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.
  • 09/11/2024

    Fabian Treiber: Bruised

    London

    Fabian Treiber: Bruised

    Cob

    Until 09 November 2024

    Cob gallery is pleased to present ‘Bruised’, the debut UK solo exhibition of German artist Fabian Treiber. 

  • 06/12/2024

    Mythology Reinterpreted: A Journey through Ancient Inspiration in Modern & Contemporary Art

    London

    Mythology Reinterpreted: A Journey through Ancient Inspiration in Modern & Contemporary Art

    Mazzoleni

    Until 06 December 2024

    The exhibition strives to reinterpret the ancient through the lens of Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico, Salvo and Giulio Paolini and Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake.

  • 07/12/2024

    Ur Kasin: All Is Blurred

    London

    Ur Kasin: All Is Blurred

    British Museum

    Until 07 December 2024

    This show marks a pivotal moment in his career, showcasing six monumental compositions that explore the psychological journey of a character that he has created, navigating his way through a complex and unforgiving world.

  • 07/12/2024

    Yeonsu Ju: Altar; the Carrier

    London

    Yeonsu Ju: Altar; the Carrier

    Arusha

    Until 07 December 2024

    Artist Yeonsu Ju explores themes of longing, memory, and ritual through the simple yet powerful act of gathering at a table. 

  • 08/12/2024

    Chronoplasticity

    London

    Chronoplasticity

    Raven Row

    Until 08 December 2024

    The works in Chronoplasticity attempt to fold or stretch time. They ask what and how histories should be told, and consider new conceptions of the ‘historical’, connecting the no-longer to the not-yet. Big events and political struggles of the last half century echo in the show, and many works speak to the tension between the personal and larger surrounding forces.

  • 08/12/2024

    Kevin Klamminger: Promethean Approach

    London

    Kevin Klamminger: Promethean Approach

    Unit

    Until 08 December 2024

    At its core, Kevin Klamminger’s first solo exhibition with Unit explores an interplay of contradictory forces. Influenced by a balance between conscious and unconscious minds, Promethean Approach presents a series of paintings that combine an almost hyperrealist visual language with a surreal atmosphere.

  • 08/12/2024

    Bobbi Essers: The World at Our Command

    London

    Bobbi Essers: The World at Our Command

    Unit

    Until 08 December 2024

    The World at Our Command illustrates the importance of intimacy within platonic relationships. Defined by overlapping compositions that echo surrealist photomontages, Essers’ fragmented canvases are full of limbs, bodies, clothes and accessories taken from candid photographs of her friends.

  • 10/12/2024

    Michael Craig-Martin

    London

    Michael Craig-Martin

    Royal Academy

    Until 10 December 2024

    A key figure in British art, Michael Craig-Martin is one of the most influential artists and teachers of his generation.

  • 13/12/2024

    Golds

    London

    Golds

    Ordovas

    Until 13 December 2024

    From 4 October to 13 December 2024, Ordovas presents Golds, an exhibition exploring one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art, and how it has been used and represented in the work of significant artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

  • 14/12/2024

    Jake Vanden Berge: I Made My Bed Of Flowers And Now I Have To Step In It

    London

    Jake Vanden Berge: I Made My Bed Of Flowers And Now I Have To Step In It

    LBF Contemporary

    Until 14 December 2024

    Through an evocative exploration of memory and nostalgia, Vanden Berge’s debut UK solo exhibition reveals a body of work that merges suburban landscapes with dreamlike imagery, capturing a haunting, cinematic view of the ordinary.

  • 14/12/2024

    André Butzer

    London

    André Butzer

    Max Hetzler

    Until 14 December 2024

    André Butzer’s Synthetic Paintings are a challenge to our image of man. The towering, composite bodies are permeated by technology, maltreated by devices and pieces of apparatus, destroyed from within.

  • 14/12/2024

    Terry Adkins: Disclosure

    London

    Terry Adkins: Disclosure

    Thomas Dane Gallery

    Until 14 December 2024

    The exhibition brings Adkins’s early sculptures from the 1980s into conversation with work produced in the last decade of his life, drawing out the persisting themes developed, elaborated and refined throughout his career, before his untimely death in 2014.

  • 14/12/2024

    Davide Balliano

    London

    Davide Balliano

    Cardi Gallery

    Until 14 December 2024

    On view will be a selection of recent works on linen, ranging from large-scale to more intimate size, displaying Balliano’s unique brand of geometric abstraction developed over the last several years.

  • 14/12/2024

    Peter Buggenhout: The Edge is my Home

    London

    Peter Buggenhout: The Edge is my Home

    Holtermann Fine Art

    Until 14 December 2024

    Buggenhout’s unique and compelling oeuvre consists of autonomous, seemingly disparate groups of sculptural objects. Resisting interpretation and devoid of symbols, the works engage the viewer in a dialogue on our inability to comprehend the complexity of the world. d outer freedom.

  • 14/12/2024

    Jack Whitten: Speedchaser

    London

    Jack Whitten: Speedchaser

    Hauser & Wirth

    Until 14 December 2024

    The exhibition includes rare works from Whitten’s landmark, monochromatic Greek Alphabet series (1975 – 1978), which was the focus of a dedicated exhibition at Dia Beacon, New York NY, (2022 – 2023). The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London goes beyond the monochrome to also display Whitten’s experimentation with color during this process-based period.

  • 14/12/2024

    Alice Baber

    London

    Alice Baber

    Luxembourg + Co.

    Until 14 December 2024

    Baber is best known for her long-life dedication to study biomorphic forms and the infinite possibilities of light and colour through painting. Showcasing a selection of significant achievements from throughout her career, the works on view span from 1964 to just a year before her untimely death in 1981, and chronicle her experimentation between different mediums, intensities of color, saturation, composition, and forms.

  • 14/12/2024

    Paris: An Experimental Reality

    London

    Paris: An Experimental Reality

    Timothy Taylor

    Until 14 December 2024

    This group exhibition is dedicated to the dynamic conversations among a group of expatriate painters in Paris in the years immediately following the Second World War, spurring an extraordinary body of work by artists including James Bishop, Sam Francis, Carmen Herrera, Shirley Jaffe, Paul Jenkins, Ellsworth Kelly, and Joan Mitchell.

  • 18/12/2024

    Group Exhibition: Reverb

    London

    Group Exhibition: Reverb

    Stephen Friedman

    Until 18 December 2024

    Comprising paintings, sculptures, mixed media and sound-based works, Reverb foregrounds the significance of contemporary art from the Caribbean region.

  • 20/12/2024

    Chromatherapie

    London

    Chromatherapie

    Hanina Fine Arts

    Until 20 December 2024

    This exhibition explores the evolution these ideas and techniques in post-war European art through a selection of artists for whom colour was their primary medium, including Claude Bellegarde who experimented with Chroma Therapy and its physiological affects; James Pichette who sought to use colour to resonate with the energy of jazz music; and Swiss Art Concrete painter Léo Leuppi whose paintings were designed to evoke a serene harmony.

  • 20/12/2024

    Youngju Joung: Way Back Home

    London

    Youngju Joung: Way Back Home

    Almine Rech

    Until 20 December 2024

    The artist has developed her own technique of applying small pieces of the traditionally and locally made hanji paper onto the surface of the canvas to provide depth and texture to her subjects.

  • 20/12/2024

    Salvo and Andreas Schulze: About Painting

    London

    Salvo and Andreas Schulze: About Painting

    Sprüth Magers

    Until 20 December 2024

    Salvo and Andreas Schulze both fully embrace the tradition of painting, not trying to deconstruct or reimagine the medium, but rather using it to instigate and reinvigorate our understanding of the world through color, light, texture and mood.

  • 20/12/2024

    David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing

    London

    David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing

    Annely Juda Fine Art

    Until 20 December 2024

    David Nash’s lifelong exploration of the nature of wood and its habitats has established him as one of Britain’s foremost artists working in sculpture and environmental installations.

  • 20/12/2024

    Nicole Eisenman

    London

    Nicole Eisenman

    Sadie Coles

    Until 20 December 2024

    Following their acclaimed major survey, What Happened, at Whitechapel Gallery last year, Nicole Eisenman debuts new works at Sadie Coles HQ, London.

  • 20/12/2024

    David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing

    London

    David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing

    Annely Juda Fine Art

    Until 20 December 2024

    David Nash’s lifelong exploration of the nature of wood and its habitats has established him as one of Britain’s foremost artists working in sculpture and environmental installations.

  • 21/12/2024

    Miguel Ybáñez: La sombra del olvido

    London

     Miguel Ybáñez: La sombra del olvido

    GRIMM

    Until 21 December 2024

    Ybáñez states that the essence of his work is to express the universal emotions that exist in our shared extra-dimensional space. 

  • 21/12/2024

    Anna Calleja: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night

    London

    Anna Calleja: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night

    Sim Smith

    Until 21 December 2024

    This exhibition is an ode to the female experience, the contradictions within sexuality, bodily autonomy and queerness that challenge traditional conventions and expectations of the female role.

  • 21/12/2024

    Cullinan Richards: Second Act. Plot Twist

    London

    Cullinan Richards: Second Act. Plot Twist

    Alma Pearl

    Until 21 December 2024

    Second Act is defined as “a second period or stage of something, especially in which its initial aspects are followed up, expanded, or further developed”.

  • 21/12/2024

    Hank Willis Thomas: Kinship of the Soul

    London

    Hank Willis Thomas: Kinship of the Soul

    Pace

    Until 21 December 2024

    The presentation will showcase a new body of retroreflective collages that continue Thomas’s exploration of the histories of abstraction through the lenses of colonization, globalization, and appropriation, with reference to Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, and Henri Matisse.

  • 21/12/2024

    Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: Remarkable Friendship

    London

    Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: Remarkable Friendship

    Alison Jacques

    Until 21 December 2024

    Through showing the work of both artists together, in testament to their 50 year enduring friendship, this exhibition emphasises how both artists, as pioneers and innovators, made their work in an ongoing spiritual quest to express an intangible truth.

  • 21/12/2024

    Sophie Ruigrok: Rapid movement over a landscape

    London

    Sophie Ruigrok: Rapid movement over a landscape

    Sunday Painter

    Until 21 December 2024

    The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce Sophie Ruigrok’s forthcoming solo exhibition Rapid movement over a landscape. 

  • 29/12/2024

    Jack O’Brien: The Reward

    London

    Jack O’Brien: The Reward

    Camden Art Centre

    Until 29 December 2024

    O’Brien describes the objects and materials he incorporates in his work as “eloquent texts” that encode cultural and historical meaning. Manipulating them by twisting, binding, stretching or puncturing feels charged with the erotic and probes at taboo, fetish and the commodification of queer aesthetics.

  • 29/12/2024

    Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object

    London

    Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object

    Camden Art Centre

    Until 29 December 2024

    Encompassing sculpture, performance, painting, collage and film—all of which carry an air of wit, playfulness, and radical subversion—the show will be an opportunity to experience all aspects of Nicola L.’s multidisciplinary practice.

  • 05/01/2025

    Haegue Yang: Leap Year

    London

    Haegue Yang: Leap Year

    Hayward Gallery

    Until 05 January 2025

    Leap Year is the first major survey of the internationally celebrated artist in the UK. It presents a comprehensive study of Yang’s work from the early 2000s to today, highlighting how her artworks resonate on a personal and sensory level while also speaking to social, political and spiritual ideas.

  • 05/01/2025

    Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

    London

    Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

    Tate St Ives

    Until 05 January 2025

    Mirga-Tas is known for her textile collages created with materials and fabrics that are mainly gathered from family and friends. Her visual storytelling comes from a feminist perspective and challenges stereotypical representations of Roma people.

  • 05/01/2025

    Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It Will End In Tears

    London

    Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It Will End In Tears

    Barbican

    Until 05 January 2025

    In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.

  • 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.

  • 05/01/2025

    The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998

    London

    The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998

    Barbican

    Until 05 January 2025

    Featuring artwork by over 30 Indian artists, this major exhibition is bookended by two transformative events in India’s history: Indira Gandhi’s declaration of a state of emergency in 1975 and the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998.

  • 11/01/2025

    Merlin James

    London

    Merlin James

    Maureen Paley

    Until 11 January 2025

    The exhibition includes paintings of the Arnold Circus bandstand, an east London landmark visible from the Studio M window. 

  • 11/01/2025

    b chehayeb: Tomboy Heaven

    London

    b chehayeb: Tomboy Heaven

    Workplace

    Until 11 January 2025

    The exhibition will feature new paintings by chehayeb, which explore the complexities of memory, identity and cultural hybridity.

  • 11/01/2025

    Mary Ramsden: Desire Line

    London

    Mary Ramsden: Desire Line

    Pilar Corrias

    Until 11 January 2025

    The artist brings a range of references to this new body of work, including English landscape painting, the subtle palette and chromatic intelligence of Les Nabis painters Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, and a keen engagement with poetry and literature.

  • 11/01/2025

    Oskar Holweck: One Zero Zero

    London

    Oskar Holweck: One Zero Zero

    Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

    Until 11 January 2025

    The title One Zero Zero refers to both, the centenary of his birth as well as his affiliation with Group Zero, an influential post-war art movement that originated in Germany and developed international acclaim.

  • 12/01/2025

    Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation

    London

    Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation

    Whitechapel Gallery

    Until 12 January 2025

    An Awkward Relation is a new exhibition from artist and educator Sonia Boyce (b.1962, London, UK). It has been especially conceived to be in dialogue with the exhibition of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, The I and the You showing at the Gallery concurrently.

  • 14/01/2025

    Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet

    London

    Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet

    South London Gallery

    Until 14 January 2025

    For over 20 years she has been making sculptures that ask you to reconsider your sense of self, space and relation to the object.

  • 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

    Francis Bacon: Human Presence

    London

    Francis Bacon: Human Presence

    National Portrait Gallery

    Until 19 January 2025

    Featuring more than 50 works from the 1940s onwards, this exhibition explores Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre.

  • 19/01/2025

    Monet and London: Views of the Thames

    London

    Monet and London: Views of the Thames

    Courtauld

    Until 19 January 2025

    The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames realises Monet’s unfulfilled ambition of showing this extraordinary group of paintings in London, and just 300 metres from the Savoy Hotel where many of them were painted.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 25/01/2025

    Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Nature Morte

    London

    Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Nature Morte

    October Gallery

    Until 25 January 2025

    In Kamuanga’s fourth solo show at October Gallery, his striking paintings explore the hidden consequences of the toxic waste-matter that is poisoning the environment upon which local Congolese communities are dependent for survival and the basic necessities of life.

  • 25/01/2025

    Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix: The Archipelago on Fire

    London

    Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix: The Archipelago on Fire

    Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix

    Until 25 January 2025

    The third solo show of the artist at the gallery is dedicated to sharing and spreading the notion of the decaying of our planet, one of the themes for Le Bas’s practice increasingly important in recent years.

  • 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.

  • 02/02/2025

    Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call

    London

    Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call

    Serpentine

    Until 02 February 2025

    A collaboration between artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and Serpentine Arts Technologies, The Call proposes new cultural, legal, and technical rituals for art in the age of AI.

  • 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.

  • 08/03/2025

    Drawing the Italian Renaissance

    London

    Drawing the Italian Renaissance

    The King’s Gallery

    Until 08 March 2025

    This exhibition brings together the widest range of drawings from this revolutionary artistic period ever to be shown in the UK.

  • 16/03/2025

    Mire Lee: Open Wound

    London

    Mire Lee: Open Wound

    Tate Modern

    Until 16 March 2025

    Since Tate Modern opened in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions each year. The annual Hyundai Commission gives artists an opportunity to create new work for this unique context.

  • 30/03/2025

    Picasso: Printmaker

    London

    Picasso: Printmaker

    British Museum

    Until 30 March 2025

    This exhibition offers insights into Picasso’s life through his art, including his complex relationships with women and his partnerships with printers, publishers and other artists.

  • 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.

  • 21/04/2025

    The World of Tim Burton

    London

    The World of Tim Burton

    Design Museum

    Until 21 April 2025

    Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers.

  • 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.