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

This summer, American artist Leonardo Drew takes over the SLG’s main gallery with a new immersive sculptural installation.Known for his explosive sculptural works, this is Leonardo Drew’s first solo exhibition in a London institution. He creates reflective abstract pieces that play on the tension between order and chaos. Transforming and eroding materials by hand in the studio, he explores the cyclical nature of life and decay.

The selection of works that you are lucky enough to see has the ambition of retracing the evolution of Luigi Zuccheri’s works from the onset of the Second World War to his death in Venice in 1974, in a few episodes. The works are presented in chronological order.

Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Vik Muniz: Brushstrokes, the first exhibition of the artists bold and highly experimental Brushstrokes series at the London gallery. This new body of work extends Muniz’s longstanding exploration of visual perception, materiality, and the mechanics of image-making. In Brushstrokes, he turns to the very building block of painting – the brushstroke – reconstructing canonical images from the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist traditions through intricately layered photographic collages.

Celebrated for her work in establishing an architectural language that is both contemporary and deeply connected to a specific place, climate, context, culture, and history, Marina Tabassum brings her distinctive vision to the Serpentine Pavilion 2025. Her design evokes a meaningful dialogue between the permanent and ephemeral nature of the commission.

Nahmad Projects presents Visual Symphonies, curated by internationally acclaimed musician and Grammy Award-winning artist Eve, who brings a performer’s finely tuned perspective to the exhibition. Music – intangible, deeply emotive, yet inherently structural – has long served as both inspiration and model for visual artists. From the Old Masters to the modern era, it has established itself as a universal language, conveyed through rhythm, harmony, tone and dissonance.

Both a celebration and a call to action, Design and Disability showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now.

Galerie Max Hetzler, London, presents Potential Colour, a group exhibition of works by Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Günther Förg, Hans Josephsohn, KAWS, Albert Oehlen, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren, Grace Weaver and Toby Ziegler. Taking grey as its starting point, the exhibition explores the gradations of this nuanced shade, from black to white and the space in-between.

Two exhibitions, two influential British artists, one ticket Edward Burra runs in parallel with an exhibition of works by Ithell Colquhoun, offering visitors the chance to see two influential British artists with one ticket.

Held every year without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works. Spend the day exploring over 1,700 fabulous pieces by famous artists and members of the public, which have been selected by architect Farshid Moussavi RA and her Summer Exhibition committee.

With the hottest headliners and music legends both past and present, this is the ultimate festival experience that you do not want to miss!

Bringing together art from across Tate’s Collection, this exhibition highlights the connection between environmental and social justice, inviting us to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and each other. Artists Outi Pieski, Abbas Akhavan, Bruce Conner, Zheng Bo, Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Edgar Calel and Carolina Caycedo feature, as well as a new commission by Abbas Zahedi. Through their work, these artists honor Indigenous knowledge, nurture queer multispecies relations and document issues such as displacement and destruction of land and waterways.

Explore the forgotten story of Indian Army soldiers who camped at Hampton Court Palace in the early 20th century, through a new exhibition of previously unseen objects, photographs, film and personal stories.

For centuries, portraiture has played a vital role in shaping the public’s perception of the Royal Family. This exhibition charts the evolution of royal portrait photography from the 1920s to the present day, bringing together photographic prints, proofs and documents from the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives. Discover works from the most celebrated royal photographers, from Cecil Beaton and Dorothy Wilding to Annie Leibovitz and Rankin. Explore some of the close relationships between royal sitters and photographers, seen most clearly through the lens of Antony Armstrong-Jones (later Lord Snowdon), who married Princess Margaret in 1960.

See the first UK exhibition of Mexico’s much-loved artist, José María Velasco.Velasco, working in Mexico in the 19th century, was a man of many interests. He was fascinated by advances in geology, the archaeology of his home country, the study of local flora, and the increasing presence of industrialisation. He painted the sweeping landscapes of the Valley of Mexico, the home of modern-day Mexico City, with exquisite detail. His impressive panoramic views of the valley reveal allusions to Mexico's historic past and its rapidly modernising present.Velasco was keenly aware of his country’s industrialisation, capturing expanding train lines and factories alongside botanically accurate studies of plants. His scientific eye inspired his art, and his love of geology is clear to see in his detailed depictions of rocks and volcanoes. This exhibition, the first-ever dedicated to a Latin American artist at the National Gallery, marks the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the UK. And it celebrates Velasco’s place among the great 19th-century landscape painters.

Ed Atkins is best known for his computer-generated videos and animations. Repurposing contemporary technologies in unexpected ways, his work traces the dwindling gap between the digital world and human feeling. He borrows techniques from literature, cinema, video games, music and theatre to examine the relationship between reality, realism and fiction. This career-spanning exhibition features moving image works from the last 15 years alongside writing, paintings, embroideries and drawings. Together, they pit a weightless digital life against the physical world of heft, craft and touch. Atkins uses his own experiences, feelings and body as models to explore themes of intimacy, love and loss. For Atkins, the exhibition represents a reimagining of the messy, unravelling realities of life.

Showcasing the remarkable versatility and lasting influence of William Morris’s designs in popular culture, both in Britain and abroad. William Morris (1834-96) has gone viral. Today, we find his infinitely-reproduced botanical patterns on shower curtains, phone cases, on film and TV, and in all corners of our homes, dentist waiting rooms and shopping centres. One of our greatest designers, Morris argued that beautiful objects could only be created through a responsible and close relationship with the natural world and enjoyable, creative working conditions. These principles continue to influence subsequent generations of designers, makers and consumers today. Morris Mania will explore a complicated legacy. Over 125 years since his death, Morris’s work continues to grow in popularity. His patterns are now affordable, well-loved and available to people across the globe, something he failed to achieve in his lifetime. However, this has been achieved in the context of mass-production, computer-generated design, global capitalism and environmental crisis. Morris Mania will consider the ongoing impact of Britain’s most iconic designer in our increasingly cluttered and commodified world.

On this 25th anniversary of the incorporation and trademarking of the Belmacz name comes The Protagonist, a refractive group show – the exhibitionary embodiment of what the composite word alludes to. (‘Bel’ from de Maupassant’s Bel Ami, ‘ma’ an abbreviation of the Latin maximus, and the letter combination of ‘cz’ found in Slavic languages).

In our culture preoccupied with outward appearances, Dianne Minnicucci explores how vulnerability and discomfort in front of the camera can become acts of self-discovery and collaboration. She embraces the unease of being photographed – where to look, how to position the body – allowing these moments of uncertainty to shape this new series of portraits of herself and her young son.

Autograph is developing the first comprehensive exhibition of Eileen Perrier’s work. Since the 1990s, Perrier’s work has challenged the conventions of portraiture, reimagining the tropes of 19th-century European and contemporary African studio portraiture. Created with and within communities, her photography has evolved into a form of social engagement, acknowledging the profound value of being seen.

Enter the captivating world of leading contemporary artist Do Ho Suh. Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh invites visitors to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings in this major survey exhibition. Is home a place, a feeling, or an idea? Suh asks timely questions about the enigma of home, identity and how we move through and inhabit the world around us. With immersive artworks exploring belonging, collectivity and individuality, connection and disconnection, Suh examines the intricate relationship between architecture, space, the body, and the memories and the moments that make us who we are. Wander through the passages and thresholds of Suh's renowned fabric architectures. Discover his early installations, delicate works on paper and videos. Move across Seoul, New York and London through his life-sized replicas of past and present homes. Encounter sculptures that explore the tradition of monuments. Experience the breadth and depth of Suh’s inventive and unique practice over the last three decades, including new and site-specific works on display for the first time.

Curated by Shanay Jhaveri, the exhibition will feature major Giacometti works from the Giacometti Foundation, which will rotate with works by three contemporary artists for three months each—Barba will be the first of three exhibitions. Albert Giacometti (1901-1966) was one of the most important European sculptors of the twentieth century. His work, in response to the pain and destruction caused by World War II, offered new perspectives on human nature and the collective psyche. It is the exploration of these timeless and existential questions that forms the connection between the three living artists and Giacometti in this exhibition.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Maison Démountable, one of Jean Prouvé’s models of the 6×6 house from 1944, which will be a permanent installation in Ladbroke Hall’s Garden. At the end of World War II, Ateliers Jean Prouvé was commissioned to build 800 temporary houses of 6×6 meters to be used in Lorraine and the Franche-Comté. Designers used this construction boom as an opportunity to experiment with new materials like metal and concrete, as well as to explore industrialised modes of production. These innovations were applied with the goal of improving the lives of the people interacting with them and the 6×6 house exemplifies Prouvé’s participation within this humanist design movement.

Discover works from the Museo Jumex, Mexico City, in a new collaboration with the SLG.This group exhibition in the Fire Station will share a curated selection of works from the international collection of Museo Jumex. Featured works bring together installation, sculpture, video, and photography by sixteen artists from around the world. Participating artists include Ana Pellicer and Tania Pérez Córdova from Mexico, Salla Tykkä from Finland, and Wilfredo Prieto from Cuba.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents new work by the Dutch designer Maarten Baas, whose practice integrates conceptual art, installation and performance. Building on his research into beauty and imperfection, the artist produces thought-provoking sculptures that explore subjects related to childhood, nature, freedom and time.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents an exhibition exploring the fusion of sculpture and jewellery in the practice of Sylvain Rieu-Piquet, where organic forms seamlessly merge with the human body. The Paris-based designer’s new Chimaera series is displayed alongside his Imagined Nature collection, both of which feature works that epitomise nature enhanced by heightened emotional responses.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery London presents Reflections, a show of work by the acclaimed British designer Paul Cocksedge. Illustrating the evolution of his imaginative and unorthodox practice, the exhibited pieces range from Cocksedge’s earlier work to his most recent, including new additions to the Slump series, all embodying his skill and precision with reflection, mass, materiality and light. Coinciding with the release of a new monograph, published by Phadion, dedicated to the designer, this display showcases key moments in Cocksedge’s career as it has unfolded in London over the past 12 years.

October Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Aubrey Williams, comprising a selection of significant paintings, spanning the decades between the 1960s and 1980s. This exhibition explores Williams’ painterly techniques, investigating his highly individual approach. His intense works draw from a broad range of influential artists, particularly Arshile Gorky, one of the precursors of Abstract Expressionism and Wifredo Lam, who references African motifs and Afro-Caribbean culture; as well as the abstracted, energetic excitement of the New York School.

Presenting Vas Florum: Resina Botanica, a new exhibition of work by Marcin Rusak, the multidisciplinary artist and designer known for using flowers and other organic matter to explore themes related to decomposition, preservation and the passage of time. Featuring new pieces that continue Rusak’s explorations of coffee tables, and vases as functional contemporary artworks, the exhibition is a tribute to the evocative power of plants to encapsulate memories of people and places.

Thomas Dane Gallery presents an exhibition of American artist Paul Thek (b. 1933, Brooklyn, New York, d. 1988, Manhattan, New York) curated by Kenny Schachter and Jonathan Anderson, featuring paintings, works on paper and a previously unseen notebook of sketches and writings. Spanning three decades of the artist’s career, this is the first exhibition of Thek’s work in the UK for over a decade, and the first in the UK to focus on the artist’s painting practice.

Bluerider ART London•Mayfair presents “The Weight of Lightness – A Paper Art Trio Exhibition,” featuring three internationally acclaimed artists who transform paper into profound artistic expressions: Cao Jigang (China, b. 1955), Angela Glajcar (Germany, b. 1970), and Bay Tang Jiaxin (China, b. 1995). Each artist explores the dual nature of paper—lightness and weight, fragility and resilience, simplicity and complexity—imbuing this everyday material with deep spirituality and artistic significance.