Dozens of art events happen every month in cosmopolitan cities like London and Sao Paulo. It can be overwhelming to find the best ones, especially if you need to move from site to site to see WHAT’S ON in your area. We make your life easier by gathering in just one place a selection of shows, including key information like venue, date and a brief summary of each exhibition.
Here is our curated page of shows currently happening in London and São Paulo.
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20/09/2024
Enrique Brinkmann at 85: Paintings
London
Enrique Brinkmann at 85: Paintings
rosenfeld
Until 20 September 2024
At 85 years old, Brinkmann is producing some of the most vital and energising works of his career, characterised by a lush palette often applied directly onto the canvas with a spatula.
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20/09/2024
Painting, Smoking, Eating
London
Painting, Smoking, Eating
Saatchi Gallery
Until 20 September 2024
BEERS London presents Painting, Smoking, Eating at Saatchi Gallery, an exhibition co-curated by Andrew Salgado that takes its title from a Philip Guston painting. The exhibition consists of 13 internationally-based artists whose work here considers paintings about painting.
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20/09/2024
The Landscape, Reimagined
London
The Landscape, Reimagined
Saatchi Gallery
Until 20 September 2024
BEERS London returns to Saatchi Gallery with The Landscape, Reimagined, a group exhibition including eight internationally-based emerging and mid-career artists who reinterpret the conventions of landscape painting as radical and contemporary.
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21/09/2024
Irapuru: Group Show London
London
Irapuru: Group Show London
Goodman Gallery
Until 21 September 2024
The title for the exhibition is taken from Laura Lima’s large-scale textile work – ‘Irapuru’ being a district in the state of São Paulo which endured more than its share of subjugation and upheaval during the 21-year ‘Ditadura Militar’, the military dictatorship of the Fifth Brazilian Republic from the mid-’60s to mid-’80s, the repercussions of which continue today.
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21/09/2024
Robbie Barrat, Joshua Davis, Golan Levin, LIA +: Awaken, Metamagical Hands
London
Robbie Barrat, Joshua Davis, Golan Levin, LIA +: Awaken, Metamagical Hands
Gazelli Art House and Verisart
Until 21 September 2024
Gazelli Art House and Verisart announce their collaborative exhibition Awaken, Metamagical Hands, highlighting pioneering artists at the intersection of human creativity and computational potential.
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21/09/2024
Chris Rivers: Universal
London
Chris Rivers: Universal
Pontone Gallery
Until 21 September 2024
Pontone Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition by British painter, Chris Rivers. ‘Universal’ consists of a suite of sixteen paintings, four of which are of the elements: earth, fire, water and air; and twelve depict the individual signs of the zodiac.
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21/09/2024
Between Hands And Metal
London
Between Hands And Metal
Palmer Gallery
Until 21 September 2024
The exhibition offers a reflective inquiry into the multifaceted nature of contact, recognising both its destructive legacies as a form of violence, as well as its potential for embodied resistance.
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22/09/2024
Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall
London
Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall
Courtauld
Until 22 September 2024
During the Blitz, from September 1940 – May 1941, crowds of people sought refuge in London’s Underground stations to escape the nightly bombardments by the German Air Force. Moved by what he saw there and in other makeshift shelters, the sculptor Henry Moore (1898–1986) documented these scenes in hundreds of haunting sketches known as the Shelter Drawings.
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23/09/2024
Damian Elwes: Studio Visit
London
Damian Elwes: Studio Visit
Unit London
Until 23 September 2024
Damian Elwes’ latest solo exhibition with Unit continues his exploration of iconic artists and their studios. Above all, Elwes is interested in human creativity and his examination of artists’ studios endlessly fuels his curiosity on the subject.
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23/09/2024
Gori Mora: Burning Desires
London
Gori Mora: Burning Desires
Unit London
Until 23 September 2024
Gori Mora’s first solo exhibition with Unit opens a window into a world of queer identity, intimacy and belonging. Burning Desires overlaps cosy interiors and outdoor scenes to build “safe spaces” populated with the artist’s coded language of motifs including bitten apples, body parts, constellations, the Moon, and many objective indications of nightlife.
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27/09/2024
Jacob Dahlgren: When Anxieties Become Form
London
Jacob Dahlgren: When Anxieties Become Form
Workplace
Until 27 September 2024
This exhibition highlights Dahlgren’s ability to recontextualise everyday objects, transforming them into works that challenge viewers’ perceptions, revealing beauty in the ordinary. Through grounding the materiality of his works in the quotidian and ubiquitous, Dahlgren upends the rarified exclusivity of ‘Modern Art’ – rediscovering it in everyday scenarios, and infusing the abstract with the political.
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28/09/2024
Sosa Joseph: Pennungal: Lives of women and girls
London
Sosa Joseph: Pennungal: Lives of women and girls
David Zwirner
Until 28 September 2024
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Indian artist Sosa Joseph (b. 1971) at the gallery’s London location. This marks her first solo presentation in Europe. A masterful colourist and storyteller, Joseph creates atmospheric paintings in which figures from her family and milieu mingle with open-ended motifs from the natural world.
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28/09/2024
Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers
London
Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Until 28 September 2024
In new paintings, Tchiprout presents moments of intimacy and community, staging hand-made dolls in a world that is self-referential and protected. Her dolls are modelled after herself and her peers, female protagonists from Yiddish literature, and historical figures including the Jewish dancer Els Keezer.
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28/09/2024
Grace Weaver: Flowers
London
Grace Weaver: Flowers
Max Hetzler
Until 28 September 2024
Painted in 2024 in Rangsdorf, Germany, Weaver’s latest body of sixteen large-scale canvases takes as its focal point one of the most enduring motifs of art history: the flower. Rendered in acrylic on canvas, a medium shift for the artist, the ‘Flower Paintings’ stand as both a counterpoint and continuation of Weaver’s oil paintings and watercolours of the human subject.
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28/09/2024
Embodied Forms: Painting Now
London
Embodied Forms: Painting Now
Thaddaeus Ropac
Until 28 September 2024
Embodied Forms: Painting Now brings together new works by seven artists who reconfigure the relationship between subjectivity and the body, interrogating how its complexities are given form in painting today.
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28/09/2024
The Vinyl Factory: Reverb
London
The Vinyl Factory: Reverb
180 Studios
Until 28 September 2024
180 Studios presents The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, a major multimedia exhibition showcasing The Vinyl Factory Collection, which celebrates the intersection of art and sound. In the largest show of its kind, The Vinyl Factory brings together over 100 artists and musicians – working across art, music, film and live performance.
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29/09/2024
Marc Quinn: Light into Life
London
Marc Quinn: Light into Life
Kew Gardens
Until 29 September 2024
Light into Life presents 17 stunning stainless steel and bronze sculptures around the Gardens and in the Temperate House alongside a presentation of Quinn’s new and existing paintings, drawings, sculptures and evocative frozen works in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery.
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29/09/2024
Beatriz Milhazes: Maresias
London
Beatriz Milhazes: Maresias
Tate St Ives
Until 29 September 2024
Tate St Ives presents a retrospective of the work of artist Beatriz Milhazes, who is known for intensely colourful, large-scale abstract canvases. The exhibition Beatriz Milhazes: Maresias traces the evolution of her artistic approach over the past four decades.
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03/10/2024
Lavar Munroe: Promised Land
London
Lavar Munroe: Promised Land
Larkin Durey
Until 03 October 2024
Lavar Munroe works in the spirit of an anthropologist, studying the human condition via intensive, immersive travels across the African continent and a similar sense of discovery in his studio. .
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05/10/2024
Caroline Jackson: This Place
London
Caroline Jackson: This Place
Sim Smith
Until 05 October 2024
The exhibition is an exploration of the artist’s intuition and investigation of paint, soaking, dripping and blurring through many forms. The nature of the paintings allow for a subject to emerge only to submerge again, in an entrancing connection between surface, colour, scale and instinct.
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06/10/2024
Rembrandt and children: New life
London
Rembrandt and children: New life
British Museum
Until 06 October 2024
Discover an intimate drawing of a sleeping child, the first work by Rembrandt to be added to the British Museum collection for decades.
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06/10/2024
Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art
London
Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art
The Courtauld
Until 06 October 2024
Comprising 3 paintings, 1 woodcut and 8 works on paper, it will include her masterpiece A Conversation, as well as the bold, abstract textile designs she produced for the Omega Workshops, led by influential artist and critic Roger Fry in London, which aimed to abolish the boundaries between the fine and decorative arts and bring the arts into everyday life.
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13/10/2024
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920
London
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920
Tate Britain
Until 13 October 2024
Spanning 400 years, this exhibition follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. From Tudor times to the First World War, artists such as Mary Beale, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight paved a new artistic path for generations of women. They challenged what it meant to be a working woman of the time by going against society’s expectations – having commercial careers as artists and taking part in public exhibitions.
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19/10/2024
Karolina Albricht: Losing The Image
London
Karolina Albricht: Losing The Image
JGM Gallery
Until 19 October 2024
In many of the smaller works from this exhibition, compositional elements extend beyond the confines of the surface and its border. These protrusions further challenge the definition of ‘the painted image’, instead recalling practices reminiscent of sculpture or collage.
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19/10/2024
Ian Davenport: Pathway
London
Ian Davenport: Pathway
Cristea Roberts Gallery
Until 19 October 2024
Cristea Roberts Gallery is delighted to present Pathway, a solo exhibition of prints and works on paper by Ian Davenport. The prints are in a variety of scales, some made using a combination of up to forty colours. They are exhibited alongside Davenport’s largest ever work on paper, measuring almost three metres in length and made using his technique of applying jets of colour to form densely layered compositions.
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19/10/2024
Volker Hüller: Afterparty
London
Volker Hüller: Afterparty
Grimm
Until 19 October 2024
Volker Hüller’s fragmented compositions speak to the mental spaces between dreams, delirium, and daily life. Figures are woven into the environment of the background creating an interplay between Hüller’s subjects and the features of the worlds they inhabit.
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20/10/2024
Slawn
London
Slawn
Saatchi Yates
Until 20 October 2024
Olaolu Slawn was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He is recognised for intersecting street art with Abstract Expressionist styles. His work, rooted in both Yoruba heritage and contemporary societal themes, engages a wide-ranging audience, including ASAP Rocky, Tremaine Emory and Skepta.
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20/10/2024
Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider: Expressionists
London
Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider: Expressionists
Tate
Until 20 October 2024
Expressionists is a story of friendships told through art. It examines the highly individual creatives that made up The Blue Rider, from Franz Marc’s interest in colour to Alexander Sacharoff’s freestyle performance. The women artists played a central role in the movement. Discover experimental photographs by Gabriele Münter alongside the dramatic paintings of Marianne Werefkin.
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26/10/2024
Alex Katz: Spring
London
Alex Katz: Spring
Timothy Taylor
Until 26 October 2024
For the past three years, Katz has largely shifted his focus to depictions of blossoms and foliage, highlighting the way light shapes our experience of the natural world.
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26/10/2024
Gary Hume: This way/ That Way
London
Gary Hume: This way/ That Way
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Until 26 October 2024
This Way / That Way points to the instability inherent in Hume’s paintings from this time. The pools of pure colour are starkly delineated but the compositions seem to melt as our eye shuttles from one point to another across the image, making and unmaking form.
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27/10/2024
Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look
London
Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look
National Gallery
Until 27 October 2024
The exhibition, part of our Bicentenary celebrations, is a chance to slow down, to take in what’s in front of us and enjoy life-enhancing art in the Gallery. Just like Hockney’s parents and friend Geldzahler, let’s take a longer look.
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03/11/2024
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo
London
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo
Wallace Collection
Until 3 November 2024
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo prompts visitors to reconsider preconceptions, explore how we can connect with the Rococo today and examine the impact of display on art interpretation and historical re-evaluation.
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09/11/2024
Ella Walker: The romance of the rose
London
Ella Walker: The romance of the rose
Pilar Corrias
Until 09 November 2024
For her first exhibition with the gallery, Walker intricately weaves imagery from broad swathes of history and popular culture – medieval manuscripts to modern ballet, the cinema of Fellini and Pasolini to fetishwear magazines – to produce emotive, stage-like scenes.
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09/11/2024
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
London
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
V&A
Until 09 November 2024
This major exhibition will celebrate the extraordinary creative output and internationalist culture of the Golden Age of the Mughal Court (about 1560 – 1660) during the reigns of its most famous emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
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05/01/2025
Fragile Beauty: Elton John and David Furnish
London
Fragile Beauty: Elton John and David Furnish
V&A
Until 05 January 2025
An unparalleled selection of the world’s leading photographers, telling the story of modern and contemporary photography.
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18/01/2025
Goshka Macuga: Born From Stone
London
Goshka Macuga: Born From Stone
London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE
Until 18 January 2025
Inspired by the ancient Roman temple of Mithras discovered on the Bloomberg site, Macuga invites viewers to delve into the rich tapestry of Roman mythology, particularly the intriguing narrative surrounding the god Mithras, to whom the temple was dedicated.
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19/01/2025
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
London
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
National Gallery
Until 19 January 2025
Walk with a pair of lovers beneath a starry night. Look up at swirling clouds and cypress trees swaying in the wind. Stay a little while in Van Gogh’s favourite park, the ‘Poet’s Garden’, or under a shady tree in Saint-Rémy.
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19/01/2025
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
London
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
Whitechapel Gallery
Until 19 January 2025
Archive of Dissent marks one of the most extensive displays of Kennard’s work to date and has been specially conceived for Whitechapel Gallery. uo.
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26/01/2025
Zanele Muholi
London
Zanele Muholi
Tate Modern
Until 26 January 2025
Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date. The exhibition is based on the artist’s 2020-21 exhibition at Tate Modern and will include new works produced since then.
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23/02/2025
Barbie®: The Exhibition
London
Barbie®: The Exhibition
Design Museum
Until 23 February 2025
A major exhibition exploring the design evolution of one of the world’s most famous dolls: Barbie®. Journey into the Barbie universe and discover over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.
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23/02/2025
Colin Davidson: Silent Testimony
London
Colin Davidson: Silent Testimony
National Portrait Gallery
Until 23 February 2025
Featuring 18 large-scale portraits, Silent Testimony is a display by Belfast-born artist Colin Davidson. Connected by the theme of loss, the display reveals – through portraiture – the personal stories and experiences of those whose lives were impacted, and continue to be affected, by the Troubles, a 30-year period of conflict in Northern Ireland.
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06/04/2025
Naomi: In Fashion
London
Naomi: In Fashion
V&A
Until 06 April 2025
The first exhibition of its kind exploring the extraordinary career of fashion model Naomi Campbell. Through the work of leading global designers and photographers we celebrate her creative collaborations, activism and far-reaching cultural impact.
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27/04/2025
Anthony McCall: Solid Light
London
Anthony McCall: Solid Light
Tate Modern
Until 27 April 2025
Your movements and interactions bring artworks to life inside Solid Light, a focused exhibition dedicated to the immersive works of Anthony McCall.