Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Renoir and Love
A major loan exhibition of Renoir’s Impressionist paintings exploring love, intimacy, and modern leisure in his celebrated depictions of Parisian life.
The National Gallery
Painting the French Riviera
A blockbuster of 160+ works tracing how the Côte d’Azur inspired Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Modernists from the 1870s to the 1960s.
Royal Academy of Arts
Es Devlin at the Design Museum
The first UK exhibition dedicated to artist and stage designer Es Devlin’s 30-year practice across sculpture, performance, language, and light.
Design Museum
Salman Toor: Someone Like You
The first European solo exhibition of the celebrated New York-based painter — 19 of his most iconic, thought-provoking, and at times humorous paintings.
The Courtauld Gallery
Yuko Mohri at the Barbican
A free exhibition inviting visitors to tune into their surroundings through Mohri’s kinetic ecosystems of everyday objects.
Barbican Centre
Korean art and artefacts: Korea at the British Museum
A major special exhibition on Korea, with highlights including the vividly coloured Sun, Moon and Five Peaks folding-screen painting.
The British Museum
Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air
Matt’s Gallery’s next exhibition: a solo show by Imogen Stidworthy, whose practice centres on voice and language. Private view 27 September.
Matt’s Gallery
Autumn Knight: I Can’t Complain
A solo exhibition by New York-based performance artist Autumn Knight, featuring a new commission alongside recent work — her first major UK presentation.
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
Ha Chong-Hyun at Lisson Gallery
The Korean Dansaekhwa master known for his Conjunction series, pushing oil paint through hemp supports. Space to be confirmed.
Lisson Gallery, Lisson Street
Cecilia Vicuña at Whitechapel Gallery
An autumn exhibition of the Chilean artist and poet known for quipu textile installations, opening alongside Inji Efflatoun: The Poetics of Justice.
Whitechapel Gallery
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing
A major retrospective of the American painter whose near-white canvases invite close looking, in the Barbican Art Gallery.
Group exhibition: The 90s: Art and Fashion
A major exhibition exploring the bold creativity and rebellious spirit of 1990s art and fashion in Britain — a decade defined by cross-pollination between artists, designers, and pop culture.
Tate Britain
Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends
A major exhibition by one of Britain’s foremost fashion photographers, exploring queer identity, community, and love through fantastical imagery.
National Portrait Gallery
Rosalind Nashashibi at GRIMM
An autumn solo exhibition by the London-based painter and filmmaker, timed around Frieze week.
GRIMM
Firenze Lai at White Cube
New paintings made in Lai’s London studio — her first UK exhibition and inaugural show since joining the gallery — coinciding with Frieze London.
White Cube Mason's Yard
NIGO: From Japan with Love
The first UK museum retrospective of Japanese designer NIGO (A Bathing Ape, KENZO), spanning streetwear, music, and craft with 700+ objects including a life-size glass tea house.
Group incl. Lewis Hine: Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography
A century of American urban life told through photographs of the people who built, inhabited, and transformed cities into living communities.
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Group exhibition: Bruiseless
Belmacz’s upcoming exhibition at its Mayfair gallery; artist line-up to be announced.
Belmacz
Shortlisted contemporary portrait painters: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
The free annual exhibition celebrating the best in contemporary painted portraiture, showcasing shortlisted works from the prestigious international award.
Jonathan Wateridge at GRIMM
New paintings by the Zambian-born British painter at 43a Duke Street.
International art fair — 160+ galleries: Frieze London 2026
The contemporary art fair anchoring London’s October Art Week, in The Regent’s Park alongside Frieze Sculpture. Public and preview day breakdown to be announced.
Frieze London
Material Intent Color and Form
This group exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery explores contemporary design that balances function with playfulness, emotion, and experimentation. Featuring lighting, furniture, and sculptural…
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Lightness of Form
This exhibition showcases the collaborative furniture designs of John Barnard and Marc Newson, exploring the intersection of sculpture, engineering, and function. Featuring carbon fibre works…
Contemporary African art fair: 1-54 London 2026
The leading fair for contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora returns to Somerset House during Frieze week. VIP and press preview October 15; public days October 16–18.
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London
