London Gallery Weekend (LGW), the biggest gallery weekend event in the world featuring 125 galleries returns for its fifth edition from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th June, 2025.
The weekend offers visitors, curators and collectors from around the UK and abroad an exceptional opportunity to engage with art and artists in a variety of ways, with more than 60 free events taking place across the duration of the weekend. Each of LGW’s three days focuses on one area: starting with Central London on Friday, followed by South London on Saturday and culminating on Sunday in the East End. Participating galleries will be open across the three days, from 11am-6pm on Friday 6th June & Saturday 7th June, and from 12-5pm on Sunday 8th June.
As a Community Interest Corporation, LGW continues its mission of augmenting local and international awareness of the city’s extensive gallery sector as the largest peer-led initiative of its kind in the art world. The event has proven itself a driving force in building resilience and interconnectivity in the UK arts sector, enhancing collaboration and mutual support across public and commercial realms.
Now in its fifth year, London Gallery Weekend reframes the city’s dynamic and continuously evolving gallery community, serving the public, gallery and institutional sectors alike through our expanded programme and partnerships. Now a well established convening moment for the art world’s ecosystem, LGW’s broadening scope of cross-sector initiatives address the challenging climate the sector is faced with, underscoring London’s endurance as a locus for contemporary art – for ambitious exhibition making, global contemporary art discourse, and where artists’ markets are established and consolidated.
Founder & director Jeremy Epstein and co-director Sarah Rustin
Live Programme
Highlights of the 2025 Live Programme across Central London include:
On Thursday 5th June, timed for LGW, opening receptions will take place at Edel Assanti, Kearsey & Gold, Larkin Durey, Mazzoleni, Cedric Bardawil, Ames Yavuz, GRIMM, Sylvia Kouvali and Corvi-Mora. On Friday 6 June, opening receptions will take place at Nahmad Projects, Sprovieri, Pace Gallery, and Waddington Custot.
In East London, highlights include:
A special site specific performance by artist Michael Dean in response to his current exhibition at Herald St
A summer book sale at Victoria Miro offering 40% off gallery publications for the opening weekend of their anniversary exhibition
A performance contextualising Woo Jin Joo and Molly Burrows‘ show at A.I. as well as a workshop for families hosted at the gallery by Burrows
An East London studio visit arranged by Gazelli Art House with the art and technology artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast
A sound performance on Regent’s Canal at Alma Pearl
Opening receptions will take place throughout the week at Modern Art – Helmet Row, Emalin – Shoreditch High Street, Hales and Seventeen.
From South to North London, further highlights include:
An endurance performance by artist Allen-Golder Carpenter at Harlesden High Street
An informal lunch and rum punch at Studio/Chapple
A preview of artist Kofi Perry’s new soundscape and informal talk at Cooke Latham
Aperitivo drinks and a tour led by artist Shiraz Bayjoo at Copperfield
An off-site studio visit with artist Dillwyn Smith arranged by Kearsey & Gold
And curator Georgia Stephenson at Soup Tulani Hlalo an exhibition walkthrough led by artist
Across the week, opening receptions will take place at Hannah Barry Gallery, Sid Motion Gallery, William Hine and Modern Art – Bury St. A collaborative event by Harlesden High Street, Sherbet Green, Studio/Chapple, Palmer Gallery and others – including a cookout, DJ set by Louis Chapple, screenings curated by all six galleries, an exhibition tour from artist Sonya Derviz, and bar on the rooftop terrace of Sherbet Green – will take place on Sunday, in a closing celebration of London Gallery Weekend.
Further information on events during London Gallery Weekend can be found HERE.
Curator Bursaries
New for 2025, London Gallery Weekend is partnering with the Paul Mellon Foundation to support curators from around the world to attend the weekend, inviting them to engage with the rich gallery and events programme during their stay. The 10 global curators selected for 2025 are:
Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Centro Botin, Santander
Anna Pfau, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf/Berlin
Hugo Vitrani, Palais De Tokyo, Paris
Bettina Steinbrügge, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Xiaoyu Weng, Tanoto Art Foundation, Singapore
Alyona Solovjova-Belikova, Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga
Itha O’Neill, Amos Rex, Helsinki
Nanina Guyer, Museum Rietberg, Zurich
Claudia Segura Campins, Head of Collection, MACBA, Barcelona
Amanda Pinatih, Curator Design & Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Separate from the above is the Art Fund Travel Bursary, through which London Gallery Weekend supports trips for curators from UK regional museums and galleries to visit and stay in London, in partnership with Art Fund. The list of the 18 participating regional curators can be found HERE
Curated Routes
The Curated Routes initiative, bringing together personal guides from notable figures from across the cultural sector, had a big uptake last year, with thousands of visitors downloading the interactive routes to follow over the weekend.
For 2025, London Gallery Weekend is pleased to present routes designed by leading figures including Artists Cosey Fanni Tutti, Prem Sahib and Jasleen Kaur, writer Enuma Okoro, designer Sabato de Sarno, collector Shane Ackeroyd and curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, amongst others. The Routes are available for all to follow, HERE.
Following the success of the Live Curated Routes – launched in 2023 and comprising in-person tours to enable the public to explore the event in an exciting way – the initiative returns in 2025. Available alongside the online Curated Routes, the in-person tours will run at specific times during the weekend, and are open to all. Visitors will be led from one gallery to the next by a dedicated team of Event Assistants employed by London Gallery Weekend via ArtFund’s Students Opportunities bursary. Further information will soon be available on the London Gallery Weekend website HERE.
Further exhibition highlights
London Gallery Weekend features 125 galleries presenting group and solo exhibitions with highlights including: a solo exhibition by American-Iranian artist Kofi Perry combining references from hip hop, science fiction, and the art of ancient Egypt at Cooke Latham Gallery; new ceramics by Matthew Warner examining collectorship, commerce and communication at Corvi-Mora; a duo exhibition by Andrew Bick and Prunella Clough exploring abstraction and material curiosity across generations at Hales; a solo exhibition exploring libido and landscapes of the psyche by Amanda Moström at Rose Easton; a solo exhibition of sculptural works and photography by Kayode Ojo at Maureen Paley, and a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Chioma Ebinama, exploring how femininity has been shaped through narratives spanning myth and manga at Maureen Paley: Studio M; a group exhibition exploring animalism, materiality, corporeality and George Bataille’s philosophical concept of Base Materialism at Albion Jeune; a solo exhibition featuring new sculptural works by Diana Puntar and a three-person exhibition by Adham Faramawy, Cecilia Fiona and Jen O’Farrell exploring the relationship between human subjects and the ecologies around them at Niru Ratnam; a new body of work pushing the limits of materiality and form by Eli Ping at Bernheim; a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Mandy Franca at Night Café, exploring how restricted mobility informs the tension between horizontality and verticality, shaped by time’s flux and the friction between personal limitation and societal freedom; a group sculpture exhibition at Ordovas exploring the theme of ‘the void’ and how negative space has been used to evoke emotion and response by some of the most notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Anthony Gormley, Barbara Hepworth, Anish Kapoor, Yassi Mazandi and Rachel Whiteread; group exhibition including Abbas Zahedi, Alfredo Aceto, Chloé Quenum, Diane Cescutti, Onyeka Igwe, Haroun Hayward and Theresa Weber exploring the relationship between colonial history and ecology at Nicoletti; a solo exhibition by Francis Upritchard exploring antiquity and the natural world and featuring new figurative sculptures, ceramics, and fabric masks at Kate MacGarry; a solo exhibition by Modupeola Fadugba exploring tradition, community, and cultural memory at Gallery 1957; a solo exhibition of new wall sculptures and works on paper exploring renewal, decay, fragmentation and reconfiguration by Leonardo Drew at Goodman Gallery, running alongside the artist’s first UK institutional solo show at South London Gallery; a solo exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan at Hauser & Wirth featuring monumental painting, ceramics, and plant life alongside a new collaborative music piece; a special exhibition at Victoria Miro celebrating the gallery’s 40th anniversary, featuring new paintings, sculptures, and installations, alongside a curated selection of recent and historical works, across their London spaces and waterside garden.
Information on all gallery exhibitions can be found HERE
