As London Gallery Weekend returns for its fifth edition (6-8 June), we present an alphabetical selection of standout recommended exhibitions across the capital’s 126 participating galleries. From newly established spaces to landmark enterprises, this year’s programme celebrates the city’s thriving art scene with ambitious presentations that span painting, sculpture, photography, and performance.
Our Curated Lyst
Anna Perach: A leap of sympathy
Richard Saltoun, 41 Dover St, W1S 4NS | Until 24 June
The Ukrainian-born artist presents tufted wearable sculptures and glass works that explore the role of folklore in shaping identity.
Base Materialism
Albion Jeune, 16-17 Little Portland St, W1W 8BP | 5 June–31 August
Seven artists respond to Georges Bataille’s theories of abjection, featuring Ambera Wellmann’s Minotaur paintings and Ivana Bašić’s sci-fi corporeal hybrids.
Cell 72: The Cost of Confinement
Harlesden High Street, 57 High St, NW10 4NJ | 6 June- 13 July
Allen-Golder Carpenter inhabits a prison cell installation for three days, highlighting incarceration’s psychological toll.
Choreography of the Imagination
Cecilia Brunson Projects, SE1 3GE | Until 25 July
Claudia Alarcón and Wichí weavers’ chaguar plant textiles dialogue with David Batchelor’s Bauhaus-inspired tapestries.
Diana Puntar, Adham Faramawy et al: If this is paradise…
Niru Ratnam, W1W 7LP | 6 June-12 July
Four artists address the climate crisis through myth, microbiology and material residues of environmental damage.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
Pace Gallery, W1S 1HQ | 7 June-8 August
A prelude to Tate Modern’s survey, showcasing the Aboriginal elder’s transformative paintings of Alhalker country.
Francesca Mollett: Annual Honesty
Modern Art, EC1V 3QJ | 5 June-19 July
The artist’s fluid abstractions evolve through successive layers of erasure and emphasis.
Francis Upritchard: Sing Siren
Kate MacGarry, E2 7HR | 6 June-12 July
Balata rubber gorgons and ceramic urns reanimate classical mythology with visceral materiality.
Gala Porras-Kim: The categorical bind
Sprüth Magers, W1S 4EJ | 4 June-26 July
The Colombian artist interrogates museum ethics through paper marbling techniques applied to Oxford’s Pitt Rivers collection.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Stephen Friedman Gallery, W1S 3LQ | 6 June-19 July
The late Salish-Kootenai artist’s final Tierra Madre paintings advocate for Indigenous land rights.
Jennifer Bartlett
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, W1B 4BT | 6 June-5 July
The first major UK showing since 1982 for the systematic painter of steel-plate domestic architectures.
Joanne Leonard: Vintage Photographs
HackelBury Fine Art, W8 5RL | Until 8 July
Feminist collages reframe domesticity through 1960s-80s “intimate documentary” photography.
Kayode Ojo: An angel is just a messenger
Maureen Paley, E2 6GQ | Until 8 June
The New Yorker’s glittering readymade assemblages dissect aspirational consumerism.
Margarita Gluzberg: Implicate Factory Outlet
Alma Pearl, N1 5ET | Until 5 July
Soviet-era crayons exhaust themselves in vibrant abstractions, paired with vintage birdsong recordings.
Mark Manders
Modern Art, SW1Y 6AB | 5 June-12 July
New additions to the Belgian artist’s lifelong “Self-Portrait as a Building” project feature taxidermied birds beneath canvas floors.
Rae-Yen Song: Song-Xian
William Hine, SE5 0TF | 6 June-19 July
Ceramic sculptures fuse Edinburgh pond microbes with diasporic mythology ahead of a Tramway solo show.
Shiraz Bayjoo: To Desir, Mo Lamor
Copperfield, SE1 0EP | Until 2 August
Cast botanical memorials to species extinguished by colonialism, draped with plantation lace.
Soyoung Hyun: Invitation to a Ritual
IMT Gallery, E2 9NQ | Until 29 June
Korean ceremonial vessels and solidified shadows materialise memory through clay.
Tau Lewis: The ways of the underworld are perfect
Sadie Coles HQ, SW1Y 6AB | 3 June-19 July
Textile masks channel the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna through African diasporic craft traditions.
Tulani Hlalo: Silly Bitch
Soup, SE17 2SS | Until 8 June
Electric blue satin and tufted dog pelts interrogate identity through competitive grooming subculture.
Yan Pei-Ming: Wanted
MASSIMO DE CARLO, W1S 3RG | 4 June-11 August
The Franco-Chinese painter revisits Lucian Freud’s stolen Bacon portrait in monochromatic meditations on absence.
