher (1859 – 1935), considered to be one the most important and innovative artists in Danish history. Bringing together recently discovered paintings from Anna Ancher’s home, alongside an extensive body of work made throughout the artist’s long career, the exhibition will feature more than 40 of her paintings, including the artist’s most famous masterpieces on special loan from Art Museums of Skagen. A central figure of the Skagen artist colony, based at the northernmost point of Jutland, Ancher is considered to be the leading female artist in Denmark’s history. She is widely celebrated in her homeland yet remains relatively unknown to British audiences.
Display
Somaya Critchlow: The Chamber : 4 February – 20 July 2025
London-based painter Somaya Critchlow (b. 1993) grew up visiting Dulwich Picture Gallery. Since then, Critchlow’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public collections across the UK, Europe and North America including ICA, Miami; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the British Museum, London.
She now returns to Dulwich for her debut solo show in a UK public institution, creating a new body of work in response to Old Master paintings
Ticket on sale date will be announced via Dulwich Picture Gallery’s website and social media channels a few months prior to exhibition opening.
For more information visit dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk.