Featured Events in London in July, 2025 (July Updated)

Perrotin presents The System is Alive, a group exhibition showcasing the work of twelve contemporary artists whose practices engage with a broad range of systemic frameworks. Working across varied media, these artists dismantle and challenge the systems that shape everyday life, be it by addressing constructed logics, probing into personal or emotional infrastructures, engaging in cultural rewiring, or subverting the sociopolitical status quo.

Having spent time in a prisoner of war camp, Claude Venard was initially consumed by the post-war despair which pervaded a liberated but traumatised Paris defined by Sartre’s existentialism, but he gradually found solace in forging a world of vibrant joyful colours lavished with thick layers of paint in exuberant enthusiasm, from Brittany to the Côte d’Azur. This bold visceral synthesis of Cubism, Fauvism, and Expressionism decribed as “Figurative Abstraction” in 1957 by the critic Waldemar George, established Venard as a leading light of the post-war era.

Soho Revue presents ‘Immaterial’ an exhibition featuring the work of seven female abstract painters; Isabella Amram, Kim Booker, Kristy M Chan, Laura Lancaster, Xi Liu, H.E. Morris, Sophie Smorczewski and Ming Ying

Gala Porras-Kim’s research-driven practice examines how museological choices and conventions surrounding collecting, taxonomy, preservation and display shape our understandings of cultural artefacts. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present The categorical bind, a solo exhibition featuring new and recent works by the artist on the occasion of London Gallery Weekend. Both visually striking and thought-provoking, Porras-Kim’s drawings, paper marbling works and sculpture explore the transformation—and possibly emancipation—of objects throughout time.

Rafael Canogar (b. 1935) is one of the leading Spanish artists of the post-war era. He first came to prominence in Madrid in the late-1950s as a founder member of the El Paso group amidst an era of conservatism, social conformity and oppression under General Franco. There, in conjunction with other young artists such as Manolo Millares, Antonio Saura, and Manuel Rivera, Canogar was responsible for creating a provocative and radically new, gestural language of abstract painting that gave fierce, visceral expression to a dynamic sense of energy and individual freedom. These were paintings that, like Wols in France, Emil Schumacher in Germany or Alberto Burri in Italy, immediately established Canogar as one of the foremost pioneers of ‘Informalist’ painting in Europe.

The smaller paintings were begun in the Spring of 2024. The size restriction allows me to compress their dynamic, making their energy or ‘charge’ more concentrated. It is the very direct nature of Still Life which excites me, through repetition of subject matter I am able to focus on the aspect which most engages me: the relationship between the form and its surrounding space. Through animating that space it is possible to pull the form out of the void which constitutes a positive act of creation. This process sounds simple but I destroy many paintings on the way – my intentions often elude me and it can take months of adjustments to achieve my goal.

Mazzoleni presents Contemplatio, the first London solo exhibition in almost a decade by contemporary Italian artist Andrea Francolino. The exhibition offers a sanctuary for reflection, inviting visitors to contemplate the beauty found in both human and earthly imperfections.

NıCOLETTı presents total climate part 3: the map and the territory, the third and final chapter of total climate, a cycle of exhibitions reflecting upon the relationship between colonial history and ecological crisis. Opening on Thursday 5 June 2025 to coincide with the London Gallery Weekend, the exhibition features new and existing works by Abbas Zahedi (1984, UK), Alfredo Aceto (1991, IT), Chloé Quenum (1983, FR), Diane Cescutti (1998, FR), Haroun Hayward (1983, UK), Onyeka Igwe (1986, UK) and Theresa Weber (1996, DE).

The gallery’s first In Focus introduction this year features Felix Shumba: For want of a horse, a button was lost.Shumba has created an installation of charcoal drawings influenced by the evidential and documentary values of photography, particularly referencing 19th century daguerreotype plates and the work of American photojournalist J. Ross Bauman's 1978 Pulitzer Prize winning sequence of photographs following the Grey's Scouts, a Rhodesian mounted infantry and their brutal treatment of suspected guerrillas as part of inland security activity. Featuring a dystopian fiction that imagines a time-traveling military corps, the Salt Corps agents, activating a revisitation and surveyance of British colonial-era Rhodesia, now the Republic of Zimbabwe, Shumba explores the settler-colonial perspective and proprietary pursuit to discover, conquer and extract from a landscape and people that remain deeply scarred by trauma.

Tiwani Contemporary presents Virginia Chihota: Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God? Chihota inimitably visualises her inner world as an emotionally shifting, symbolic terrain—a reconnaissance marked by vigilance, self-questioning, and transformative resolution. These new works originate from a question that unexpectedly came to her, "what do you see when you look at me?". The recurring motif of a seat, specifically a stool, becomes the pedestal for the represented body (her own) in direct observation and conversation with the Divine. A series of gesturally restless, and physiologically awkward standing or seated positions figure clearly in Chihota's visual ruminations, acknowledging the reality of what's experienced as opposed to the reality of what might be seen by others.

One of the leading contemporary American artists of his generation, Paul McCarthy has developed a distinct and subversive artistic practice throughout his long career, which now spans more than five decades. In this exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, McCarthy constructs an installation within the North Gallery, utilizing a disused theater set as a location for drawing, digital recording and AI interaction. This format is part of a trajectory in McCarthy’s work going back to the 1960s of drawing and painting as action or performance.

Maureen Gallace a painter of small unpopulated landscapes, with a particular focus on the New England coastline. Picking out humble and deserted vernacular buildings, Gallace paints windowless white houses, barns and beach shacks framed by trees or overlooking the seashore. These scenes seem idyllic but are tinged with a sense of unease – emptied of people, they seem solemn, lonely. Yet there is a solace in Gallace’s attentiveness, her repetitiveness: from the soft glow of evening sun to the cold glare of snow in winter, Gallace’s observations of her environs are distilled into something mesmerising. Her titles specify geographic points or temporal moments, and yet the feeling captured by these paintings, despite their intimate scale, is one of timelessness, vastness and universality. Critics have drawn connections between Gallace’s work and various figures from the history of American painting, and also poetry. But though she may share certain lyrical concerns with artistic and literary forebears, Gallace’s paintings are the product of a singular devoted vision, each one a unique rumination on stillness and structure.

Ordovas presents Sculpted, an exhibition bringing together sculptures by leading modern and contemporary artists, and exploring the ways in which they approach the materiality and dimensionality of the medium. United by a notion of the ‘void’, the works presented highlight how negative space has been used in sculpture to evoke emotion and response by some of the most notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

David Zwirner presents Animal Family, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Joe Bradley at the gallery’s London location. This is Bradley’s second exhibition with David Zwirner since the announcement of his representation in May 2023. His celebrated debut at David Zwirner New York, Vom Abend, was presented in spring 2024. In November 2025, a major survey of Bradley’s works from the past ten years will open at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria.

Victoria Miro presents a special exhibition celebrating the extraordinary artists who have shaped the gallery since its founding in 1985.

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents Rooted in Memory, the first UK solo exhibition of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation). A groundbreaking visual artist as well as a prominent curator and activist, Smith paved the way for contemporary Indigenous artists over her remarkable fifty-year career.

Pace presents the first-ever solo exhibition of works in the UK by renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, in collaboration with D’Lan Contemporary, at its London gallery this summer. The show—titled My Country—coincides with Tate Modern’s major survey of the artist, which will open in July.

Almine Rech - London is pleased to present AUF FALSCHER SEITE IN DIE FALSCHE RICHTUNG, the ninth solo exhibition by artist Gregor Hildebrandt at the gallery. The exhibition opens on 6 June 2025 and will run until 26 July 2025.

The Gallery of Everything presents its summer exhibition, BOWLS, POTS, VESSELS, URNS, CREATURES, TABLES, LUMPS: an investigation into instinctive ceramic practices from the 18th to 21st centuries.

Thomas Dane Gallery presents The Erotics of Passage, Jimmy Robert’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, his first in the gallery in London. The new body of work continues Robert’s exploration of the intersection between photography and sculpture, delving into the instability of memory, image, and narrative.

Almine Rech London presents 'Reality is Relative' Serolod's first solo exhibition with the gallery.Look closer, and you discover that each form is profoundly connected to everything around it. Einstein's theory of general relativity is a crucial touchstone for the artist. Her work is a means of exploring this idea, delving into the minute details to reveal how everything is more intertwined than it seems.

Balancing Acts is an in-focus exhibition - comprising two sculptures and one painting - that showcases the work of three contemporary artists: Neil Gall (b. 1967), Michel Pérez Pollo (b. 1981) and Olivia Bax (b. 1988).

Chisenhale Gallery presents Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, a major new commission and first institutional exhibition in London by artist Dan Guthrie. Working primarily with moving image, Guthrie’s practice explores representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness. By deliberately experimenting with form and language, Guthrie probes the limits of visual representation – questioning not only what is shown, but what remains unseen or unsayable on screen. This exploration encompasses the politics of visibility itself, asking how race, memory, and subjectivity are shaped by the act of looking.

Sprovieri presents Unfolding of Time (Archaeology-Patisserie), the third solo exhibition of Renato Leotta at the gallery.

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix presents a solo exhibition of works by Damian Le Bas. This marks the late activist-artist’s second solo show at the gallery, with a significant focus on his cartographic works―an expansive collection of painted maps and globes.

Pipeline presents Rachel Clancy’s debut solo exhibition ‘The Thought Below’, coinciding with London Gallery Weekend.Rachel Clancy approaches painting as a stage—one in which the viewer becomes an active participant, drawn into scenes that blur the line between presence and absence. Interested in theatre and illusion, Clancy’s domestic spaces are heavy with suggestion. Though no figures are visible, the spaces she paints are dense with atmosphere and subtle cues that hint at narratives just out of reach. These elements operate like props, inviting the viewer to piece together what might have occurred.

Alison Jacques presents Sites, a solo exhibition of work by Scottish artist Carol Rhodes (b.1959; d.2018). Spanning nearly 20 years, many of the exhibited works have never been seen in London. In 1994, Rhodes began a body of highly distinctive paintings, which she proceeded to develop over two decades, until motor neurone disease made it finally impossible for her to paint and draw.

Explore a multi-layered exhibition of new work collectively created by two Iranian-Canadian artists, featuring image-based works, sculpture, video and found objects.

Gagosian presents an exhibition of new paintings by Rudolf Stingel. The works on view mark the inaugural presentation of the artist’s 2024 series, Vineyard Paintings.

Cristea Roberts Gallery opens the first exhibition dedicated solely to the complete print portfolios by Josef Albers made during the latter decades of his life, including his final body of work.