What’s on

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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. .

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.